turnerggg Reviews

Return to Seoul (2022)

unbearable tedious

[1/10 · 2 February 2024]

This was in a NYtimes movies recommendation list and one sees the gush of applause from the reviewers. Boring. The lead actress doesn't have to do much acting just be nasty all the time. A "free spirit' ... souless. I found no redeeming features.

This was in a NYtimes movies recommendation list and one sees the gush of applause from the reviewers. Boring. The lead actress doesn't have to do much acting just be nasty all the time. A "free spirit' ... souless. I found no redeeming features.

This was in a NYtimes movies recommendation list and one sees the gush of applause from the reviewers. Boring. The lead actress doesn't have to do much acting just be nasty all the time. A "free spirit' ... souless. I found no redeeming features.

The Long Goodbye (1973)

not worth the effort

[1/10 · 2 February 2024]

Saw recommendation in NYtimes and watched prime. I found the movie to be thin. Eliot Gould doesn't do any acting that I could detect. The incessant cigarette thing with the o so cool light match on available surface was instantly irritating. The naked girls was what? Filler. The gangster smashing glass into the young woman's face: what fun. This movie is, for me, completely over-rated. Pathetic.

Saw recommendation in NYtimes and watched prime. I found the movie to be thin. Eliot Gould doesn't do any acting that I could detect. The incessant cigarette thing with the o so cool light match on available surface was instantly irritating. The naked girls was what? Filler. The gangster smashing glass into the young woman's face: what fun. This movie is, for me, completely over-rated. Pathetic.

Dekalog: Dekalog, dziesiec (1989) Season 1, Episode 10

"Before Completion"

[6 March 2020]

I find that I Ching 64 speaks here, see below

For me a perfect conclusion to the dekalog. The irony lets one do a final digestion of the life episodes that precede. If the brothers have any greed, it is not the greed for money, quite the opposite it is the want for completion, obsession such that Artur trades his kidney for the last stamp in the series. Robbed of it all, he buys a new issue at the post office (note the p.o. fellow), presents it to his brother, together they grasp heartily dissolving in laughter, that the Nothing they have ended up with, is, by golly, completely sufficient unto the day. The greatest lesson of them all, my friends

The Judgement Before Completion. Success. But if the little fox, after nearly completing the crossing, Gets his tail in the water, There is nothing that would further.

The Image Fire over water: The image of the condition before transition. Thus the superior man is careful In the differentiation of things, So that each finds its place.

Jack Ryan (2018–2023)

two stars?

[2/10 · 21 March 2019]

I was struck by the absurdity of the two 'knight' characters going off on their several quests and then arriving back stateside with no debrief no nothing just back to their desks etc. Seriously? Also the absurdity of e.g. 1. smash squad sneaking up stairs past (ignoring) kid sitting there who promptly cellphones the bad guys (right!) ... 2. following the one bad guy "because he'll lead us to something" ... losing him, then the cluster you know what where the hapless french are yet dead again and the bad guy must be killed (later Our Hero agonizes over not having the bad guy in hand for interrogation - the option at the beginning of the absurd theater operation) ... and one can go on. The show is simple thread-bare and dumb. No, it doesn't deserve two stars except to hear the beautiful Arabic language. Seriously, it's a fine language.

Oasis (2002)

comment on roger eberts review

[23 February 2019]

I don't know if anyone has said this same comment but I want to get into the commentary here. Roger Ebert is a great reviewer and his review of Oasis is worthy. Except for the part about "Idiot Plot" ... I think he's just simply missed it. The family didn't tell the police the relevent info - why? perhaps you have to think Korean and perhaps, even more to the point, they wanted him to go to jail. My two cents.

This is a very fine and significant movie and stands as one of the best, ever. It has more humanity in a thimble-full than any of its American cinema contemporaries. Well, I'm willing to stand corrected - again, my nickle.

See this movie.