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South Park: Joining the Panderverse (2023)
Yes! South Park return to the old form with fresh writing.
I have never seen such a great television special, although I could not watch it so I went to a piracy video website to watch because this was never broadcast in Malaysia but instead broadcast in Paramount Plus in the US.
The truth is this television special has its place: the jokes are funny, the story is cohesive, the voice acting is superb, and the concept is much better than any TV special South Park could make, and the best part of all, the emotion so strong that makes you think about all the environment that we care.
Better yet, the characters are human although Eric Cartman is still an annoying brat who made me a glooming, dim yet sullen man, and even worse, tore my hair apart. Even though the story is nonsensical, we know that the creator's purpose is to slam Disney for its questionable decision, but we also see bigotry and vulgarity from those fans make the "supposedly" progressive company go the extra mile. This TV special criticised both liberal and conservative, with sharp social commentary and a beautiful ending. Ending? Well, another Cartman as Kathleen Kennedy eating Kyle as cereals, in another universe. Never saw that one coming.
South Park: Joining the Panderverse is a Marvelous, ace television special. If the show could maintain its quality in the near future, the result speaks for itself.
South Park: Spring Break (2023)
Partly politicised, partly funny.
I kinda like this episode, like mocking Trump supporters and himself, because Garrison is a very charming character he ruthlessly expands their toxic fanbase and ruins the democratic process. Also, there's an emotional part that connects Garrison and his husband. Overall, it's a nice touch of satire and comedy.
But the bad part lies with Randy being a hothead to make a party and trashing his own home, and the character based on Andrew Tate is so ridiculously unfunny that I could question my insanity. Plus, the jokes like January 6th and Toxic Mascunulity, and the ending doesn't do good for the justices. The most annoying part is the fratboy party, it's the TV cliches that plague specific parts of the episode, and I really hate this part and that's why I loathe Randy, and his family forgive him for what he did, gosh. The context is well done, but only some execution is so miserably failing that I could sit down and do nothing. At least wasn't bad as the Credigree Weed St. Patrick's Day Special, but I hope I wouldn't see the fratboy party tropes again.
In the nutshell, I liked this episode, but I hope the creator will have a nuanced satire and jokes in the future.
Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925)
CINEMATIC CLASSIC
Despite being Soviet propaganda, the film manages to be a cinematic thriller to the audience 98 years later, still impacting many filmmakers, no other film could relieve some higher art towards the masses. Camera angle, great acting, editing and story were the best among the 20th-century cinema, no wonder. Roger Ebert said: "The Battleship Potemkin" has been so famous for so long that it is almost impossible to come to it with a fresh eye. It is one of the fundamental landmarks of cinema. Its famous massacre on the Odessa Steps has been quoted so many times in other films (notably in "The Untouchables") that it's likely many viewers will have seen the parody before they see the original." I still admired the filmmaker's ambition and art direction, and I still remember how great the massacre scene or the sailors catching the priest scene could impact me as a person.
Sadly, the younger generation barely touches this gem, definitely recommend it to the youngster.
South Park: Cupid Ye (2023)
This episode makes me love South Park more, yet hate Cartman (and Randy Marsh) more.
The first shot of South Park season.26 is fantastic yet marvellous, with excellent writing, strong social satire, and flawless execution. The story is well structured, the bond between characters were well mix, and also created some new atmosphere within the series. Plus, this episode makes me hate Eric Cartman even more, other than The Poor Kid in season 15. Cartman is most antiheroes character you can think, but he's despicable and ferocious like the hyena. Randy also guity for making the same evil comment. But it lacks one thing: strong character building, Cartman and Randy were the same hotheads as they were despite many episodes through, something lost from the series that used to be found.
No one could denied that the series has maintain its consistency toward its story arc and climax. The ending is hilarious, put a cherry on the top of perfect black forest cake.
South Park: City Sushi (2011)
This episode is classic.
Think about why this episode is claasic, great story, prefect structure, impressive dialogue and nice character development. Mr Lim used to be the character we familar, but turn out to be psychiatrist Dr Janus, who have many personalities. Too bad Butter blamed for a long time, until he's entered the bungalow of Dr Janus, maybe Dr Janus need some MC (Medical Paper in Malaysia). And the twist ending is wonderful, because to see Dr Janus is dead and Mr Lim will alive forever.
This classic episode should be a reminder to modern South Park, take the old magic of older episode and not to be focus on Nostalgia, Meh. I want see the scriptwriting innovation for the brand new South Park. Please, do it!
We Bare Bears (2014)
I'm too old to appreciate the aesthetic and structure of this show.
The show certainly have some work on storytelling and story structure, but as a man who appreciate Monty Python and The Simpsons, this show doesn't work for me. This story is too focus on younger audiences, not telling some relative story about social issues, such as racial equality and depicted humans as shallow, which rejected the platonian metaphysical view. The show didn't have some dark stories like Adventure Time and Steven Universe, which liasion to human psycological barriers, in other words, too happy to sculpt some David;and dismantled some element that some story structure's necessaries: Character deveploment and relationship, and didn't carried some american value like freedom and tradition that the show didn't discuss.
Overall, this show is okay, but improvement have to come.
Hellboy (2019)
Every aspect were not suitable to me.
Yes, they are putting effort to make more mature, but I want something that could match the tone of Guillermo del Toro's version. Which one? The story, casting, visual effects, acting, character, music etc. Maybe they tried too hard to impress me, but I just couldn't understand. Please, if you watching this movie, please watch Guillermo del Toro's version, this one has a coherent storyline, nice characters, and an epic fight scene. Maybe in the future, the next Hellboy could be fantastic yet stunning.
Surely they have their style and nice editing, but I'm still stuck in the old style, this director should ponder more in future filmmaking.
Mat Kilau: Kebangkitan Pahlawan (2022)
I HAVE SOME ADVICE TO THE DIRECTOR.
After I watched this movie, I needs more happiness. I FEEL THERE'S LESS FACTOR TO CHEERS!
Some people like this movie, but others criticised the tone and its presentation. To me, I felt the movies have many things that make me leap into the cliff. But I don't blame the director and audience, but I blame myself for watching this action flick. The story is okay, and the action sequences are exemplary yet cool, but those need some improvement like music, camera angle, dialogues and casting. Before I watched this flick, I wonder how the majority of Malay friends flock to the cinema, maybe eagerly supporting the movie industry to thrive to the highest standards. My point is, why this flick is the currently highest Malaysian film of all time? Oh, perhaps it's the message, the history, the Malays pride, and some religion's messages. Maybe I was wrong, by the way.
Malaysian films like Ola Bola, Sepet, movies of P. Ramlee etc, give me hope and excitement, on the other hand, this film feels weird and kind of out of place. The film is pretty good actually, but when it comes to the message and the target audiences, the director needs to consider himself to unite the nation.
Mat Kilau: Kebangkitan Pahlawan is surely a milestone for local creators, but I hope I could watch some more creative and cheerful films to deal with the problemata. To those people who want to try, I'd say: Frater et Sorrores, quidam veritas verba sanat.
Yes Man (2008)
Some worst thing happened in this film.
Unnecessary joke, bad pun, terrible acting, and a lot of cringe moment that pull my teeth onto the gutter. "Yes Man" is not the film to worthy for analysed. There something wrong with American culture and its ethic, if you say everything Yes wherever the things you might hate, then you could go on with your life, but the film had some decent message is said Yes or No if you deal something, but in reality, social pressure and some assault will forced you to accept, and that's the film missing this point.
Camera angle and editing aren't innovating at the time, the writing wasn't sharp as the knife, couldn't help that Jim Carrey stole the show and makes it better. Some scene were fantastic, but most of them were just play ugly yet unintelligent. If you think this is the factor makes the film unwatchable, then Behold the plot, the and flow makes no sense to me.
Why the heck this annoying film could existing, somethings wrong with its screenwriting and the bright attitude for saying "Yes"? So this film should be a reminder for avoid the mistakes.
The Simpsons: Do Pizza Bots Dream of Electric Guitars (2021)
Not only it's bad, it already kill the character that already bad
Homer used to be the 70s laissez-faire man, but now just an empty signifier, from Kurt Cobain to sappy Homer. The Simpsons we know has become the sitcoms like 70s sappy Simpson, the zombified America that the creator used to be opposed, turns out to be the establishment. Because when some business executives know what's profitable, it becomes flat like Star Wars and other much bland franchises to name with.
Oh, the celebrity, weak plot, strange characterisation and overall it's hard to watch. Singing 'Slice slice baby' doesn't help, we already know this is bad. The plot is about love with Chuck n Cheese animatronic and the movies!!! That's it. Do the writers get passion? Do they need to put a lot of stuff to deal with?
I expected a good episode, but sadly it failed.
South Park: Credigree Weed St. Patrick's Day Special (2022)
South Park hits new low since two TV movies
I watched the episode two times and I'm got some weird feeling. It's worst than previous episode, the story was inconsistent, the ending is bizzaire, and somehow make the character more weird and creppy.
The plot is strange, why St Patrick day, a festival popularised by Americans, said that appropriated by other race. Dude, those political message won't help. Don't starting me with the ending, the writing of this is one of the unforgivable moment in the show's history.
Overall, the episode flat as the plain pancakes. I'm out.
South Park: Help, My Teenager Hates Me! (2022)
Better gives redeeming factor for those poor teenagers, please!
Why this episode should look down on those poor teenagers? That doesn't make any sense. If you think of the definition of Teenagers, you know that they were rebellious yet pitiful. But what episode was trying to describe some? The writing is okay, and the tone is good, but the overall character I worried about where the teenager, they were always yelling 'bruh', shouting F words and having low self-esteem, to begin with. But our main writer does not make the teenagers rethink themselves and makes the writing even unsuitable to my tastes. And besides, the joke should be funnier since the creators focus more on these 'Teenagers'.
The ending is fantastic, but if the character and overall writing are improved, this episode might be a gold mind for me, even if they were capable to write a better episode in the future.