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The Watcher (2022)
Basic netflix formula and quite dragged out, could have been great if it was a movie.
I finished the first episode of watcher. It's basically a 6/10 😂. Theres nothing special about it, It's all been done before, if it's your first horror series its good but for me who's seen way better, not worth my time sitting though filler for some decent scenes.
People move into a house, weirdness, neighbors, things are happening that doesn't make sense. Different seeds of information planted, more and more revealed as you go which sort of connects together towards the end. Different characters doing their own thing with mystery and connections to different events and suspicious people. The suspense is just typical tv series suspense, slow and almost nothing happening, with the odd scene of things happening as if they are making progress in the story but really not. Now about the "The watcher" that sends letters and the whole conspiracy and things getting revealed little by little, the family getting weirded out until later it probably starts to make sense, this is literally something I would have wrote in primary/secondary school so nothing special here either. Its also just too too slow so about 15mins in, I started watching at 1.25x - 1.5x speed and was still Like..... meh. The character are just 2d in sense where they are rigid and written a certain way and stay like that throughout the series, the dialogue is simple one liners and just simple dialogue you can expect except the watcher who talks much differently but still felt like alot of nothing. This would be so much better as a 2 hour movie.
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
I don't understand why people like it so much!
Past, present and future all disjointed and mixed about and not very engaging, would have been great if they explored how the kids the grew and built the story from there instead of throwing parts in here and there. Not a fan of the characters. This stuff that's happening should have been a season 3 or something. I just got introduced to the characters and the dads already dead, I liked him as well, there was no build up or connection so it felt meaningless other than plot purposes all this was episode 1. Abilities for each character are unusable in terms of plot and progression.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Predictable yet eye candy
An enjoyable movie and has some witty humor and other familiar aspects from marvel, the execution was done right but was still pretty predictable. There was no blood with slashes and hits which made it really feel like a kid's movie. The premise and plot are great but what that leads the characters to do... is very predictable. When I saw Shang chi exit the elevator into an under ground facility, I already knew he would fight and that it would be his sister. The family dynamic didn't fit right at all, especially the way the family interacted with eachother after what I've seen in the flashbacks. The choreography was spectacular even though some fights made it seem like the 2 characters fight were still going easy on eachother.
I predicted like 80% of what was gonna happen like :
The sister fighting the brother in the fighting ring
Dad dying and giving Shang chi the rings
Girl learning the bow
The two teams working together in the final fight
Etc
Overall, a good watch!
Be My Boyfriend (2021)
Amazing loved it
Really like the MCs best friend, one of my favourite characters. Pretty good story and it's all on YouTube!
Also.... What is with Korean show romances always having a third wheel, it's like that's their only form of character development. Other than that its overall a nice watch.
Power (2014)
SO Perfect and then it went downhill
So we know that this show is about drugs. The fact that Ghost/ James St Patrick (main character) is married with kids shows that this show is serious and doesnt want to delve into romance or love, atleast for the main character. Well, guess what he does on the 3rd episode? Kiss his ex. Later on something happens that makes him rethink his relationship with the new girl but one episode later, he goes back to kissing her and progressing this relationship even though he's got a wife and kids. This kind of puts the drug stuff into the background.
I Absolutely loved the first episode but the second was all over the place and had me confused, and it just kept going downhill from there. Streight into the second episode, they start mentioniong all these characters, operations and people that I don't know instead of easing me into it.
The setting, the characters and Everything else was great but the story is lacking. The premise was awesome when I found out that a drug dealer and a law enforcers are friends with out the other knowing. Sounds cliche I know but I wasnt really expecting it. I'm half way into the 4th episode and will not be progressing past the first season.
Kaithi (2019)
Trash and overhyped
Painfully long and nothing meaningful happened. Repeated bs and total trash. I was confused throughout and nothing made sense. Fights were trash and the story could not be more predictable.
Shazam! (2019)
Good for anyone 11 or under
Its repetitive, comedy is cliche and half the movie was the the the mc running away from the villian whoch is verely monotonous and outright ruined the suspense and buildup of what looked like to be an epic fight but dissapointed me, he didnt even use his lighning powers against the villian. Took him a while to learn his powers but his little brothers and sister know what powers they have and can masterfully use them seconds after getting the same power? You've got to be kidding me.
It didnt even look like the villian was trying. No stakes, no twists, nothing. Just a typical happy story where good guys beats the bad guy. Total waste.
Sushi Pack (2007)
Haven't seen this in 10 years
Great for children 8 or under, i loved this as a kid but after checking out the first episode again, it does seem a bit dated and the voicing is a bit off bit no kid would actually see a difference in voice. Nice short episodes and teaches kids a good lesson, nothing bad to say about it really. Graphics still hold up too.
Something else that i would recommend is a show called, oggy and the cockroaches for anyone under 15 but preferably around 10.
A.N.T. Farm (2011)
Trash
Aimed at kids but the jokes, writing, soundtrack and everything in between is terrible. They had good budget for actors, setting and camerawork but thats about it. I can see this being a bad influence on kids, one example of this was a scene where this robot this was dead and there was a girl that was crying and sad, but then there was a laghing soundtrack playing at the same time. What kind of writing is this?
Tldr dont watch it, its childish and and trash.
Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments (2016)
Trash attempt at the originals
First episode was promising especially the start, then it fell apart quickly with all the cliché and boring fighting. Some of the scenes are really dragged out and the story was really predicable. Special effects were rare but pretty good among with the visual and camera work.
Fast forward to season 2 episode 1 and youll see that they have fighting going on in the background with the focus on some candles on the front, then they would switch back and forth to the fight and the charecters would just do a pose as if they were pretending to fight, completely ruined the immersion. Didn't have a single likeable charecters whether they were gay or the main girl who was just as annoying elena.
TL;DR. boring, cliche and bad writing
Sex Education (2019)
Trash
Boring cliche charecters like typical bully, no sense of direction and just awful acting. Definitely a waste of time. Sex cant be the only reason people watch this trash.
The Punisher (2017)
Trash
Very unrealistic and unbelievable, that sniper shot on the first episode, what???? This main charecter has no emotion, nothing.... we dont know anything about the supposed family thats making him this way.
Red Band Society (2014)
Well that was boring
Story is awful, just a bunch of scenes of characters stiched together with no goal or passion. The first episode does nothing to pull you in and neither do any other. Characters are bland and boring, theres nothing to them. I didnt rely find anythi g funny or sad either. Camera angles, quality sound were good but nothing else
Arrow (2012)
Boring and repetitive
Its just the same bad appears bad guy dies, just throw in a bit of backstory, girls, and bland fighting. Visual are decent and sound, other then that, terrible
Night School (2018)
Same movies, new name
Kevin hart is a great actor, putting that aside. This mivie is full of cliché, bad directing and jokes. Only good parts are the parts i saw in the trailer. He goes night school for his girl ( except he becomes a police officer in ride along, so yeh.... the same plot) and eventually passes and gets married, the end. Acting was good, camera and sound quality is good, rest is trash.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
First 2 were way better
Dont really know who the target audience is, it has alot cringe and kids jokes but is more love focused then the others. Music was good, few jokes were alright. I'd say the first half is a 7/10 and the second half is a 3/10