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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Cured my Hangover
I was hungover with my friend. We went and got Chinese food. This is back in 2010 so we went to a RedBox and picked this movie out. We just wanted a movie to put on as we ate Chinese food in the dark and nursed our hangovers. Expected it to be a flop. I was completely surprised by how much I loved this movie. I thought I was going to take a nap and ended up watching the whole thing. I was completely captivated. Even with Jake Gyllenhaal's semi-bad accent. Didn't matter. This movie cured my hangover and put me in a great mood. It was so good I ended up buying it on DVD. To this day, I still enjoy this movie thoroughly.
The Great (2020)
10/10 1st Season, Missed Opportunity Seasons 2 and 3
What I love about all 3 seasons - the costumes, the sets, the actors.
What they should have done, is just removed the historical context of Catherine the Great. Just made it about a fictional girl who coups her emperor husband. I don't mind if something is loosely based on history, but the liberties taken here are so much so that I feel the only historical accuracies are a few names, roughly the dates, it's in Russia, and she coups her husband the emperor. I don't know much about Russian history or culture but I don't trust this representation to be factual at all. So why attach it to those historical contexts? It seems unnecessary because when events happen on the show, I would look them up to see if it was something factual - but rarely was it something that happened, especially in the later seasons.
Now taking the show as a very very very loose look on Catherine the Great's rise to power, the first season is great. They had a formula that worked. The witty banter was never annoying. Characters were even beginning to develop. The second season was nowhere near as good as the first, but it still worked and I enjoyed watching it to continue something I had invested in. The third season, I've now found myself struggling to keep my attention on the show. What it seems to have happened is that after the first season, the writers didn't know what to do. I think Nicholas Hoult's character rated really well so they couldn't kill him off. The problem is that Catherine can never fully take the reign and is constantly pulled back to that plot of overthrowing Peter. I kinda bought the plot of them falling in love in season 2 because it didn't make her seem less strong as a leader. But season 3, her love for Peter has her making ridiculous decisions that don't make sense. And the hardest thing for me - the lack of character development in all characters. Marial is infuriating in season 3 and she takes 20 steps back in her development which had the most intrigue and connection for me. It's to the point that I didn't want to watch anymore.
And the cool thing with historical fiction is that sure sometimes you hate how characters develop and sometimes plots, but it's so interesting and intriguing because most of the events actually happened, so it's like woah - this was kinda reality. They're real people. Because this is so loosely base on real events, in order to care, you need that connection to the fictional characters. But you don't get the connection after the first season because after the first season they don't grow so there's nothing that I care to see for these characters.
I feel there's so much more I could say. I had so much hope for this show. But it was dashed. I'll end with what I saw another user do:
Season 1: 10/10
Season 2: 4/10
Season 3: 2/10.
Le divorce (2003)
I got bored
I love the cast of this movie, but I had to stop the movie. I wanted more for from everyone. It felt so bland and like everyone's performance was forced. So, I got bored. Unfortunate because it had so much promise. I also think I was misled because it was in the comedy section, when it should be in the drama section (I'm not a film critic though).