Invincible isn't amazing. Season 1 is definitely a bt different from some of your standard western animations and has some fun characters and fights. A well done and violent fight scene to draw you in, for the first episode. Good voice acting. The animation is somewhat lacking and downright poor quality by the second season though. For a show this popular , it seems like as much effort was put into the animation as one of those animations you might have found on Newgrounds as a teenager. When they fly, it's as if someone is dragging a still image of the character across a frozen backdrop, which is quite upsetting consider the show took a break after 4 episodes due to pressure on the animators.
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18 Reviews
Eastbound & Down
(2009–2013)
Predictable. Have not laughed once in 4 episodes
7 June 2023
I guess I sorta knew what to expect and I generally like Danny McBride, but he sorta just plays the same sorta character and the jokes are basically the same as everything you've already seen before. He lifts some weights and they fall on him. He throws a ball and he misses. His character is extremely overconfident and obviously fails at most of his endeavours and that predictability is what makes it so unfunny. Part of the humour you generally get with fun and goofy actors like Will Ferrell ot Danny McBride, is the obscure or random dialogue. You don't see it coming. I don't see why so many people love it and am disappointed that its not good.
The same stuff X 100
30 May 2023
What I took from this...no character focus. In fact, no focus. It was primarily focused on having visually appealing cinematic shots. It's almost like everyone was in their own movie. Like nobody was talking to anybody, and they were just spitting out one-liners. The focus was cinematic shots and one-liners. The shots were good but when there's one every 30 seconds, they don't really stand out, or mean anything. It's too much of those "holy goddamn cow" that make them mundane. My may aswell have been a 20 mins reel of cool shots and just left it at that. I now have to ramble for a few more characters before I can post this.
Sanctuary
(2023– )
Real Life Anime
13 May 2023
I don't watch any Japanese series. I've watched a few anime though and I tend to hate most, as they use the same tropes over and over, and I find the humour doesn't really translate. And the jokes are tirelessly repetitive. That being said, I can see many anime tropes and cliches in this show. The characters so far are quite one dimensional, yet entertaining. There's the somewhat reserved protagonist, with an "enduring spirit", a big boobed bimbo, a bully I'm the school, a mysterious sumo who seems very dangerous. At one stage they even call him monster, as they would a powerful enemy, often in anime. All Thai being said, despite my general dislike of most anime, I find this show easy enough to watch and I think because the characters are actually acted by actual people, the tropes are a little more believable. Nothing fantastic, but reasonabley original for Western audiences.
Bisping
(2021)
Not bad, not great
4 February 2023
Never really followed Bispings career. The doco kind of drags a bit and talks about a lot of irrelevant things. I also don't understand why Michael Jai White and Vin Diesel were making commentary about "being a man" or "being an alpha" or being a "fighter". They're both actors. There were also scenes were Bisping reenacted things that he was telling the story of e.g. He was watching Rocky. We then see a 30 second clip of him in bed "watching Rocky" on his phone (holding it vertically by the way). I used to love UFC and the fighters around that period but this doco was hard to watch. Just poorly directed I think.
The kids knocked a point off
26 May 2022
Downsides: Wanda's kids were so annoying. They seemed like generic B grade kids from juice commercial or something.
The characters were very predictable. I found myself finishing characters lines.
The downside with characters like Scarlett Witch and Dr Strange is that there are no rules to their magic. They can do everything until they can't. So the fights have no fear or intensity, just a bunch of strange visuals.
Positives: lots of Easter eggs and multiverse characters.
I didn't actually know exactly where the story was going until close to the end.
The characters were very predictable. I found myself finishing characters lines.
The downside with characters like Scarlett Witch and Dr Strange is that there are no rules to their magic. They can do everything until they can't. So the fights have no fear or intensity, just a bunch of strange visuals.
Positives: lots of Easter eggs and multiverse characters.
I didn't actually know exactly where the story was going until close to the end.
Good start
2 February 2022
Well I guess crime pays
3 September 2021
Jupiter's Legacy
(2021)
A little predictable/stock standard
7 May 2021
Jupiter's Legacy borrows alot from recent super hero shows like The Boys and Invincible. It's not original in that regard. I also found that they tended to avoid showing alot of the fights, and when they did show the fights, the camera angle would change 20 or 30 times so you couldn't even see what was happening. And when they kept the camera angle, something just seemed a bit off. The movement of the characters was sluggish and offputting.
Meh
21 November 2020
I can't wrap my head around these 10/10 ratings. The whole episode was clunky. The dialogue was intermittent and poorly delivered a lot of the time. When they were fighting to escape the base, there just random scenes of them shooting a few troopers, for no particular reason, then they'd move to a new room and do the same thing. Then the chase scene went for 10 minutes and there was no sense of threat or tension. It just felt off.
Why do people love this show?
15 August 2020
The characters were so unrealistic. The doorman has no life and is obsessed with the main female lead. The main female lrad has no life outside the building, or friends, or job? Was it supposed to have an aspect of fantasy? It was like watching The Shining where they talk to themselves and ghosts
Project Power
(2020)
Basic
14 August 2020
I don't know what's wrong with Netflix, but they keep pumping out these really mediocre movies despite having a great cast, or at the very least, a few good actora. I was looking forward to this, with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Jamie Foxx. It doesn't do anything terribly but it does nothing fantastic. At no point in the movie, did my facial expression change to joy, excitement, awe, or sadness. It was too predictable and not really original, in that it's basically a few movies or shows mashed together. I figured it would be a bit more intelligent but they spell a lot out for you and use really old movie tropes that made me feel like I was watching a kids action movie, but with less action.
Kengan Ashura
(2019– )
Decent fights
4 August 2019
If you've watched Baki, it's pretty similar. The
Negatives - There's breaks between fights to explain so made up technique that usually doesn't make sense. There's a character who basically gawks and is shocked in every scene, which can get annoying. They throw big numbers around to try and make the characters companies seem important. Sometimes they explain things that you can clearly already see with you own eyes.
The pros - Decent choreography in the fights and there seems to be less talking between matches than Baki. Interesting characters once you get past how corny it can be.
The pros - Decent choreography in the fights and there seems to be less talking between matches than Baki. Interesting characters once you get past how corny it can be.
The Dragon Prince
(2018– )
How did they put this out with this frame-rate?
22 September 2018
I've only watched an episode and it seems ok, but I really don't understand how this was allowed to hit Netflix, with the frame rate. It's like 20 or 30 fps. It was unbearably distrscting. I just want someone to do something about it
The After Party
(I) (2018)
It was like an advert for social media apps
30 August 2018
Every five minutes, they're talking about instagram, facebook worldstar, Twitter, streaming. They're trying to jam all this "pop-culture" in, to be "cool". I think the two main guys are supposed to be in highschool too, which is ridiculous because they're about 25. I admit i stopped after an hour. I don't know why I continued so long
Hereditary
(2018)
Pretty good
25 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I notice a lot of over the top negative reviews. A few seem to be regarding the ending, some seem to be regarding the acting or believability of some of the events that occur or reactions of characters, to some of those events. I think people tend to leave reviews ir comments more often when they're angry than when they're satisfied. I digress.
I thought it was great. I guess it comes to expectations. I expected a lot less fear and frightening scenes, as that seems to be the trend these days with the new "scariest movie to date". ***SPOLIERS*** I was expecting no supernatural events yet there were and I thought they were done very well. There were a few scenes where I almost cried because I really felt for Toni Collete's character and her behaviour quite drove it home. There were a few scenes where I was just gaping in awe or horror and I think if a movie can provoke that response out of me, then it at least deserves a but of praise on that part. I felt the movie built up at a slow pace but it worked and the scares got more frequent and intense.
If I had to complain it would be about the ending, maybe over done or over reached but at least it felt a little different. It's always hard to end a movie like that so I don't know which direction I would have gone otherwise.
I thought it was great. I guess it comes to expectations. I expected a lot less fear and frightening scenes, as that seems to be the trend these days with the new "scariest movie to date". ***SPOLIERS*** I was expecting no supernatural events yet there were and I thought they were done very well. There were a few scenes where I almost cried because I really felt for Toni Collete's character and her behaviour quite drove it home. There were a few scenes where I was just gaping in awe or horror and I think if a movie can provoke that response out of me, then it at least deserves a but of praise on that part. I felt the movie built up at a slow pace but it worked and the scares got more frequent and intense.
If I had to complain it would be about the ending, maybe over done or over reached but at least it felt a little different. It's always hard to end a movie like that so I don't know which direction I would have gone otherwise.
Inside the World's Toughest Prisons
(2016–2023)
I'm so glad everyone is on the same page about the host
21 August 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I enjoy prison and crime docos a lot but i struggled with this, mainly because of the host Paul. I've watched 2 and a half episodes and every episode he talks about how harrowing things are (e.g, the fact that he has to get strip searched, or that people fight) but nothing terrible is ever actually shown. The first two prisons actually looked somewhat nice in regards to some of the prisons I've seen in the States
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