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Hebrides: Islands on the Edge (2013)
A beautifully filmed and narrated natural history series about a group of Islands one doesn't hear much about!
This series is a pleasure to watch. Ewan McGregor's sensitive narration with excellent diction and pacing definitely adds both quality and authenticity to the presentation - since he, himself, is Scottish.
There is also a passion in his voice that is communicated to the viewer of how much his Scottish homeland means to him.
The filming is in HD and very artfully done. All threads of different animal scenes are carefully and effectively connected together with significant emphasis placed on just how wild these islands can become weather-wise, for the both animals and humans living there.
I would recommend this series to anyone - particularly those who have their own natural history collections and wish to add something a bit different.
This presentation is unique in the long list of natural history films and series available.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
I question the accuracy of the current '8.4' user-rating for this truly awful movie!
This review is aimed at the organizers, supervisors, or leaders of this website.
I take IMDb.com very seriously and respectfully use it often as a reference point when considering the purchase of any film to add to my private blu-ray collection.
Additionally, I am careful to rate a particular film 'according to the guidelines outlined' and DO NOT seek to covertly abuse the site by voting more than once per film, using multiple email addresses, for example!
I would like to know how 'The Wolf of Wall Street' has received a current rating of '8.4' when, as you scroll through all the user-reviews, there are very, very few who have rated this movie well at all!
I suggest that perhaps there has been some 'deliberate inflation' of the current rating by some users who have wanted to see this movie promoted much more than it deserves.
I am therefore dismayed that this might be the case, since it calls into question the accuracy of this entire rating system here, with the exception of Metascore.
There is not one of my large group of movie-buff friends here in New Zealand (who all use this website) who have rated this rotten movie above 3.0!
I do not know how I can get a response to my query from the key people it is aimed at.
Devil (2010)
A good thriller or horror will often leave you with a moral legacy or message to take away!
I enjoyed this well-crafted movie. It is 'paced' to suit the time frame, with plenty going on to keep you almost totally captivated. It may have some weaknesses, but as these are already covered in other reviews, I'd like to focus more on one outstanding moral feature that shouts louder than anything else.
I think the obvious punch-line is located toward the end of the movie! The last man standing (or sitting in this case) in the elevator managed to disarm the continuation of the devil's insidious murderous plot, thus rendering him absolutely powerless - simply because this man, knowing that he was about to die, decided to 'tell the truth'...that he had killed somebody - Detective Bowden's wife in a hit-and-run car accident. And so, the devil couldn't take him! Similarly, Detective Bowden later decided, after much mental anguish, to forgive this man for killing his wife, though it was clearly difficult for him (as it would be for anyone).
Herein lies the legacy of the movie.... the power that 'telling the truth' holds to overcome or disarm evil since the truth always wins out in the end; and the power of 'forgiveness' that can set you free and the perpetrator too who sins against you.