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90210 (2008–2013)

Awful, dreadful, stupid trash.

[1/10 · 11 February 2012]

I seriously urge anyone who grew up in the 1990's to not watch this. In fact, avoid it like it's the plague. Remember when we were kids and used to watch Dylan McKay and Brandon Walsh duke it out on the original? Yeah this is not that. At all. Don't even waste your time.

Where as the original was wholesome, and dealt with real teen issues, and had a great backbone - this one is just overflowing with teen drama in a modern era of texting, email, Lamborghini's (Yes, 18 year old's drive Lambo's in this show), and whiny women and whiny men.

If you're looking for any show that'll give you confidence or inspire you to be a better person, like the original did, or any show that made you love ALL the cast, like the original show did - Then I'm really sorry to disappoint you.

I don't know where the writers were going with this, but it's scary bad.

Netflix is airing the original - watch that instead. It's not only more realistic, but has better acting, and better topics of interest.

This show is just garb.

Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990–2000)

Possibly the greatest missed show of my childhood years.

[10/10 · 11 February 2012]

I'm not going to beat around the bush here. I missed 90210 as a kid. You see, it came on after morning cartoons on Saturday, the rerun of the previous week's episode. I was anywhere between 5-10, and I would watch the cartoons, see the show come on, turn the TV off, and then go play with my toys.

I remember once watching a full episode in boredom however, and thinking Kelly was the prettiest girl ever.

I'm 23 now. And oh man how I wish I had known what I was missing.

This show is the bomb, even 12 years after it's cancellation. It really did show a lot of emotion, and a lot of the troubles of being a teenager, and put it in the spotlight. This show was right before the age of the internet and the mobile phone, and that's what makes it so good. There's no heavy gossip, no heavy backstabbing, just a group of friends who all want to help each other, that fight small obstacles throughout their life, such as love, drugs, violence, and alcoholism.

From Kelly, the prettiest and most caring girl on the show, to Brenda, who you absolutely love to hate, this show really did put you on the forefront of what it was like to be a teenager and have those friends who you just.... want to strangle sometimes, and then give a great big hug too.

I'm a guy, and I feel stupid for missing out on this show. What really makes me feel so sad is that all the cast members are old now - Almost middle aged, all grown up. They'll never be the kids they were on the show - I missed the show at the moment when it was most real, and when it's episodes actually quite likely reflected their own real life relationships.

But it makes me feel warm sitting back and watching it. It makes me feel like a kid, a teenager, and even a toddler all over again. And for the onslaught of emotions that come with it, I can't fault it. Not at all.

It's on Netflix now (As of 2012). Don't miss it - it's simply too good.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

Quit possibly the most horrible movie I've seen in a long time.

[1/10 · 1 February 2012]

Where do I even begin? Here, we have a movie based around a boy who's father died on 9/11. His story seemed compelling enough when viewing the trailer for the movie - a boy on a quest to find something his dead father left for him to find in the city.

However, this trailer was entirely misleading, as that is not what happens.

Instead, what we (as an audience) experience is quite possibly the most revolting, hypocritical, arrogant, egotistical, insulting, annoying excuse of a child I have ever laid my eyes on. From telling his mother she should have died in the attacks, to slapping her awake at night on the face, to swearing insults at random people, to talking to himself, to badgering, to referring to 9/11 as the "Worst Day", we simply have an entire recipe of what we were brought up not to be like from our own parents.

Quit possibly the worst arch in the dull, plot-less, and entirely expected storyline (you can tell where the storyline is going minutes ahead of time) is the boys cruel and decisive way of holding back 6 integral phone messages from his father, to his mother, and telling her no one called, and keeping them to himself. The messages, taken within the Trade Center by his father during the attacks were clearly of incredible significance both in the film, and to the emotional backdrop of the story. Instead, they're used to hurt, and to show the boys complete selfishness and arrogance, as well as ignorance, towards others. Words cannot express how much I wanted to get up and leave the theater as I watched this with my girlfriend, who somehow, got the movie, and cried her way through it.

Looking at the movie through NON-mystified eyes, the movie has absolutely no closing value, and no joie de vivre. It's story arch is bland, and quite frankly, infuriating. In the end, you are disappointed yet again when the boy finds out nothing from his father was left for him in his hunt to find something.... anything. And instead of discovering what the key was for (his main clue as to his father leaving something for him) you find out it belonged to another man, and you don't even find out it's use or value. You then find out that his grandfather never talks, and never truly admits to being his grandfather. You find out that the boy needs a damn tambourine in order to go anywhere without being nervous, and that when he is nervous, he screams and belittles all around him.

I could go on and on and on and on about how absolutely terrible this movie is in the eyes of someone who watches a movie for a deeper storyline, but instead, all I can tell you is that for someone without the ability to dive functionally into a backstory of a movie within their mind, this movie is great.

Unfortunately, for the rest of us, it's a horrible and sickening tale of complete scuzz.

Senna (2010)

An Exotic Tale of a Truly Unfathomable Legend

[10/10 · 22 May 2011]

People could be forgiven for not remembering Ayrton Senna De'Silva. Almost 20 years after his death, the true intricacies that embroiled his career and personal life have yet to be unraveled, however this movie does a hell of a job connecting the two in perfect harmony. A bitter sweet taste is left in the mouth of the viewer as they watch a film with subtle undertones of competitiveness and strong hues of emotion. A soulful film, you really find yourself unraveling the charisma and Jues De Vivre that is Senna.

From the offset of the movie you find yourself in a somewhat cheerful, unknowing state, as it lightly unravels his early career in Formula 1, whilst hinting at the precursors that led him there. The hard, pressing, and very tight competition of him against Proust is another aspect that the viewer will find to be nail biting, as you truly begin to see the emotional aspect of Senna open at this point. Thus, the ending could come to a heartbreak to someone who had never heard of Senna. But alas, the legacy that lasts, transcends all documentaries, and all books. For the truly afflicted car/racing fan such as myself, you feel torn, and yet very motivated to be the best you can be.

To the regular viewer, you feel emotionally attached to a man who affected the lives of millions positively in his home country of Brazil. A perfect mix of a movie, in which you can watch as either an auto-racing fan, or someone who has never heard of Senna; It delivers on a highly emotional level, surrounding you in the warmth that he brought to many.