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Siouxsie and the Banshees: The Passenger (1987)
Song=TERRICIC; Video=SILLY
Song version of the Passenger is amazing; better than the original. Fantastic use of horns (horns normally suck in this style music, but the off-beat use blends and enhances the song together to a new level). However the video is stupid with all the laughing and smiling and rockettes kicks thrown in. I want my Siouxsie serious in a serious song. The glass box was okay, but so many cut-aways, it made me dizzy. Should have done a real cool video in a car as a passenger engaging in their drive at night, using street and starlight for different perspectives of said passenger's ride around town (or parked on a sound stage). The song is so good, I just have to listen - not watch, to thoroughly enjoy it.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020)
1 Star Show (2 for hope)
Please no more poetry. Please. The other Walking Dead iterations had either better writing (well, assuredly) and better actors (compelling, bringing life to so-so moments). This is SO BAD. SO SLOW. SO SILLY! The Endlings are the END OF THE WALKING DEAD. Seriously, I feel badly for the well-meaning young actors, but the adult actors are also really SUPER BORRRIINNGGGG!!!!
The Mandalorian (2019)
Don't tell ANYONE ANYTHING except to WATCH THIS!
Let everyone, even minor Star Wars fans like me, SEE THE FIRST EPISODE WITHOUT YOU HAVING TO SHARE YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH THEM. YOU AIN'T SO SMART! Give them the same chance to be excited about the future of SW, this KICK A$$ show, and-well, the brilliant future of John Favreau (from Swingers... to OWNER OF DISNEY if he was given his due!)
Mowgli (2018)
Loved it & I'm 50 (maybe 51-lol)
I loathe aging and used to not fathom how some adults around me would do a banter back and forth mentally about what is their real age. How could one forget that! Its not like the numbers Will likely exceed two digits - LOL. Anyway, that is me now, but I find I enjoy many of my childhood story re-does, some like this which done remove the elements which made the story, originally, more childlike... say animation, singing, etc.
Although it can simply be a dud itself and missing those, sometimes very prominent, elements not stand as strong as a story itself. I loved the Jungle Book as a kid and Although I did miss the sing-alongness of the songs sung by Baloo and that (plus the nuttiness) of the Monkey King utty Monkey King, but I got way into it on its own. It just made me want to go back to rewatch TJB (& Rikki-Tikki-Tavi); pls forgive all the character misspellings, I wrote this from the heart and memory;)
Reimaginings done this way are partly for a good reason - it brings another perspective to a beloved tale, using the most current digital technology - a feat which more recent generations often expect, and no wonder - its amazing. They could just as easily have remade it live action-ish with the extra-silliness and the cool songs.... another time though.
The kid was a pleasure to watch, compelling, and interesting most especially realizing he acted by himself, appropriately emotionally capturing the scenes and it all felt pretty seamless to me. The kid's perfmance is what allowed me to get into it, especially since Shera Khan looked like he had a bad eye brow lift... most characters did not distract however.... were cute and/or realistic, and/or animatronic-like enough to not focus on them beyond the story. That little best friend white albino wolf-cub, whoever voiced them, gosh he looked & sounded just so adorbubble!!! Touching scenes with, and later about him.
I know the script had some oddities and it's all certainly a fantasy film, leaving many "real-living in such a situation" questions, but I can't knock them for not explaining much on food, pants, potty-time, understanding each other, but in truth - I have many of these questions (especially about hygeine) in tons of non-family films, say superheros, walking dead characters. Don't both get itches (tight clothes, being ubwashed respectively? ON & ON, say does batman have fabreeze? What do zombie killers use for TP out in the never-ending walk-about of Atl+?
I absolutely loved Mowgli and will watch it again with me equally elderly husband-lol. I hope that there is a Mowgli2 and regardless of past material I may not recall, there are many elements we would expect Mowgli's story to take, and I hope they do it (before the good little actor in it grows up too big). All sorts of the questions we may have could be touched on, but most importantly is how he must bond and breed human. Perhaps Mowgli 2 could help him can blend the pass on the best of himself to future animal leaders, while he, perhaps does some kind of "out of africas-ish lifestyle", lives with his growing human family on the outskirts of his jungle home, blending both worlds and learning & sharing on both sides. The kid was really great and after finishing this novella, I'll figure out his name and tag him to watch other work, but one more mention of how compelling I thought he was (scene-appropriate throughout) during an especially emotional scene in the hunters tent... I had to catch my breath on both the tragedy and how the actor's little face scrunched up and cried so much I could feel the tenseness in his curling lips-just like anyone so young (or maybe old) being so unexpectedly struck with sadness.
Sorry to drag on, likely only to my future rereading self (lol), but the hunter's casting was not ideal in my opinion. I love that dude from the Americans and just don't think some of the smaller character actorish roles I've seen him in do him, or the piece, justice (that omnipresent recebt Bradely Cooper chef movie and this). I think maybe that actor is best given a more fully formed character and able to delve into it, so we can see and appreciate his breadth. My opnion anyway, but in this he seemed not to make the impact I think the story was wanting-us to pretty much purely hate him and the only time this was questionable, was the beggininh of his time with Mowgli - and I believe we were meant to realize that we had only misunderstood any seeming kindness shown. No real complexity-just a selfish/tropy-killer & a drunken fool, but we should not have been left with any sympaythy in tbe story, simple as told.
Small Town Security (2012)
It's Fun. It's Funny. I'm anxious for Season 2!
Like most initial viewers of the trailers that popped up while anticipating Breaking Bad pre-Season 5, I was sure this was a heavily pre-scripted attempt to scam viewers of it's reality-ness. I hope they don't change the formula of basically showing the cast's generally boring daily life; it's a GEM! They are interesting and it's a treat to be allowed to listen in to.... *De-hording adventures... *Nightly patrol with two ladies who have a deep love for each other... *Recruit training - from guns to clandestine trailing... *Seriously old school cable shows... *Bodily functions we all have...
I never write on this site (which is obvious), I just thought the overpowering negative reviews (so freaking negative - hateful!) were ridiculous and not representative of the core audience of this cool little show. Most of us prefer relaxin' back with a beer, watching something on TV, and not spending so much precious lazy-time writing about how much we hate something.