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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%! (2023)
Mostly boring and uninsightful
Not sure what I was expecting. I've not read his book. But I guess I wanted it to be at least interesting and give even just one or two new ideas on approaching life/happiness. I got neither to be totally honbest. His life isn't especially interesting to me and his issues not very universal IMO. He seems to have been very entitled as a young man, as he admits, I'm not sure most other people are. The title is misleading as his approach most certainly DOES involve giving an F, just giving one about the right things. Well what a huge surprise! Nobody has ever worked that out before have they?!?...care about the things that matter, stop worrying about the stuff that doesn't. Accept life isn't all a bed of roses and includes pain, built in, guaranteed. Yeah mate, I know.
The Pact (2021)
Tense but increasingly silly
It's a decent enough set-up and reasonably well acted, but when the big twists came they were pretty ridiculous really.
It's the usual BBC PC affair of course. Would they make a drama where some guys take an unpopular woman boss into the woods, take her trousers down and photograph her as a "prank" and then make the people who did that the sympathetic heart of the story? I think not.
And are we expected to feel sorry for the murderer and accept that he/she had no choice and that it was all OK because the victim was a nasty piece of work?
Ultimately you're left thinking "all they had to do was to admit what happened and they'd have been fine".
Worth a watch but not amazing.
W glebi lasu (2020)
Ok initially but the resolution makes zero sense
Like other Harlan Coben series, it's all about being drip fed a story and then the big reveal at the end is just stupid. Loads of it makes no sense at all.
Sean Lock: Keep It Light - Live (2017)
Hilarious
Very good. I was properly laughing for much of it. A bit of a lull in the middle but genuinely very funny.
Black Panther (2018)
Meh - pretty flipping average
Disappointing. Just another superhero film but with a strangely realized African spin.
I could not quite get over how the Wakandan culture made no sense at all. They somehow became a super advanced country courtesy of finding Vibranium yet didn't get around to ever working out how to develop a democracy or proper legal system but rather having totalitarian regimes ruled by Kings who are chosen on their ability to physically fight each other - i.e. stone age tribe stuff. And when they get injured there's no sign of the super-duper technology but rather they're reaching for some healing plant or other. It's like you discovered some primitive tribe out in the depths of the Amazon rainforest and found they happened to have iPhones. Weird.
I can't work out if it's politically correct garbage or racist garbage. Are we being shown that black African cultures could be super advanced or being shown that even if they were, they'd still be acting like primitive tribes - which by the way, they're not even now.
All that aside, I found much of the acting pretty awful and the rest of the plot and effects just bog standard.
Overall very average. Defo will not be eagerly awaiting Black Panther 2