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Things that drive me up the wall in film and TV:
1. When people are perfectly happy to kneel/sit on the floor of a public toilet. Who in their right mind?
In this episode, our hero is led to a new place of work and told there are NO CLEANERS "...so clean up after yourself...".
He then rushes to the toilet to be sick, which he does by putting his head RIGHT DOWN INTO THE BOWL. He then wipes the bowl out, then rushes over to the sink, where he scoops water into his mouth WITH THE SAME HAND.
There are some far fetched ideas in this show, but this is the one that lifts you out of the pretence. Come on Alex.
For starters, the idea that a building full of code-heads who have to do their own cleaning would have a toilet that's humanly tolerable, let alone one that looks like it's been installed that morning and then firehosed with bleach is a bit ridiculous.
Quite enjoyed the show though. Hope it doesn't degenerate into "she's got the thin, let's kill her".
In this episode, our hero is led to a new place of work and told there are NO CLEANERS "...so clean up after yourself...".
He then rushes to the toilet to be sick, which he does by putting his head RIGHT DOWN INTO THE BOWL. He then wipes the bowl out, then rushes over to the sink, where he scoops water into his mouth WITH THE SAME HAND.
There are some far fetched ideas in this show, but this is the one that lifts you out of the pretence. Come on Alex.
For starters, the idea that a building full of code-heads who have to do their own cleaning would have a toilet that's humanly tolerable, let alone one that looks like it's been installed that morning and then firehosed with bleach is a bit ridiculous.
Quite enjoyed the show though. Hope it doesn't degenerate into "she's got the thin, let's kill her".
I get the suspension of disbelief. I do.
But the premise of this film is that Nicolas Cage is playing himself in a fish-out-of-water situation, and for that to mean anything, the premise has to be consistent.
So when he's instructed by his ostensibly real CIA handlers to use a patch to render a possible intruder unconscious, and he accidentally uses it on himself and takes god knows how long to pass out, it stretches the premise. Not only that, but his handler then tells him that the best thing he can do now is to step out of the window onto a tiny ledge. Just before he passes out.
All of which just causes the entire premise of the film to collapse in on itself.
This sort of metatextual thing has been done before, with much greater success, because the writers of those films were smarter and more diligent than the ones we have here.
"Paddington 2 is amazing". Oh my aching sides. What a fantastic, original joke that is.
It's a lazy, and ultimately pointless film for people with a "Big Bang Theory" sense of humour, which only exists because someone of Cage's standing agreed to take part, which in turn is no doubt due to film-star vanity.
But the premise of this film is that Nicolas Cage is playing himself in a fish-out-of-water situation, and for that to mean anything, the premise has to be consistent.
So when he's instructed by his ostensibly real CIA handlers to use a patch to render a possible intruder unconscious, and he accidentally uses it on himself and takes god knows how long to pass out, it stretches the premise. Not only that, but his handler then tells him that the best thing he can do now is to step out of the window onto a tiny ledge. Just before he passes out.
All of which just causes the entire premise of the film to collapse in on itself.
This sort of metatextual thing has been done before, with much greater success, because the writers of those films were smarter and more diligent than the ones we have here.
"Paddington 2 is amazing". Oh my aching sides. What a fantastic, original joke that is.
It's a lazy, and ultimately pointless film for people with a "Big Bang Theory" sense of humour, which only exists because someone of Cage's standing agreed to take part, which in turn is no doubt due to film-star vanity.