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Secret Space UFOs: Fastwalkers (2023)
Atrocious Garbage - They insist all space junk are all ET's. It's so hokey!
As someone who worked for a NASA contractor and who worked with flight crews, I can tell you this is complete garbage. Their explanation of NASA communications shows they have no clue. There are multiple voice loops and air to ground channels. NASA often publicly airs live video feed from missions, and they can easily cut audio and or video any time they want.
Low orbit altitudes tend to be loaded with debris. Just because something is floating around in space does not automatically make it some ET's spacecraft. You can see this on any space launch such as the videos from Space X and NASA. And if you see something headed down towards the atmosphere you can bet it will light up. The friction from the heat of re-entry will make the debris burn and it will get very bright. Sorry if you just really want to believe, but no this is not unusual.
This video highlights a lot of poorly informed amateur speculation. The whole production is quite amateurish and hokey.
Invasion (2021)
It's sort of like a silly B movie from Japan in the 70s
Honestly this theme is so over done, I am amazed that alien invasion movies still get made. If any producers or directors out there are thinking of doing another, just don't. PLEASE!!! And why would anyone invest in a film like this?
The theme is cliché' and the writing is juvenile. What sets this apart from other alien invasion movies, is that this is actually a series. So it's just as bad as the others except they stretch out everything. So the prologue to the action takes over three episodes. It's that boring.
The technical dialog is ridiculous and it's obvious that standpoint, that pretty much everything said and done is gibberish.
The writing is disjointed and really has no plot other than the real obvious one you already knew from the title. The show jumps around to multiple threads, from all over the world. Even Sam Neil is in it playing a small town sheriff that has just retired. He gets killed off fairly early on, which is a break for him. I hope he got a decent paycheck.
To call it bad doesn't quite do it justice. Apple TV+ really picked a good one.
Foundation (2021)
I just finished episode 7, and it is totally trash.
Ok I have tried but this series has rapidly devolved into complete trash. The long awaited Foundation that readers have been dying to see has been perverted into something that bears little resemblance to the original novel series.
It seems the screen writers David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman care nothing about the novels or didn't actually read them. It's not like they are great writers or anything. They are an easy read by the way. This is not surprising based on their earlier work like Terminator Sarah Connor. I loath to think of how bad Avatar 2 might be with the same team.
Previous reviews below
This show is so much better than most available right now. So I have updated my review. I am a fan of the books, but initially was not happy with the series. HOWEVER, I must say that I am coming around after episodes, 3, 4, and 5. It really does not deviate as much as I thought and the tantalizing references to psychohistory makes it so much better.
I now think this show is a winner.
Upon review, I found the alterations to the story line are really more subtle than I thought. It does stick to the main story Isaac wrote. When you think about it, they do have to flesh it out quite a bit to make the story appealing to a broader audience. Isaac Asimov, as much as I loved his work, really wasn't up to the task of writing about compelling human relationships.
Even if you have not read the novels, you will enjoy this series. I recommend it highly.
Previous review below:
This starts out ok, with artistic license deviating in such a way that it should, in ways that support the story. However, the deviations become vast from there. The second episode really sucked. This particular screen writer apparently thinks he can do better than Isaac Asimov. NOT!
I understand that sex sells to the masses but it does not sustain. Massive deviations from the original book series is not ok with me, and I am finding myself hating the show because of the direction it is taking.
This was a major undertaking for Apple TV, and it has turned into a disaster. Though I admired the work by Jared Harris, Terrence Mann. Lou Llobell, and Lee Pace, I am so disheartened by the horrible direction.
I have been hoping for someone to transform the fabulous Foundation Series into a film format and was hoping for it to continue since there is huge treasure trove of great stories based on the Foundation. My hopes are dashed and I am extremely disappointed.
Stowaway (2021)
It was ok until the end. Another SF movie with a stupid ending
Netflix is getting a little better. I mean I was enjoying the film up to a point. It was good until the last 15 minutes, and in that time the film was destroyed
Setting all technical issues aside, the basic hypothetical premise of what to do when one crew member must die to save the rest is really appealing. That was the best part of the film. It's a hard nut to crack, but it does remind one of those on the Titanic who gave their lives, so that others could live. I feel that the premise of the film was handled at an adolescent level. It could have been so much better.
Technical issues were many. I am a person who worked with NASA as a member of a mission team. I can tell you, NASA would go to incredible lengths to save lives. There is NOTHING more important than human life. The film replaced "NASA" with "Hyperion." You never get to see anyone in mission control on Earth but the commander of the mission and occasionally the crew do these monologues where they are supposedly talking to mission control. It reminded me of the Peanuts cartoons where one of the kids is talking to a grown up. All you hear from the adults is wah wah wahhhhhh. It got to be so silly, but I am sure that was done because of budget concerns.
Hyperion goes on to rule out doing a space walk to retrieve oxygen stored in tanks outside the ship. So the crew ends up doing it anyway. NASA would have figured out the safest way to do that, and would have simulated it on the ground. Finally they would have created a step by step procedure and micromanaged every step along the way to ensure each step was followed correctly.
Ok so here's some cool things they did do. They had stunning visual effects when the crew was outside the ship attached to a tether. That was amazing and beautiful. I enjoyed the scene where Anna Kendrick is filling oxygen tanks. The acting for the most part was pretty good. Anna Kendrick was good, but almost stoic and melodramatic at the same time.
Above all the story fell apart at the end. So a coronal mass ejection, completely created to add drama of course happens to occur when two astronauts are outside the ship retrieving oxygen. So the logical thing to do is to leave the tanks outside, and get back into the ship as fast as possible to wait out the storm. Then they could easily retrieve the oxygen later. Somehow this simple fact occurred to no one, and Anna Kendrick's character needlessly dies to retrieve an oxygen tank during the storm.
Ok so the film was decent and then took a nose dive at the end.
Terminator Salvation (2009)
The worst of the Terminator films.
It really had nice visual effects and stunts.
The acting sucked, and the plot really didn't have much to do with the first three Terminator movies other than the use of the word Skynet, and letting egomaniac Christian Bale do yet another tough guy role, this time as John Connor.
If you liked completely predictable plots and machismo BS this movie is for you.
If you liked the dry humor of the rest of the franchise like, "she'll be back" or "I'll be back" or "hasta la vista baby" then you will be disappointed. I was.
I gave it the lowest rating I could for a reason. Fortunately, Terminator Genisys and Dark Fate do resume the franchise with much more relevant films. So if you like the series, check out those installments. The funny thing is with the cast this film has, I expected a lot more.