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Jedini izlaz (2021)
Intense thriller
Very intense whodunnit type of series. No, you can't guess it until the very end.
Really intelligent scenario. Somebody here wrote that is "dragging". No it's not. It needs time to develop characters and story....and plant some false trails to deceive us. But definitely is not slow. Oh, it's everything but slow.
The only thing I don't like is that some dialogues might have been better.
Power (2014)
Decent but far from masterpiece.
I understand that writers wanted to present Tommy Eagan as a "not so smart but die hard loyal" guy from the neighborhood but for the serious drama which Power pretends to be- this character is all out of the story. Dark humor just doesn't fit here. A gansgter Kong being fooled too many times from his cocaine addicted mother to a teenager? Then how he became a king if he is so gullible and naive?
Next thing- too many soap opera moments- my enemy becomes my friend in the second season because now we both have common enemy. Then in the third season I should make a deal with that common enemy because my former "frienemy " is planning to stab me in the back...but wait...only until I realize that our common enemy wants to get rid of us both so back to me and my frienemy against common enemy state of mind
It is flogging a dead horse. I like main character a lot. Omar is doing great thing in this show. All others- not so much.
Snabba cash (2021)
Average American from suburbs won't feel this...
...but European guy will surely recognize the environment and everything else.
It's scary how much it looks like Germany. Or Serbia. Or Greece. Everything. From the loyalty and street life through bouncers, all the way to clobber- Moncler, stone island, Canada goose, EA7, parajumpers...
Vikings: Ragnarok (2019)
Is there a job opening for the scenario writers? I am sure it is better paid than my current job and I am also sure I can write better story lines than these
The whole season is ridiculous but this episode is one of the worst in the history of tv shows.
It is so bad that for the moment I thought they literally make it so awful on purpose.
In the scenes of battle there is a trench full of Hvitserk's soldiers but nobody from the platform in the fort does not see them?!
They command attack and then two archers hit the fire arrows into flags. Somebody would thought "oh wait it is some kind of diversion, let's see what it is and how it will play out"...but two seconds after that, they command attack.
So why did you need to burn those two flags anyway???
Story about Baldur and how it is not Ivar's son...well it also ended so stupid but after Freydis (or whatever her name is) death, we will never know.
That idiot who supposed to be Ragnar's son from England...since we all know that he is not his real son, we all expected that he will play some important part in some betrayal arch ...but no. He just died Ridiculous!!!!!!
Honestly, everything after Ragnar's death looks like high school fans gathered up to create their version of a spin off for the great series which first three seasons were.
Vikings (2013)
Very historically inaccurate (intentionally?) but entertaining show in the first 4 seasons. After that it started to look like Viking soap opera
I am shocked that history channel have green light to this. Even if we know that Ragnar saga is more of a myth than fact checked story, and take "liberty of writing" in scenario.... I still can't get over favoring western and Roman Catholic world based on the huge errors which every 6 grade kid in Europe (at least Eastern Europe) knows.
Are those mistakes accidental? Or purposely made? I don't know but what I know is that Hollywood made movie about almost every known battle in history but somehow they "forgot" to make a movie on fall of Constantinople. I guess it is because they would have to include in the movie the fact that Roman pope refused to help fellow Christians against Arabic Muslim conquerors. Hollywood also "forgot" to put the story about crusade in big screen. Yes, that crusade when western criada será stopped in Constantinople in their way to Jerusalem and their Christian brothers welcomed it....then it all ended in a huge raid of Constantinople made by western Roman Catholic crusaders so even today saint Marks basilica in Venice, Italy has a ton of stolen gold built in the church, stolen during that raid of Constantinople when Roman Catholics stabbed their fellow Christians in the back.
No wonder Hollywood won't make those movies. But back on topic :
First of all Saxons are mentioning purgatory several times during the show. It is 9th century. Great schism happened 1054, two centuries after the events in the Vikings show. Purgatory was first time mentioned in late 12th century. Before that, didn't exist even as a concept in Roman Catholic Church.
Needles to say, in 9th century Roman Catholic Church as a separate entity from the Holy church- didn't exist as well.
Then, the sign of the cross. It has been shown in the tv show that Saxon's are making sign of cross as Catholics- with their whole hand (five fingers) and from left to right.
First of all- when Roman Catholic pope separated from other 4 patriarchs of the Holy Church, they (Roman Catholics) started emphasizing the death and suffering above joy of life. That is why they started using all five fingers as five Jesus'a wounds, instead of using three fingers as Holy Trinity.
Also, Roman Pope started practicing crossing from left to right, showing in that way importance of Rome (on the left on the the map) over Constantinople.
So many stupid irrational mistakes in the show That much that I wonder were they on purpose? Especially because, as I said, this is a History Channel tv series.
Oh, and also when bishop in season 5 tela Lagertha that in his faith as a bishop, he can't marry her or live with her because he must sworn to celibate...well, celibate wasn't exist in church before eleventh century (2 centuries after the things in tv show took place) , and it still does not have exist in Orthodox Church, but it existed in Roman Catholic Church starting from 11th century.
Entertaining but historically terribly inaccurate tv show for the first four seasons. After Ragnar died, all of that soap opera elements incorporated into story about how his sons fought against each other- reminds me very much of game of thrones when the show (and the books) started going downhill.
Money (2016)
What a promising start and what a disappointing ending
So many gaps I don't even know where to start. Too bad, it had a potential
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
I woiud give a 10
... but not giving 10 only because road Warrior is better. Mad Max series defined genre
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Not as bad as we thought back in a day
Yes, it is not as good as 1 and especially 2, but it is still remarkable