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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Please no more Brian Tyree Henry
I feel like we've reached a point in the monsterverse where writers just gave up on pretending there's some story with the movies and just embraced the low-quality CGI bonanza that has increasingly dominated the series. Yet they still manage to introduce one of the most bizarre, senseless and irrelevant cast of characters, with no background story, no personality, no nothing. And for how long will Brian Tyree Henry, always doing his best version of Brian Tyree Henry, spoil every single random movie? So incredibly annoying and unnecessary, not funny at all and just... also what's going on with the out-of-nowhere Peter-Quill-meets-Ryan-Reynolds-plays-80s-song character? Oh boy.
The Continental (2023)
Very nice, but afraid to keep it within lore
It's decent show if watched as intended - prequel to John Wick's movies. Even so, it bizarrely gives John Wick level skills and power to a bunch of random and useless characters (basically everyone in the crew), who somehow almost all make it out alive in the end. The whole idea of this universe is that John is simply superior to a huge variety of enemies. The twins are by far the best characters besides young Winston and Charon and how can they possibly be defeated by irrelevant folks with superhuman resistance who literally pull off magic victories like John's? It was pretty clear the showrunners didn't want to kill them in the show, and for that they shifted the balance of skills which makes the show credible within its universe. Also some storylines were very strange for a show with this purpose (like the "Asian on Black racism"). Overall the 80s setting didn't benefit the ambiance which sufffers from this obsession of lower budget showrunners with playing songs every other minute, in a vibe that was so upbeat that felt like a movie about weed dealers in a nightclub than John Wick's characteristic somber and grandiose feel. All in all, it's not horrendous but you'll catch yourself rolling your eyes more than once during this.
The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)
Better than silence
Typical Netflix show. Production is OK, acting and writing passable, but overall storyline enjoyable. It's not smart by any means or even has basic background research on law as say Suits, but it works just enough because it doesn't really try much either.
It's telling though that Netflix has split season 2 into two parts (what's usually done for flagship shows under the belief people will renew subscriptions for another month) which seems too much of a status for an otherwise B- overall show. But quite understandable given that, really, Netflix hasn't produced a show of scale and quality comparable to the now really "vintage" House of Cards, Stranger Things, and The Crown, which then made it seen the company could compete with Showtime or HBO.
So if you have watched every single 8+ series in the last 20 years already and is afraid enough to try cinematographic monstruosities like Blood Origin or Bling Empire (as you should), you'll like this show.
Silicon Valley (2014)
Not only the best comedy show ever made...
... but possibly one of the best *any* shows ever made.
Though nich-y, I think people with different levels of education and knowledge of coding, PE/VC culture, and Silicon Valley can enjoy in different ways.
The writing is purely briliant. People saying it gets repetitive miss out on one of the points of the show - every episode, Richard and crew face a problem, solve it, only to be set aback again. This is how anybody working in the research space feels. Yet, they do evolve season-over-season eventually leading up to giving it all up and sort of having done everything for nothing.
Thank you for making this show.
Black Adam (2022)
Likely the worst superhero movie ever made
A complete insult. Way worse than movies like Morbius and Justice League. Bad comments here are spot on and there is no way that good commenta are legitimate. There is nothing good about this movie - the individual with wings is the most annoying character in a DC/Marvel movie by a long shot. Also he has no powers and gets beaten by Black Adam multiple times without any injuries? How's that possible?
The acting is so poor all around - particularly from the Atom kid, above said guy with wings, and pretty much everybody else.
Do not watch this, no matter what. I defied the negative reviews because only wanted a fun and entertaining movie and now I deeply regret my decision.
Making the Cut (2020)
One of the most ridiculous finales I've ever seen
I never wrote a review before. Shows with judging are by nature controversial, as people identify with certain contestants and naturally root for them (even though sometimes they're really not the best people who "should win" - considering that the best should win).
Since they the Instagram "Celebrity" Chiara - who never made a comment not echoing another judge's - was brought on the show, judging became ridiculous. Could we please let people with a real-life platform and *actual* knowledge on the subject be claimed as "experts", not someone who liked the winner "because I can buy anything he makes". Right, that's what "copycat" means: Jonny AllSaints Cota. Nothing wrong with that, just don't call it a brand with vision.
There were two true designers on the show (and few others less creative, but very competent, like Megan). Esther and Sanders. The winner Jonny Cota received *several* comments about being banal, repetitive, to lack creativity, and famously bombed the couture episode (the biggest test to any designer's creativity). He took advantage of other participants help in at least two episodes where he wouldn't manage to finish his assignments on time. After paired with Megan, he started to use her white and black patterns.
The 1 month gap before the final - a strange unfair rule in a competition where all designers had the same resources and time to work through the assignments - had Jonny traveling to Indonesia to produce *all* his clothing for the final assignment by a sweatshop. Yes, those places employing children making cents on the dollar for 18 hours/day of work. I understand this supply chain fits Amazon's cheap products quite nicely, but companies at least try to pretend this side of cheap clothes doesn't exist. They don't try to advertise it as something good. "It's a waste free sweatshop". Really, Jonny? The biggest global department stores are always caught up in sweatshop scandals because of lack of control, but yours is propped as something "touristy" because it's in Bali?
This was actually a constant thing about this show: you watch judges trashing a certain candidate (like Jonny), you see him doing poorly on his business pitch (according to the judges), using cheap labor overseas etc. which makes you think: well, someone is going to talk about it, right? They're showing these things to set up a certain outcome. But no; you see these moments for absolutely no reason other than to give you the idea that the entire thing was rigged/unfair. Jonny reminds me of another contestant on Netflix's rival "Next in Fashion", also from LA, identical aesthetic or lack thereof.
All in all, the show had many flaws which are tolerable since it was fairly entertaining. But if what you want from this type of show is: even if it's not perfect, some people are better, these people make it to the top, and some of them win, this is not the show for you.
Well, Esther, Sander and other talented designers who came on the show will surely succeed. Now, we need to keep an eye on the next AllSaints collection to figure out how Jonny's will look like.