Reviews

I guess we are supposed to care about the characters, otherwise this could have been an episode of The Boys. Even though The Boys has decended into a boring mess, it is at least coherent and full of action.

Gen V got perpetually more and more ridiculous, I waited for something significant to happen, but it was just one generic drama after another, all in an attempt to place an ethical dilema at the feet of the audience, but the characters were so incredibaly unlikeable and carboard that that decision, at least for me, was easy.

The episodes were filled with cliches and shoehorning modern social tropes in such an unnatural and forced way. The original X-men animated series is a good example of the way mutants didn't fit into society, despite their powers, Gen V just takes the same tired crap and regurgitates it as a turd that made no sense. There was no ryhme or reason for the existence of any one character that we're supposed to care about, except for it to relate to some esoteric minority that idetifies as insufferably unique.

When will the writers get this doesn't work, its not like the past isn't littered with movies and series that were rejected and lost money because they forced their agenda on the audience. Its painful and tedious.

This was the most perfectly generic action move of all time.

• Almost untouchable man gets injured while taking down lots of bad guys
• saved by some kind old man
• finds love and peace as he heals
• sees his newly found love and peace being bullied
• and then proceeds to take down the bully

all while acting like a robotic Alonso X Lucas. (Anyone else notice that Denzel Washington is the exact same person in every single movie he's been in since Malcom X)

The first equaliser was pretty decent, second was ok and they thought, we've got audience hooked, lets just write any old rubbish and we'll get paid and then we can retire the character.

Apart from Shahid Kapoor, the entire cast seem like terrible b-list actors. The characters are all so inept except for Sunny, especially Megha who looks like she got the job by persistently being annoying rather than on any merit. The story is interesting and well crafted, even if its filled with the usual cliches, I can see the similarites between Breaking Bad in some of the characters and Narcos in some of the scenarios. Despite that, I keep getting taken out of the moment in each climatic scene with the terrible acting, like they all just came out of improv school. The traditional cat and mouse is more like pandas trying to chase down a lion.

You know that moment, when you have a really sore stomach, and there is pain in your intestines and you think you are about to have severe diarrhea and you brace yourself, then all that comes out is wind: that was this entire season.

What a let down, a cumulation to a big nothing, to keep the story going for another season, then another, then another till we all die or boredom.

They could have closed this series out and ended on a high, instead they dragged it out and left a cliffhanger for another insufferble run from actors who forgot that they also need to act now they are no longer cute kids the world was fawining over a few years ago.

The life conflicts, love stories, the frienship dramas were forced and made them superflous to the overall plot.

It was a convoluted mess of ideas, conflicting from one scene to the next, the characters were never in any danger, they all (except one, who will recover - no doubt) came out pretty much unscathed: boring.

Characters I cared nothing about died.

Just more cookie cutter crap, but its the crowning jewel of a falling Netflix, so I guess they have to keep it going.

I just want it to end.

I don't like Matt Walsh (or his ilk), but this is an important conversation, there is a new wave of high profile people resisting their tongues being tied from saying what the truth is.

There is a pattern with people who support trans rights, if you ask them questions, they will try and answer, and if that isn't a satisfactory answer; when pressed they will either run or try and shut you down.

That's the patterin in this documentary. Regular people are afraid to say what they feel and that's dangerously close to fascim and they see absoloutley no irony in death threats to people who oppose them.

The middle part about the founders of this idology made me physically revulse.

But the bottom line is there is money to be made in transition therapy and it won't go away untill people's pockets are being filled.

Just as you think he was about to make a career ending joke, he doesn't. Very bland, I think I laughed twice, no memorable jokes, the fact that he has to qualify every "edgy" joke with his "terrible thing..." line just makes this whole show insufferable.

Maybe if he really wanted to end his career, he should have just went all out on the trans community. No one cares about making fun of the disabled people or cancer victims.

Starts of slowly, then gets better then nosedives.

Despite being 8 episodes long, not a single character gets any development, which made it hard to root for anyone, the sister was the absoloute worse and most annoying character, played by an awful actress.

All the voices sounded like they were dubbed, the accents were awful, not a single character's motiviations made sense.

Its entertaining enough to keep watching, but kept getting taken out of the momment with the bad acting.

Can we just get movies without agendas please! Left or Right.

I only watched this as I was curious but the agendas were so forced and unatural it made no sense and to top it off it was predictable and boring.

This movie is awful, don't waste your time.

Now this is the Justice League we all deserve.

Whedon's JL had so many unecessary scenes, like the whole opening sequence, the Russian family, but left out so much of the set up. The difference is so stark, its night and day, literally.

Batman is still a bad ass and doesn't get taken out of the game with an injury. Stephenwolf is more brutal, more imposing, yet has a vulnerability. The Flash is no longer annoying and almost useless. Superman isn't cheesy (in the end) and doesn't just save the day

The whole movie has a different, more serious tone, the story holds together a lot better.

The only thing that let it down was the Music, it didn't carry any of the themes from BvS, MoS or WW, but that's like 0.01 of a rating.

I just hope that WB take note, this is the winning formula.

#Restorethesnyderverse

After watching a few intense shows in which I had to invest a lot of emotion in, I needed a show to play in the background while I did my work, something that didn't require your full attention.

After binging Black-ish, I found this on Netflix. It was pretty decent. I'm a fan of America Ferrera so that was a plus.

It has a few laughs, but its pretty bland and repetative, there isn't a lot to invest in, the characters are more caricatures than real people, you can miss a lot of it and still jump back into the story without losing anything.

I like the movie, the suspense was good, although the story was very linear. I just wish the writers and directors had the balls to actually do something different than the "good guys always win" and "humans can do better" cliches.

Let that nuke drop, let it be too late, let it be an aftermath movie, it would be far more interesting than this cliched stuff.

Great story, great premise, the whole accidental superhero but its really destiney thing has been done a hundred times, and is pretty much the origin of every superhero story, but I like how this one is played out.

The part I cannot get over is the way this show has portrayed every adult and parent. They are evil, distant, stupid, its tiresome. It is as if that part of show is written by a 12 year old.

I came to watch this movie without any pretence, I had a vague notion of who Kubrick was and this is the first of his movies I've seen.

The best way to describe this is a student film that didn't know when to end. The scenes are too stretched and nothing happens for about 90% of the movie.

There are two important aspects to this story, the monolith and HAL. The only one that gets a proper conculsion is HAL and even that was so unnecessarily drawn out, it was painful.

Then there was the audio - insessant and painful.

The cinematography was painful.

The story was painful.

Did I mention this movie was painful?

I want to watch clockwork orange next - but I'm afraid of the pain it may cause me.

If you're into pain, watch it.

I should have trusted the other reviews and not wasted 2 hours on this cliched, generic, bland and cringe movie.

I was waiting for a twist, an interesting reveal or just something different - but nothing came.

The characters are all boring, have zero chemistry and anything resembling a relationship is forced and unbelievable.

Netflix need to take a page from their TV Shows. So far all their movies have been terrible.

I like the rest of the show, its very funny, but by far this has been the funniest episode of all 4 seasons. I'd love to watch these characters in their own show.

The story is brilliant, despite any fatual inacuracies. I know how to suspend belief.

What lets this show down is the sex. Its every 5 minutes! And they are all the same. So aggressive.

They are so unecessary. I never understood sex scenes that don't add anything to the story. It builds nothing in a character, I skip through all of them and the whole relationship crap. I couldn't care less.

But its constant, the actual story stops moving in season 2. I'm very close to giving up on it.

A stellar ending for an otherwise sub-par and repetative, show.

Everyone had 9 lives it seems.

I don't mind the last 90 seconds, I don't care for the explanation either. However, I am glad everyone got what they deserved in the end and that's what really matters and that's what they show needed, a happy ending.

What a great show this is. How it's possible to humanise some one like a Nazi or someone like a Japanese imperialist, it is just incredible.

I felt the hairs on my neck stand up!

My only gripe with the show is everyone's desire to be American. I realise that, deep down, everyone has a natural inclination towards freedom. But why is there a forced agenda in this, that the only type of freedom that matters is the American kind, if not for that insufferable point, I'd have placed a higher rating.