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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
I don't get the love
I honestly don't know why this movie gets such high praise. Or why it's rated so much higher than the two originals.
The whole story line turns out to be pointless. They escape the big bad evil guy into the unknown on a legend that there is a liveable land out that way, despite everyone who tried telling them there is nothing. Only to discover there is nothing out there and are forced back. And conveniently the big bad chased them there so they were able to take the big bad guys original turf ... that's literally it. All this hype about getting to B and there is no B so they just return to the very start again. That's terrible writing!
And lets not forget that because it finally rained in Australia after a massive drought they decided to pack up and shift over to Africa because the Australian the deserts became too green. I thought that was interesting at the time, until I watched the film and saw that it was basically 95% green screened. The majority of the film just looked like CGI rubbish. Why even both going overseas?
And I don't blame people for enjoying it purely for the action, but since when did mindless action incur a high rating? Personally, I need more meat then that. I need a half decent story. Mindless action is only when it's a silly fun comedy ... like Machete. If you're going to go serious drama action then perhaps you should invest in an actual story.
Also, I thought the whole world was made smaller by this film. The interesting nuance of a post atomic dystopian Australia is completely gone. Replaced with a tiny, warlord gangland, like turf war that feels more like "climate chance is turning the world into a desert" where the world seems to only have one source of water now, and nothing else. I don't know what happened to Miller's vision. But I thought this is a total degradation.
I'm disappointed because it could've been so much more in the world building and story telling department. But then again, I'm in the minority who thinks the first Mad Max in the best one, despite its limitations.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023)
Not bad, not good ... just average
As an adult, I find Percy Jackson rather mediocre but still passable. If it was aimed at adults I'd probably loathe it, but considering it's aimed at younger folk I feel that it has all the right elements to entertain and captivate them. Does that make it a good show from that gaze? No, but it's never bad either. It just is. Percy Jackson's biggest sin is that nothing stands out.
The acting is pretty bland. Percy and Annabeth are your classic Mary Sues: instantly good at everything. As such they are pretty boring. I don't really blame the actors for this, they're working with what they've got. I honestly don't know if they're good or bad actors, because they've basically been written with suffering as their primary personality trait. Sometimes we see Percy being written as deliberately dense so we can see how smart Annabeth is, and sometimes we see the other two be deliberately scared or "other" so we can see how loyal and brave Percy is ... that's the extent of their personalities. Now I've never read the books, it was too American for my non-American tastes so had no interest. But from the fans I get the impression that both these characters were more developed and more real in the books, and Disney made them flat and emotionless for the TV series. If that's true then that's really disappointing. Because as the characters stand they'll never bring people to love them. Grover seems to be the only character with some actual depth to him and the kid does a good job, but the hesitant, flinching beta character gets a bit old very quickly.
The questionable acting from the kids can be forgiven. They're still kids and the writers made them pretty bland. The adults on the other hand are bad. From Percy's mother to other gods we meet along the way. It feels like they're just One-dimensional cutouts, or the actors tried too hard to make them more interesting. It just doesn't work. I don't know why. Perhaps it's the writing as well. But I feel there is no excuse here. The best we get is Ares but even he feels a bit too "put on" for my liking. It just doesn't come off as natural.
The story is a typical kids power fantasy. Nothing wrong with that if that's what you dig - but what usually holds these kinds of shows together isn't so much the story but the likable and relatable characters and I don't see either. At no point have I found myself caring for these three misfits. There's nothing there. Perhaps we need more seasons to really dig in and grow attached. But at this point, I just don't care about them.
I do find the shady idea of culturally appropriating Greece's culture a bit troublesome. I guess you can get away with it when that religious culture was mostly replaced with Christianity. The concept of just sticking to Greece Mythos feels self-limiting. Would've been fascinating to see world religions (lost and current) having some kind of representation. Would've made the whole world more dynamic. But alas, we just get this one ancient religion, and having it as "the" religion feels somehow small. But that's just me. And I guess Neil Gaiman already chased the "multiple global gods running around America" concept and I doubt any of us could match that knowledge and skill even in the tiniest of forms, even if it was something more simple and aimed at kids, it would always be compared. I still think it's a lost opportunity.
Overall. Might be good for younin's ... but there is no replay value at all. Reasonable. Not good, not bad. Just is.
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Better than expected
Perhaps this is a sign of how bad the film and TV industry has fallen in recent years. But this was watchable.
I heard this movie was so bad that I spent my entire life avoiding it. Only some old B-grade films from the 70s heralded warnings of such horror. But now that I'm older and have grown a certain disposition to watching agonisingly bad films (and that it's recently been added to Netflix) I decided it was time to stop running and accept my fate. It was time to watch Battlefield Earth.
And you know what? It's not nearly as bad as what I was led to belive. Don't get me wrong. It's still below average and camp AF. But I'm now suspecting that a lot of the hate it received was because it was essentially a Scientologist film. Christian movies tend to cop a lot of flack simply because they're Christian-based based too. And I've always thought this default hate was a pretty sad way to approach movies. I tend to let their merit do the talking, not my perceived dislike of said religion. And it wasn't even really that Scientologily to me. No Thetan talk in sight. No, it was just a really camp story, from a really camp time, written by a man who was really campy and decided religion was more profitable than scifi but still loved to tell scifi.
And surprisingly, amongst the terrible ideas in this film (teaching primitive Americans to fly jets in seven days {as well as jets and jet fuel being in perfect working order}) and the glaring plotholes there were some legit cool ideas wrapped up in there.
But do you know what I find really depressing about this film? ... not that it's pretty bad and campy ... no, what I find most depressing is that today's standard in film and TV writing is so painfully low that it actually makes Battlefield Earth almost look decent. 23 years ago this film was universally panned for being one of the worst movies ever made. What has gone so terribly wrong in today's society that the worst movie of 2000 can be rated above most of our content in the 2020s?
Good Omens (2019)
Mixed and complex feelings.
As a massive fan of the first season I also really enjoyed the follow-up, but I had this sneaking suspicion it would move in a direction I wasn't keen on, and that suspicion was confirmed ... Now, I'm not saying I hated the direction taken. Part of me was smiling and having "nawww" feelings by the time the last episode credits were rolling ... But ... I also felt like it ruined the relationship at the same time. That it was something tacked on to appease those desperately wanting it to go in that direction.
I know, you're probably saying 'how can you like and dislike it at the same time?' - and If I'm being honest with you. I don't fully know myself. I'm conflicted about the whole thing.
But there is enough for me to articulate (it's not the whole complaint but it is the most obvious complaint). The thing is, the book was pretty specific that angels aren't humans and don't have the same desires as humans. And I feel that Gaiman went against this just to please one group of society ... the argument is that that group of society has been treated poorly and deserves more content aimed at them. And I agree. But there are two things that bother me there. The first is that they've changed a fundamental aspect of who angels are in that universe. The second is that in doing so it actually took from another group of people (Aces) who have essentially had almost every single thing taken away from them, especially in these current times. Giving to an under-presented people by taking away from a more under-represented people feels worse somehow.
I actually find it disturbing that modern times seems to have repressed the friendship spectrum. We've progressed in saying that love isn't binary and is a complex spectrum but simultaneously then regulated friendship to a binary system. It's bizarre. Either that or the average person cannot process the concept of a plutonic friendship ... and I find that thought even more disturbing.
And to me (as a partial ACE) Crowley and Aziraphale was such a pure and beautiful friendship. It was an example of taking multi-levelled friendships back out of the binary box and putting it into the complex category it should be, and showing how wholesome and beautiful a plutonic and deep friendship is ... and season 2 just threw that out the window. That might be a fist-pumping cheer from some people, but it was a gut-wrenching punch to the gut for me.
Outside of the shift in relationships, the whole season had a different feel to it, and my feelings on that are complex in itself. Season 2 is a different beast. But I guess that's what happens when two voices of one story become one voice. I had mixed feelings throughout. I also didn't care for the ending. It felt off. Aziraphale's final moments felt off (he is still great and my favourite character but I thought the whole Metatron discussion was not him).
There was a Matrix feeling to it. Season 2 is different in the same way that Matrix Reloaded was very different to the original. Both originals were good open stand-alones and both went into a season 2 that had the awkward two-parter split.
But at the end of the day, Neil Gaiman has more of a say than me and he chose to do this. He chose a complete change in tone and he chose to make a certain group of people happy and give them something. So who am I to complain?
This review sounds like I hated it and was wholly unhappy. But I want to express that I still liked it. Hell, some of it I thought was better than season 2 ... but the change in tone has me uneasy. The shift in character relationships makes me feel left out (but I don't hate it either) and I'm sitting here feeling like they're making the same mistake of making it up as they go along. And that doesn't make a final product worthy of cult status and regular rewatches years down the track. I like it, but I don't see me returning to it year after year. And the thing about sequels is that they can diminish the joy of the first as well.
Also, the absence of Frances McDormand was deeply felt.
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu (2021)
This is Not Ok
I'm just going to come out and say it.
The main character is a GD podophile.
I couldn't keep watching it and a quick look on comments shows it's divided between the "it's about character development and you have to keep watching" and the other people expressing their concerns and being abused by fan boys.
Anime already has a sexualisation of women (especially young women) problem - now I don't mind the occasional female character who is promiscuous or the object of another character's attention. That's just normal. But its unbalanced in anime. The level that so often is encapsulated is not ok, even if they write decent characters too, more often then not it's mere fan service.
And this is before we add children to the mix!
Does it really have to be said?
Some things shouldn't be defended and I agree you can take on controversial topics if you're careful ... very very careful ... but this clearly isn't one of them. It's an excuse. Plan and simple. And it doesn't matter if the rest of the show is good. One thing can (and has) ruined it.
I can't comprehend why this has such praise. It makes me question the people supporting it. Do they not see? Or is there something sinister at play here. Just because it's animated doesn't make it ok.
Wendell & Wild (2022)
Visually amazing but too many ideas
Wendell & Wild is an visual wonderland with so much imagination and thought into how it looks. I found the character design quite intriguing but ultimately, that's the only reason I watched to the end.
The biggest issue is that there's way too many ideas running around for a movie. Too many characters and plots to follow, with them all being intertwined but there is not enough time to show these ideas fully so things end abruptly and without any real feelings of conclusion or satisfaction. In fact some are borderline off putting.
I feel they could have gone around this by either having one storyline they followed or having a TV series so they can explore them fully.
Empire of Light (2022)
Not bad but disappointed by a deceptive trailer
I was hanging out for this film. I wanted to go and watch it at the cinemas (there's just something amusing and spellbinding about watching a film about cinema inside a cinema) but now I'm glad I didn't.
Is it a bad film? Not at all. I rather enjoyed it for what it is. But it is very different to what we got from the trailer.
As a child of a projectionist I was expecting something very different and nostalgic and we only got glimpses of that.
But if you enjoy a unconventional kind of romance/friendship between two very different people, starving off loneliness and fighting their struggles then you might like this.
Another slight issue is that it doesn't really feel like it has direction. Just several ideas that come and go, they explore some of them but idk, feels hollow somehow. Again, feels like the writer had many thoughts on where to go but limited time to explore them in and so would move over to the next, giving a slightly juttering feeling.
Performances are good. Wish we saw more of Toby. Coleman is always a pleasure to watch. Michael Ward was also very good, looking forward to seeing much more of him in TV/movies.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
The Problem with Rings of Power
Do you know what the biggest problem with the Rings of Power is?
It's that Tolkien was renowned for spending decades working through his law and stories. Always tinkering, always refining, always improving. Making sure everything fits and makes sense, even if we as the reader would never know that background law and logic. (Silmarillion was never meant to be out in the wild)
Whereas the Rings of Power has a distinct, 'meh, make it up as we go along,' and 'to hell with logic and continuity'. - that mindset wouldn't be so blasphemous if the writers/directors were working on something else. If it was their own made-up world inspired by Tolkien, or based on another book that was also loose with those things. But this is Tolkien ... this is the man who spent almost 20 years on the story ... 12 is the minimum agreed time frame ... And then spent decades honing in everything. It was his life. It wasn't just some paycheck and ego trip. If you're gonna work with that then you have to have some level of respect and reverence for the mind that created it.
Instead, we get the wisest elf in all the land attempt to swim across the equivalent of the Atlantic Ocean. And mithril turning from just a mineral (A very useful and sort after one) to something sacred created from a battle between an elf and a Balrog that somehow incorporates the light of the silmarils despite them being --- elsewhere --- and let's not forget how painfully abysmal the dialogue is.
I don't blame the actors for how bad this show is. I blame the directors and Amazon. I blame the directors because they had the arrogance to put Tolkien on the sideline in place of their own ego. And I blame Amazon for letting them in the first place - as well as putting too short of a timeline on creating the show. Good entertainment can't be rushed! And let's not forget that the most important thing in good entertainment: the writers! Skimp on the writing and what you get is this ... whatever this is.
Now, the show wasn't all horrible, it's certainly not worth 1-star imo, but I can't fathom why anyone would think it's worth 10 either (or 7 or 8). It did have its moments. But those moments were wedged between the horror that was the rest of the show. This should never have happened. And I'm sure it will be lost in time for the generic, ordinary, and highly disrespectful rubbish it is.
Inside Man (2022)
DNF - character actions are more plot driven then logically
DNF - managed to get to the 3rd episode and part way through. I can see where it's heading, but there's so much frustration that I can't enjoy it. Which is a shame as there are elements that are enjoyable.
A big factor in my frustration is Janice. At the beginning we get a scene where we are shown her bravery and quick wit. Fast forward a bit we then get her jumping to the worst conclusion possible (not helped by David Tennant being possibly the stupidest person in the show) which ends up in her kidnapping.
The kidnapping is proceeded with her taking control of situation, manipulating and turning the vicar and his wife against each other while she remains imprisoned. And this is my problem. We are presented with her being a rational and intelligent character who acts quickly and can read people, but she failed to read the very event that lead to everything. In fact the entire story is caused by her alone and her mistaken assumption. It's just painful interactions between two to three people simply to drive the plot in the direction Moffat wanted (Ooh, my poor Moffat, what has become of you?)
The inmates were enjoyable, but that was basically it.
David who I usually enjoy was painful to say the least.
Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)
Good but feels a little lost in its direction
I didn't know this was a Stephen King story so went into it blind.
I just flicked on the TV and thought, why not. Give it a shot.
I rather enjoyed the simplicity of it. A kid and an old man developing a rather strange friendship. I admit I was a bit disappointed with the outcome. There was intrigue with the phone and a 'is it or isn't it?' question around it. But it felt like it was forced into direction unwillingly and just as quickly as it pulled away as quickly as it came into this strange direction. It was strange, like SK wasn't sure what he wanted to create, or thought that it might not be received well if he didn't do what he is well known for.
I still enjoyed it, but I thought that perhaps it would've been stronger if the story knew what it wanted to be.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022)
Is there something wrong with me?
I mean really? Is there?
Cause almost everything I've watched lately I've either hated or thought 'meh' ... yet so many other folks are 10/10 everything.
Animation wise this is good ... but it's anime we all expect that.
Music was great too. That was the reason I kept watching actually and I was disappointed that it was regulated to mere background ambiance in the last few episodes. Did they run out of original songs? Shame cause I was hanging for more.
As far as story. Nothing special. Very generic. But I can live with that. But what makes a classic story rock are the characters and their interactions.
David was your classic ambitious youth MC --- boring AF, in that regards they picked his voice over artist perfectly, because he was more monotone then me (and I'm friggin monotone, trust me!)
The other voice actors range between likeable to good. But the characters are all your stereotypical toons. There was nothing in it for me.
The break neck speed of everything means I didn't feel for anyone, and the cyberpsycho theme seemed to sudden and rushed. I feel like most of the citizens of Night City should've gone crazy by now. The entire show is just one big jacked up rush job. We sped too far through too quickly for me to care about anyone in it and think their decisions were believable. (except David's mum that is)
I don't know. Maybe I should see a doctor and get some depression meds or something, cause I felt nothing throughout all that.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Wonderful Madness
Michelle Yeoh is one of my favourite actors. She's one of those rare gems who seems to care for the role she's playing and seeks out the unusual. She kinda reminds me of John Hurt in that regards.
As such I was looking forward to seeing this. I missed it at the theatres (curse you covid) so had to make do with renting on a streaming service.
I was not disappointed. Everything Everywhere All at Once is a fantastic film. One of the best I've seen in a long time. And it's so nice to come across something this isn't just some franchise mass produced, money grab content. I love my weird and wild adventures. This gives me hope that cinema isn't dead.
Probably my only complaint (and that might be because I've been mildly depressed for so many years now that I don't actually feel anything anymore) is that I felt there was too much focus on side concepts at times. I just feel like some ideas were awesome to begin with, but wore out their welcome after a while. And that if the film was a little tighter it would've popped more. As is, it's still fantastic and I will definitely add it to my DVD collection (yes I still buy DVDs/Blurays but they're reserved for my favourites)
Time (2021)
A timid Sean Bean is an absolute joy
I'm not into hard dramas. The way I see it, even in horrible circumstances there's almost always someone cracking a joke. It's how many humans cope in horrible situations.
But this didn't bring me down like other dramas do (looking at you Australian TV) and Sean's performance is just stunning. I'm so used to him being the strong guy (either in body or in mind) that I was completely taken off guard by this timid and conflict avoidant soul completely devastated by his actions.
At three parts we don't have to worry about the story being padded out to fill in run time. It is perfectly balanced and keeps you engaged from start to end.
Snowpiercer (2020)
Season 1 and 2 are amazing - s3 is a let down
Season 1: 8-9 stars
Season 2: 8-9 stars
Season 3: 6 stars
Seasons 1 and 2 were amazing. They were well balanced storytelling where the drama is guided by the story. The third season though became drama for dramas sake. Drama became the story and just like the final seasons of Game of Thrones it has tainted the entire season.
The devolution of quality writing into soap opera drama could've been avoided by instead of, 'we need to tell a story not long enough to cover x-amount of episodes' they should've just had a shorter series and made it pop!
With the trauma: It's natural to assume that the world they're in will be full of trauma. And they show it amazingly in the first two seasons. Season 3 though is just all trauma and I'm cringing at how they're portraying it. It's constantly driven by multiple characters conveniently pushing the story where it wouldn't go. It is lazy and bad writing.
And the character motivations and actions are way out of wack. From Layton to Audrey to many others. Again, often for drama's sake.
I really hope they learnt their lesson and will come into s4 with teh spirit of the first two. I really do.
Tripod Versus the Dragon (2011)
On my Yearly Watch List
There are a handful of shows and movies I watched ever year. Tripod vs the Dragon is one of them.
One of my greatest regrets in life was having the opportunity to see this live (I've seen Tripod a few times) but I ended up not going because I was a scaredy cat who didn't want to go by myself xD
The pure joy and entertainment and beauty and madness. It's one of the those rare moments when the humour is less in the music and more in the acting. But that doesn't take away from it. No, instead we have mixed masterpieces of nostalgia and fun, as well as being wow'd
And shadow puppets/silhouettes only make a great thing greater.
Resident Evil (2022)
Yeah na
I noticed a lot of the reviews are from Resident Evil fans.
I have never seen or played Resident Evil. Was always that thing that was there but never clicked on (and I don't like horror games) so thought I'd give this a shot.
I knew we were in trouble the instant the main character crawled out of her tent 48 seconds into the show. All perfect and beautiful and clean. I'm sure there's a barber/hairdresser locked away in that tent somewhere. Leaving the tent open was a 'WTH?' moment too, but that might be because I'm Australian.
So not knowing a single thing about this franchise. I can tell you I tried to approach it with fresh eyes and no bias. But it snack in very quickly and settled right there.
I managed to finish the first episode but all the 'nopes' kept coming, all the way to the the super sexy protag leaping off a 20-30 metre high fence into a horde of zombies 'nope'
So that is a nope to continuing for me.
It's not as bad as all the 'Resident Evil' fans are making it out (I don't blame them, nobody likes their franchises destroyed) but it is still bad. At leas the first episode is. I have no incentive to watch the rest.
Ms. Marvel (2022)
So much promise followed by a let down
The first episode was something special. It was so fun and vibrant and full of all the potential for an amazing series. I went in thinking 'yes, this is gonna be amazing!' but then episode 2 came along and though it was alright, it lost that first episode magic, then episode 3 was 'meh,' and with a few small exceptions it remained 'meh' throughout the rest of the series.
Where did it go wrong? It went from first person story telling to third person. We went from seeing things through Kamala's mind, to just the same run of the mill generic story telling. We went from dynamic to linear. From creative to generic. If they kept the whole story in the past tense first person voice then it could've been good all the way through, despite the typical heroes journey story line. But it was squandered.
Iman Vellani did an amazing job. She just radiates joy and that's a beautiful thing to see. I loved her. But alas she wasn't enough to pull this out of the ashes for me. I blame bad writing.
I also liked seeing stories/representation outside the usual west. I'm not anti-western entertainment. I still love my tropes and white male yank protags don't bother me (much). I just think entertainment would be so much more interesting with lots of different cultures and faces. So I'm glad there was a tilt at a culture that we don't see very often (At least from Hollywood) ... but again, the strong start was wasted.
Still better than most other Marvel hero introductions, but still way behind others.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus (2022)
Not enough has changed.
Pokemon fans have been dreaming of an open world game since the 90s.
We wanted breath and scale, challenge, adventure, exploration and mystery.
I guess we kinda got some of those things.
In the end this feels like a game that sort of met us half way. But also revealled that Game Freak are too scared to take actual risks.
There are some nice game mechanics, and it is kinda nice wandering around. But it's the same old game when you think about it. It's old pokemon in a more open field minus the gyms. That's it. Pokeballs are supposed to be a brand new invention but we're still unlocking better and specialised balls .... that's the exact same old mechanic with a brand new mesh added. There is nothing new here. I repeat there is nothing new.
The concept is you're supposed to be in a time where people know very little about pokemon. You start the game with people being confused and terrified of weak common pokemon. I thought that was fantastic. That we're gonna dive in the deep end where nobody has been before. Have conversations about a pokemon evolving. Talking about never seen before pokemon. The potential was mind boggling. Instead we move from area to area only to discover people do infact know and understand all these pokemon already. And instead of "discovering" and "researching" we are instead given a checklist to pointlessly grind. It literally tells us what we must do, instead of being blind we're guided the while way. There is no reward n playing because there is no discovery.
The childish level this game has stuck with for decades is unfathomable. I can imagine why it started as a simple children's game. But its fanbase have long since grown up. We live in nostalgia and the best way to exploit that is to, like a pokemon, evolve. Zelda understood this. Which is why they mixed up the games. Creating different feel games for different audiences. Pokemon finally says they're gonna break free and ... well, I guess they broke one chain. Still many more caging them to a mediocre formula.
A lot of haters of critics jumped on me for saying this when I first agonised my way through the worst tutorial I've seen in years. But when you set the bar so low of course you're going to be impressed.... perhaps it's time to raise it a bit. Then maybe we won't get mediocre but an actual interesting game for once. If you're angrily shouting "but its open world!" Then sorry, if that's all it takes for you to declare this an exciting new direction that's never seen before then you're probably part of the reason why pokemon has been the same stale game it has been since those early days. Other franchises worked this s*** out yonks ago.
Dont get me wrong. It IS a step in the right direction. This is better than the more recent stuff, but also falls way short of the potential many of us dreamed of all those decades ago.
If I was to make one request. That would be to go all out. Take a real risk for once and give us something we can really get lost in. You can still make your boring kids versions. But actually step out for once and really build something great.
Poketto monsutâ sôdo (2019)
Reasonable fun but a bit lazy
Changing my review since playing the game more.
Pokemon Shield is a nice looking game, with some cool new designs. It is easy to play and fairly enjoyable. One can easily chill for a while just running around.
But having sad that. The game ultimately felt ... lazy.
There is so much potential in pokemon. But they revert to the same tired formula again and again. It worked in the 90s but today we have all this unrealised technology to bring a truly open and challenging game. Both in world building and exploration to the pokemon themselves.
Another negative is that the story itself is a let down. It takes mediocre and boring to the next level. There is zero depth or interest.
As a child's game it is pretty decent. But if you want to capture the adult market (and lets face it, pokemon is largely a nostalgia brand now) you need to bring more to the table.
Midnight Mass (2021)
Not afraid of dialouge
There are things that I didn't like that much about this show, and things I wish they did. But they were minor things
The one thing I can say that I loved are theone on one conversations the characters have.
There is very little action in this series and mostly dialogue that can be avoided. That in itself is considered a modern day media sin.
And I love it. I love that they're not afraid to make this and I love that they did it so well. The talking scenes by far are amongst my favourites.
The Social Dilemma (2020)
Disturbing reality of invasive data gathering
The dramatisation was pretty bad. But the message was is worth watching.
That is the harmful impact of algorithms designed to keep you hooked on social media and scrolling, solely so they can keep making money.
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
A pleasant joy
An absolutely joy to watch, even with the dark themes.
Is it perfect? No, it is not. There are certainly things in it that annoyed me (the police officer subplot)
But over all I still absolutely loved the story.
I wasn't keen on the ending though. This would've been perfect as a once off story with the MC defeated and alone, skimping money off bank managers. But that's my personal opinion.