darrengabbe Reviews

The Green Knight (2021)

Bordeom on Shrooms

[4/10 · 23 August 2021]

Well at least the person who wrote this let us know where the inspiration came from. Reading a Knights of the Round Table book on Shrooms. It even shares with you during this waste of 2+ hours of your life you'll never get back. Nice gold Tops dripping with philosoben. Though it doesn't show the character taking them through the whole movie. He is tripping balls.

Aftermath (IV) (2021)

Based on true events....lmao

[3/10 · 5 August 2021]

Any movie of the horror genre that is "based on true events" is going to be some made up BS disguised as entertainment. I was just into it and the acting was mediocre. As soon as I read BASED ON TRUE EVENTS it was flushed to the recycle bin. Nuff Said!!!

Ad Astra (2019)

Mr Robot in space

[3/10 · 1 January 2020]

Seriously. We went to the local cinemas to actually see this when it came out. Well we couldn't get in because it was full. So we went and saw Tarantinos Once Apon A Time. I am so glad we couldn't get in. Once Apon A Time had me in stitches (during times when the rest of the cinema was silent at times). When we watched Ad Astra a few days back in bed on night I found it hard to keep myself entertained by this drivel. What a snore fest. I seriously beleived this to be a B-Grade film. If it wasn't for the big names I doubt this would have made the big screen. Brad Pitt reminded me so much of a Rami Malek in Mr Robot rip-off in his portrayal of the character. I actually expected him to start talking to the viewers at stages. If this gets any nominations at the Oscars someone must have been bribed. Sorry people but I really wasn't entained. If you want to watch a great Brat Pitt film watch Once Apon a Time. If you are knowledgable on the Manson Killings and other actors from that Golden Age you will keep it on a shelf to watch over and over again. This space film isn't even as good as an episode of Star Trek Discovery.

The Climbers (2019)

Not a bad movie. Not great either

[5/10 · 24 November 2019]

Not a bad movie. Not great either. As a climber myself I took into consideration that in those days the gear was nowhere near as advanced and strong as the gear these days. Though on a couple of thigs I was laughing as the way the gear failure was portrayed was laughable. A good excuse for a bit of Kung Fu type gymnastics and action to be thrown in. The acting was wooden and we didn't really care about any particular character because they all blended into a mess of "Try your best to keep up". I think I fell asleep for 20 minutes but didn't miss anything when I rewound it. I give it a 5 because the action scenes were well done (though unbelievable). If it was a Hollywood film I'd give it 3 or 4.

The Morning Show (I) (2019– )

Watch Hoaxed first

[5/10 · 8 November 2019]

This is as someone else already wrote "A Left Wing" "Bought and paid For" production. It is as it states a DRAMA in the fact that it is aDRAMA about their make-believe lives. Though as to actual news and news reporting. Nothing is exposed at all. I expected at least a little of real facts of what is going on in the world in say Venezuela, Syria, The Middle East that the real news fails to cover truthfully. NO! What I watched so far was 3 episodes of Holywood drivel that really doesn't appeal to NEWS at all. Sorry but there are many better series out there that deserve more recognition than this show.

Once Upon a Time in London (2019)

What did I watch?

[3/10 · 24 July 2019]

I thought that this would be a decent type of movie. That it would be inline with the the other "Once apon a Time" genre. Sadly NO. This was such a rushed mess of character sequencing that it came to the point of indeciferable garbage. We paused it, rewound it, rewatched parts and were still baffled as to WTH was going on. Like someone telling one of those stories where at the end they say "Well I guesss you had to have been there." The female characters were so similar in looks and mannerisms that you couldn't tell them apart. It just felt like someone rushed this together after snorting 1/2 a kilo of coke and was in a drug fueled frenzy. I'm sorry. I love the old time roots type ficks but this shouldn't have left the cutting room floor. It had a few good little bits here and there but just don't expect much.

I See You (III) (2019)

Can't give a zero

[1/10 · 27 June 2019]

This film was so poorly executed that after 20 minutes we turned it off. I turned it on later by myself thinking that it would get better. Well, after 10 minutes I started fast forwarding here and there because it was such a mess I thougt that eventually a plot (or anything close to it) would emerge. This is 90 minutes of your life you will never get back. Go and toothbrush clean the grout in the shower. You'll enjoy it better than this

Jeepers Creepers III (2017)

convoluted

[1/10 · 29 October 2017]

I remember watching the first Jeepers Creepers and straight away wanted more. Again a few years later with 2. Not with this. I found the characters unrelatable, unlikeable and boring (so much so I fast forwarded in places) IT IS THAT PREDICTABLE!!! Seriously, I'm sure the SYFY channel threw a few bucks at this to rush it out before Halloween as an after thought. I heard a year or two back that another film was in the making. SO DISAPPOINTING IT WAS CRINGWORTHY

Son of God (2014)

Ho Hum

[1/10 · 20 May 2014]

The cinematography and the sets were great. As someone else stated already though. The acting and whole film was slothful so that it felt like it was written and acted out for a very dull-minded child to follow. Though in retrospect it is written for religious neuters so that explains that. I believe in one of the Sherlock Holmes episodes on the BBC it was said perfectly. "I believe that religion was created so that the family idiot had a chance at a career"....something along those lines anyway. But back to the film. What a waste of 138 minutes and they could have done a lot more in "Gods name" by using the budget money on helping the poor, the homeless and others suffering across the world that don't even have a TV to watch this drivel on. Keep religion in church where it's dying slowly. I'll bet the Vatican probably condemned the television, the radio and the internet at some time or another. I know for sure they weren't keen on free speech. Sorry to go off track. Enjoy life and all it has to offer. You only get one ;-)

The Tomorrow People (2013–2014)

Getting painful

[2/10 · 31 March 2014]

A watchable series that started out OK but now it's just getting painful to watch. With so many other intelligent TV shows out there you have to ask WHY? I have 5 episodes ready to watch but instead of watching them I find myself playing patience on Windows because it seems more enjoyable. Even after 14-15 hours of watching this show I still have no empathy towards any of the characters and quite frankly it just falls into the category of playing a game on your phone while you wait for a bus. It is getting that boring. Please,Please,Please don't make another season. Do the world a favour and shelve this garbage.

Bitten (2014–2016)

No Bite

[3/10 · 19 March 2014]

I kept hoping that this would get better. The first few episodes were promising but by the time I tortured my senses through B Grade acting and a plot that is better suited to Days of our lives, (I think 1/2 the cast probably tried out for that too) I really have to say that this is the most ludicrous load of crap. It's not even worth the bandwidth to download....and I have unlimited. I think it may even corrupt my hard drive on the computer it's that bad. Seriously, who makes a deal to go to a stand up fight in a pre-arranged venue and fight to the death? AS IF!!!! 2 Warring families. If it was 2 warring anything these days you would use sniper tactics to take out the 3-4 major threats in the first 2 seconds and then then dictate the terms of surrender. It is so bad I had 2 episodes to watch which I hadn't seen. Woke up early this morning watched 1/2 of episode 9 and I nearly threw up my morning coffee. Stopped it and deleted both 9 and 10. If this goes to season 2 I'll be assured in my thinking that the studio execs are all on a strict regime of mind altering drugs. AVOID THIS GARBAGE!!!!

Hostages (2013–2014)

Oh my god!!!

[2/10 · 16 October 2013]

After watching the first 4 episodes of this farce I can only say that it was a waste of 4hrs of my life. I kept hoping for it to get better but the plot doesn't unfold, the characters are impossible to feel anything for and the script is so unbelievable that it's laughable. I'm sure that some network execs got together and said "Hey! Let's see how long we can string people along watching this crap" sort of like when you get a Troll on the phone phishing for personal info and you see how long you can have them sitting on hold while you "LOOK FOR YOUR CREDIT-CARD". (48 mins was my best so far) Anyway, avoid this convoluted load of cats vomit that the dog crapped on!