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Foundation (2021)
Deviates from the book
For Asimov's fans like me this series gives an ambiguous feeling. On one hand it is nice to finally have this amazing epic scifi epic on screen. On the other hand it is a bit disturbing to see it deviate ever more and more from the ORIGINAL story, where Cleon's empire is a rather minor preamble to a vast complex story whose core is the power of super advanced mathematics and a young genius called Hari Seldon.
In particular the murder os Hari Seldon in the TV screen does NOT happen in the original story. Seldon dies peacefully as a beloved and respected great leader. It was nasty and unnecessary to plug that in the TV series, rather stupid imho.
Finally there is no Gaal nor Raysch in the original story. In the TV series they somehow become central. Overall I do not give it a 1/10 because after so long someone decided to film this possibly best scifi story ever, no lesser than Dune at all. So 4/10 is what you get, for merit only.
Six (2022)
A little jewel
Excellent short movie. It is not always easy to explore a good idea in a short movie but this one got it right. It would be amazing if they went for a standard movie expanding the plot.
The Predator (2018)
The universe's most lethal hunters defeated by a handful of suburbia losers.
In one word, moronic.
I loved the first Predator movie. Even Predator 2 was still quite good. But this, this is a joke. Not worth wasting your time.
Altered Carbon (2018)
Just the usual TV BS
It started well and went interesting up to episode 3, perhaps even to episode 4. Then it got in a rut and became boring, lots of cliches, "remember the past" irrelevant episodes and finally it became just plain and solid uninteresting. I'd give it a 2 out of 10 for the first 2 episodes but on a second thought it's not worth even that much.
Falling Skies (2011)
After much promise, just yet another boring cliché fest.
I could write about the characters and such, but suffice to say that it its a heap of classic "alien invasion" clichés that you already saw in stuff like "Independence Day" and most zombie stories. Boring.
But what really offends is the presumption that viewers are idiots which would swallow any stupid idea, like this of an alien civilization capable of traveling between stars (and thus knowing something that Einstein didn't see), plus the stunningly advanced science these aliens would have, and they come here to exchange blows with a bunch of rednecks and get defeated. I mean, where are their ray guns? Why don't they turn on some device that fogs the minds of all humans and make them drop like so many dead flies. Or some other of hundreds of ways an ultra-advanced civilization would have available to turn us off easily.
No. Instead they arrive here and start exchanging punches with rednecks. Sheesh. What a heap of BS.