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Life on Our Planet (2023)
Hit and Miss
Overall it's good. Morgan Freeman talks too s-l-o-w-l-y and a it's annoying how a pile of scientific speculation and guesswork is pawned off as absolute fact. There's not one sentence explaining how conclusions were reached - "fossil" and "carbon dating" are never mentioned, nor for that matter any scientific methodology. There's never the least trace of doubt or humility in the conclusions reached. I didn't like in the last episode when it veered into evil human climate clap trap. The AI generated extinct animal animations were interesting but surprisingly fake looking. The highlight was some truly extraordinary videography-likely the best wild animal videography ever.
Foundation (2021)
Miscast
Leah Harvey (Salvor Hardin) and Lou Llobell (Gaal Dornick) don't have the screen presence to be the lead characters in a sprawling, confusing, ambitious sci fi epic. Lou Llobell in particular is horribly miscast as one of the greatest self-taught math prodigies the galaxy had produced in centuries. Science fiction requires us to make huge leaps of imagination, but this is simply a bridge too far. The poor creature comes across as sweet, innocent and better suited to being a teacher in an elementary school.
But all is not lost. Lee Pace (Brother Day), Terrence Mann (Brother Dusk) and Laura Birn (Eto Demerzel) deliver blockbuster performances.