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Do we like Ralph Fiennes? He turned up in an old episode of Prime Suspect I was watching - from 20 years ago before he was anyone - and I was watching his performance and I thought no, he doesn't seem right. He doesn't seem like a person. And I realized he's always like that. He's not like a person. That kind of worked for his character in Schindler's List but other than that, I am not a Ralph Fiennes fan.
Here's what I watched this week
The Fighter - I thought this was significantly over-rated. Best Picture nominee? 8.0 at imdb? GTFOOH. It's okay but it just meanders for so long. It takes an hour to introduce that Mickey has a goofy/bad family and then they zip through some fights and then they introduce it some more. OKAY! FAMILY OF IDIOTS! I GET IT! The boxing scenes were really bad. I'm sure boxing is a tough sport to simulate but that's not my problem. It looked bad. Ultimately it was a biopic of a pretty insignificant player in a dying sport. He won a WBU title? That's the big triumph we're building towards? WBU? I dunno. 5.4 out of 10.
Treme (Season 1) - I have made it to the end of season 1. Although it picked up as it went along, it never really lost its feeling of being a chore. While watching episodes, I would keep glancing at the DVD player to see how far I was into episodes, always hoping to be closer to the 57 minute mark than I really was. Not a good sign. It needed MUCH more plot. It had so much good foundational stuff but it didn't build on it. I wanted to love it but I didn't. I did watch the whole season so that is on the plus side. But I can't see myself watching season two. 5.2 out of 10.
Here's what I watched this week
The Fighter - I thought this was significantly over-rated. Best Picture nominee? 8.0 at imdb? GTFOOH. It's okay but it just meanders for so long. It takes an hour to introduce that Mickey has a goofy/bad family and then they zip through some fights and then they introduce it some more. OKAY! FAMILY OF IDIOTS! I GET IT! The boxing scenes were really bad. I'm sure boxing is a tough sport to simulate but that's not my problem. It looked bad. Ultimately it was a biopic of a pretty insignificant player in a dying sport. He won a WBU title? That's the big triumph we're building towards? WBU? I dunno. 5.4 out of 10.
Treme (Season 1) - I have made it to the end of season 1. Although it picked up as it went along, it never really lost its feeling of being a chore. While watching episodes, I would keep glancing at the DVD player to see how far I was into episodes, always hoping to be closer to the 57 minute mark than I really was. Not a good sign. It needed MUCH more plot. It had so much good foundational stuff but it didn't build on it. I wanted to love it but I didn't. I did watch the whole season so that is on the plus side. But I can't see myself watching season two. 5.2 out of 10.