thommy741

If anyone dares to summarize the show like this: ,,A new take on what may have happened in Salem'' I get furious. Salem was a perfect example of mass-hysteria and now American television comes along and presents the audience with a sexist version on ,how not to handle history'. Everything I saw of this show (and believe me when I say that I watched half way through before I finally gave up) is badly written and centers on a bad-written relationship. Game of Thrones is full of porn and may sometimes be a little bit ,too much' but Salem does this AND forgets to deliver on a plot as well. It looks like something a Twilight fan would write to prove he/she has ,more guts' to show violence and dark magic. Every character behaves so out of role and so inaccurate (time-wise) that I sometimes had to ask myself if the writers opened a history book EVER.

Let's see it this way: If you just care for some exposed breasts and think afroamerican women brought witchcraft to bewitch honest white ladies, then watch this.

So here's the deal: This movie is more or less a really close look on how "Mary Poppins" went from being a book to being in theaters around the world. While you may won't like this film if you expected something "shocking", you'll see that this may be one of the most emotion-filled/ best written movies since "The King's Speech" - with much better music. Beware of the fact, that this movie deals with some heavy topic (such as alcoholism and shattered expectations on life). I really recommend watching the original "Mary Poppins" before "Saving Mr. Banks" since this filmy heavily refers to scenes from P. L. Traver's/Disney's masterpiece. Expect some really heavy scenes, some good laughter and one of the best soundtracks you have heard in any movie in a long long time.

So "Attack on titan" has been recommended by a friend of mine who has great taste for TV series and naturally I have given it a try. I really loved how the first scenes set the tone for a more "mature" and less chlichéed picture of women I so came to hate about anime (you know .. those animes in which women have so unrealistic huge breats it hurts and they always wear awfully short stuff to show every viewer how desperately lonely the creator of the manga must have felt). The pacing felt right at first and it sure knows how to make you feel excited for some twist which reveals what happened, where the titans come from and so on. Sadly like 6 episodes in you start to realize that while an episode is 24 minutes long roughly 18 of those are wasted on flat emotional melodramtic talking I start to feel Japanese are addicted to. To make things even worse they started adding some unlikeable characters that are not just "unlikeable" for the audience in a clever way but are designed to be unlikeable in a shameful way (yeah, we get it, rich people try to save their goods and sacrifice every normal citizen who comes in their way, the church is evil and there always is a commander who is like insane and needs a psychiatrist right now bla bla). Despite all of those flaws (and I admit that I'm really judging this series a little hard) "Attack on Titan" looks really good and has a imo catching opening music which features the opening line in my own language (german) ... sadly Japanese are no pronouncing experts and so I never got it until I looked it up on the internet ;-P