markmullen777

I'm not a huge fan of the books, but I'm a mild admirer. I have little faith in Amazon to produce anything worth while given their track record of producing way more misses than hits and unfortunately this is another big miss.

I'll usually watch anything fantasy and I've watched some.bad shows in time and this is down their in Legend of the seeker territory. But at least that was knowingly B-movie pulp.

Then same boring modern tropes are present: forced and lazy diversity, the writers unable to make male characters do anything of note witout a woman's help. I mean seriously we've done a 180 here from how it used to be. Marvel influenced quippy humour and modern day outlooks and personalities in a medieval like world. It goes on.

It's a shame because the monsters for episode 1 were really good. But that was the highlight of the whole season.

The films starts out well. With a familiar end of the world, last human alive scenario. Smith has only his dog for company and we quickly learn that at night there is an unseen threat.

But it was always going to be difficult to keep a story like going for a feature length film and this film certainly does not succeed, with every act getting successively worse.

The creature CGI is really poor too. Aside from the very first moment we sight the creatures huddled in the darkness, they are completely unconvincing plot devices. A mix of practical effects and CGI would have been so much better.

There's a couple of great/ shocking moments in the film, one in particular which is really moving and has become quite famous.

But after that moment, the film gradually shifts from tense survival into block buster action flick which a very flimsy religious theme thrown in.

All in all its worth a watch, but keep your expectations low.

I had an idea! My wife and I would make a jar with all of the classic films in we wanted to watch and we would draw one out a week and watch it. The first film that was drawn out of that jar was 'Requiem for a Dream'. "Great." I said "I've wanted to watch that for ages. I love the theme tune."

Little did I know then, that the theme tune is by far the best thing about this movie. I'm not going to go on too much because it has already taken too much time from me. But this is a warning to all film lovers out there. Heed my advice and listen well... DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM.

So with the warning issued I will try to explain a little before I close this page and never think about this terrible film again. There are plenty of films that are bad. There are plenty of films that are stupid. But Requiem for a Dream is like a handsome rogue that turns up at a party who tells great stories and looks for all the world on the outside that he has everything. But within he is an empty shell. The film maker believes his film is intelligent and original and visionary. But in reality it is just horrid, convoluted, strange, stupid, ignorant agonisingly plodding and at times just damn right rage inducing.

I don't know how we made it through to the end, but it was an epic chore and we did skip 'yet another one of those stupid fantasy scenes with the bloody TV.

But, at last, like a tortuous trek through the desert, we got to the dismal, depressing and convoluted ending. I looked at the wife and she looked at me and I said "That is the worst film I have ever seen."

The wife concurred.

The jar went in the bin, as we couldn't bring ourselves to even draw another name.

So DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM. You have been warned. Without being too offensive I feel many people who like this film are just trying to see what isn't really there and feel it is an 'intelligent film'. It isn't, it's just a bucket full of stale urine.