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Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)
What is it with Netflix's obsession with making every adaptation more dramatic than the original?
One of the reasons why Avatar AtLA was so good originally was because it was a beautifully sad story enveloped in a hilarious chaotic shell.
I understand they wanted to change the target audience, but adults love laughing too.
In the show, Aang keeps saying how he "loves to have fun", and despite that, they have cut out ALL the scenes where Aang is silly, like with the penguin sliding and the fight in the snow. Even his tantrum that triggered him leaving the air temple was actually not a tantrum in the show, it was a very contained " I have to go up to think about it calmly". What kind of 12 year old thinks like that??
Sokka's sulky and grumpy personality has been completely erased, he hasn't complained even once! Same for Appa whose sleepiness is gone.
Sokka and Katara don't argue like normal teenager siblings would, instead they always have these extremely serious discussions about how they didn't have parents and blablabla.
Meanwhile the exposition is done in such an unnatural way, gran-gran becoming the main exposition dumper.
It's not are no big hits in Hollywood with comedies. The D&D movie was great in that sense, so were Guardians of the Galaxy, and Umbrella Academy. All of these movies and shows have extremely silly main characters who always attract trouble and deal with it while having fun and creating a huge chaos around them at all time, for the most childish reasons.
Aang could have been this type of character, but no, they had to change him into this one dimensional character who is serious and spiritual and can't afford to be silly because he has too much on his shoulders.
This first episode was a huge disappointment. I will watch the second one just in case but my hopes are now very low.
Single All the Way (2021)
Most boring Christmas movie ever
This movie was just incredibly boring unfortunately. There was no real conflict, I expected the end from the start, and nothing made me doubt. No drama, no entertainment, no spice. The characters were all way too "perfect" they didn't have any flaws, any real inner conflict, or any strong emotion.
Another thing lacking was simply the humour. It's supposed to be a comedy, but it didn't make me laugh at all :/
If you want to see a beautiful gay romance that can make you tear up and laugh, watch a good series like Hollywood, It's a Sin, Young Royals or something like that. Even the L Word is better written than this.
I do wish there were more and better LGBTQ+ Christmas movies, and more LGBTQ+ romantic comedies in general. =(
Louis C.K.: Sorry (2021)
Amazing, open-minded, progressive, hilarious
This show is incredibly well written, it surprises you with jokes that are the opposite of what we're used to hearing. It's full of self derision, and things that force you to change your point of view on things, and to open your mind.
Also, I gotta give him a big thumbs-up for how he talked about gender and sexuality, showing how discrimination and gender rigidity is ridiculous, which was very refreshing.
I think we need this kind of content! Loved it!