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A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)
Could only watch 30 minutes before turning it off.
This had such potential to be good, but had all the earmarks of a bad Hallmark movie. Bad writing, bad acting, slow delivery of lines. It felt like bad community theater. Like, worse than normal community theater. I wanted to give it a chance to get better, but, it was too disappointing.
A reunion of cast members, writers and crew would have been better. A reminiscing of good and bad moments on-set. "Where are they now" stories and catching up conversations.
This production tried too hard to capture the magic of the original. It felt like a "Return to Mayberry" attempt (which was, also, a failure).
The White Lotus: Arrivederci (2022)
That's it?
Terrible ending to a mediocre season. It had such potential. The season established characters early but developed story lines too slowly. Plot twists should have started by episode 3. By episode 7, the last episode, it felt like a bad "who done it" by an author from "murder by death". Hopefully season 3 does a better job.
It doesn't help that the common thread in the show is gone. Big mistake by the creative team.
Only morbid curiosity will bring me to watch season 3. And, even then, I'll let all of the episodes (hate that HBO doesn't drop them all) drop before I start watching. That way I won't waste 7 weeks of my time.
Sample This (2012)
Some good info. Bad editing.
If you're going to do a documentary about music please have a musician do the editing. Hearing the music and watching the musicians out of sync is an insult to the musicians and their work.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
Like the show. Hate the theme music
My biggest gripe about this show is the opening theme music. The body of the piece is nice, but if you're going to pay homage to the original, play the parts of the original the same way. Currently it sounds like cheap library music sound-alike. Also... Hate the last 2 notes. Sounds like the composer gave up creating and just wanted to end the song.
Batwoman (2019)
I had hope for this show.
I had hoped that this would be a good show about a great character. By episode 3 it had already gotten tiresome and boring. Ruby Rose is a1 dimensional actress that has to deal with bad writing. Let's forget season 1 existed and start fresh with season 2.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
We've seen it before
Please surprise us. We don't want to pay to see the same movie 9 times. I'd say that 5% of the movie was fresh.