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Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)
Just a disappointing misuse of a great show
The casting was well done and the acting is very good, but the adaptation is just too soulless.
They wanted to appeal to a Game of Thrones audience but completely alienated fans of the animated show.
Storylines that were fun and engaging on their own are now forced together and muddled
The exposition is cringey and speaks to the showrunners having no faith in their audience's ability to appreciate nuance and implications
And all the personal growths the characters go through in the animated series vanish here because the character flaws they need to work through and grow through don't exist
In short, this is an extremely disappointing adaptation and I sincerely hope that the animated series gets a massive viewing boost to the point that the third animated series gets as big a budget as this thing.
Emergency (2022)
Jumbled
It is a movie that doesn't seem to know what genre it wants to be. It starts off promising a fun end-of-year college romp with a couple will they/won't they pairings. The beginning of the movie makes it out to be a fluffy comedy. Then it descends into a very heavy drama with some unsubtle social satire that sort of hits. Questionable decisions made by the three main characters and a very, very unlikeable character played by Sabrina Carpenter just make the movie too unwatchable. Spent a lot of it being annoyed at the dramatics of the situations they kept putting themselves into.
There were just too many moments of watching people react to situations in a manner that was too hyperbolic to be realistic or entertaining.
Could have been so much better.
Wellington Paranormal: Taniwha (2019)
A seriously funny show that deserves more attention
This is such a stupid, laugh-out-loud show, and with only 6 episodes a season it is very easy to binge.
Imagine What We Do In The Shadows meets Reno 911.
Caveat (2020)
A well done slow burn
Fantastic visuals and a constant sense of dread keep this movie from being too slow. The lack of any formal reveal keeps the viewer guessing and doesn't ruin the horror. Very recommendable.
An Hour to Kill (2018)
Very long, very bad, and very boring
Obviously independent films with small budgets are going to have issues, but this one was pretty awful from start to finish. It is supposed to be a horror comedy, but the acting was terrible, the dialogue seemed to be improvised, and the main story didn't make any sense. Just a huge waste of time.