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Post by wallaby on May 28, 2024 10:52:47 GMT
Thank you, sgev, for doing all this work and posting all these reviews! 🤗🙏🏻 Queenzod is right. Many thanks from me as well! You‘re doing a great job, sgev1977!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 28, 2024 11:10:07 GMT
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Post by mllemass on May 28, 2024 11:27:14 GMT
Even with all the criticisms, it still sounds way better than the stuff I’ve seen on Netflix lately. I’ve watched the Mother of the Bride, which was not good, and has 14% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was infuriating because you know that they had a massive budget, and apparently spent none of it on writing a good story. Those weekly Hallmark rom-coms are way, way better than this.
And I just finished the limited series Bodkin - a huge disappointment. RT gave it 78%, I think. That was generous. I understand what it was trying to do, but so much of it made no sense. At the heart of the missing-persons mystery is a supposedly “shocking” scandal that this Irish village has been covering up since 1999-2000? Huh? I could almost understand if it went back to the 1950’s maybe, but less than 25 years ago? And the quaint Irish village is populated by horrible clichés of unlikeable violent drunks. How did no one involved with the series protest the Irish stereotypes? Most unforgivable, though, is a brutally violent scene that should have come with a warning. The violence or even the threat of violence is taken so casually because I think they wanted to keep it light and fun somehow.
And let’s not forget Atlas, which Netflix thinks I’d like. It has 17% on RT, and still spent time at #1 on Netflix’s movie list.
Yes, Eric will be a very welcome change!
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Post by sgev1977 on May 28, 2024 11:42:50 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 28, 2024 11:49:24 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 28, 2024 12:44:51 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on May 28, 2024 12:53:59 GMT
So in the last five years, he has been compared to John Wayne, Lee Marvin and now, Dustin Hoffman!
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Post by MagdaFR on May 30, 2024 0:22:07 GMT
Is it my idea or the reaction to Eric by American and British critics are very different?
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Post by sgev1977 on May 30, 2024 1:04:14 GMT
Some British loved it, some were more mixed. Americans seem to be more reluctant with a few of them openly hating it? Most of them loved the cast with a lot of them acclaiming BC.
I read one very negative today in a publication that I don’t respect too much so who cares but in the other hand, it said something that actually worried me based in the press (so I actually care! lol) that it was “didactic” There are a lot of “social” themes in it and sometimes when movies/series want to preach to the audience, the realness and sincerity of the characters and the plot is lost. I hope is not the case and maybe it’s better not to read more contradictory reviews until watching it!
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Post by MagdaFR on May 30, 2024 1:33:29 GMT
I read almost no reviews.
But, I went to MC and looked at the numbers and there it looked like the UK reviews were more on the top and the US ones on the bottom. One was 30! I just skimmed it. It said that the mystery is solved too early, that it tries to tackle too many subjects but it does so very superficially.
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