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Jaded comments from jaded psuedo-intellectuals. While not a perfect movie, which ones are? Jaws most scarey parts were went you didn't see the broken down mechanical shark...a mistake made it better, just like real life, we learn from them. Did the movie entertain when you suspend disbelief? Good, stop over thinking and be entertained.

I don't know why someone would give this less than 5 stars, it's a fun farce of an action movie and I can't wait for BT2.

I watched the original back in the 80's when I bought a second-hand VHS copy, and like the same decades documentary The Complete Beatles, is was a droll, joyless pile of excrement. Peter Jackson sitting in a room having to watch 60 hrs of a dysfunctional family implode could have ended in strangling himself, but he found the magic ticket, the one thread that really connects this epic...family. Its prophetic Get Back debuts on Thanksgiving, when so many families get together for their own version of this story, only to shed tears, apologize and promise next year we will make a better effort. Here is where the Beatles differ, they made the effort in real time. How many mid-20's kids have the wherewithal to understand when they are being horrible to a sibling ? Peter Jackson, in the end, found joy in four of the most beloved people in history while they were creating future masterpieces. 8 hours felt like 8 minutes the second Macca calls Glyn Johns a "F$@k-Face". Their humor was their charm, the music was how they communicated.

I want the last 93min of my life back.

If you didn't shed a tear when Harold showed up, you're a Gozer.

I've read better scripts on truckstop toilet walls.

Chernobyl is the first mini-series in a long while that doesn't slow down the tension in the middle episodes. Fabulously meticulous gaffing and continuity down to correct vehicles, weapons and Russian control knobs on the equipment. I know that sounds nitpicky but western recreations usually fall flat for history buffs, especially those who are fans of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. . Casting was spot on with no one haming it up for screen time, just a genuine affection for the source material. I think, at the end of the day, the Russian people who suffered were tastefully represented...and the workers who toiled and endangered their lives were shown to be heroic beyond comprehension in averting a world wide catastrophe. TV is at its best when it educates as well as entertains.