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The Expanse: Babylon's Ashes (2022)
Messy last season that led to a beautiful ending
Rare that a last episode brings back the same types of feelings from the first season. Even with the hiccups and messiness the heart of the show never changed. Great conclusion to wild ride. Hard to believe so many years have passed since the grungy station copper first graced the screen.
Time to give the books another read! The final one just came out. The show definitely did the books justice.
Rick and Morty: Rickdependence Spray (2021)
Random boring absurdity padded with forced one liners and general grossness
First five minutes was good. An unfunny mess afterward. Didn't feel like a R&M episode. Easy to imagine a room full of writers all being asked what's their most shocking idea and cramming all of them into one episode
And the whole "men never listen to women and steal all their ideas" schtick was pretty dumb too. Just not funny. No subtlety. Like some woke consultant got their social activism approved by the board in exchange for not sueing. The show already does a good job of shower how everybody is screwed up yet redeemable. No point in preaching. Random boring absurdity padded with forced one liners and general grossness.
The Tomorrow War (2021)
Enjoy your future of AI produced movies and AI generated reviews
That feeling you get after finding movie with okay reviews and giving a chance...only to discover that it's soulless garbage?
And then the generic paid for positive reviews confirm your suspicion of the Hollywood hype machine masquerading as everyday Joe..
"Just shut your brain off and enjoy your mind trash..."
"Not sure what all the negative reviews are about. It was super fun and enjoyable...give it a chance"
On the bright side, at least 10% of humanity hasn't yet been assimilated by the Borg.
Tribes of Europa (2021)
I have a dream that one day humans will once again recognize trash when they see it
The product of recent film school grads that have no realistic conception of physics, economics, human nature, or general natural phenomenon.
How can a society be living in harmony with nature isolated off in the forests, yet clearly show the trappings of modern industrial society everywhere? You know how difficult modern clothing, zippers, and crossbows are to make? How about gas fed lanterns and dwellings made of advanced composites? The supply chains for this stuff requires industrial society. And just to completely destroy any realism, let's have them dance in ritualistic celebration to studio produced auto tuned musical trash.
Perfect representation of modern society claiming the mantel of altruistic environmental socialism while everybody is video blogging on their iPhones in a Tesla.
Delusional shallow uninteresting disingenuous hypocrisy is the foundation of modern culture and this show lives up to the worst of it.
You know what apocalypse isn't? It's not sexy and fun. Risk gets you killed. Behaviors adapt to harsh realities. Whereas the characters in this show have the survival sense of teenagers that grew up with daily hot showers, climate control, and a full fridge.
The Midnight Sky (2020)
Nice settings. Couple amusing bits. Downhill from there
Movies shouldn't leave you wondering what you watched it. The moral of the story is that humans mostly suck and are doomed.
Pointless awkward moments. At times people on the ship forget that they're humans. Normal emotions conveniently disappear. Long term space travel requires compatible personalities.
Clooners is a terminally ill old guy. During a blizzard he breaks through ice and is in the water for a minute. Completely soaked. Somehow pulls himself out, and through the magic of stealing a 50lb girl's body heat, makes a full recovery....while completely exposed in the blizzard. Humans don't survive that.
The ship at one point flies through a large asteroid field that is apparently flying through space at 50mpg. Or this ship is flying 50mph and the chunks are stationary. Chunk of ice impact the hull and mostly bounce off harmlessly. Nevermind that the ship and ice chunks would both be traveling at 1000s of miles per hours. Crew would be dead in a flash.
And a habitable undiscovered moon around Jupiter that we somehow missed this entire time?
Should have spent some extra money on people that know how the universe works. And also on people that can write a compelling story.
An algorithm must have produced this movie. Definitely uncanny valley type stuff.
Upload (2020)
The fake paid for reviews are as bad as this hyper cliche trash
There is nothing good about this show. If you took Saved by the Bell, added in some sci-fi tropes, bad writing, bad acting, and made every character as generic, cliche, and unlikable as possible, it would be this show. Oh, and just for the hell of it, remove all charisma between characters and make sure to include as many non problematic stereotypes as possible. In case you were feeling extra evil that day.
If there is a hell, many wretched souls are just now being forced to watch this show for all eternity.
The Expanse: New Terra (2019)
Cinematically beyond all expectations, storytelling is top notch too
Just watched the first episode and have to say... just blown away. The creators clearly were not affected by the transition. A great example that stories focusing on deep personal minutia within a grand scheme can thrive in a world where instant gratification is becoming the norm.
I cant think of anything on TV or in theatres that feels more genuinely human, that immerses the mind so deeply in the physics of space and entry into a new world for the first time.
So happy this wasn't cancelled.