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Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (2024)

A worrying example of bad journalism.

[5/10 · 8 April 2024]

The vast majority of this doco is extremely circumstantial evidence that seems to be an attempt to label Dan Schneider for something he hasn't ever been evicted for.

Using scenes from shows and stating them as sexual innuendo is interesting, especially when comparing a nose to a penis in early episodes. Massive points in the show are all based on "Evidence" like this.

Obviously the episode featuring Drake's story is very impactful, well created, and focuses on some truly difficult subject matter. But, it seems as if that was the early plan for the entire show, and the rest was created to fill out a 5 episode series.

The quality shift between the episodes with drake and the rest is obvious and almost seems rushed, and to be very truthful, seems fabricated.

I think this truly places a mirror to some of the worst parts of the internet at the moment and honestly seems like a more professional, better funded form of cancel culture that one would find on youtube.

Madame Web (2024)

Badly made, weird film

[2/10 · 14 February 2024]

I understand what the plan was here. They wanted a trippy film, focusing on a strong future for the Sony verse. The problem is the delivery. The camera work in this movie made it quite irritating to follow, as there was constant quick close up shots of the action. The dialogue was awful, and there was quite a lot of blatant voice over during the villain scenes.

So much wasted time was given to boring scenes in the movie, which led me to believe the screen writers finished the script and realised that it was under the word count.

Honestly the acting quality was quite poor across the board, especially the villain, who honestly seems as if they didn't cast for his role at all, just picked up someone off the side of the road.

For someone who's guilty pleasure is watching bad movies, I it was a painful time. Don't recommend.

Horizon Forbidden West (2022 Video Game)

Extremely overrated

[5/10 · 26 January 2024]

I was blown away to see a 9/10 average for this game. The level design was very poor, gameplay was repetitive, the dialogue was truly rubbish. Combined with Ashley Burch's robotic performance as alloy, it made this game a rather frustrating experience.

The visuals however, are truly some of the best I've seen within gaming. The stunning landscapes and machine designs bring the score up for me here. It seems with this game they nearly achieved something great, but so much of the game was very janky; Machine riding, dialogue, platforming, human boss fights.

It truly does seem like the devs didn't test this game as much as they should. One simple example of this is how every single time you fast travel to your base, you must run up to a wall, climb it, open a door, and run 100 steps before your there. (There is a grapple point, but halfway up the wall. Why? Aarrrgghhh!)

I was surprised at how irritating alloy became playing through the game. The constant talking to herself was so gamey and repetitive.

As someone who was a real fan of the first game when I was younger, I was really disappointed with this title, and it's now making me worry that a replay of the first game wouldn't hold up to my memories.

The Last of Us (2023– )

Truly great adaption, a better stand alone show

[9/10 · 13 March 2023]

The last of us, is a video game adaption. This is often something that leads to bad media on the big and small screen, but that is definitely not the case here. This show is truly brilliant. For fans of the game, it adds some changes (that in my opinion improve the show) to the story that add further depth, and a slightly different experience than placing the game. For new fans, this is a great show and great story that will inevitably lead to a great multi season show.

My favourite episode of the show; episode 3, can be watched (and I have suggested it to multiple friends) as a standalone movie. The love story between bill and frank is quite different to the game, but is an awesome example about how differing slightly from the source material can end in amazing stories (At least with this show).