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The Dawn Wall (2017)
Great film
The is so much better than Free Solo. This film got everything right. It had a bit of everything and the climbing was great. My eyes even started to sweat at the end. I highly recommend.
Free Solo (2018)
Watch The Dawn Wall instead.
Very disappointing documentary. What he achieved was fantastic, but this was a bad film. Why place so much emphasis on his phony girlfriend? It took me about 2 milliseconds to see that she couldn't belay to save her life, so why let her carry on doing it after the first injury? He came across as unlikable and difficult. How they managed to have so little climbing in a climbing film is beyond me.
Watch the Dawn Wall instead. I really liked that. It had a bit of everything. Great climbing with a great back story.
After Life (2019)
I so wanted to like this.
I'm jealous of all the people giving this 10 out of 10, as they clearly loved it. I wish I could join them in their enthusiasm, but I was bitterly disappointed with it. It felt like a hybrid series that attempted combine The Office with The Invention of Lying, garnished with a dash of Ghost Town. None of the characters were believable, and the acting was poor at times. The relationship between Ricky and his wife seemed phony, and strangly portrayed like a teenage couple that constantly prank each other on YouTube. It's also hard to imagine that he and Ashley Jensen would have chemistry enough to spark an intimate relationship because I still see her as his friend from Extras. Using the same cast didn't work in this because I just saw them as their previous characters. There were a lot of old jokes thrown in from stand up he did a decade ago. The rest of the jokes relied on people not acting like normal human beings. I gave up after the scene in the restaurant when the waitress was overly and unecessarily aggressive just because he wanted to order from the kids menu. It just wasn't believable. But I think the worst mistake was the therapist. What an odd choice for how he should be played. A disinterested, lousy, ignorant moron. There isn't a therapist alive that behave in such a way, which highlights my point earlier about none of the characters being believable.
Damn, I wanted to like this......but it's way below his best.