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Ghost Town (2008)
Worth a watch
A reasonable film, worth a watch, with a bag of popcorn or box of chocolates. A few slow bits, but on the whole, enough to hold your attention. Ricky Gervais played well, and was believable as a grouchy dentist, and the rest of the cast were good too. On the whole, it was an amusing your and a half or so, with a few touching parts. Not a lot of surprises or twists and turns, but then again none really expected in a film of this genre. I would recommend this film to anyone who just needs to relax, take their minds off life for a while, and watch a film that doesn't need a lot of concentrating on.
Der Mann aus dem Eis (2017)
Watchable
A reasonable film, which certainly beat a previous film of a similar subject that I watched recently. The scenery in this was spectacular, and for that alone, it is worth a watch. The costumes were believable as was the sets, they were so good I could almost smell them (stinky!)
Slightly slow start, but that seemed to take the watcher into the age, there was little in the way of dialogue, unless you understand an ancient language. Soon though the gory bit began, and gory indeed it was.
Shortly later the film, in my mind became a little tedious, along with a bit of guess work due to the lack of dialogue. But picked up again in time for an ending to fit in with the real life find of an ancient man in the mountains. Most likely none of this was his real story, but it all fitted, and gave an insight into living in those days, which would have been a pretty grim if short life.
23 Walks (2020)
Lovely Film
I really enjoyed this, apart from a few minutes in the beginning. I had a feeling it was going to show one walk after another. However, after showing a couple of walks it settled into more, and quickly became an easy to watch film. A few occasions I felt a little annoyed at the characters and wished they had behaved differently, this though could be said in real life,people do not behave in the way we wish all the time, and with that said, the writing of the story must have been pretty decent to make the characters believable.
I would say, though, that I would hazard a guess that this film would be lost on, let's say, under 50 year olds, due to a few of the situations. All in all though, for me, a well spent hour and a half of so.
Alpha (2018)
Kept my attention
Almost have up at the beginning of this film. It took some getting used to. The language (Which was made up) seemed to be pointless, and the thought of "Did they have lines to learn? How much did the script writter earn?" The cgi in the begining sucked. But improved as the film went on. It was ok. If you want to watch this for history accuracy , don't bother. The characters were wearing what appears to be parkas, and trousers? I'm not sure they were invented then, also skin colour.....we're people really that white?
Overall it was watchable, the acting was good, (the dog was very good!) The story was ok,if you take it as that, a story.
Trauma Center (2019)
Dreadful
I would have thought a film with Bruce Willis in it, would at the best be reasonable. Wrong! It was a terrible film and I'm not even sure why I carried on watching it. The actual story was unbelievable, but that could have been put down to artistic licence if it wasn't for the awful performance of Bruce Willis. He let the whole film down. What on earth happened to him? It was as though he was doing the film against his will. A bit like a stroppey teenager having to visit relatives. At times it was as though he was reading his lines from a screen off camera. The other actors by far outshone him. Sorry but this was a raspberry from me!
Area 51 (2015)
Terrible
I started watching, and quickly got irritated with the hormonal teenage antics. I thought it would get better, it got worse. Due to the trailer I was sure it would soon get better, maybe it was good in the bit when I dozed off, but I will never know, as I won't be watching again. Bad acting, bad filming, dialogue often indecipherable, unbelievable, just bad!
Resident Alien (2021)
Terrible
The only reason I didn't turn off was because I was tired and the remote was out of reach. Not even slightly funny.