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telemecus
Criticker Zealot
# Film Ratings: 7052
# Game Ratings: 3
Member Since: 27 May 2010
Location: London, UK

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79 91%
The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins
The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins (2014) - Rated 11 Feb 2015
I thought this was going to be an interesting investigation into the limits of animal communication - but once they got on to giving the dolphins LSD and having sex it was clear it was not going that way. The "suicide" of one dolphin was the inevitable result. So not so much the advance of science but a Frankensteinesque demo of how it goes wrong. The scary thing is this story is not fiction!
80 92%
The Dark Crystal
The Dark Crystal (1982) - Rated 06 Apr 2015
Scored from the childhood impact on me rather than on its reviewing now. The story is dark which is why it is amazing for children - all the classic fairy tales have a sadistic edge. The plot though has been done in so many other films under different guises. Best quote "I Don't Have Wings" Answer "Of course not you're a boy." All the kids took that as a stunningly obvious answer?!
90 97%
Nice Work
Nice Work (1989) - Rated 20 Feb 2014
Riveting. The novel itself was a huge hit and was the fastest work to go from publication to being listed on the canon for school literature exams. But this dramatisation can justly be said to have been part of that success and to have enhanced it. Haydn Gwynne IS the Dr. Robyn Penrose, and Warren Clarke IS the Vic Wilcox. And Dr Robyn Penrose will always be that Venus coming out of the clamshell! :)
40 42%
Fifty Shades of Grey
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) - Rated 29 Nov 2015
A cultural event - but pretty low grade entertainment. Some erotic tension - but not much else. If I wanted to read a stream of emails, I would not go to to a film. The worst thing about it is it seems set for a sequel.
77 90%
Gravity
Gravity (2013) - Rated 29 Dec 2015
Audio-visual feast rather than narrative.
82 93%
Machine Gun Preacher
Machine Gun Preacher (2011) - Rated 21 Mar 2015
There are better child soldier or african war films, but there are many worse personal salvation films. Instead of going on about discovering god for drugs, or doing something useless like building a baseball pitch in nowhere, this has some real grit.
46 51%
At the Earth\
At the Earth's Core (1976) - Rated 19 Feb 2014
A doctor who film in all but name.
24 20%
The Killing
The Killing (2011) - Rated 13 Nov 2015
How to destroy a great Danish series
44 48%
Human Universe
Human Universe (2014) - Rated 19 Feb 2015
Well made but nothing you will not have seen on other BBC science docs - even Brian Cox looking dreamy focusing on the distance and whispering "when I was a boy I looked up to the stars......"
80 92%
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) - Rated 22 Jul 2015
Outstanding - action and aesthetic