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DriggityDre:
The Sound of Music (1965) - 10/10
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is about a young Austrian postulant in Salzburg, Austria, in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.
After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and, together with the children, finds a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis.

The film is regarded as one of the most commercially successful films of all time. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing Gone with the Wind—and held that distinction for five years.
The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards. The film also received two Golden Globe Awards, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. It went on to win more awards and accolades.
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Personally, I'm not very eager to watch musicals but this one was magnificent. You could see the huge amount of work and time the creators put into the movie. All with a solid script. Great music too. I still remember some I sang when I first saw the film years ago
There were a lot of touching scenes but Rolfe's betrayal at the ending scene definitely hit me.

Nice review. In my childhood, this film and "The King & 1" were special Christmas treats.

VerifiedStalin:
Interstellar had a nonlinear timeline.

VerifiedStalin:
Flash is rated 89% on RT. Money Heist is rated 91%. Going by your logic, both shows are masterpieces.

Just disregard the opinion of the poser, bro. The nigga contends for contention sake.

He'd sooner concoct a braindead logic than concede he's off base, lol.

Brukx:
From this list, there are many non linear shows that are straight forward when it comes to understanding

Agreed.

BryteGhana:
Don't waste your time. Killing eve is a useless show. Waste of time and energy. Very predictable and bad acting. I never got passed episode 2 .. Very stupid series

Season 1 was really good, I enjoyed it.

It lost some of it's edge in season 2, but managed to retain it's charm.

I haven't started watching season 3 to see how it holds up.

whitelotus:
I did not know that you cannot read. Please, focus on the bold-

In addition, not all television series use this technique in the same extent; some of them use it only in certain episodes, e.g. Fringe, others only in certain seasons, e.g. Breaking Bad, while others do throughout their entire run, e.g. Lost.







Fringe only had one episode of non linear story telling.

It said certain episodes - plural. Ironicly, it's you that can't read, lol

I earlier said Fringe wasn't purely linear storytelling, and the wiki article backed me up.

Conversely, you were adamant that it has no nonlinear narrative.

Go and cry in shame.


Imagine someone saying unironically that Interstellar has no nonlinear narrative?!? Chris Nolan that is known to utilize nonlinear narrative in virtually all his films, lol.

Nigga, you're even more of a poser than the guy that tried to pass off Killing Eve as a masterpiece, lol.

whitelotus:
Your pictures are not showing

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nonlinear_narrative_television_series


https://digitaluncovered.com/5-storytelling-lessons-dunkirk/


https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/westworld/s02

whitelotus:
Fringe was linear throughout. Having a parallel dimension did not mean it stopped being linear.

Westworld did not make any sense in season 2. The constant jumping from past to future to present not only confused people, it ended up leaving the viewers having three different plausible explanations of the plot. A clusterfuck.

Interstellar is not a mindfuck. It is a simple movie. What makes interstellar intelligent is the amount of detail placed on space travel. It was as linear as Bleep. Even its time travel was as straighforward as fvck

You argue for argument sake, SMH.

I'll just leave these here.

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kendrick93:
Due to her performance...
Sandra Oh was signed on to be the Lead character but she's been overshadowed by Jodie fomer's performance...
She's still the Villain

They share the protagonist and villainy roles. We have a similar circumstance in "Billions".

Both Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh were nominated in "lead actress in a drama series" category in 2019 Emmys. Jodie Comer won the category.

SperoQuest:
This also applies to killing eve, while you see just a show.
I see more than just a show.

Killing Eve is a good show, but it's nothing special. I can watch it absent-mindedly, and still comprehend it. The premise of the show is basically about two women that are obsessed with each other, and the ensuing game of cat and mouse.

whitelotus:
Do you remember Fringe tv series? Very linear and very complex. One of the most complex science fiction series.

Having a non linear timeline in a tv show is always confusing but it is not always intelligent. Westworld proves that.

What about the movie Interstellar? Hmm?

Fringe started linearly, then transitioned into a non linear programme. Heck, in later seasons, two parallel universe and timeline were overlapping consistently.

I disagree. Westworld even in it's less intelligently penned season 2 retained its intellectual properties.

Interstellar doesn't have a linear plot line. It's the reason it's seen in many circles as a mindfuck.

whitelotus:
So because something is linear, it is less intelligent?

Westworld actually became too smart for itself and ended up being pretentious in season 2. If you notice season 3 took a different direction. The convoluted timeline ended up backfiring.


How can you compare killing eve to money heist?

A resounding and unequivocal yes!

A linear show has a straightforward primary plot line, and even when it's intelligently written, it doesn't take a lot of brainstorming to figure out what is going on.

A non linear show on the other hand has a primary plotline that's purposefully incoherent, and would require an extreme level of concentration to assemble all the pieces.

Every non linear slow is complicated, some more than others. Indeed, even the less complex ones like "The Witcher" has had viewers scratching their heads.

Give me an instance of a complex linear show, and i'll raise you 5 instances of more complex non linear counterparts.



As regards Money Heist, I brought it up in light of the fact that the nigga has made a comparative epistle in the past, with Money Heist being his magnum opus. It's the kind of shows he enjoys, and in his mind, he's watching mentally-stimulating shows, not realizing that he's making a mockery of his intellect.

PS; Westworld deterioration stems from the fact that the original writers left the show after the conclusion of season one. As you can attest, season one was a masterpiece.

oyaskii:
Small mind indeed...so because you watch "Killing Eve" means you are enlightened abi? Variety is the spice of life, you can't police people for what they like and call them "small minds" if they don't like what you like. I myself find the tempo and drama of "Killing eve" pleasing but i usually wait for the season to complete to binge because seeing it one episode at a time can be frustratingly slow for a series which premise is a spy thriller and i think that's what drives must people away but it doesn't make anybody small minds and even a dons can grasp "The Killing Eve" from the very the first episode, what intelligence do you need to understand "a MI5 agent been in a love and hate relationship with an assassin she's chasing", if this require high intelligence to understand, one will probably need to be a supreme being to understand "Dark".

Don't mind the poser. The Gangs of London he's trashing is considerably more mentally-stimulating than Killing Eve. That's the irony in his epistle.

If linear shows like Money Heist and Killing Eve are mentally-stimulating for him, non-linear shows like Dark, Legion, The OA and Westworld will probably be too much for his cerebrum to grasp.

seankafor:
Why are we running out of vampire series lately?
Are they out of ideas?

There's one on FX called 'What We Do in the Shadows'.

Colybaly:
Who has the link to this video of a woman talking to a corrupt politician, quote me. I really need to watch the full video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNr4fbxtS8

mekaprime:
It's the largest settlement for a single entity/coy. My bad for not specifying that in the write up.

$206billion that's humongous. Well considering how Americans smoke cigarettes, the 4 biggest tobacco coys involved in the lawsuit would have recouped their losses.

Taking the bolded into account, you were correct.

mekaprime:
Deepwater Horizon(2016)....7.5/10
Genre:Action, Drama, History

A somewhat gripping emotional story, based on the BP oil rig that exploded and contaminated the Gulf of Mexico in 2015. Eleven men died instantly and 115 others rushed on to lifeboats.

In the course of 87 days Macondo wellhead, located around 5,000 feet beneath the ocean's surface, leaked over 130 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, making the spill the largest accidental ocean spill in history.

In July 2015, BP agreed to pay $18.7 billion in fines, the largest corporate settlement in United States history.

Great acting, all thanks to the impressive ensemble of cast, top notch visual effects with excellent soundtracks to go with. 107mins well spent.

In Al Pacino/Russel Crowe's The Insider, it was referenced that Big Tobacco shelled out $206 billion settlement to 46 states that participated in the class action lawsuit, to be payed annually for 25 years.

It piqued my interest, and I looked it up, and guess what, the settlement (is) the largest class action settlement in the history of the United States.

BP $20 billion settlement is a very distant second.

hakeemlyon:
I highly recommend Unorthodox. Fabulous acting, moving and insightful. only 4 episodes but really good.

Very underrated show. I wish it were longer than 4 episodes.

Achilles200:
Will start with Upload and Liar. I like what I see.

Upload is really good. Nice concept.

Achilles200:
This is why I'm yet to see Little Fires Everywhere. Also her role in the trailer, looks there will be a lot of crying and this face in the series.

Kerry Washington too dey do this face.

I love Reese Witherspoon, so painful I won't be able to see her.

Will check out the rest. Thanks.

LMAO...

Don't deprive yourself of a decent show because of a pet peeve.

hpymoment:
I want to check out White collar and better call Saul.
Hope they worth it.

Can only speak for Better Call Saul; it's worth your data.

Achilles200:
What shows are y'all watching now. I'm out of good TV shows. Only one I am seeing now is Defending Jacob and Penny Dreadful: City of angels.

I need recommendations, please, no CW shows.

Upload, Little Fires Everywhere, Normal People, MyBrilliant Friend, Liar, Unorthodox.

Futuragetty:
Yay. I just saw that last part. I don't know how I could miss that scene. obviously, I was sad about Sean's demise.
Isn't that Finn's mistress, Fiorina? the lady that may save Marian. and Yes, she will survive.

I don't get the obsession with the 'Only you' song by platters. Anyone who can explain please?

I don't think the song has any special significance, aside from being Marian Wallace's pressure soothing tune.


Yup, the woman's Floriana.

RayMcBlue:
Nonbinary is a term formulated to excuse mental illness.

Concurred.

ogbuefi677:
abeg,can anyone give me a link I can use to download version of the movie FAUDA which has full SUBTITLES.Season 1 & 2.
The one I'm watching is subtitled when they speak Arabic but not when they speak Hebrew.

https:// rmz. cr/fauda

DriggityDre:
Hmmm.. Could it be NL's format or the font size?

'Cos this is a popular format on lengthy write-ups online. Even Wikipedia uses it.

Perhaps... however, I have issues perusing a wall of text that has no articulated paragraphs for extended lengths.

Futuragetty:
exactly, nobody would.
Thought Marian Wallace was shot by Ed Dumani at the
graveyard. I somehow felt she could not have survived the
gunshot since it was close-ranged. unless I missed the part of her surviving.
another aspect they failed was - Sean almost had no sexual
life, except for the quickie towards the end of the last
episode. I really wanted sean to be the main character. He
had it all- the burning rage for revenge.

Sean's arc was poorly written. Like you rightly observed, he had no private life. No expository flashback to endear him to the audience, nothing. As a result, he appeared to be a shallow, touchy, impulsive, and malignant individual. He was no protagonist, just a red herring.

Elliot's arc in contrast, was well written. We knew he had a grim past (dead spouse and child), an ex-boxer dad whom he really dotes on. Likewise, it was intimated that he was ex-special forces. Elliot was written to be the main guy right from the start, but it was hidden from us, until the cat was let out of the bag in the season finale.

As regards Marian Wallace, towards the ending, a woman pushing a baby stroller approached a half-concious Marian, and said to her, "I'll help you." Going by this, my assumption is that she's very much alive.

Plead:
Give Korean a try. Trust me,it’s worth it.

Pffft!

Being there, done that.

Not my thing.

Futuragetty:
poorly written scripts. It was rather too early for the Wallace family to be erased, leaving the family biz at the hands of refugees. in real life, people in the kind of biz Wallaces' fam were involved in don't make certain mistakes. like having a UC living and dining with you.

Not gonna defend the script because it has a lot of discrepancies, but Sean at the later stages of the show, mutated into a pawn piece in a chess board, consequently, killing him off is kinda logical. As the plot evolved, he ceased to be the focal point of it. Elliot has taken over the principal role, and it'd be interesting to see how he deals with it.

Sean's Mom is a more interesting character anyhow, and the writers kept her alive for this reason, and I firmly believe she will have a prominent role to play next season. The Wallaces are still in the game.

Megatone50:
you choose to attack me and fail to understand my point, you see me as an enemy of your show..lol..well am a critic and I drop my opinion with fact..

I have said this for the umpteenth time.. billions is a good show, you are just over rating it..

This huge wall of text is for what exactly?

Your desperation for relevance made you to almost exhaust a page with a pointless epistle.

Nigga, wise up.

DriggityDre:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - 10/10
The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror film directed by Jonathan Demme from a screenplay written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel of the same name. The film stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, and Anthony Heald. In the film, Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims' corpses.
Critically acclaimed upon release, it became only the third film to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It is also the first (and so far only) Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film, and one of only six such films to be nominated in the category. It is regularly cited by critics, film directors and audiences alike as one of the greatest and most influential films of all time. The American Film Institute ranked the characters Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter as the greatest heroine and villain in the history of film, respectively. The film is considered "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011.
Clarice was beautiful, man. My best character was Hannibal Lecter. At a point, you would wonder whether Hannibal and Anthony are actually the same person. Lecter and Clarice both murdered their roles. If I could rate above 10, I would. You could sense his unequaled intelligence beneath his demeanour. I can't express it in words.
Hannibal was inspirational, yet terrifying.

Good review, but endeavour to place pronounced sections/paragraphs in your entries. It's a tedious read without appropriate formatting.

I do American, French, British, Italian, German, and Scandinavian.

I don't do Korean, Latin American, Iberian, Filipino, Bollywood, Chinese and Japanese.

falconey:




billions


I have never been more excited than when I lost my virginity!

You're not a real nigga. Real niggaz don't kiss and tell.

Translation; you're still a virgin.