Aranybulla

I had high expections since I knew the hungarian goverment spent tremendous money to make this movie. My family and I (bare in mind we are a conservative, history respecter family) sat down and watch the whole series in 3days during the Christmas holidays. If only we would do something else... It was long, borring, full of fake historical facts, not to mention the bad actors.. 😞 It was honestly, pain to watch!

If you dont want to suffer, do a favor for yourself and do not spend your precious time to watch this movie.

You were warned. God bless Hungary and its people, but gosh it was probavly the worst series I have ever watched....

Even if we disregard the claims of the creators about the historicity of this miniseries (which is clearly false), or that it is an utter waste of taxpayer money (since its entire budget of $4m is state-financed, with a nearly zero box office), it is also badly written, features mediocre acting and is terribly boring!

These kinds of idealistic series or movies were typical in communist Hungary between 1950 and 1980. But those at least had some viewers, as there was only one television channel in the country.

The script is completely braindead. Lacks any character development. The actors were chosen according to their loyalty towards government officials. It doesn't feature any of the famed and generally accepted Hungarian actors, since those are regarded to be too "liberal" who "cannot be trusted". Just look at the fact that one of the main actors Balázs Bölkény attended the same faculty on the same university as half of the current government: The faculty of law on the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. And this is the guaranteed recipe for bad quality products: contraselection!

As we Hungarians would say, this production is totally a "paraszt vakitàs!" considering how the Hungarian government is using public funds creating propaganda "movies or TV series".

The real authentic Hungarian film making has died but mainly ignored or either emigrated overseas giving us the audience a magical motion picture experience!

We Hungarians basically give one of the best platform opportunities by making motion picture for Hollywood and thats where it ends unfortunately!!!😔 At the moment the latest political regime in Hungary has cancelled the free arts and culture institutes despite of make it larger and greater.

Utter waste of time, the screenpay is mediocre, writing is horrendously bad. It pretends to be a historical story but the plot has not much to do with the real historic events or characters. A sorry attempt to romanticise the non existent Hungarian greatness for a big load of govt. Financial contribution. It dares do compare itself with Game of Thrones, that is the best joke in the series, nevertheless if it is referring to the alternative history than I understand the link. This is the same disgusting agit-prop type story about imaginary and sugarclad history which was flourishing during the imfluzof USSR, but wait in those days Hungarian directors has balls and dared to write things like: the Russians are already in the storage room. Nowdays they truly are...

This was "crowdfunded" from our taxes, at least good actors/actresses were chosen, but the script, cinematography, direction is awful #NERgasm.

Some have certainly benefited from their contribution to the film. It's pathetic that anyone would compare it to the Game of Thrones , but nothing is surprising anymore in this orange haze that is enveloping the country.

Hopefully this will never be broadcasted again on television and will not take up server space anywhere for streaming/VOD purposes.

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