buster-39589
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Anyone remembers Love/Hate?"
"Nah, that was years ago"
"Great, let's just rip it off"
And from the opening credits on that's pretty much exactly what they did.
Anyone who's watched the excellent Love/Hate will, right from the start, be able to identify where each set piece comes from. Okay, they've mixed a few bits up, rearranged the deckchairs if you will, but almost everything is lifted straight from Stuart Carolan's work.
Now, okay, I guess there was always going to be some sort of overlap given the subject matter, however The Irish Mob goes that extra mile.
The production quality is reasonable, the acting pretty much what you'd expect, however it's the lazy story that really knocks it down the rankings.
"Nah, that was years ago"
"Great, let's just rip it off"
And from the opening credits on that's pretty much exactly what they did.
Anyone who's watched the excellent Love/Hate will, right from the start, be able to identify where each set piece comes from. Okay, they've mixed a few bits up, rearranged the deckchairs if you will, but almost everything is lifted straight from Stuart Carolan's work.
Now, okay, I guess there was always going to be some sort of overlap given the subject matter, however The Irish Mob goes that extra mile.
The production quality is reasonable, the acting pretty much what you'd expect, however it's the lazy story that really knocks it down the rankings.
I only vaguely remembered Merseybeat, the BBC's answer to The Bill, and don't recall ever having watched it, so when it popped up on UK Play I thought I'd give it a go.
Bearing in mind that this was a prime time evening show on what was the main BBC channel I was expecting it to be at the very least watchable.
I was wrong.
Right from the outset it lacked promise. The character building was poor, I mean really poor and really hackneyed.
The storylines were weak and the whole production reminded me not so much of The Bill, which by this point had itself become a glossy soap opera pastiche of its former self, but of one of the BBC lunchtime dramas, Doctors springs to mind, designed as background noise for new mothers and the housebound.
To be honest I'm amazed it lasted for as many episodes as it did.
I gave up after 3...
Bearing in mind that this was a prime time evening show on what was the main BBC channel I was expecting it to be at the very least watchable.
I was wrong.
Right from the outset it lacked promise. The character building was poor, I mean really poor and really hackneyed.
The storylines were weak and the whole production reminded me not so much of The Bill, which by this point had itself become a glossy soap opera pastiche of its former self, but of one of the BBC lunchtime dramas, Doctors springs to mind, designed as background noise for new mothers and the housebound.
To be honest I'm amazed it lasted for as many episodes as it did.
I gave up after 3...
Because if you do, let me tell you, Sons of Summer isn't it.
Based on the flimsiest of pretexts, four surfers whose fathers were friends 30 years ago decide to go on a road trip together along with a huge quantity of drugs one of them has stolen from a local paint-by-numbers gangster. There's no connection between the characters, the acting is as wooden as their surfboards, the plot has holes you could drive a bus through, the cinematography reminds me of the sort found in Aussie movies from 40 years ago, and the whole thing has the feel of an overly long episode of Home and Away directed by someone who loved Baywatch as a kid.
It's not as if Sons of Summer falls into that "so bad it's good" category, it's just an awful, awful movie.
Based on the flimsiest of pretexts, four surfers whose fathers were friends 30 years ago decide to go on a road trip together along with a huge quantity of drugs one of them has stolen from a local paint-by-numbers gangster. There's no connection between the characters, the acting is as wooden as their surfboards, the plot has holes you could drive a bus through, the cinematography reminds me of the sort found in Aussie movies from 40 years ago, and the whole thing has the feel of an overly long episode of Home and Away directed by someone who loved Baywatch as a kid.
It's not as if Sons of Summer falls into that "so bad it's good" category, it's just an awful, awful movie.