On_The_Mark

I love Spielberg and there's no doubt he's the most successful director of all time. If you look at his library of films, they are the biggest box office and most awarded and critically acclaimed of any director.

That said, knowing this is an autobiography, it's pretty boring. Scenes go on too long and the film really goes no where. Honestly, I think a real biography that starts where this movie ends would be interesting. I was just bored by this. I wanted to like it but I couldn't. There are a couple good scenes here and there but overall, I can't imagine how people were entertained by this overly long movie.

But hey, a lot of what I like and dislike isn't what most people like, so there's that. But for me personally, it was boring and long winded.

It's not a bad show at all but the reviews I'm reading here make this to be the greatest TV of all time and it's not remotely.

It's an NYPD Blue for today with characters not as interesting as that show. The characters, all played by capable actors, are the same characters that every police procedural show has. There is nothing original about anything here. The episodes even start out exactly like NYPD blue did, various quick shots of New York - then the story starts.

Selleck is always good but the "voice of reason" character gets a little grating after a while. Donnie Walberg is a good actor but the "plays by his own rules" cop is beyond a cliche.

My problem with the show outside the basic, standard police procedural show which is all this is, is the bad exposition in every episode. They treat the audience like they're stupid. By "bad exposition" I mean where two characters are explaining something that they clearly already know and would never utter outloud like they do but are doing it for the benefit of the audience watching. "You were my partner for three years a few years back, can you watch my back?" Or "must be hard knowing your brother was killed in the line of duty" (girlfriend says to her boyfriend graduating the police academy in front of his family - something no one would actually say like that in that situation in a million years). This stuff happens every episode.

And then the grandfather - yeah, completely pointless character to reminiscent of Frasier. Adds nothing to the show. I keep trying to work out the ages every time he's on screen - I would assume Seleck is playing 65, the father has to be 85 but looks 75. I would guess the oldest son who passed was 45.

Every episode has them having dinner together and sometimes the dialog can get cringy or boring.

Overall, it's a show I don't mind watching while I'm on the treadmill - don't think I'd watch it on regular TV. But it's been on for 14 years so clearly it is doing well.

This is one of those dreadfully awful films that only the "cool" people "get it." I see people whining "oh man, they just don't get it - ho hum." These are pretentious people who wouldn't know a good movie if it was laid out before them in single syllable words.

It's an hour and forty minutes of shots of a wall, a ceiling, a rug, a light, a TV, all done with a cheap "old film" filter run over video. It doesn't look like film, it looks like a cheap "film" filter run over video. It also had a loud hiss that doesn't make it look like old film, it's just an annoying sound to add to a terrible "movie" that makes no sense. I got through 30 minutes of this mess and I'd like to kick myself in the head for wasting those 30 minutes - or even more so kick in the head the morons who said this was a great film. I started fast forwarding because I couldn't sit through shots of a house for another five minutes and it's just not worth it. It's awful - it makes Brown Bunny look like Citizen Kane. At least there was some sort of story in Brown Bunny. I assume there was a story here only because that's what some people said - the ones who want you to believe this was great when it's unwatchable.