9 reviews
- brandonsullivan91
- Sep 26, 2011
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- xenomorph_uk
- Nov 23, 2011
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- mywildimagination
- Oct 11, 2011
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- alfredsmith
- Sep 27, 2011
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When I read the description about this series I had really high expectations. Mystery, sci-fi and adventure is what is used to classify this movies but it would be more appropriate to tag it as romance, drama and teenage-whatever.
Even though the backdrop is great, going back into dinosaur time and all, a lot of the time (for at least the 3-4 episodes I watched), is spent showing the life if the two teenage kids and how they want to get a boy/girl friend and not listen to their parents (the usual stuff) and when we are not seeing that we are forced to watch the romance between the two adult leads. Well that is great and all if you like romance and drama, I do not. I expected sci-fi and adventure but I got something completely else.
The parts left which is sci-fi and drama is not impressive at all and completely unbelievable. In one episode they were attached by 10 feet lizards/dinosaurs but their automatic rifle could not penetrate their skins even. Now I don't know what kind of weapons they had, 100 years from now, but not even an elephant would be able to survive a salvo from a fully automatic rifle of today so it is just plain ridiculous to watch.
To summarise, if you want an action paced adventure sci-fi then stay away from this sentimental tripe.
Even though the backdrop is great, going back into dinosaur time and all, a lot of the time (for at least the 3-4 episodes I watched), is spent showing the life if the two teenage kids and how they want to get a boy/girl friend and not listen to their parents (the usual stuff) and when we are not seeing that we are forced to watch the romance between the two adult leads. Well that is great and all if you like romance and drama, I do not. I expected sci-fi and adventure but I got something completely else.
The parts left which is sci-fi and drama is not impressive at all and completely unbelievable. In one episode they were attached by 10 feet lizards/dinosaurs but their automatic rifle could not penetrate their skins even. Now I don't know what kind of weapons they had, 100 years from now, but not even an elephant would be able to survive a salvo from a fully automatic rifle of today so it is just plain ridiculous to watch.
To summarise, if you want an action paced adventure sci-fi then stay away from this sentimental tripe.
Because trying to make sense of this dreadful, over-hyped, under written piece of frelling dren has actually make me dumberer.
The premise was: humans clinging to the edge in a world of dinosaurs.
The actuality is: Look out! It's another Fantasysaurus Bulletproofus! Our guns, they do nothing! Again! A Pseudo-Science solution is required. Huzzah for Pseudo-Science! Again!
No sense of frontier survival. Huge clean glazed and painted houses with waxed flooring, vast wardrobes of clean clothes, clean bedding, clean hair. Hard work is occasionally mentioned but rarely seen. Who built this colony? It's certainly not the mob of spineless, idle loafers currently inhabiting it.
Far too much tedious politics and plot. Why did a group of settlers split off and how did they survive? Is Terra Nova in a different time stream from 2149 or not? Who made the strange rock markings? SPOILER: You won't care. You really, truly won't, because you have no reason to care about any of the idiotic, posturing plonkers involved.
"Teen" tribulations played out by the usual superannuated mob of 20-somethings desperately clinging to their lost youth. The love interests for both of our irksome teen protagonists are played by actors about seven years older than them - and they looks it - which is well into creepy territory.
Mediocre to poor acting. Most of the supporting cast is tolerable enough, but Shelly Conn is simply dreadful, far too focused on ee-nun-cee-aye-ting her plummy drawl to actually put any character into the performance.
Lazy, plagiaristic writing. Plots and whole lines are simply ripped off wholesale from other, better productions. It's no surprise that the dreadful Brannon Brago, the man who killed Star Trek, has his toxic finger in this festering pie. Characters are mere stereotypes, the dialogue is entirely exposition.
Normally I'd bemoan the waste of talent, but there really isn't any in evidence.
Terra Nova was rightfully put out of its misery and there's no need to mourn its passing.
The premise was: humans clinging to the edge in a world of dinosaurs.
The actuality is: Look out! It's another Fantasysaurus Bulletproofus! Our guns, they do nothing! Again! A Pseudo-Science solution is required. Huzzah for Pseudo-Science! Again!
No sense of frontier survival. Huge clean glazed and painted houses with waxed flooring, vast wardrobes of clean clothes, clean bedding, clean hair. Hard work is occasionally mentioned but rarely seen. Who built this colony? It's certainly not the mob of spineless, idle loafers currently inhabiting it.
Far too much tedious politics and plot. Why did a group of settlers split off and how did they survive? Is Terra Nova in a different time stream from 2149 or not? Who made the strange rock markings? SPOILER: You won't care. You really, truly won't, because you have no reason to care about any of the idiotic, posturing plonkers involved.
"Teen" tribulations played out by the usual superannuated mob of 20-somethings desperately clinging to their lost youth. The love interests for both of our irksome teen protagonists are played by actors about seven years older than them - and they looks it - which is well into creepy territory.
Mediocre to poor acting. Most of the supporting cast is tolerable enough, but Shelly Conn is simply dreadful, far too focused on ee-nun-cee-aye-ting her plummy drawl to actually put any character into the performance.
Lazy, plagiaristic writing. Plots and whole lines are simply ripped off wholesale from other, better productions. It's no surprise that the dreadful Brannon Brago, the man who killed Star Trek, has his toxic finger in this festering pie. Characters are mere stereotypes, the dialogue is entirely exposition.
Normally I'd bemoan the waste of talent, but there really isn't any in evidence.
Terra Nova was rightfully put out of its misery and there's no need to mourn its passing.
I barely managed to make to season 1 end. After 3rd episode i watched it "half eye", working at the same time. Still it was boring as hell. Despite the fact i love dinosaurs, love time travel, love sci-fi and all the stuff, those series made me feel disgust to people who made it. All, absolutely all scenario twists are cliché. There were not a single twist that was not obvious. Actors are playing so bad that it makes you feel it's a porn. Soldiers of the future are all dressed in Chinese plastic pads from nearest sports shop. My snowboard protection would make a better soldier costume. All the characters are stereotypical as hell and have the most boring motivation ever. Creators of that thing seem to have no respect to the viewer just as no love to the product they make. Moreover, but the rate of that thing seems like they're OK to buy votes at IMDb. Which is really really disgusting...
There are bright spots probably. But things above are SO noticeable and SO disgusting that it makes you blind for anything else.
There are bright spots probably. But things above are SO noticeable and SO disgusting that it makes you blind for anything else.
- screamingscythe
- Oct 27, 2015
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- kressckerl
- Jun 8, 2018
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