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Bodies (2023)
Interesting premise, let's down from middle to end
One of the best renditions of time travel is the 1992 comic miniseries "RoboCop vs The Terminator". It tackles many popular issues of this trope, but mainly: a dystopian future, one set if characters wants to prevent it from happening, other set of characters wants to ensure it. Travel back in time, travel forward, etc. One thing that always troubles this trope is the "if I come back and do A thing to prevent B thing, how did I ever returned if I prevented B from ever happening", you know, the time paradox, an issue that always troubles time travel related fiction. What Frank Miller (the writer, mind you) does IMHO spectacularly is introducing a simple mechanism: while reality is being rewritten, characters are aware of the changes happening in real time, which actually gives them time to return back in time and try to stop the changes. Well, it might not be so novedoso, since something similar appeared in the 1989 movie "Millennium" with Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd. But, being Frank Miller who he was back then, he wrote a stupendously entertaining miniseries, masterfully illustrated by the great Walt Simonson; a story that left little to none story gaps: RoboCop eventually "travels" to the future by uploading his consciousness to Skynet and surviving undetected as a virus for many years until when the time comes he "reincarnates" in a modified T-800 body, joins the resistence, destroys Skynet and the time machine and thus ceases to exist. The story immediately gets us back to the first page of the first issue but before the Terminator appears, the past has been changed, nothing ever happened, and then back to the future Simonson shows us the same panels with the face of the resistance fighter from the beginning but instead of facing with an apocalyptic landscape, she wakes up in an idyllic future. Plain, simple, straight, and filled with great action.
Sadly, most of the things that work wonderfully in comic book doesn't always works on the big screen. "Bodies" is one of such cases: it tackles time travel tropes (ttt) starts interesting and hooking in the first three episodes, but falters from the fourth, it gets itself into very known territory in fiction, leaves too many many many story gaps (already listed here by other reviewers) and ends almost in a whimper rather than in a bang.
Points for effort, nice art direction, the cast did a great job carrying the story on their shoulders and, well, mind you, it was entertaining, but nothing more.
Hopefully the cast and crew will get the chance to do more and better work... in the future.
Wednesday (2022)
A nice looking and very much expected disappointment
I give it 5 for all the visual production values. If this series would've been called "the adventures of goth-girl, starring Thursday Maddams" it would've been okay, maybe a 7. But this is NOT THE Addams Family. It's a travesty. They "harrypotterified" the concept of The Addams Family, and almost all the characters are nothing like their counterparts from the sixties OG series or the 90s movies.
And maybe because there's one key element lacking: humor. At the core of TAF, even the original cartoons, lays humor. The blunt contrast between every day "normal" life and people and the Addams' weirdness. And all that is completely missing in this series.
The story is ok, but kind of very predictable, as it is with many products these days.
The cast is almost ok, very much like the original cartoons, but there's something missing. I guess maybe Raúl Julia's Gomez settled the bar very high. This is not an argument against Luis Guzman's casting, but the characterization is very far from what we've seen in the og series and the 90s movies. It's the same with all the characters, except foe Uncle Fester and Thing, although the last one also lacks some of the humor from the originals. Jenna Ortega does a very fine job as the titular character, but she's written almost flat. Well, I mean, the original character, especially the one from the first movie is almost a punchline, and is better fleshed out in the second movie. In the end, she's just ok.
Tim Burron and Danny Elfman are mere shadows of their former selves. They could've hired anyone as director and the results would've been the same. Maybe the hired em just for the weight of their names.
Bottom line, this series it's just another "big mac". Another burger combo made for streaming. I'm baffled with so many uber positive reviews, but be it, it's ok, watch it if you want, but it's just another proof of the lack of innovation and imagination in a decaying medium, and it's consumers' taste.
What Drives Us (2021)
Ghrol should better focus on making records
I love FF, I love Dave G, but this movie was a lackluster experience. It had no script, no clear direction, no focus. Pity. I really had high hopes with this documentary, but it was a let down. I mean come on! You had Ringo f@$king Starr and he only spoke for 3 minutes?!