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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)
A slow moving film that felt more like a TV series
Kevin Costner's Horizon project feels more like it should be a TV series than a film. About an hour and a half into the movie, I felt like I was watching the first three parts of a TV show. There are a lot of stories going on, and quite honestly, it's a little challenging to follow at times. Timelines are a little hard to follow, and Kevin Costner appears in the film very little, and what we see of him is not all that we would expect him.
I'm sure all of this is going to converge at some point, but for a three-hour film, it really needed to move along a lot faster than it did. I can see why they have put off the second part of this film project because what it ultimately needed was to grip the audience, and it just does not meet that expectation. I was expecting an action-filled western, and what I got was a slow-moving western melodrama.
I hope the project succeeds, but this should've been a project done at Paramount+ HBO Max or some other TV series production company.
Obliterated (2023)
My Netflix subscription is paying for this?
This series tries so hard to be an action packed and a fast paced thriller, but it just falls flat. It has its moments and at times is very funny. It's quite clear the series is on a very low budget. The fight scenes choreography and CGI are very unbelievable. I feel like they could've at least tried to put a little bit more excitement into the fight scenes which there are quite a few of. Honestly I just kind of got to the point where I wanted it to end. Could've been a 6 parts series instead of a 8 parts. Netflix is certainly about quantity instead of quality these days. They've canceled so many good shows while renewing so many dumb ones and I could quite honestly see them renewing this for another season. Just stupid dumb entertainment, got too far into it, and I felt like I had to finish. I think that's quite honestly what Netflix relies on. If there's nothing else good on watch this stupid dumb, entertaining series that we created in a weekend. You gotta do better than this Netflix.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
I like where this is heading
Certainly better that the crap HBO continues to produce. Nice to see a show that not full of f-bombs, perverted sex scenes, and gratuitous violence. It may not be original to Tolkien, but at least Tolkien met his publishers deadlines. What Amazon has come up with is intriguing and still manages to give homage to Tolkiens original series. I like the direction it's heading in and I think people need to give it a chance and not be such haters. But then again I guess I'm a hater towards GOT. That's only because HBO managed to ruin the ending of potentially one of the best shows of all time. (No longer of course) I won't even watch the new series, only because I know this is gonna be way better than that.