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Civil War (2024)

boring formulaic simplistic movie and Garlands worst

[3/10 · 15 April 2024]

The idea that journalist integrity exists in the US, or that journalism exist at all, is the laughable premiss of this badly made movie. The secondary premiss is that orange man is bad and if we do not watch out the poor, the oppressed, the robbed and the fooled might rebell against an authoritative evil president. Oh no, that would be horrible...

The movie is about getting our so called "journalists" from point A to Point B while listening to the two premisses mentioned above. This is, as you can imagine, a boring and a nonsensical format for a movie. This is also supposed to be an anti-war movie, or rather anti civil-war movie. On this it too fails spectacularly. All I saw was that a civil war is really needed in the US, even that a movie like this is made is a sign that it is needed.

So in essence this is a boring, extremely formulaic, very simplistic movie which tell us nothing of value and have a laughable premiss to begin with.

I could forgive some of this if the directing was good and the cinematography was excellent, but even there the movie fails. Yes, Garland can apparently make a bad movie.

The only positives I can think of is that the acting is okay, the dialogue is not horrible and camera work and sound design is okay. For those not so bad traits I give this a generous 3/10. I should probably give this a lower score, but kind of enjoyed this hoping this would happen in real life and of course hoping that the ruling elite and its current senile leader would be meet madame guillotine. Something popcorn friendly about that thought.

Fallout (2024– )

Absurd, ghoulish, and a gory world that seem scarily real

[8/10 · 11 April 2024]

This is in many ways great TV with plenty of absurd twists and lots of gore. The scary thing is that this feels real, like this is actually what we have to look forward to in our future. Kinda strange saying that since this is weird world with contradictions, and characters that both feels out of place and right at home at the same time.

I played Fallout 3 when that came out, pretty good game, but I am not really a fanboy or anything and never played anything before or after. But from what I can tell this is pretty close to that game and we get a lot of nuggets of game hints, lots of funny signs hanging on walls and a lot of tech directly game related.

Although this is based on a post-apocalyptic game and the show plays out in a ghoulish wasteland, I get more fantasy vibes. The hero need to gather a McGuffin and gather a team to go on a quest to find item A which will lead to the next quest and item B. It sounds a bit formulaic, and it sort of is. Probably my one big complaint that things move kinda linear and mostly one can figure out what will happen before it does. I could also complain about a few details, a few actors, and a couple of story-points are not hundred percent, but at the end of the day this is very well made, sky-high production value, with great music, and interesting characters.

The contradictions with happy peppy people getting their limbs cut off and evil folk being kind and animals getting slaughtered in one scene and eaten in the next, puppies incinerated while the doctor save another puppy. It is all very strange, and fits perfectly with the vibe of the games and the vibe of this show.

The first season (because there will be more) is far better than most things on TV today. Yea, it does not say so much because the competition is garbage, but this is more than watchable. This is good, even great at times. I give this a 8/10 and I am all for expanding on this universe. Give this a go, even if you do not like everything this is definitely entertaining.

Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Classic 1980s movie that dwarfs anything contemporary

[7/10 · 7 April 2024]

One of my favourite movies of all time. The entire movie is just one big smile. This is so charming, so 1980s. The entire cast is perfect.

With that said this is also pretty campy and it did not really stand the test of time. Although this was part of my childhood and I still love this movie, if I saw it today I would probably not be as impressed. This especially goes for the production value which is very low, even the wardrobe department seem to have been low on funds. One could also pick apart certain scenes or nitpick, and if one does it does lower the score.

However this is pure 1980s brilliance. Growing up in that decade we had plenty of fantastic TV and movies, and this is certainly one of those. Even though the small negatives mentioned above is true, this is so much better than anything similar today. Put any contemporary TV or movie next to Adventures in Babysitting and the latter will shine like a masterpiece. Probably says more about the the modern state of affairs, but it also tell you a lot about this movie. Only the first 2min of intro music with Shue dancing is fantastic and give us the perfect introduction to several characters and immediately get us invested in the movie.

This is the perfect family movie, can be view by anyone at any time. I give this a 7/10 but it probably should be scored a lot higher compared to many movies of today. Highly recommend for the whole family.

Girls on Film (2023)

Bad acting, no chemistry and lack of direction

[3/10 · 5 April 2024]

This movie does not know what it wants to be. On one hand this is sort of romantic drama, but sometimes it wants to be a erotic thriller, or perhaps a character study, or perhaps a LGBTQ friendly movie just because. This movie should have picked one, preferably the erotic thriller path and it would have been so much better.

Another thing that bothers are the actresses. Neither one is bad, but neither one is very good either. And when they have zero chemistry it all just falls flat. The awkward kissing and "oh no, I touched a boob" look is about as sexy as watching paint dry.

The dialogue is subpar and the directing meh. I could go on and pick apart more of the movie, but if all you want to see is two beautiful girls pretending to be into each other I guess this is alright.

I fund this very boring, mainly because the movie never finds its path and sticks to it. 3/10 and impossible to recommend. There are far better acted and scripted porn to watch if you want.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Best of the series so far and very entertaining

[8/10 · 30 March 2024]

This is very entertaining movie with lots of big boss fights and all the action you could possibly handle. Seeing this at the cinema was a great ride. Not perfect movie in any form or way, but having a few beers and watching big huge monsters fight is something special.

The negatives are that the CGi is not always perfect, but it does not matter too much. Another thing is that the first team going down under seem inadequate. Not really the people (at least not alone) you should send on this type of mission. The third thing is that things get a bit too much. The characters are over the top, the dentist dude is way over the top, the action is over the top. We do not only have big freaking monsters fighting, we have an ice monster aiming to bring in a new ice age, we have some alien things, weird anti gravity technology, and humans just happen to have a big freaking mechanical arm ready for Kong - which of course is a perfect fit. It all culminate in a enormous fight on Earth's surface which is also over the top.

Extremely entertaining, but otherwise kinda meh. Still the best of the franchise so far and it is hard to really complain.

This is not an intellectual movie, and will never win any awards, but whooooooo cares. You wanted a huge monster movie with big monsters fighting, and that is what you get.

8/10 for this type of movie, but a lower score otherwise. Also a must see in the theatre - the sound design is amazing.

The Rookie (2018– )

A bit too soapy and cliche but saved by great characters

[6/10 · 28 March 2024]

I was surprised that I generally like this show, but it is well acted, well directed, and have plenty of good characters to keep you invested.

The problem here is that the show turns into a regular day time soap opera fairly quickly and that the characters, albeit lovely and great, are also mostly just there and are just soapy rather than growing developing persons. Another issue I have with this show is the sound design and music, which is actually kinda bad. I almost get the feeling the show-runners want to portrait a 1970s cop show and put in music and sound design to match. This is also a bit cliche. Most storylines and events we have seen a hundred times over and together with the soapy feel the show often turns into a chore. My final objection is that these police officers are tasks with solving murders, being arson specialists, they go undercover, they work with the FBI, they interact with and interview serial killers, and they solve all types of crimes... but they are normal beat cops... normal officers. When they for the 111th time singlehandedly solve a murder I'm just so over it.

With that said this is still a okay/good TV, especially for today. Compared to most other shows today this is good. I am especially happy with the acting and general feel of the show. The directors use the "shaky cam" and "body cam" to almost perfection. Another thing which they nail is the extras and temporary actors playing villains, drug dealers etc. They are all very greatly cast and very well acted, and that helps immensely to sell the show.

I have a few other nitpicks and positives, but at the end of the day this is a well acted, good procedural drama that, despite the somewhat soapy feel and cliches, is worth a watch. Perhaps the only really negative thing to say is that it overstays its welcome. This show as gone on for too long already after 2 seasons, and currently we are on its 6th. Don't get me wrong, this is still watchable, but there is no reason to drag this out. The writing and acting is not that great.

Worth a watch and a 6/10 from me, but don't overthink it. What make this show work is the acting and the characters, but in the long run that is not enough.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

Cringe nostalgia, horrible characters and bad CGi

[3/10 · 27 March 2024]

This is not the worst movie I have seen, but this entire thing is so cringe that I was in perpetual state of "freezing" throughout the entire movie. Everything is supposed to be fan service but comes off more like a really badly acted and horribly scripted Scooby Do episode. The computer graphics is awful, the sound design abysmal, and the acting is average at best.

I suppose the humor is somewhat okay, I even laughed once. And except for the negatives already mentioned the rest is okay, or at least competent.

The worst of the movie though is the characters. The main "new" ghostbuster team are all really bad characters and generally badly written. The actors are not very good either, but I cannot blame them too much, it is the writing and the characters themselves which are really bad.

I think this is somewhat better than the two previous attempts of rejuvenating this franchise, but that is not saying much. I think if you are 12y and have never seen Ghostbusters before and have a very limited grasp of what a good movie is then you might enjoy this, but for the rest of humanity this is a really bad movie.

I give this a generous 3/10 because this is not completely awful and for a laugh or two. But I cannot recommend this nonsense - my cringe-o-meter has never gone higher.

White Collar (2009–2014)

Run of the mill cliche saved by the actors

[5/10 · 18 March 2024]

This is a piece of very inoffensive, somewhat charming, cliche TV with pretty good actors. Nothing here is exceptional, or even great, but very little is also bad or horrible. These types of shows have been made by the 100s by now, and they are basically all the same, they all end up in the same place, and they all drag too much because there is not enough writing material to sustain the show.

The main problem here is that the entire show is on repeat. If you have seen 2-3 episodes, you have seen them all. The small variations and some temporary actors replaced does not change the actual story. This get tiresome very quickly. Already after the first season we have seen the same story repeat itself a dozen times.

The second problem is that not only is the story on repeat, they also do all the cliches. Bored rich guy robbing banks; check. Sexy female cop undercover as prostitute; check. Fake bombings and fake deaths; check. And so on and so forth. All on repeat.

The great cast with excellent actors cannot save this, but they make it bearable. The charming character's with decently fun witty dialogue make this a decent watch. You can do worse, and if you have absolutely nothing else to do sure, put on an episode. But the complete lack of originality and all the cliches make this a chore. A 5/10, this is not bad, it is just bland and cliche.

Dune: Part Two (2024)

Really bad pretentious nonsense with the worst writing and worst villains possible

[2/10 · 9 March 2024]

The first movie was an artsy pretentious documentary rather than a sci-fi movie. Wherein the first movie probably had 1 hour of wasted time such as useless establishing shoots and lingering camera on people doing nothing, we do get a bit more of the story and overarching geopolitics in this movie. It is not enough, and we still have no clue about anything, but at least a small positive.

A lot of things is a lot worse here though. And we get even more things which are never explained. The scheming mother is over the top, and every time they fight or have a war scene I keep thinking: "so... where are all the high tech weapons that can track and detect and blow people up across the planet?" There are some Sci-fi weapons and shields and such of course, but these sand people would not stand a chance even against an army from earth, so how are they able to survive in these movies? How do people get up and down from the sand-worms? How do the shields work? Why are they fighting with swords and spears? Why can a baron kill a duke? How are things ruled? Why are the people living in this planet in the first place and why has no one offered them water in exchange for the spice? How does spice work? Etc. Etc. The questions are endless and absolutely nothing is explained. This is the movie with the most plot holes I have ever seen.

All the new characters are horrible with Walken as the biggest disappointment. Most deaths are underwhelming to say the least. And in the end this movie turns into some weird mix of GOT season 8 and Avatar, and no, that is not a good thing. The villains are the worst in movie history. Absolutely useless villains. We could just have skipped over all of them. These movies do not need the villains, they are just there to be killed as the useless crash test dummies as they are.

My final major complaint is that the editing feels wonky. It is almost like entire scenes are missing sometimes, and many jumps from one scene to the other is too abrupt. In the first movie we jumped from establish shoot to establishing shoot with looooong dragged out scenes, here it feels like they cut some of that out i.e. Perhaps they did not listen so much to the criticism but rather just cut out some unnecessary fluff.

This is really bad nonsense and complete waste of money. A very generous 2/10 for the cinematography.

Castle (2009–2016)

Great pilot, then mostly okay until it gets boring and repetitive

[6/10 · 9 March 2024]

This show is watchable. This is, for the most part, harmless family fun. If you have nothing else to do, this is a show you can always put on and be decently entertained by for a while.

Sadly they dragged things out for too long. As with most of these shows of similar premiss, they have material for 2-3 seasons and after that things go on repeat and everything starts to become very cliche. I also think they wasted Nathan Fillion's character a bit. In the first episode he is suave, rich playboy, careless and cool. He starts out as a fun male character. However as the show progress he becomes a source of jokes and weird theories and turns into a kinda lame character. There are exceptions as with his daughters kidnapping, but in general the character we see in the pilot is not the character we later get in the show - which I think is a shame.

As already mention the quality goes down with time, and although the show never stops being watchable, the cliche stories and repeating stories, almost make it a chore to watch and in the last season even boring.

Despite my small complaint about the titular character above, it is the characters that drive this show and make it entertaining. All the actors do a great job. This is mostly loveable fun and you can do a lot worse, but don't expect any amazing greatness.

A 6/10 and I recommend.

S.W.A.T. (2017– )

A joke of a show

[2/10 · 9 March 2024]

This entire show feels off, and this for many reasons. The acting is not very good, we get plenty of "racial drama" which seldom work, the storytelling is so predictable you only need to watch 2min at the start of each episode and then jump to the next because you know exactly what is going to happen.

The show often also have very cheesy scenes with clunky dialogue.

And as several has already pointed out, and this bothers me a lot; anyone can just walk right into their (sort of) secret headquarters - this includes relatives, friends, and even randoms.

And apparently SWAT is solving crimes now too. As as with CSI wherein the investigators solve all crimes instead of detectives and actual police, we here have the tactical unit solving crimes. They are not just there to breach homes or be snipers, oh no, here they also do almost all the work and fix the entire process of crime solving.

If this show had much better actors some of it could be salvaged, but sadly that is not the case. Instead the actors take the very often clunky dialogue and predictable story and make it even worse.

I see no reason to watch this. There is nothing here. Nothing is fun, funny, exciting, scary or entertaining. This is just predictable sludge.

2/10 and stay away from this nonsense.

Damsel (2024)

Extremely predictable Medieval copy of Ready or Not

[3/10 · 9 March 2024]

Think Ready or Not, in a more medieval setting, with a dragon. Then picture that with clunky dialogue, okayish acting, and a very boring dragged out and super predictable story. Well, there you have this movie.

Is this a bad movie? No, not really. Everything is sort of competent, or okay, but this could easily have been a 30min movie and a tv episode. There is no reason to drag things out as much as they do. And since everything is so predictable this is just a chore to watch. Of course we also get some obligatory diversity, and coupled with the clunky dialogue that part feels more off than usual.

The best with this is the dragon which was voiced to perfection.

I give this a 3/10. If you have absolutely nothing else to do, and you do not mind a bit of dragged out dullness then perhaps give this a go. If you want quality, great acting and a more fun entertaining movie I suggest you go watch Ready or Not instead. That was a good movie, this is, at best, okay.

Tomorrowland (2015)

Bad premiss, horrible Clooney but pretty fun movie anyway

[5/10 · 26 February 2024]

The main premiss of this movie is that the world is doomed for destruction because of global warming and overpopulation. Both notions are of course complete fiction and more laughable claims than anything in this movie. With that faulty premiss, we are then suppose to trust in... positive thinking... or something. Apparently kids can change the world and fix non-existing problems with a lovely attitude and with the help of a magical Mcguffin.

With this in mind we also get a very preachy, very overacting George Clooney who is acting the worst of his career.

With that said, this is still kinda fun. I enjoy most of this movie, and as long as Clooney is not in it too much and especially not talking this is a decent movie. This could easily have been excellent entertainment. Perhaps if the evil WEF and the actual global cooling (which is a real thing) would have been the center of attention, and if we exchanged Clooney for someone who can act, then suddenly you have a good movie. There are a few directorial misses too, so I would also change the director and then this would have been excellent.

As is I give this a 5/10. Not the worst, and not too bad. I would say this is watchable, but I cannot recommend.

Madame Web (2024)

Not a bad idea, but messy with horrible dialogue

[3/10 · 16 February 2024]

This movie rank among absolute garbage like Justice League, Love & Thunder, and Superman III. The script, directing, and everything cinematic in this movie is about as good as a 2nd grade production of King Lear, if it was shot on a cellphone... in the dark.

What make me a bit angry is that the idea is not bad, and since the actors are okay this could have been pretty okay. But looking at the bio of the director, writers and pretty much everyone involved in this disaster, then the mess of a film is partly explained - not a single good job among them. The only ones decently holding up are the actors. We know Dakota can act, and some of the others are not horrible either, but no one, not a ton of A-list stars could have even started to make this into something coherent and watchable.

The only thing that make sense is if someone deliberately wanted to make the worst superhero movie of all time, hired a lousy director and the worst writers team in living memory to accomplish this feat, and they almost pulled it off.

A very generous 3/10 because the acting and idea is good, but this is awful with atrocious dialogue.

The Menu (2022)

Partly saved by Fines and Anya, but still a pretty bad movie

[4/10 · 16 February 2024]

The concept here is pretty good. I love the idea. Most things cinematic works very well. And Ralph Fiennes, and Anya Taylor-Joy are both fantastic and almost manage to save this movie. Sadly this movie was executed in a bad way.

The main problem with the movie is that it has no point. I assume they are trying to tell us something or give us some revelation, but naha, nothing, nada. I also assume they wanted to chock us with some scenes and some events, but I was just watching my phone and yawning. The movie also tries to be clever, and even tries to be funny at times, it all fails.

Personally I blame the director. A bit of a script issue, but bringing all the pieces together and making this into a coherent well executed movie is the role of the director and that really fails. I would also say that some of the other actors weren't on point - it was almost like Fines and Anya were the only ones who liked being in this movie.

This movie is not horrible, but since it fails at everything it attempts to do and nothing really fun or insightful happens, I have a hard time giving this a better grade than 4/10. A great idea and two great actors do not make a movie, at least not in this case.

Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All (2024 TV Special)

Opposite of what I said - advice to Taylor

[5/10 · 15 February 2024]

The last special was to 80% great. When Taylor was talking psychology, pharmaceuticals, dead parents etc. It was fun, insightful and very good comedy at the same time. The other 20% was typical mainstream girl stand-up i.e. Relationship, male organs and dating and I found it very boring.

So I said in my review on that special just that, but did she listen? No. Instead she here does the complete opposite; takes the 20% that did not really work and is boring run of the mill girl stand-up and do a full hour of it. Why Taylor? Why?

Taylor Tomlinson is a comedic genius and is so funny, so insightful and can make a sponge laugh but for some reason she is dragging herself into the same corner as all other female comedians end up in. A lot of sex, a lot of phalluses, dating and all the rest. It is like female comedians think they cannot get the audience to listen unless they talk about orgasms. Why?

Talk politics, talk world affairs, make fun of dwarfs, or do anything but this. Taylor can do it for sure, and probably better than anyone else, sad that she does not.

With that said, and me pretending she will read this and listen to my insane ramblings, this is still good. Although she is overusing the tropes and cliches she does it very well and she is still funny, but not as great as this could have been.

Worth a watch, but 5/10 is all I am giving it.

A final advice from me to Taylor: take a break. Travel the world, come to Europe and visit Spain and I will buy you a few beers. Just get out of the comedy business for a while and start writing the insightful hilarious jokes about things that are more fun to listen to. You are on your way to becoming one of the biggest stars of all time, don't get stuck in the female cliches and instead do what you do best.

Margin Call (2011)

Great premiss, great acting, but still do not nail it

[6/10 · 31 January 2024]

This is riveting for the most part with excellent acting from everyone involved. The premiss, albeit easy and straightforward, is exciting and brings you along for a ride.

This could have been absolute masterpiece with tiny changes, more time for production and directing, and with a few minor changes to the script. The problem is that those seemingly minor issues causes big problem with the flow of the story and if it wasn't for the fantastic acting this would fall apart as a deck of cards fairly quickly. Perhaps most notably is the ending, the last 5-10min is meh, and do not stick the landing at all. The entire riveting plot and amazing acting lands in a dog getting buried and a character we never seen before uttering sentences about another character we never meet or sees. With no other real conclusion, it feels like the movie cheat us of the ending we should have got.

Another sad thing is that nothing is mentioned about the main culprit; the government - which was the driving force behind these derivatives and other scams that led to the crash. Instead it seem to be implied that unscrupolous corporates do not care about the people, which is true but its only one part of the story.

Another thing to note is that the crisis of 2007-2008 was a minor one. The one we have ahead of us, coming soon, is much bigger and the reason is pretty much the same.

Chuck (2007–2012)

Fun watch with great music, but sadly lacking in storytelling and directing

[7/10 · 20 January 2024]

Chuck is a very fun show to watch and also entertainment for the whole family. The first couple of seasons are peak TV and have that loveable charm that make you go uhm and want to hug everyone.

The acting is great, the characters are great, and the music choices are just brilliant.

What brings the show down is that the storytelling is not on point. At the start of the show everything is so charming and lovely you do not really mind, but as the seasons go on it start to bother. The writing, storytelling and directing goes down a few percentages with each season and things start to go from charming, to you rolling your eyes at what is going on.

The show also tries to do a lot of things. It tries to be funny, charming, exciting, action-y, it wants to be dramatic, deep and even scary at times. It does not matter how great the actors are and how lovely show you have, when you try to do all, you will fail at some.

My 7/10 is for the show as a whole, the first two seasons are better. But even as the show falter somewhat, it is still watchable and you can definitely do a lot worse. I can fully understand why so many love this show, it deserves that love. I fully recommend, and this is a watch for everyone.

Legally Blonde (2001)

Charming fun with actual feminist treads, but also campy and meh

[6/10 · 17 January 2024]

This is a movie which in many ways is great. A lot of charm, a lot of fun, acting is great, and we have an actual feminist hero promoting female empowerment as it should be promoted. Blue haired twitter whales and left-wing communist feminists should be taking notes.

However this is also campy barbie going to the big city with all the cliches we have seen a million times before. And the movie, although a fun watch, is nothing special.

This movie can easily be picked apart if you want to do real critique, but the charm and fun of it just make you forgive this movie for all its faults. This is simply an easily digestible fun charming movie with charming characters. Despite me giving this a 6/10, this is well worth a watch if you have nothing else to do.

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

Best of the genre and very charming

[8/10 · 17 January 2024]

If you ever going to watch a teenage drama/comedy with romance, great acting and overall charming fun then this is what you watch.

Probably the best movie of this kind ever made, or least top3. All the actors do a great job, the directing is top, and almost all the jokes land, and the romance is dead on fun to watch. Where this movie really lands though is the charming feel and tone. This is just harmless charming fun and a great watch for everyone.

There are a few negatives. This is not very original, and a lot of the story is copied, but it is so well done one can forgive it. The cliche story coupled with several cliche characters does however take away from the experience and is not alway sold perfectly. This is also why some of the jokes do not land perfectly. There are few times I roll my eyes instead of laughing.

But in summation this is well worth a watch. I give this a 8/10 and I think if they could have just avoided a few cliches this movie would have been even better.

Great charming fun. Highly recommend.

Vampires Suck (2010)

dumb, juvenile, and not funny

[3/10 · 17 January 2024]

The point of a spoof movie is that it is supposed to make fun of other movies and make you laugh. Although Vampires Suck sort of succeed on the first, they utterly fail on the second. This is not funny.

In the entire movie there are like 2 or 3 jokes that land, and I think I smiled once or twice. That is it. The only thing that works with this movie is Jenn Proske and her demeanour which is dead-on and exactly like Kirsten Stewart's wooden lack of talent. Jenn is clearly a much better actress than Kristen, and her character is the only one that work in this entire movie. The rest are badly acted, badly written, badly directed, or a combo of all three.

This is not the worst movie ever. In fact this is almost watchable, but since it fails on delivering on the laughs, and since camera work, sound design and a lot of other factors also fail, I think a 3/10 seem very reasonable.

Its a shame really. Making fun of Twilight and similar should be a slam dunk, and as mentioned Jenn is excellent in her role, so this could have easily been a great fun movie. But sadly another failure in a long line of failed spoof movies. Aren't people in Hollywood funny anymore?

DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016–2022)

A lot of fun with a campy b-show that sadly goes off the rails

[4/10 · 11 January 2024]

This show is hard to rate because on one hand this is campy CW and as part of the Arrow-verse it has the same B-stamp and basic storytelling. But on the other hand the characters are fun, the show is fun, and most episodes are fun. There is almost nothing with this that merits praise and yet it is very much watchable and to me the best show of these CW Arrow-verse nonsense - this up to season 5. The last two seasons are however unwatchable and introduces several extremely annoying characters.

For the most part this show does not take itself serious, and it knows what it is. The same with all the actors, directors etc. This is not high art, but everyone on this show enjoy themselves and you can tell by watching. I suspect every single person on this show, janitors and coffee fetchers included, loved being part of this.

With that said, and me mostly liking this, I can still not give it a higher score than 4/10. The computer graphics, sound design, and very basic cliche storytelling do put the score around 6/10, however the last two seasons the show goes full on political madness and not in a good way. What used to be small political nods with a cheeky glimmer which mainly was just fun, turns later into a real mess and coupled with bad writing and several annoying character turns what used to be a fun view into an unwatchable sludge.

If you are going to watch; relax, sit back, have a cold one, and just enjoy these crazy folk doing crazy things in a fun entertaining mess. BUT never watch past season 5.

Echo (2023–2024)

Decent with excellent acting, but also boring and weird writing

[5/10 · 10 January 2024]

Marvel still have no real clue what they are doing or where they want to go. This show is not bad, it is actually pretty good for the most part and the acting from mostly unknown is excellent. Sound design, production value, potential and directing mostly good. I also think they set up the character of Echo in a good way, and Alaqua Cox as the titular protagonist is very good and very likeable.

The first problem here is the writing. Story wise this leave a lot to be desired and it feels dragged out. This could easily been one longer episode of 1,5 hrs (or less). Sure it is okay to know this world and these character, but it is also not necessary. Episode 2 (and 3) are mainly just one long dragged out nothingness - 80min of almost pointless drivel.

Since this is only good/decent, but never is elevated to anything more and since the writing is so off, I have a hard time really getting into this show.

My main issue though is that the writing make this a chore to watch. This is boring. Not bad, not horrible, but boring. Already in the second episode I find myself fast forward, and I kept doing so for most of the show. Just get to it already, or if you really want to drag things out, then you need to do a better job at it and make the writing really stick.

I give this a 5/10. Huge step forward compared to SheHulk and Secret Invasion which both were among the worst TV ever made, but this is too boring to be anything special.

Marvel need to hire everyone involved with Agents of Shield and let them do all their TV. AoS is still the best Marvel has ever done because the showrunners knew what they were doing, here with this show not so much...

Supernatural: Baby (2015) Season 11, Episode 4

God help those who help themselves

[9/10 · 6 January 2024]

One of the best episodes of the entire show. Great camera work, great directing, acting top, and the story lovely.

This episode basically show how God make things available for you if you fight, do the right thing and try then pins, weapons and other things will be made available. God does not do everything for you, but if you help yourself he will make tools available for you.

The 10th season was not very good. The entire 10th season felt like a filler season, like the writers did not know what to do with the show anymore. This season is much better and this episode elevate the show to one of its highest highs. This is not only one of the best episodes of this show, it is one of the best TV episodes ever made.

Well done by everyone involved. 9/10 because its not perfect, but this is excellent TV and magnificent directing.

The Jester (II) (2023)

Not the worst of the year, and isn't that a shame?

[2/10 · 27 December 2023]

Nothing original, nothing special, pretty cliche nonsense. Sure the acting is okay, and the story okayish, but completely lacking that oumpff one look for in a good scary movie.

The main problem with this movie is that it sort of tries to be funny, it sort of tries to be scary, and it sort of tries at setting up a world to build upon. It fails on all accounts. Probably because it tries all of it. If this would have been more focused it probably could have been better. Another thing that bothers is the bad camera work and the horrid sound design. If there is one thing a good horror movie need it is a good sound design.

This is not all terrible. I can even see a few glimmers of light, but since the movie fails at all it tries to do and the few slight positives cannot weigh over the scale this becomes a chore and it feels like the movie is 3hrs despite only having 1h and 20min of runtime.

A 2/10 and sadly this is not the worst movie of the year, this is not even the worst movie I saw this week. Isn't that sad?