MountainMan

My summary title is not meant to be facetious. This series is absolutely fantastic!! I am a 60's man, raised 4 children, and I am from a generation that is generally conservative about alternate lifestyles. When I happened on to an early episode, I had no idea what the theme was. I feel very fortunate that I watched enough to get interested, due mostly to the wonderful acting than the actual content. However, there is more to this series than just good script and acting. The viewer is drawn into the circle of lesbian friends and lovers in a way that is not harsh, but tender. We are taken into the inner feelings of these women to see their needs, their hurts, their loves, and their heartbreaks. We are shown the caring and loving natures of women who have but one major difference from most women, their sexual preference. This insight into their day-to-day lives soon made me forget about my conservative nature and "fall in love" with almost every character in the series. This is an epiphany that makes me considerably more understanding and accepting of alternate lifestyles.

I could go on and on about why I really like this series, but that might present spoilers. Just watch it. I use my TIVO DVR to capture episodes just so I don't miss any.

Well this movie certainly was in keeping with the current times. No happy endings, super-heroes, or miracles here. Just down-to-earth fiction to stimulate our minds along the lines of terrorism, and what-ifs. Kudos to Percival and Mickery for an excellent screenplay and superb direction by Percival. Films like this are needed to keep us aware of what is out there. If every peace-loving man and woman on earth reported obviously suspicious activities I believe terrorism could not thrive. This movie showed just how hard it really is to subvert these terrorists, even with good intelligence. Even though the film is a bit propagandist against Islam (the use of a Muslim police officer as a main character) I believe it was entirely realistic. There was meant to be shock-value in the bombing incident. As a very clever tool to relay the humility and indignity of people caught up in an attack such as this, they showed full nudity of women being decontaminated post-attack. It didn't take me long to realize that this was meant to even further instill into the viewer that thought, i.e., we are not in control of everything in a situation like this. Although this took place in London, with the usual high-level British acting, it makes a statement for any part of the world. Great movies don't have to be blockbuster epic productions, and this movie is very very worthy of viewing.

The producer(s) of this film (I use the term film guardedly) obviously had not a prayer (and maybe no intention) of turning out anything even resembling a movie film. So why did they do it? A tax write-off by investors? Come on. This movie was the most disgusting, boring, poorly-acted, poorly directed, devoid-of-screenplay, insulting movie ever made. I had a screen pass at BBuster and decided to try it. I hoped the long odds might pay off. I have never shut down a movie this quick before in my life (5 minutes). Dumb and dumberer was Oscar material by comparison.

I think the lines were made up on the fly. The director was flirting with the makeup girl. The grips were doing the directing.