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Tarzan (2013)
A modern Tarzan story, after the genocide of all minorities.
For a story originally published in 1912 America and based primarily on the African continent, it's surprising that a modern era version of the story only has one person of color in the entire film. Finding "him" was a fun game of "Where's Waldo". And like our friend with his distinctive red and white clothing, the nondescript brown skinned male was silent.
As for the rest of the film, the material was unimpressive, predictable, filled with plot holes and left me yearning to hear the sound of Phil Collins' many beloved songs.
If pressed to find a positive about the film, I can easily say that I liked much of the background art depicting the jungle.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Disappointing
There seemed to be a complete disregard for the original source material. The amount of content that we were expected to "just accept as possible" because it's a supper hero movie is unacceptable. The writing seemed disjointed but yet predictable from the very beginning. This was a MASSIVE step down from the first movie and shows that those in charge learned nothing from the mistakes that were made then. BUT somehow there's a third on the way.
PLEASE, check out the physical and digital Wonder Woman comics. The character is much more impressive and much better written than both of the movies so far.
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders: Obey (2017)
Worst episode ever!
The story, direction and mise-en-scène may have been good but thanks to the worst Jamaican accents that I have ever heard I could not focus on anything else. How could the producers not find any acceptable Jamaican actors, or at least hire a Jamaican writer to write and instruct on the appropriate use of the local dialogue. Aside from the fact that this show seems to imply that police officers around the world are incompetent and naturally accept the authority and superiority of anyone from the US, how and why are the team members allowed to openly carry weapons in other countries. I wanted to like this show because of the actors but this episode was horrible.