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Barbie (2023)
The Girl Version of The Lego Movie
Start with The Lego Movie, now swap the boy and his dad and their toy (Lego) with a girl and her mum and their toy (Barbie); now, to transition between the toy world and the real worlds, add in a number of Matrix references; Sprinkle in a little of Toy Story's story of Andy's relationship with Woody (be sure to cut all the beautiful and emotional aspects of this story before adding it to Barbie);then dump in the theme of matriarchy vs patriarchy and take a completely heavy handed approach with depicting this theme = and you've got yourself the Barbie movie!
There's a few negatives that really stand out:
1) In one shot, Barbie has been superimposed over a previous shot. Instead of the director reshooting with all the characters etc, just Barbie was reshot and they've tried to edit her in but it looks terrible; the colours and camera position are different.
2) Ken and Barbie are being laughed at by people along the same Californian beach that is notoriously filled with weirdos and people who dress in any which way. Therefore, it makes no sense to have everyone at that beach laugh at Ken and Barbie for their outfits. Logically, the two should have fit right in and been at home.
3) Barbie is sexually assaulted ant the beach and is then arrested. This made no sense. The person who slapped her arse should have been arrested. Why would Barbie be put in jail?
4) Story SPOILER: The Barbies are actually very horrible to the Kens. They treat the Kens as an accessory and consider this the perfect relationship. When the Kens change their perspective about being accessories, instead of acknowledging how horrible they have treated the Kens, the Barbies become even meaner and manipulative and turn the Kens against one another. Then Barbie tells Ken that he means nothing to her. I understand that this is how it is in Barbie land but it's still a horrible message to send to audiences. I was hopping for this kids movie to be more wholesome but no, it's divisive and remains so right to the end. It's a terrible message to send to the child audience and left my family feeling sad for all the Kens.
5) Ending SPOILER: After talking with the Oracle from the Matrix, but in this movie she's called, Ruth, Barbie becomes human, then there's a montage of randos for some meaningless reason.
6) Barbie becomes real and is in a car with the mother and daughter and the husband/father who was previously depicted as an afterthought of his wife (meaningless and valueless marriage) and had a second of airtime, and now here he is again for some meaningless reason to the story and the audience, learning another language and making Barbie learn it to. Why? It's just another meaningless thing in the film.
Positives:
1) The Kens add much needed humour to the film. Not like there's a lot of it, and the director was really forcing it, but the little humour there was needed. Without the humour, we would not have watched Barbie all the way through.
2) Pretty aesthetics.
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)
Katara's Violent Aggression to Aboriginal Culture
My concern was this adaptation would lack the comedy present in the cartoon, which added to its charm. Turns out I should have had bigger concerns.
I enjoyed the visuals. The story was good. The world building was great until the final episode of season 1.
It really needed more time to tell this story properly. The producers have a rushed story here and in that, an incomplete tale full of holes and shallow characters. With at least two more episodes, they could have created a story of characters I could empathise with.
Spoiler alert is you have year to see episode 8.
But the worst part all happens in the finale of season 1. I've been onboard with the series until this episode. So Katara gets to the northern tribe where women water bend to heal only. The tribe tell her that is their culture and it's been like this forever and they are all happy and content with their culture and lives. Katara, in her arrogance and self-righteousness, in not respecting another people's culture and customs, doesn't agree with the entire tribe's values and beliefs, so she, in an act of aggression against a people she doesn't know and clearly doesn't respect, attacks and fights one of their male leaders. Later in the episode, Katara walks off screen and next minute, Katara and all the women of the tribe now want to fight for some reason. What did Katara say to change an entire tribe's beliefs and values and cultural practices? We don't know - it happened off camera. I guess that speech would have been too difficult to write. Then, for the marysue moment of the episode, all of a sudden the women are warriors and are water bending better than the men who have been training for half their lives. Remember, the only water bending the women ever did was to heal. How can they have learned in a minute, how to fight as good as their male counterparts who have been practicing for years?!
Also! Why has Ang not been practicing other bending?
Furthermore, Momo dies and I'm meant to care? The character's been in the show for all of five seconds. He dies and a woman picks him up and leaves with his body to save his life. Surrounded by her friends and family, who are dead and dying or still fighting, she picks up a dead animal she saw that one time, and leaves the battle to save its life and not those of her friends and family she has know her entire life and who she is meant to be leading!
None of this makes any sense and because of these points, this episode ruined a series that was going along quite well.
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Legends (2024)
Episode Ruined the World Building
I've been onboard until this episode. So Katara gets to the northern tribe where women water bend to heal only. The tribe tell her that is their culture and it's been like this forever and they are all happy and content with their culture and lives. Katara, in her arrogance and self-righteousness, in not respecting another people's culture and customs, doesn't agree with the entire tribe's values and beliefs, so she attacks and fights one of their men. She then goes off screen and next minute, all the women of the tribe now want to fight for some reason. What did Katara say to change an entire tribe's beliefs and values and cultural practices? We don't know - it happened off camera. Then, for the marysue moment of the episode, all of a sudden the women are warriors and are water bending better than the men who have been training for half their lives. Remember, the only water bending the women ever did was to heal. How can they have learned in a minute, how to fight as good as their male counterparts who have been practicing for years?!
Also! Why has Ang not been practicing other bending?
Furthermore, Momo dies and I'm meant to care? The character's been in the show for all of five seconds. He dies and a woman picks him up and leaves with his body to save his life. Surrounded by her friends and family, who are dead and dying or still fighting, she picks up a dead animal she saw that one time, and leaves the battle to save its life and not those of her friends and family she has know her entire life and who she is meant to be leading!
None of this makes any sense and because of these points, this episode ruined a series that was going along quite well.
Succession: The Munsters (2023)
What is this? Modern Family?
Another episode that's directed like an episode of Modern Family; full of shaky cam for no reason, lens zoom for no reason... it's all wobbly and 100% distracting. I have no idea what's happening in this story because the terrible direction is screaming, "Look at me!"
It's a shame because there's a great story in this show, but there are a few episodes with this director that are unwatchable. And this episode it the worst thus far. I was going to skip it but I see this director has more episodes ahead in this season so maybe it's not worth watching.
And I'm out! Bloody hell!!! I can't watch this camera work. I feel sick.
Cloak & Dagger: Suicide Sprints (2018)
Too Shaky
I tried to watch this episode but it made me feel ill with all the shaky camera work. Is it really that hard to put the camera on a tripod? It's a shame because I was interested in the story and thought I found a new series to watch but I can't handle directing like this.