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Looks like the big new release this week is Super 8. I just watched three reviews of it and they were all pretty positive. Based on how they were positive, I feel uncertain if it will be for me.
It was described unanimously as an homage to Stephen Spielberg which could be a problem for me right there. As much as I like Schindler's List and a few others by Spielberg, I am not crazy about his crowdpleaser kind of stuff - and that's what this is being compared to. I'm sure it's an above average summer blockbuster but, even though I thought writer/director J.J. Abrams showed some promise with Star Trek, I don't feel any urgency to run out and see Super 8.
But as I say, the reviewers were all pretty enthusiastic.
For myself in the last week:
The King's Speech -I finally got to see this most recent Best Picture Oscar winner. What a rare pleasure to just sit and watch a movie and thoroughly enjoy everything about it start to finish. Good absorbing story against an interesting historical backdrop. Great performances. Great soundtrack. Loved it. 8.6 out of 10.
Prime Suspect (Seasons 1-7) - Before Helen Mirren was winning Oscars and Emmys portraying various monarchs named Elizabeth, she was Inspector/Superintendent Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. I watched the entire run of it - which was basically like 7 short mini-series which were produced over a period of ~15 years - over the last couple months. My verdict is: it's okay. It's a basic police procedures show, a notch above Law and Order by virtue of being more gritty and realistic. I could get into a deep analysis of it but I don't know how interested anyone is. Although each series stands alone and some of them have different writers and directors, I found them all pretty comparable in quality and I come up with a composite rating of 6.1 out of 10.
Apparently there is an American version being made with Maria Bello in the lead role.
It was described unanimously as an homage to Stephen Spielberg which could be a problem for me right there. As much as I like Schindler's List and a few others by Spielberg, I am not crazy about his crowdpleaser kind of stuff - and that's what this is being compared to. I'm sure it's an above average summer blockbuster but, even though I thought writer/director J.J. Abrams showed some promise with Star Trek, I don't feel any urgency to run out and see Super 8.
But as I say, the reviewers were all pretty enthusiastic.
For myself in the last week:
The King's Speech -I finally got to see this most recent Best Picture Oscar winner. What a rare pleasure to just sit and watch a movie and thoroughly enjoy everything about it start to finish. Good absorbing story against an interesting historical backdrop. Great performances. Great soundtrack. Loved it. 8.6 out of 10.
Prime Suspect (Seasons 1-7) - Before Helen Mirren was winning Oscars and Emmys portraying various monarchs named Elizabeth, she was Inspector/Superintendent Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect. I watched the entire run of it - which was basically like 7 short mini-series which were produced over a period of ~15 years - over the last couple months. My verdict is: it's okay. It's a basic police procedures show, a notch above Law and Order by virtue of being more gritty and realistic. I could get into a deep analysis of it but I don't know how interested anyone is. Although each series stands alone and some of them have different writers and directors, I found them all pretty comparable in quality and I come up with a composite rating of 6.1 out of 10.
Apparently there is an American version being made with Maria Bello in the lead role.
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