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Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
Very pretty movie but unlikeable characters and terrible script
This movie is beautiful to look at, but the characters within it, save Raya (who is a blank slate and we know very little about and learn little throughout the movie about, and seems there for young girls to project themselves onto) are horrible, and the dragon, Sifu, is the epitome of annoying. Once she's is the movie, the quality plummets and she grates on every nerve, and you trail-off into a happy plane in your mind to get away from her. Urgh. The movie drags and I wish there was no sound or the writers knew what they were doing and didn't hire terrible rappers to play important roles in children's movies.
Interceptor (2022)
Atrocious, completely irredeemable "film"
Hearing this was not a good movie got me hyped, but this movie being bad is a like saying the Holodomor was a pretty rough time...
Everything about this movie was a failure, from the story, script, acting, set design, CGI - you name it, it's been done better in countless other movies. In no conceivable reality does this become a good film.
When one of the first few lines says something about the protagonist being raised in Spain on a military base, to excuse her having an accent, you know the calibre of the movie being put together, because who even cares without having to explain details like that?
The script is juvenile, with the protagonist again showing her class by swearing at the villain constantly while the whole thing is broadcast around the world, it is just next level dumb.
How do films like this even get made? Unless this is a tax avoidance scheme, it just beggars belief. Do not watch.
The Steam Engines of Oz (2018)
Atrocious, boring and ugly
Watching this abomination with my daughter tonight and it made me feel so angry. I can't believe that this came out only a couple of years ago because it looked worse than toy story one, which came out more than 20 years ago. Unbelievably boring plot and terrible script and dialogue. This is not so much a movie as it is a torture device. Ron Perlman being involved is the icing on the cake, he'll clearly lend his voice for anything, this was probably the worst thing I've ever watched.
Good on Paper (2021)
Terrible movie, thoroughly dull and vapid
Going into this movie, you might be expecting something that would make you laugh, but on completion you realise you wasted, nay, had stolen from you, some 90 odd minutes of your life with a flat, worthless script, unlikeable characters and sub-par acting and general story that will be a blight on the careers of all involved. I watched this movie last week and so excruciatingly dull it was, I can't tell you what the point of it was. It wasn't raunchy, it wasn't clever, it just made me feel sad for childless women comics past their prime and on the long decline into utter cultural irrelevance.
The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show (2020)
Terrible show from someone who used to be funny
Sadly, there are very few redeeming qualities in this forgettable, skippable mess of painfully unfunny sketches with callbacks made in subsequent episodes exposing a very poor writing process. Adding females into situations that were originally men only, as in the Jackass sketches, had the potential to elicit a laugh, but the execution was so poor that you'll be praying for a fire, tornado or just something to create a blackout so that the show ends and you can walk away, but you won't get that time back - remember that.
I don't get it, Iliza used to be funny, but the older she got, the more mean-spirited her comedy became, and it became less about the laughter and more about trying to make a point.
What that point is, I surmise - Iliza doesn't even know...
Don't watch this show, it's a disaster and Netflix should be ashamed of themselves.
Fyre (2019)
Interesting case study on social media
I remember hearing about Fyre Festival through friends on social media talking about how it looked like the coolest thing ever. I watched the promo video and it all seemed way too good to be true, but then I'm a cynic and I thought "Hey, maybe I'll be wrong". Yeah, not a chance.
This documentary in a lot of ways is a brilliant insight into social media & its influence on modern society. The entire festival was built up from promo videos posted on social media and posts from 'influencers' (a term that I absolutely hate and this documentary shows why you shouldn't trust 'influencers') that detailed an idealistic experience that every Instagram and Facebook obsessed kid would dream of.
The funniest thing is that in reality, these kids didn't actually want to attend the festival, rather they wanted to be seen attending it - they wanted to post about it on social media to show that THEY had been there. The whole festival was about the image, and that was a great marketing factor in the 'organisers' favour (I say 'organisers' because as you see in the documentary, it doesn't look like anyone organised anything here).
The beauty of this is that everything about the festival was surface level. There was nothing underneath. No-one had bothered to actually engage anyone with real business acumen in the festival planning industry until too late in the piece. It's probably one of the best examples of why money isn't necessarily the answer to everything. The co-founders had a lot of money and it didn't save anything. There needed to be some actual business development here and no-one really bothered to give that its dues.
The worst thing is that, while I didn't like the concept from the start, this type of festival could really have worked. Sure, it's still a complete shining example of the social media craze amongst our society but there was still potential. If there had been an actual plan from the start, and it wasn't throw together based on a promo video and 'influencer' posts, then we could have seen some revolutionary event that everyone wanted to attend, even if they didn't want to admit it. But we didn't see that. What we saw instead is a bunch of idiots thinking that their great ideas will just work because they're really passionate about them. Be careful of your obsession with your image, otherwise you might end up like ol' Billy.