tamaresque Reviews

The Power of the Dog (2021)

Slow and boring with great photography

[5/10 · 16 December 2021]

I am mystified as to why people have been recommending this film to me. I found it so slow that even playing it at 1.25X speed, I had to press the '10 seconds forward' button many more times than once.

Yes, Mr Cumberbatch is good, and so is Smit-McPhee, and their characters are very well developed, but I found the character of Rose annoying and poor George just disappears after a while, not to be seen until his new wife collapses outdoors.

No spoilers but the end of the film had me shouting, "That's it???" in amazement.

I can't recommend this at all, unless you like nice? Scenery.

Frances Ha (2012)

Unfathomable

[2/10 · 19 March 2021]

I saw this at the cinema when it first came out and have to say that it made no sense to me at all. I still don't know what the point of it was. It was boring.

Second Sight (1999 TV Movie)

Slow, cliched and boring

[4/10 · 21 March 2020]

I watched this on Prime (with subtitles) but spent most of my time forwarding it by 10 seconds at a time. I didn't even last 10 minutes with it. Why? Refer to the title of the review.

Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)

Let's get the filming years right

[8/10 · 9 June 2018]

A few people seem to think that the film was shot in the mid 70's but it was definitely shot in the early 1970's - It started in either 71 or 72 as Freedom RIP and then continued sporadically from then on. How do I know? I was in the Northville cemetery in Michigan a couple of times while the filming was taking place as I was then dating one of the filmmakers. I moved to Australia in July 72, so it was definitely before then!

If the acting isn't the best, then that's because those guys were not actors; they were actual bikies.

See No Evil (2014– )

SO repetitive - don't waste your time.

[2/10 · 15 December 2017]

The stories are interesting, but the production values are awful. The whole premis is based on breaking cases by using CCTV records, but you have to watch each piece of featured CCTV at least four times, and each time you do there is an awful noise, like a dead fly buzzing on a wooden floor, and faked-up interference all over the screen. And then there's the script - talk about stating the obvious! Not only do we see the recordings at least four times, but we also get a description of what we are seeing. And then the same facts are stated over and over again. I managed to watch all of Episode 1 of series two, but no matter how much I wanted to find out what happened to Kenia in Episode 2, I was shouting at the screen too much to be able to, so I gave up.