If Felina was the cherry on top then El Camino is the stem. I'm not sure if this counts as spoilers but if you think you know what's gonna happen going in then you know what's gonna happen. Does that make this movie bad? No. Does it make it worth watching? In my opinion also no. It's harmless and useless but it can be on in the background while you fold laundry. Of course Aaron Paul gives a great performance, but it doesn't justify this movie being made. Obviously, the producers wanted to capitalize on the second wind of people who just found out about breaking bad on netflix, and I guess I can't blame them.
Reviews
7 Reviews
Marvel doing political drama?
20 March 2021
This episode is a promising start to what could be the most intelligent project marvel has made thus far. It teases us with themes about racism, nationalism, anarchy, and forgiveness. These are serious issues to handle in a canon that is usually more focused on the action spectacle rather than the storytelling. However, marvel is starting in the right direction by developing two characters I never thought I would be invested in. Fingers crossed for the rest of the show!
WandaVision
(2021)
Cmon man...
10 March 2021
The best part of the entire show is when vision eats the gum and it gets stuck in his gears. Whoever thought of this idea is a genius. Sadly, the rest of the show was pretty boring-especially when agents of shield showed up. Please just leave. There was a way to make this concept smart and thought provoking but the show runners decided to treat the audience like babies instead. Figures.
Good commentary on relationship with fans
7 June 2020
The Rick and Morty creators express their frustrations with fans trying to control the direction of the series represented by this clever clash between Rick and the president of the United States. With that context in mind, it holds up as a solid episode.
Living proof that Star Wars was not made by man
21 December 2019
Poor Star Wars. The Star Wars is over now and it's dying wish is to just let it be dead. There is no point in beating the dead horse that is this franchise. Star Wars isn't just a franchise it's a formula. A formula for success. It's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's a process that god did not intend for mere mortals to attempt to repeat. The results have shown. They only thing that can save this franchise is time- probably another thirty years. Don't see this movie. The prometheans who made this film stole the fire from the gods and squandered it. Go watch a movie that was made with love.
The Mandalorian
(2019– )
Missed opportunity
18 December 2019
They could've made something really special here if the writing didn't feel so thin. Each episode is a filler episode made up of filler scenes. There isn't much left to chew on after you watch it except for some pretty cinematography and old fashioned Star Wars visual effects. I watched each episode hoping the next one would pick up the pace and the series would start rolling, but I'm halfway in and it feels like nothing happened. It's a a shame that no one will remember this show ten years after it comes out.
Watchmen
(2019)
Promising start with lackluster finish
17 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This show was good at world building for a while, but it failed to stay true to fundamental themes of the graphic novel. Let's take a look at the elephant in the room, Dr. Manhattan. He was a character who seemed to lose all sense of development he had gained from the comic just to become this new character that the show needed for filling plot holes. Falling in love, dying, these are things that comic book Doc evolved from. Yet in this show he is naive like a newborn baby. He didn't really fit the small scale universe that the show was building at the start where it felt like a strange crime drama. By the end, there is so much happening that you forget about how gritty and real the show felt in the first half of the season. The new characters become overshadowed with the old and they just didn't get them right. Ozymandias is simplified to an eccentric arrogant scientist instead of the calculated intellect that he was in the comic. The show seems to also forget about the burden that saving the world was to Adrian as seen in the pirate comic within the comic. Laurie Blake was the best out of the old characters for a while, but she was ultimately left with very little to do. I guess I will touch on Rorschach's impact on the world which I believe was the best executed. It makes perfect sense for his journal to be used by hate groups and cults, kind of an ingenious world building.
As for the new characters, there are hits and misses. Looking Glass was a great addition to the story. He really reminded me of a lighter take on Rorschach, very paranoid and reclusive (just not as insane) His solo episode was my favorite, but after that, he disappears for half the season! This is what I mean by the story becoming too big for its own good. Sister Night was interesting enough but didn't blow me away. For her being the main character, she had very little actual character development throughout the show. They explain her backstory and her family history, but almost nothing about her as a person. I just feel like this was a missed opportunity. The other side characters were sort of one dimensional typical villains that you'd see in normal comic book movies- but I'd expect something a little deeper for Watchmen.
This show is a case of too many twists in place of good storytelling. At first I was compelled to watch further for the story and world building and to see the characters solve the mystery. However, when the mystery didn't fit the story they had been building too, I felt like I was coming back just to have my questions answered- not for a good story. I feel like if you took Doc out of the show it grounds the story a bit more and makes the reveals and twists feel more earned rather than pointless fan service. I think a better ending would have been to let the racist become a god only for him to realize that he doesn't care about any of that and then just goes off to mars. Like that's where they messed up the god part. The whole point of Doc in the comics was his detachment from world. Wouldn't the senator or Lady Truei do the same? Anyways this show had the potential for greatness but ultimately squandered it in favor of bait and switch storytelling.
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