gce2308's reviews

I've always liked Anna Friel. IMO I think she is a very good actress. I was pretty much fully engaged thru all of the episodes and that's unusual because I get bored very easily, but the story lines were good and certainly kept my attention. So yeah, considering all the othersdross out there, I can definitely recommend all 3 of this series.

I actually signed up to Stan just to watch this thing. Not happy.1

I'm Australian, i like to follow what Aussies are doing/have done in the world of film but, seriously, I cannot understand the high praise and reasonably high rating.

This series has some of THE worst acting i have ever seen (except for Fimmel) and even he has lost a bit of his gloss.

And everyone is so goddamn wooden. Izzy and her sister in particular. And did i mention the deadset god-awful acting!! And i don't even want to find out why Jimmy wanted his face to get all beat up; I fair dinkum just don't give a rat's arse! (But I suspect he's "a bad dad" or something & there's a sad kid somewhere? Whatevs.)

It's just 3 episodes in (I wanted to quit at end of ep2 but, to be fair, I truly forced myself to watch ep3) and i just can't take anymore - it's too embarrassing.

1 star for each episode watched.

So. It's 10 years old and I just came across it by sheer accident in June 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Watched it on the NITV channel - which has some fantastic movies, by the way!). Must say I really enjoy the Kiwi sense of humour, they do some fabulous stuff and this was an absolute gem. So damn cleverly funny. (Kept expecting Jemaine Clement & Co to turn up for a while tho.) Got magnificently bloody and stoopid in parts towards the end, but I was still mesmerised. And that bit with the statue? "Jesus!!!!" was just laugh out loud for me - because I jumped in fright on my couch & said exactly the same thing! And there were many laugh out loud bits amongst the suspense! I truly LOVED this movie. Excellent work, and bloody well done, New Zealand! Thoroughly recommend.

I'd never seen this movie before. I remember a big deal being made of it back in the mid-nineties, but watching it in 2022 it's just plain bad. Horribly bad. I was astounded at how bad the acting was and it actually made me laugh. Add the abysmal script and that awful domestic violence scene and I'd had enough. It has not aged well at all!

As an Aussie with ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA of how all this works in my own country, I loved being able to see these amazingly tough, hard working, true blue folk live their lives. LOVED IT. Thoroughly recommend. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Thought it was a fantastic film.

The only thing bad about it was Nicole's wig. Otherwise I felt every single bit of what she was experiencing/going through. Loved the way the "back in time" was added in. IMO, it was a great movie.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Ricky Gervais.

So yeah - I am completely biased. And proud of it.

He is an absolute master of nuance and don't forget that he directs his co-stars to master that art too. And they're ALL fantastic in this film.

His observation of the human condition is absolutely brilliant. But I really do believe a lot of people just DO NOT GET his humour or the subtleties of it. I believe it justvgoes totally over their heads.

Who doesn't know a David Brent anyway, right? And did you see the need & insecurity in that person? Or were you an intolerant, cynical ar*ehole to him/her just because you felt super superior?

And yes, it IS more of the same old David from "The Office" - (many) warts and all.

And thank "goodness" for that!

Because Ricky Gervais Is exceptionally GOOD at everything he does. IMO.

That's how Fisk tracked for me over the 6 episodes.

Got funnier and funnier towards the end.

Finished up loving it.

Julia I like more and more, and she's a great actress too!!! Who knew?!

I have ALWAYS loved both Kitty and Julia - and in this they are just wonderful.

Well, I loved it. I was fascinated from the start and enjoyed every single minute. Cannot understand all the low ratings. I just want to be entertained, I don't want to (or need to!) critique every aspect of the film making. Last scenes are BRILLIANT!!!

Kevin Bacon's character is so obnoxious & the acting so OTT it just put me off the whole show. And don't even get me started on THAT accent! Love Kevin Bacon, but NOT in this!

I've watched all 4 Seasons. So obviously I was engaged with the whole thing, kept me interested. Parts of it pretty ridiculous, and "Helen" a constant pain in the arse, but whatever.

The ONLY reason I am writing this review is to say how utterly hideous the theme "song" to the series is. I could not wait to hit "Skip Intro" so I would not have to hear one second of it!!! So goddam awful 😱.

Just needed to vent about that! Thanks for listening.

Have watched 2 episodes and can't watch anymore. The over-dramatic, bordering on the hysterical, scenes by the lead lady are too much to bear. She over-acts something awful as do the rest of the cast. The Spanish always seem to do this -they load the drama on way too thick. Enough, already.

I try to support Aussie film/TV so tuned in to this offering even though I was already mightily put off by the promo of a scene with Griffiths muttering "Don't be dramatic" to a colleague. By the same token that very thing also drew me to it, because I could not believe the acting could possibly be THAT BAD. Turns out I was right the first time. Rachael Griffiths plays a thoroughly annoying character, with her dead-pan voice and OTT smart-arse dialogue. The acting all round is woeful but it is mostly Griffiths' contribution to this uninspiring steaming pile of crap that totally turned me off.

I had heard so much about this show and all the "rave" reviews, and since I am looking for a long series of something decent to watch, I thought I'd just check out a couple of the Season 7 episodes currently being shown here in Australia, to see if it was worth starting from the very beginning.

I'll need to look elsewhere - because this show blows hugely.

I am embarrassed to think that other countries are seeing this steaming pile of garbage. Individually, quite a few of the actors have done some really good work - in other Australian productions. But this load of crap called "Offspring" does them no favours.

EVERYONE over-acts so much it's positively laughable. Especially the Nina and Billie characters. They are not 'quirky', they are simply annoyingly stupid.

I'm more than prepared to suspend belief to a certain extent when I watch films/TV shows but this is in a whole other realm of 'fantasy'.

I felt nothing but extremely irritated, even angry, whenever Nina or her sister appeared on-screen with their stupid dialogue and over-reactive facial expressions to what seems like EVERYTHING.

It beggars belief that it has lasted a whole 7 Seasons. Has it been a gradual decline into what is now absolute nonsense?

I understand this is the last Season. I'm not surprised!! Thank god it is being retired and will thankfully no longer be shown on our screens.

Good riddance.

Saw this documentary last night. Grew up a true Beatles fan, adored them/all their music. Still do, in fact. Played Sgt. Pepper most of the day today. And through the years I have seen just about every doco ever made about the band.

But when I went to see them at the age of 16 at Festival Hall in Melbourne, Australia in 1964 I felt utterly cheated and so very, very disappointed by the "live" experience for 2 main reasons.

(1) I expected them to sound EXACTLY like their records (yeah, I know, very naive) – and they didn't.

(2) What I could hear I thought sounded god-awful – and the reason I couldn't hear properly (despite the obviously crap sound system, etc. available at the time) was because I was surrounded by shrieking, screaming, hysterical teenage girls. (And it was clear to me most of the girls were over-doing the hysteria big time. Annoying.)

Which brings me to this latest doco. I thought maybe I would be seeing more behind the scenes interaction between the group, I thought perhaps I would be seeing more 'not seen before' type interviews, I thought I might hear more information about their respective family lives in the early years during their meteoric rise to fame 63-67. But no, none of those things really happened at all.

What was there, and in plentiful proportion to absolutely everything else, was vision after vision of shrieking, screaming, hysterical teenage girls! As you might imagine, this was less than impressive to me. And by that I mean - BORING!

I totally agree with what another reviewer said, it was more like one long Newsreel.

I definitely would not recommend this documentary and, not for the first time, let me say I am incredulous at the high IMDb rating.

There's just one thing that really impressed me about this series and that is the high IMDb rating given to this heap of garbage.

I say this because I find it utterly amazing that the reviewers who rated this steaming pile of excrement with 9's and 10's must surely ALL be under 12 years of age, and yet they have somehow managed to write reviews that, for the most part, are well worded, grammatically correct and with very few spelling errors. So - well done, kids!!

For anyone over 12 years of age - please, just stay right away from this stinker.

(PS: Would it have hurt to have given poor "11" a Kleenex tissue or two?)