lishalinski-21-474706's reviews

Wow. This is literally the worst thing I've ever seen, including random home videos found in the goodwill store.

Well, this had no reviews so I thought I'd look up the director. He basically had done loads of movies about UFO conspiracy theories from what I can see. And several short documentaries, all with similar names like God vs UFOs, none of which have reviews.

So I suspected that they may all be basically the same thing but this one may have had the name changed to include AI, in order to attract interest - and I was correct.

But it's even worse than that. This is a documentary that appears to be composed entirely out of stock imagery with a voice over (quite possibly AI - perhaps that's the "AI" in the title!).

It's basically some kind of nonsense essay being read to you for 45 minutes with a random bit of video of a random soldier when they're talking about the military, some footage of the Bible when they're talking about God, random people with VR headsets on, or in Sci fi costumes, and some really bizarre footage of a glowing plastic alien figure, filmed against the backdrop of what looks like the Nevada desert. A corporate promotional video would be better.

UFOs, of course, feature heavily, much more heavily than AI which appears to have been randomly inserted into a script already written about God vs UFOs.

If you were considering watching this, you owe me.

Apart from being an amazing story, one of the things I loved about this is how much footage they have over quite a long period of time, video of Demis from when he was a young kid playing chess and over many years of the development of Deep Mind. This meant that you went on the journey with them and celebrated their successes and failures alongside them.

I guess i'm not that aware about all of this stuff because i had slightly confused it with LLMs and of course this is something different, more important and more interesting. I really recommend watching this, everyone should know about where our future is heading.

I saw this at a screening and thought it was a great idea and incredibly relevant to where we are today - in the middle of a migrant "crisis".

It's got a good storyline and even a plot twist. I'm not gay and generally don't seek out gay movies, I watched it because I like Sci fi, but I still really enjoyed this and it felt very natural.

The interview with the director was quite revealing he said that within an hour of launch it had hundreds of 1 star reviews from bots, because of the gay content one presumes.

A tiny budget movie like this should never have 427 ratings on Imdb, so that kind of backs up his claim.

Overall I enjoyed it, the acting was good, couldn't fault it, really engaging leads and the story was good too. 9/10.

So many dumb and unrealistic things happened in this film. It's entirely a construct to try and keep you on the edge of your seat but most of the plot makes no sense. It's a mystery to me how it gets a high rating.

The criminals have completely unexplained access to a ridiculous amount of highly confidential data , call intercepts and security systems , frankly if you had that level of access you'd be able to cause a lot more chaos than just what is proposed in this movie.

But the most egregious thing is the ludicrous way that the baddie starts giving relationship and life advice to the protagonist. This is simply padding to stretch out a plot so thin that it's actually hard to write enough words for this review.

I came across this show in lockdown and assumed it was the old one from the 70s. When I saw 73 episodes I laughed, and thought I'd watch just one or two. Turns out 73 was not enough...

This series is comprised of all the things I love. Sci fi, social policy, politics, action, adventure, great characters.

Take a bunch of people and strand them in space. They will need over time to create a society. That society will need to be governed. By whom? What rules will they put in place and why? Will it be democratic? Which of the historic structures will they choose to keep and which will they discard? What about workers rights and unions? Prisons? These are all topics carefully considered, but against a backdrop of exciting space action. I can't recommend it highly enough.

The great thing about documentaries is that they teach you things in an enjoyable and entertaining way.

I have almost zero interest in football. I was over 50 before I even went to a football match, and then it was only because the tickets were free and I wanted to support women footballers.

Yet, this documentary, which I caught on broadcast TV in 2002 (over 20 years ago), is one of the documentaries that I have enjoyed most.

What I do know a bit about is North Korea, having spent some time with specialists discussing it. So I do understand that this guy SOMEHOW got unprecedented access to North Korea to document an absolutely life affirming event.

I won't talk too much about the content which others have done. What I will tell you is how it made me feel. I felt great that sport (which, like football, I have limited interest in) is something that can unite us and bring us together. That we can, despite all our political divisions, find something in common. That Brits root for the underdog. That you can see a different perspective on religion and many things we take for granted in our society. And that, after all these years, I still always have something to talk about with any football fanatic who otherwise I might struggle to connect with.

I can't rate this highly enough. 99/10.

There is a plot here which is engaging enough, but the sub plot is the relationships between the expats and their helpers. As someone who grew up as an expat, I, as a young adult visiting my parents, became very conscious of the old fashioned paternal attitude my parents took to the servants and disapproved.

I've gone on to hire staff in the UK and the relationship is so much different. My sister lived in Asia and had servants herself, and I've seen first hand the tensions that arise between a more modern attitude towards the servants that come from a very different background to ourselves. The inequality is so great and this is truly a study in inequality as much as anything else. You just need to view this from a broader standpoint than most reviewers have done. There is much to be observed, to provoke thought, and to be learned.

For me this is one of the strengths of this series. Whilst people berate it as vacuous and boring - well, you know what, that is their lives. A serious of parties, domestic politics and no engagement with the real world of the country they live in, local politics is a mere inconvenience because it may cause traffic. This series is really true to life in so many ways. If you want to know what life for them is like, I can see it all there, it's so acutely familiar.

I agree that Nicole Kidman trying to pass for at least 10 years younger though is distracting, and there definitely is something not quite right with her face. But nevertheless, as a portrayal of expats, which is exactly the point, it's excellent. Well written and very accurate.

I started to watch this thinking it would be in French and it would help me to improve my French so was pretty horrified when I found it was in Flemish. But I got sucked in very quickly and ended up watching every episode right to the end and when it was over I felt that I'd lost a friend, surely this is a mark of a brilliant series.

The lead is so completely convincing as someone I presume is autistic and/or with mental health challenges and the whole premise, although outlandish, is completely believable because of this. The social scaffolding he needs to function in the world, the people that help, support and tolerate him, are really convincing because he himself seems charismatic enough to be able to attract them.

Whilst it's undoubtedly interesting, the high quality production ended up really detracting from the whole thing for me. There's beautiful cinematography, impressive shots and loads of stuff going on. But great shots of him/the scenery from multiple angles kept me constantly wondering how many camera men he had (looks like there was a crew of 5) plus you gotta think there's a translator/fixer as well and all of a sudden this isn't one guy surviving in the jungle but a whole team of people that have come with provisions, equipment, probably porters and it starts to feel really staged. Hard to think he's really going to bed hungry because he didn't catch any food if all the other guys are eating their full rations they brought with them.

He has so much information about what he sees too and that too seems somewhat unrealistic - later voice over of info would feel more genuine, but knowing it all in advance again feels like it's been staged. After one episode I decided that I probably would not watch any more.

The acting is excellent and it's a gripping story about a few days surrounding the Munich agreement. I saw that the rating was 6.8 and I thought that was brutally unfair, for the quality of the acting. This isn't my usual fare - I watched it only because my father likes war films. So for me to enjoy it when I normally find them somewhat dull and repetitive I thought it was definitely worth more than 6.8

I didn't know till I came here to leave a review how historically inaccurate it was. Indeed my father was muttering darkly about Chamberlain all the way though, which based on the movie I thought seemed unfair. Now, thanks to all the reviews, I am educated, which is great, but it was still a great film with some staggering performances by the leads, and deserves more recognition.

I have very limited interest in cricket, but watched this at a showing where the director did a Q&A. It's a phenomenal story and I asked the director how did they know that it was all going to go so well? Apparently they originally thought it would just be a short piece - but "they just kept winning!" And they just kept going back and filming.

It is a really inspirational film and even if you've not interested in cricket it's great to see people beating the odds. I came to leave this review almost 10 years since I watched it because I was recommending it to someone else and I had to look up the name. I think I would like to watch it again especially in the light of what has now happened in Afghanistan.

Recently I told someone that when I was a teenager I didn't really think I'd get to 30, that either nuclear war or Aids would get me. Now looking back I have wondered if I was being melodramatic, but watching this film I realise I was not far off.

I have absolutely no idea how this film came to be as it's so intimate and I'm not sure how that has been achieved without people acting for the camera, but I'm very grateful to have watched it and I do think everyone should see it, particularly at the moment with Putin behaving the way he is and another threat of nuclear war. It's truly an astonishing story.

I'm now half way through episode 3. My friend didn't want to watch it as he'd heard that it wasn't that good but I honestly think he's missing out. The imagery is so rich I could watch it just for that, but I think the acting is superb, particularly Galadriel who so looks the part as well that is hard to think she isn't elf. It's set in cities all across Middle Earth and beyond, so every episode seems to have new amazing sets, they must have spent so much on the design, I could watch it again just to wallow in these beautiful places.

So far I've found the story quite gripping, so much so I've stayed up far too late!

Not just a series of implausible events like your usual thriller, but also decisions that I don't think would have been made by military men in wartime. They're trained to follow orders but do quite odd things, and there are very inconsistent behaviours of the characters, just to suit the machinations of the plot. Its a very simplistic story - no idea who wrote it but I'm not impressed.

I sat through it because my elderly father will watch anything about wars but it was pretty awful, one of the worst I've seen, and I've watched quite a few war movies now.

If you want to watch a good war movie, watch Black Book.

I watched this movie to try and understand how the Finns did it, turned back the Russians, particularly in the context of Ukraine today. Was it clever strategy, luck, tactics, or Russian incompetence etc. You don't really get any of that (apart from the latter), it's just a gritty movie about trench warfare.

I didn't find the story compelling either, so overall it was pretty disappointing and at least at the end they could have put some historical context around it like how many men died on each side but they just didn't and leave you to Google it.

Given the great reviews I really found it disappointing.

It's clear this movie is carried is by its stars, though why on earth they chose this script is somewhat beyond me. Good performances are the only reason to give this even a 4, though I did find Brad Pitt's suddenly reflective, angst - ridden character somewhat annoying. Still, at least he's nice to look at.

There are insane man eating space monkeys - oh yes, I kid you not - some kind of random non sequitur mid way - mad scientists and plenty of clichés. Still, I bet it was fun to make, which is probably why they agreed to do it.

I struggled thru episode 1 but any sci fi series where the people wake up on a disintegrating spaceship without even shoes, but the women manage to maintain full makeup and salon hairstyles throughout even after a full contact physical fight is going to struggle to maintain credibility with me, since I don't believe they have Elnette hairspray on board. The cast and roles seem superficial and trite, and the women are clearly there as eye candy. This isn't written for a female audience that's quite clear. The worst of sci fi.

I came across this film and enjoyed it very much. The story of three very ordinary men who hope to perhaps become extraordinary.

It's a very gently paced film, building the characters and helping you understand each ones strengths and weaknesses, and the way they relate to the world. I won't tell you the ending but it has a lovely ending and I was so happy for the way it worked out.

This is the kind of movie that can only be made (and possibly appreciated) in Britain. The kind that no Hollywood studio would ever consider. I love these kind of crazy subjects, and it was laugh out loud funny at many points. It's very tongue in cheek, and has a great cast too - lots of people I recognised, including Jane Horrocks. If you want some quirky, light and funny viewing, I highly recommend it.

I'm amazed that there are no reviews for this movie. The lead has some of the best acting I've seen, and although the subject matter is harrowing, it keeps you guessing most of the way through the movie.

I didn't expect a movie about asylum seekers and allotments to be one of my favourite movies. But it's British quirkyness is absolutely charming. Where else in the world do they have allotments? but more importantly, I think it perfectly captures the great British love-hate of foreigners. We like them but hate them at the same time. In this movie we have the typical mistrust yet somehow that's broken down. Partly it's through food - yes we do love our takeaways here in the UK don't we? and partly through skills (yes we are short of a few) and partly through romance.

It's a movie that I think is really topical and all UKIP supporters should see!