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Time Team America: Range Creek, Utah (2009)
Difficult to watch
When the lead site archaeologist talked about the "animal" hoarding strategies relating them without segue to the Fremont _people_, I was greatly disturbed.
There seems to be no joy in the subject here either. All disassociated. They don't seem to care except academically about the people they're investigating.
The "explaining" efforts are heavy handed. They spend almost no time looking at the actual trenches dug, spending all their time on recreating a granary, 3D modeling.
So much less information content than the original, while being so much less entertaining.
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Terrible
There are a couple of okay jokes, and some of the sets and costumes are pretty. But the dialogue is bad overall, the musical numbers are awful and very anachronistic. Fairbanks' dubbed voice is far beyond belief.
He also hardly looks the part of a handsome Colonel.
On the whole, you might bear it once, just to be a completist. But it's rather too silly for words.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Twice-Told Twist (1966)
Color eh, script worse
This is perhaps the worst episode of Perry Mason I've seen. The color seems to have gone to the actors heads. The acting is bad, the script has way too much pontificating, the story is preposterous. It's just a mess.
The color photography is bad - the first time I saw it I thought it had been colorized. The photographic direction seems to be poor as well. The same techniques that usually work in the black-and-white episodes certainly don't work in this episode, but looks tacky.
For true fans, you gotta see it. Hopefully you can enjoy it for what it is - it may be bad, but it's Perry Mason.
Mysterious Island (2005)
blech
The acting ensemble here is totally wasted. They walk through. I've never seen a really bad performance from Patrick Stewart until tonight, and while it's possible he was doing what was asked of him - the result is something between a train wreck and paint drying.
The special effects are worse than can be believed in this day (I do better on my laptop, and I'm NOT a pro!). Certainly not as good as Harryhousen's version.
Though certainly truer to Verne's book than previous versions I've seen, it's really not worth watching for three hours, even on 'free' TV. It might be good when edited to a 90 minute special.
Bullet Scars (1942)
unoriginal, but fun (very minor spoiler)
Though there's not much original in this flick, it's a fun light gangster show. There's nothing too heavy here (but there's a couple deaths - that was the spoiler).
The good character-actor cast are all better known for other work, but they do an admirable job here, and seem to be having a good time with it. They are not taking themselves or the film too seriously, but they are playing it strictly straight.
Howard Da Silva plays the heavy, and while he can be very menacing in some of his roles, he uses a very light touch here (he's almost affable).
I can heartily recommend it as an entertaining hour's worth.