Reviews

As an archaeologist myself I wouldn't even have minded some creative fantasy, if the story had been good. It was, however, lousy, predictable and unbelievable. The only plot twist is when - after having spent long winter nights together with his newfound canine mate, the wolf he has slept with turns out to be a female and pregnant with puppies. O, wow, what a touching endshot. Not. Okay, now for a sampling of the archaeological flaws. 1) Race. Usually I don't care one iota about race in a film. I don't care if blacks play whites, vice versa, whatever. Here, however, it was a missed educational chance. Believe it or not (it's true) the Ice Age European inhabitants were black, not white. And certainly not some cheap imitation of Native American. 2) Tubercolosis. The hero develops TBC. Aaww, sad. But, wait, there was no TBC back then. TBC jumped from cows to humans in one of the first cow keeping cultures - many thousands of years later. Can you say anachronism? Or, research? 3) Ancestors. Ehrm, no. The importance of animal spirits is most likely to have been replaced by the importance of ancestors at the start of the Neolithic, when people lived in the same place their grandfathers had lived and monuments were visible to remember them by. 4) The taming of the wolf didn't happen in Europe, it happened in China. Ehrm, Hollywood, what about your opening up to the Chinese market as in The Meg? Missed opportunity? Besides, it happened several thousand years earlier than supposed in the film. Important. Different climate. Different environment. 5) The taming of the wolf most probably happened by women keeping on stray cubs after the adult wolves had been killed off, because the former were cute. No need for a totally unbelievable act of heroism. Just females nursing puppies. Black females in China nursing puppies. Don't tell me they couldn't have made an interesting story out of that. 6) Trousers were invented when horses were first ridden - many, many thousands of years later. It would more likely have been wide leathers and bear fat on skin. O, and don't forget that wonderfully knitted scarf - so necessary in a cold winter. Thanks mum.

Okay. sorry for the archeological bashing, but the film deserves it. It has no redeeming story qualities. Dancing with dogs.

Well filmed, but extremely sexist. It's about a woman who loses it/doesn't like men. Simultaneously. I mean being frigid must turn a woman into a dangerous psycho. Right? Wrong. This film really could be the #metoo Hollywood poster child - just by its story. I don't care if it was 1965. It' s not the woman in this movie who is evil, but the director for portraying her in a sick, distorted way. A truly repulsion movie for what it reveals of ' behind the camera'

Once upon a time, back in season 2, I predicted that the series would end with Danaerys and Jon marrying each other. Then I discarded that idea, because it was too obvious and Martin too intelligent. I termed it a red herring (false lead). I still hope it's a red herring, but nowadays I am starting to become afraid, that Hollywood has dumbed down a great world to its own inferior intelligence standards.

The series as a whole is great. This episode too has many high points. It was time well spent watching. But, WHY?!? Why go and F up a beautiful series with such a dumb twist. What does it add to this story to let nephew and aunt have intercourse with one another? What? In this case, nothing, nothing at all.

A brilliant post-modern retelling of Genesis 2.0 with an unsettling twist. Ava is Eve. The invited guest is Adam and the unpredictable, dangerous boss of Bluebook is God. The new world is created in 7 sessions between Adam and Eve. But who is tricking who? Who is evil and who is good? The Bluebook boss is clearly deranged - as is visualized by his hair inversion (too full beard and bald head, as opposed to the shaved face and full head hair of his guest). But perhaps the Bluebook boss is right after all. Nasty, perhaps, but right nonetheless. Ava and her cohort are clearly abused by their Bluebook maker, but perhaps they are less innocent than they look. The boss treats his female employee like a robot, which contrasts with how the invited office worker humanely treats Ava - who must pass the Turing test herself. How well will Ava pass the Turing test? Or should she perhaps be called Lilith?

I'll admit it. I watch a lot of movies and I sometimes fall asleep during movies. Usually during the "O No, we're never going to succeed" part - followed by the crunch time predictable action scenes. This was one of those movies. Briefly. But, seriously, this is just another 'drown the cat' movie (pun on the standard 'save the cat' movie writing software used by Hollywood - no animal harm intended). It had all the right action scenes in all the right places with the standard Disney message free of charge: Smile. Be positive. Dare to dream. The main character is Emotion, her robot girlfriend is Reason and Emotion is there to save all the men in her life from her father to her little brother to the disgruntled man 'down the street'. The theme is clearly 'never lose hope'. Thing is: It's full of not so subliminal messages on how to behave in a model Disney citizen way. Like the scene in which the heroine has low blood sugar and pulls out two coca cola's from grumpy man's fridge and drinks them both. Whew, that was hard work. Love, peace and happiness. Drink a Coke. Or two. And then there's the scene where the little robots of the future are all dressed up nicely in Mexx world citizen clothing and set out - boys first of course - to save our future world. No, please, not mine. You will be assimilated. I made the mistake with this movie that Disney was trying to be intelligent. They weren't. At least, I hope they weren't.