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Breaking Bad (2008)
Overrated trope-packed garbage
I watched better call Saul first.
It was really good.
Then tried to watch this Breaking Bad show.
Unwatchable.
Takes a concept that would be good for a two hour movie and just bloated it with tropes to make multiple seasons?
The fly episode?
It's a good reminder of how bad tv used to be.
Especially amc.
And the Malcolm in the middle dad's acting is so overrated.
Take some lessons from Odenkirk, dude.
Wasn't he like in the next trailer?
Or even the Pinkman actor?
Or the Ehrmantraut actor?
I'm glad the makers figured out how to make a show without tropes and avoid mediocre actors by the time they got to better call Saul.
616 Wilford Lane (2021)
The acting is so SO bad
The acting is so SO bad.
The twist and double twist at the end were unnecessary but was it all to make up for not being able to get anything out of the actors?
Why not bring the acting school to the set?
Eric Roberts must be in some bad debt (or I guess he probably never made that much).
I have never seen any of the other "actors." It must be a b movie.
SPOILER STARTS HERE
Why the dialogue at graveside?
Why all the other father-daughter dialogue when no one else was present?
Continuity errors.
Possibly evidence that the twists were tacked on and no money was left to re-edit to fit.
The twist and double twist at the end were unnecessary but was it all to make up for not being able to get anything out of the actors?
Dix pour cent (2015)
10 for seasons 1 and 2
10 for seasons 1 and 2. Can't say enough good things.
And a 1 for season 3.
What happened? Did all the directors and writers change?
It's as if they got all the cast together to do an SNL skit. What a farce.
Not sure I can bring myself to watch season 4.
The Hollow (2018)
Why the hate?
Sure the philosophical analysis/critique has been around for a coupla years.
I've seen it well storied in that episode of Black Mirror and some animes for adults.
But can you say you've seen it this done well in a cartoon for kids?
And those animes and that black mirror episode weren't that pleasant or relaxing to watch. In contrast, I could watch The Hollow comfortably with my 7 year-old son (with the exception of the deaths).
The Batman (2022)
Bad screenplay (disservice aside)
You can horribly disserve a character or the originator of the character.
The comic book industry does this all the time, reimagining characters and "rebooting" their stories.
Whether the new story is any good is quite independent of the level of disservice.
Maquire horribly disserved The Wicked Witch of the West and the result was amazing.
Snyder did this to Superman and the result was meh.
Reeves did this to ("The") Batman and the result is horrendous.
But not because his Batman disserves the prevailing concept of Batman.
Even if the title character were a completely new character, he is not made particularly protagonistic.
Let's call him "(The) Newman" (as in "The New Man").
His discovery that the antagonist could be perceived as similar to him is mildly insightful.
As is the revelation that he tactically helped the antagonist succeed in the antagonist's accomplishments.
But the build-up to those insights is quite lacking.
Newman basically chased the Puzzler every step of the way and could not stop the Puzzler from accomplishing anything the Puzzler was aiming to do.
Newman only has the above insights because the Puzzler essentially turned himself in and spelled out the insights for Newman.
At no point along the build up did Newman or the audience think that Newman was winning or getting closer.
In The Usual Suspects, the audience and the detective both thought that the detective was getting closer, piece by piece, to cracking the case.
Unlike The Ususal Suspects where the revelation about the antagonist is the climax, the Puzzler's escalation from anti-hero/vigilante/avenger to mass murderer of innocent bystanders is a shruggable letdown.