galaxywest

It was a good idea but the big question is this: They use the word "hallucination" after No. 6 wakes up (at the end) to explain it but the Western Town was there -- it existed -- it wasn't an "hallucination." So all that was needed was to set up the story for us, the viewers, so that we can enjoy No. 6 in this Western situation. A little kidnap, common enough in the village, an injection, also common, and then No. 6 wakes up the sheriff of Harmony. Get some good existential vibes going and maybe some attempt while No. 6 is there to get that "info" out of his head and there'd be a good story told. It was, instead, No. 6 "in the West" and non stop clichés.

First I'll say a few words about the "looks good" in the title. Movies these days are so DARK. It's as if there's a new rule — every room must be dark. So I don't watch movies made these days. I've never been in a room where I can't see the wall — or barely. But nearly all movies these days have rooms where I can't see the wall. Stupid. Or rooms with lights in places where no room in the known universe HAS a light. OK. That's all about that.

The Ninth Gate is a good movie with an old Europe feel and an occult slant. You don't have to believe to like this movie, though, and the action is minimal. It's just a good, unique, mystery and a story that keep's you involved in what is going on. Roman Polanski is a director. By that I mean, there a lot of so and so's posing as directors these days in the movies and on TV. The best thing, they say, you can say about a director is: "I didn't realize that he/she (the director) was there." (Today's directors work very hard to tell the audience that they are there.)

C'mon. This is really so poorly written that it's laughable. There is absolutely no "unfolding" of a plot whatsoever, just gibberish until the end when it's, "well, he/she did it." Oh, OK. In Morse there was brilliant writing with believable characters, dark old secrets that were revealed intelligently and an ending that made you feel like you'd spent 100 minutes on something worthwhile. And then there's Superintendent Innocent who is some kind of unnecessary cranky middle-aged nincompoop or something -- it's: "let's have an interfering superior like the American shows do" by the producers. Zero subtlety and zero caring about anything that's going on. What a waste of talent -- all done in by silly drivel writing.