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Midway (2019)
Not believable
They got the history right overall, but they filled in with a lot of detail and personal events that made it unrealistic. CG was over the top; you wouldn't see that many planes and that much ordnance in the air all at once. Characters seem so unreal that I can't bring myself to care about them.
Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing (2015)
Get rid of the music so we can hear the narrator
Fascinating story about a woman who was mathematically brilliant and rich, and used her resources to build a steampunk mechanical computer in the 1840s.
The only problem is in the mixing background music and narration. The music doesn't seem to know its place and overwhelms the narrator.
Twin Peaks: Northwest Passage (1989)
Unwatchable
30 years after Twin Peaks, I watched episode 1, first time ever. It came up on Amazon Prime, and we said "why not?" Everything is so wooden.. I cannot bring myself to care about any of these people or what happens to them. I find myself wishing those peaks were volcanic... May the next Mt. St. Helens type event happen to that town. (That would be a more interesting movie.)
The Beast Must Die (2021)
Really slow
This show just drags on and on. We started watching it thinking it was a werewolf show. Disappointed. No werewolves.
T-Rex: An Evolutionary Journey (2016)
Ditto- Fix the sound
This is actually a good informative and interesting documentary. You cannot hear the narration against the dinosaur growling noises. The makers need to go back and re-mix the sound.
Oh, and spoiler... T-rex goes extinct.
Prey (2007)
Disbelief needs a lot of suspending.
Good suspense using a Cujo or Jurassic Park formula. Lion stalking behavior looked largely accurate, and I think they were the model for the raptors in Jurassic Park. The only issue have there is that the male lions were too industrious.
There is one major thing that doesn't make sense. I have a great deal of difficulty believing who survives and who gets eaten. It seems that experience counts for nothing.