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The Cleansing Hour (2019)
Head on confrontation
I loved this movie. Watched it with some pals.
This movie is very "in your face" with the demon possession and it works imo.
It might've been unintentional but this works as a horror comedy on the whole tired "demon possession" genre, that's been done to death, and not very well in most cases.
The violence in this movie is great, they have some great concepts and the demon is actually powerful, and not just some grotesque thing shouting obscenities.
It is very brutal but also contrasted by the demon's funny taunts.
If you're skeptical about the whole "streaming"/"social media" aspect of the movie there's no reason to be. It is not overdone and kinda works. The fake priest making a hoax exorcism show but then actually gets a real demon is great contrast to the typical cliche's of this genre.
The ending could've been better but it was thoroughly entertaining.
Overlord (2015)
What is plot structure
The show starts out pretty strong. Plot is established early "figure out where we are and become (in)famous" and we get a show of Ainz's power.
The first half of s1 is pretty good but then it seems like the writers had no plan from the beginning and just started to cram as many of their ideas into the show as possible, wherever possible.
The plot has no structure. The story telling is this show's weakest point. It is all over the place. While the characters are all pretty well written, though undergo no development, the show keeps dropping subplots and taking up new ones while never really returning to and finishing any of the previous ones.
The extreme amount of pointless exposition is also a drag. Do anime writers not now "show don't tell". The dialogue is hit and miss, most often miss, but while they spend ludicrous amount of time on exposition dialogue for stuff that doesn't matter or is obvious, none of the subplots are very well explained. Only the actions during the sub-plot gets any real exposition dialogue when the plot is dropped.
While Ainz's goal from the beginning is pretty straight forward, his actions towards getting there get more and more convoluted at best, at times doesn't make any sense and are even contradictory at times.
Even Death Note with its convoluted "keikaku" had much better plot structures that had a great pay-off and you could follow the "red thread" through-out the story and the actions/thoughts of Light were easy to understand and made sense.
Ainz however seems entirely clueless and has no real direction or plans towards his goals.
The Flash (2014)
Actually much worse than it is being given credit for
The flash has been extremely poor in its writing from day one.
People seem to overlook this for some reason, but don't be fooled.
Whatever people are giving this show heavy criticism for now, was also part of the show all the way back in season 1.
A lot of reviews will blame iris or barry+iris, and nora as the biggest problems with this show however that's not the case. Don't get me wrong though, these characters are absolutely terribly written, and the relationship is so forced. It is like it is being written for 14 year old girls on tumblr who gush about "shipping" their favorite tv characters.
But it is not the show's greatest downfall.
No what makes the show terrible is that it never evolves. From ep1s1 to s7 we have the same tired contrived drama, the same tropes, "hallway talk", "peptalk", barry superspeeding at some villain, then instead of stopping them starts pointlessly bantering and then promptly gets beaten, runs off back to Joe or iris for another confidence booster shot and wins.
It is so tiresome, and this problem exists from s1.
Another huge problem is that Barry as a hero never evolves. He remains an incompetent goof all the way to s7 just so he can relearn the same lessons multiple times for the same contrived drama and interpersonal conflict. His powers/speed is also not a character trait, it is a plot device. Barry is only ever as fast or as smart as the plot of the episode demands. There's a multitude of scenarios where some villain gets away from barry for 1 sec and he just gives up to prolong the filler.
Barry as the flash has also become a side character in his own show. This show becomes more and more about "team flash" every season until you end up in like s4 where the show isn't even about the flash anymore.
The only reason I am giving this a 2 is because despite all that, they got good actors for most roles. But that's about the only good thing about the show. If you like to just turn your brain off and watch something stupid with barely any internal logic then this is for you.
Once Upon a Time (2011)
Very conflicting directions and very contrived plot
After I was done with Grimm I wanted to search for more like it.
I came across as this and decided to give this a chance.
At the time of writing this review I finished s1.
Once Upon a Time has an interesting concept. But if you're an adult this is not for you. This show would've been better off as a cartoon on DisneyXD.
What Grimm does right this show fails at. Horribly.
When I think about it. It is quite ironic. Grimm is a show about fairy tales being real, in a world with moral grey area. Allegiances and alignments constantly shifting with their character development. With their own reasons, motivations and ideals for doing what they do.
while Once Upon a Time is a show about fairy tales being brought into the real world. Everything is either "good" or "evil" with little moral grey area, little actual character motivation or ideals.
However Grimm does such a better job at building the real world with fairy tale creatures in it however despite the plot Once Upon a Time tries to build the real world into the fairy tale world.
By this I mean the show is incredibly childish. Hence the cartoon comment.
The show is written with this "good"/"evil" dichotomy where the evil people are evil just to be evil. No real reason other than that. Sure there's a poor attempt at a tragic backstory for the Queen but that's not even her motivation. She just wants to "win over good. just once". While the good people are pure good for no real reason either. "yeah you did something horrible to me but I am such a pure and good person that I forgive you".
How about adult themes in a show clearly made for adults? Well, it is contrived and childish. The "evil" people can cause harm, but "good" people can't.
That means when the evil people hurt someone they actually get hurt. When "good" people should hurt someone nothing really happens to them.
The whole plot of the show is for "the chosen one" to break the curse on the fantasy people and make them remember who they are. There's A LOT of bait and switch in this show, where they make you think some kind of development will finally happen with some of the characters, but contrived plot points end up getting in the way. Each and every time.
Kim Possible (2019)
Excellent if it was satire.
I am going to rate this as how it was intended, as a serious Kim Possible movie.
But my review will take a different approach.
watching this movie with the mindset that it is satire of the original kim possible cartoon makes it unintentionally hilarious because it is so awful. I know this movie is intended for kids, but that is no excuse for this awful writing. As satire I would rate this a solid 7/10. I was laughing so hard, at the bad dialogue from the start.
The opening sequence reminds me so much of the Rowan Atkinson satire short of Doctor Who.
However, despite it being hilarious as a satirical piece for the first 20 minutes, the novelty of that doesn't last and the dialogue starts to feel extremely cringy and Ron's antics and clumsiness from the get go feels contrived.
The casting is excellent though, Sadie Stanley does an excellent job of portraying Kim possible and Sean Giambrone does excellently as well as Ron. They are both excellent actors and the movie's only saving grace. I know Todd Stashwick from The Originals he was a great actor on that show, so I wonder what his direction for Drakken was here (besides non existent), because he is just plain awful, not even hilariously satirical, just awful. Too bad their talent is wasted on this production. Disney did them no justice with this movie.
The comedy doesn't come from good writing, it comes from how unintentionally satirical the movie seems due to the poor writing of dialogue.