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Axel 2: Adventures of the Spacekids (2017)
Worst animation I suffered through
This animation was one of, if not the worst that I have sat through. I make it a point to watch every animation before allowing my young children to watch it.
You'd be surprised how much of the adult humor young kids are understanding.
This animation didn't have anything like that but it didn't have anything else either. The voiceover actors are flat, the story is boring (to quote my kids favorite descriptor) and the animation itself looks like it predates the first Toy Story.
I'd recommend watching past superbowl commercials on Youtube before watching this.
Zoo (2015)
Seasons 1 & 2 are good but s3 is plain awful, courtesy of the writing
The first 2 seasons are good, it is why I watched it. The actors did a very good job but the moment....and I do mean the very first scene that the Abigail character is introduced, the writing goes from plausible to nonsensical and idiotic. Like the entire writing staff was swapped out for the night shift from Taco Bell.
Season 3 is why a season 4 was never ordered. It would take a millennial to have ordered a fourth season after the diatribe on the audience this show put out as season 3.
Abigail is a villian of immeasurable intellect, resource, timing and best of all, luck. She is unstoppable. The show could just have ended with her into and an epilogue of her superior intellect and unfathomable luck decimating all of the protagonists.
Would have been cheaper and saved me from watching season 3 but the joke is on them, thanks to Netflix, I watched it AFTER it originally aired AND I skipped past nearly EVERY SINGLE scene Abigail showed up. I didn't miss a single plot point by skipping past ALL OF HER SCENES.
I only substituted one thought for all of her dialogue, what ever the situation was, the Abigail character will win and/or achieve her goal. I absolutely did not need to know what that goal was to continue watching.
Saved me a little bit of my time.
Ad Astra (2019)
Like a 70's sci-fi movie that portends to be thought provoking, it fails.
I enjoy most Brad Pitt films but this one, it's just bad. I could list the iodiocy of this film from the "AI physc evals" to the building of bases so far apart on Mars to the unnecessary scenes where the protagonist and an incidental character stop to answer a distress call where no human life signs are detected.
Two major A-list actors are relegated to 4 and 10 minutes of screen time, brilliant.
I think the AI voice gets more dialogue.
More than the waste of $ to watch it, it robbed me of time I'll never get back.
Abominable (2019)
Animation was ok but propaganda ruined it
The movie itself was ok. Not nearly as immersive as a Pixar animation but for anyone under 10, it's ok. I was fortunate enough to see it for free with my 5 year old because at the end, I'd have been annoyed if I had paid to be shown chinese propaganda (the map). I covered my kids eyes and explained that the map was chinese fiction and not the map as 99% of the world recognizes it to be in reality.
The voice acting was a bit flat, borderline unemotional. Like reading queue cards.
The story line was predictable. A leads to B leads to C.
Very two dimensional.
Normally I enjoy DreamWorks movies but this one fell short.
Castle Rock: Let the River Run (2019)
Lizzy Kaplan is a dead-pan younger Annie Wilkes
I'll admit, I've never read a single Stephen King book although I have enjoyed the film adaptations. That said, I did watch Misery but that was YEARS ago so as I watched this season of Castle Rock, I had the benefit of not being aware of the connection between the main character, Annie Wilkes and the character from Misery, Annie Wilkes.
Lizzy Kaplan's use of "dirty bird" and subtle mannerisms had me thinking I knew this character from somewhere. A general sense of familiarity, of recognition even if it couldn't be placed.
Only when I started thinking about it, did I put two and two together and it struck me that much more that she is really nailing this character down. Almost uncanny to see really. If I were Kathy Bates, it would freak me out!.
So far, this season seems better than last season which I nearly didn't finish.
I just hope this season doesn't introduce elements without at least a half ash explanation ie; the inter-dimensional time portal.
Another Life (2019)
Millennials in space
This show is not science fiction, beyond its use of certain props and sets made to appear as sci-fi. The show doesn't reveal the date but the opening episode shows Kansas, presumably Topeka as a coastal city so we can assume sea levels rose dramatically.
The acting is sooo over the top, like a bad BAD day time soap opera. Just imagine a group of high school kids with zero experience being told to over act. This is the result.
There are more expletives per minute than in an hour of comedy from Eddie Murphy, Whoopie Goldberg, Andrew Dice Clay, or the late Sam Kinison----combined. Demerit 1
The crew doesn't wear a standard uniform and in an episode, this was touted as being a good thing by one of the millennial cast members. Demerit 2
They tried to hit every single checkbox for "diversity". Like, EVERY SINGLE ONE.
It is contrived, annoying, in your face and doesn't mesh. It is so clearly forced that it's uncomfortable to watch. A setting in TV or movies should try to mirror every day life and in no way does this represent a day for the avg and the majority anywhere on the planet. demerit 3
The single character that came out of cryosleep to put these $#@! millennials in their place was killed in the same episode. Demerit 4
This show is seemingly taking place many years from now, mankind has built interstellar craft capable of faster than light travel. Realistic holograms and a sentient AI yet our coffee machines and microwaves look like those found at Macy's and apparently the FNP90 close range attach weapon invented in 1990 is still in use. Right. And we still use muskets. Demerit 5
I could go on and on but suffice it to say you'd be better off moving all of your furniture to vacuum under, pull out the refrigerator to sweep behind and power wash the outside of your house before wasting time watching this garbage.