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PurgedVoter

(2,399 posts)
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 09:28 PM Feb 2024

Just watched "The Beekeeper" free on YouTube and I hope the style gets dropped

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Rotten Tomatoes rated it 70% makes me wonder where their standards went. Not a bad premise, a few glaring logic flaws, but not terrible. I think the acting was OK, but it is hard to tell with all the forward and back cuts showing the same scene differently like a six year old would explain an action movie.

The impressive part was how they managed the perspective on the President of the United States. I can see how either political side could decide the woman was the other side or their side depending on their sympathy with the character. This was artistically done.

As far as facts go, the bee fact that is pivotal in the movie is a fabrication. I could normally forgive that, since I forgave the fake Heaven facts in "The Prophecy," but then, "The Prophecy was a brilliant work of art.

Back to "The Beekeeper," the bee suit looks cool, but would overheat the beekeeper.
The cut away and back editing is the real flaw. It is like an unreliable narrator that tells the truth but makes it sound weak. It is like the music video of the singer dancing when the singer can't dance. They even do the cut back and forth in time in conversations. I think the actor did well, but I suspect there were severe flaws or they would not have chopped it up so badly.
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Just watched "The Beekeeper" free on YouTube and I hope the style gets dropped (Original Post) PurgedVoter Feb 2024 OP
Is it already streaming, or is this bootlegged? RandySF Feb 2024 #1
I just looked up the Vlog, probably a bootleg, sorry PurgedVoter Feb 2024 #2

PurgedVoter

(2,399 posts)
2. I just looked up the Vlog, probably a bootleg, sorry
Sat Feb 10, 2024, 10:35 PM
Feb 2024

The other videos up by the same user are embroidery and not of English origin.

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