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T.1.M. (2023)
Story and characters are not believable
The biggest problem with this movie is the writing of the characters.
Everyone in it seems like a complete idiot, who have no idea what this robot AI is or how it works...even though they or their spouse work as a developer at the robot company.
We are expected to be believe that this company of seemingly gormless people have created this fantastic AI robot. Then after creating this 100% lifelike robot; they can't figure out how to make the hand work? So to fix the hand they hire an even more gormless woman who seems more interested in drinking wine and eating. Using her diversity power she magically fixed the hand except some ridiculous weak spot.
Despite this amazing futurist robot technology, half the technology around seems to be from the 90s and the general public seem unaware that robots even exist.
The last scene with the car crashing into the window was really the low point; it was laugh out loud stupid. With the neighbor stabbing the robot with a wooden pole and then randomly passing out of the floor; only to be stabbed in a monty python-esk manner.
At the end of the movie I was really just hoping they AI would get on and murder everyone as I found the characters all so irritating.
Having said that I did manage to watch the whole movie so 3 stars for not turning it off half way.
The Rig: Episode #1.5 (2023)
This is episode is where the story died for me
I'd been sticking with the Rig as from the first few episodes as it seemed like it had potential. However the further you get into the series the more unbelievable the characters become.
In this episode Hutton basically decides to mutiny and go over to poison gas the others side of the rig.
Predictably people die in the process and Hutton is sad about it.
Instead of hand-cuffing him to a railing and saying "You're going to prison as soon as we get back", Magnus pats him on the back and says "There, there it's not your fault their dead".
It just highlights the absurdity of some of the interactions between characters.
There are seemingly absolutely no consequence for any actions on the rig. You can murder people and then sit around later and have a chat about it in the canteen.
Pepsi, Where's My Jet? (2022)
How to stretch a 5 minute story into a 4 episode mini series
This is probably the most flagrant example of Netflix filler content. They take a fairly simple story and just stretch the crap out of it. Repeatly showing the same irrelevant photos and cutscenes over and over. The story could have been told in detail in less than 30 minutes.
This is a story of a guy suing Pepsi for false advertising, yet we spend at least 15 minutes watching random snowy mountain climbing footage. Then another 15minutes on random irrelevant family photos. We get another 10 minutes of people tasting pepsi. Plus we have to watch snippets of the pepsi commercials over and over.
Don't watch this, just look up the story on YouTube.