Trakt for iOS
Works on iPhone and iPad.
A Cinderella story that's like a cross between Ever After, Princess Diaries, and Pretty Woman. It's a cheesy 90's romcom and it's perfect within its genre. Despite having an ancient trope, it was so hilarious, all the characters uniquely charming, with just enough variety to make it feel fresh and I LOVED it. Also it took me way too long to realize Ricki Lake plays the protagonist which is so bizarre but strangely fitting.
This show is corny and unoriginal. Unfortunately for me, my attraction to Damien Lewis needs oulets.
It's essentially an adult fairytale, but did not feel magical. I'm not sure how many more cliches they could pack into one show. One of the most impressively unoriginal things I have ever seen. If this didn't have a lot of sex and language, I would have thought this was written for middle schoolers. If you're in need of a good drinking game, just drink every time someone yells, "Ethian!!!" in great surprise even though just about every other character is one. Also, nothing against Edward Bluemel, he's a decent actor, but I'm so tired of shows trying to convince me that he is the embodiment of sex appeal. He is not.
It was somehow even more boring than I expected lol. You already know the outcome of a movie like this, but you expect there to be a little bit more drama in the process or maybe get to know the characters stories and motivations so you can really cheer them on as they fight for victory, but no. Add in some really cheesy dialogue and and the most generic protagonist possible and you have the recipe for a true snoozer.
It was well made, but Tom Jones is so dislikable between being kinda dumb and screwing anyone who looks at him. In the end I was disappointed Tom and Sophia end up together because he's just a skeezy dude, what a tradgedy she's wasted on him. Aren't there other bachelors for an heiress who aren't either of these two awful guys?
This was an inspiring story of people banding together against being totally screwed over by a larger institution. It's an important story as well. People need to know that companies, including a government owned ones, will almost always care more about their own reputation and finances, compared to your entire life and wellbeing. It was moving to see the tragedy of how much suffering they endured and their courage to fight back. I hope all the victims get what they deserve as well as the villains.
I wanted to like this series. I've tried watching it twice because it's just the sort woman centered historical drama I usually adore. This series however is not made by the BBC and it was so wholesome as to be beyond boring and the dialogue feels like a really poorly written soap opera. It lacked the quintessential charm needed for this sort of story telling. Sorry Canada, you just can't execute this genre like the Brits.
Matthew Rhys is amazing as always, but tragically Dickens is as characteristically dreary as ever.
It's a shame that the Martha character is so lame, which makes it even more obvious that all this fuss is just because she is hot. At the same time it's just the sort of silly mediocre rom com that I can appreciate and the '98 Joseph Fiennes charm is undeniable.
I watched this after Reacher and I cannot warn you enough to stay away. Ritchson’s character is incredibly dumb and asks the most obtuse questions. To be fair, a lot of MMA fighters I’ve personally known do seem a bit addled due to all the head injuries. Overall, the dialogue feels forced and serves little purpose to progress the plot. The main characters Holly and Shayne (also what is that spelling?) have zero chemistry and Olivia Thirlby’s acting is awful. I think my favorite part is the way Tito Ortiz plays himself, especially with his apartment being plastered with pictures of himself.
This show is just not quite funny enough to really get into. Peter Campion's cuteness is really all that go me through the second half of the series.
Unless full frontal nudity of Tom Wilkinson and large age gap relationships are your cup of tea, I don't recommend lol. Suitable only for rainy, boring afternoons when the alternative activity is taking a nap, but I would still recommend the nap.
This is truly fantasy because everyone has a PhD and is hot, the vampires and witches and whatnot were arguably more believable. The fact that this came out 10 years after Twilight makes it just feel like a slightly grown up version, but the characters are similarly vapid and one dimensional except for Matthew which really makes you wonder why he likes her so much.
Can I just say how poetic it is that Megan Follows directs the play "Mary Queen of Scots" in Anne of Avonlea and then 26 years later gets to star in a production of it?? I want to know whose idea this was lol.
If you're trying to watch this, I watched it on CloudLibrary an app you can sometimes get access to through your local library. It's good British humor and worth the effort.
It's an objectively well made and well acted movie that I really enjoyed. The plot is well structured, fast paced, and dialog well written.
It has the moral imperative to end sex trafficking but it's not through heavy handed guilt tripping, but through telling a true story about a man who made personal sacrifices to do the right thing and courageously go into danger to be a genuine hero. I think anyone who has any sense of altruism will leave this movie inspired to take action against this truly heinous evil that is real and happening now. Go see this movie.
If you love British drama, run for the hills.
It's supposed to be a British drama and so you expect.... ya know... drama. Especially compared to the 2007 version, which captures the absolute misery and pining of Anne, the new Anne just doesn't seem miserable enough. They spent more time trying to have her come off as witty but just ends up kind of an asshole. In general, her character also doesn't have any particularly compelling qualities to win you over, so when she's supposed to be all miserable I'm kinda just thinking, "Well.... sucks to suck?". Similarly the 2007 Elliot comes off as strong, competent, authoritative, and sexy and man do you feel for Anne. Like damn, you really screwed up Anne but like I feel really bad for you at the same time, we're in this together hun, let's go wallow. By comparison when the new Elliot comes back, you don't really feel like she's missed out on much. He's basically an average bro, like initially kinda cute if you look hard enough, but the personality of a thumb. His wanna-be Darcy brooding just comes off as constipated.
I think a lot of the problem is the writing, which spent too much effort trying to add comedy (which it failed at), but Persuasion, while it has funny moments, is mostly supposed to be a DRAMA and TRAGEDY and reflect how yeah sometimes people make absolute shit decisions and you are going to pay dearly for your mistakes and it doesn't always get better with time, and that shit suuuuucks. You don't get much of a feel for that.
My biggest beef is that they BUTCHERED one of my all time favorite romance quotes... and with no obvious purpose.
The original in the book and the 2007 movie: "There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement"
The new version: "There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, they were.... ex's."
Just WHY. It was the wrong moment to try to modernize this. Do they think their watchers can't handle words like "perpetual"? How patronizing. It really ruined an already mediocre movie for me. The real tragedy is that someone paid money to produce this Bridgerton (which I also hate) knock off. I recommend watching the 2008 BBC Sense and Sensibility for some proper misery and pining to help flush out all this garbage from your system if you failed to read this review before watching.
This movie was super quirky and cute, I recommend!
I had to turn this off literally 1:52 minutes in because the dialogue was so painfully contrived i wanted to punch the 3 total characters in the face. There is no way it is getting better.
I definitely binge watched it, so it was good, but I can't say I absolutely loved it. It had so many lovely qualities that you hope for out of a period piece romantic drama. Hot people, nice scenery, good costumes, very accurately and realistically written characters, emotional nuance, but it had a few issues. With so many characters in only a 6 hour series, it never really feels like you get to know any of the characters experiences and thoughts intimately enough. You watch everything as an outside viewer and you might as well know as much about Charlotte as some random person at one of these balls who watches things play out. For how much it sucks for her, I don't empathize nearly as much as I would expect to. Enemies to lovers is a marvelous trope but Sidney's character is pretty much a shallow asshole from start to finish under the guise of familial duty; there is nothing redeeming about him. In fact, I'm glad she doesn't end up with him because I imagine if she did marry him, it would only be a few years before she has a couple babies, he gets caught up in gambling, addiction, whoring, and affairs but she's trapped with him and is absolutely fucking miserable. Good riddance.
