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Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999)
Boring and simple-minded, and repetitive plots
I hated the show when it aired years back. I never understood why they made the show or why it lasted more than one season. It's pretty much the same thing every episode. Courage the cowardly dog must overcome his fears and stop something bad from happening to someone he cares about, or something along those lines. The show bored me half to death every time it was on, and I don't even like the art style. I'm glad this show got the axe, and I really hope it's never rebooted and stays dead.
The Amazing World of Gumball (2011)
Hilarious, well-written social commentary
I want to make something clear, the show is not for the lowest common denominator. The show uses sarcasm, satire, tragedy, and other literary tools for social commentary. If you like Bill Maher, you might like this. It's progressive and forward-thinking, and a lot of the jokes and references are actually for adults, but most of those are going to go right over your kids head unless you explain it to them. One episode plainly states that it's not the content of a source of entertainment that makes something good or bad, it's the way we teach our children to respond to it. I wish more TV shows carried that message.
Unfortunately the show goes over the heads of a lot of adults who just don't have the education to understand the important points that it makes because of the way it makes them. Instead of understanding what the show is communicating, they take it the wrong way and think the show is about a bad kid setting a bad example. That couldn't be farther from the truth! It's actually the opposite! I've met these people and they don't let their children watch the show, because frankly they're too dumb to understand it. Shame. You need a decent education to appreciate the show, and how thoughtful and intelligently its written. I'm not trying to be smug, I'm stating a fact. I have seen it time and time again, poorly educated and (and also right-wing) people hate this show and don't allow their children to watch it, which is a shame.
If you have a brain and you want your kids to have one too when they're an adult, watch this show with them. It actually starts off as an innocent cartoon without much of a message, and slowly changes until it's making fun of just about every culture including ours here in America, stupid people, religious extremists and cults, hippocrates, smug vegetarians, greedy corporations, dumb parents, and President Trump. This show has even expressed support for LGBT.
I really love this show and I hope it doesn't end or get cancelled for years to come!
DC Super Hero Girls (2015)
Trite, Cheap, Poorly Flash Animated Junk
Trite, cheap, poorly flash animated junk that only serves as another blown opportunity for Warner to add a quality animated kid's show to the DC franchise. This could have also been a great opportunity to give young girls some great role models through a well made show that actually had depth, character, and quality story telling. Instead they chose to pander to what unintelligent shallow uncultured people think little girls should watch.
I'm capable of being offended by this show because I've been exposed to quality animated shows and was raised on them as a kid. So many kids these days are being raised on cheap low quality shows like this so they only think its good and don't question it because they don't have anything to compare it to, which I fear is going to be a major blow to the expectations many people of the next generation will have of animated entertainment, especially when it comes to picking out entertainment for their own kids. Its also rotting their minds.
If you're going to let your kids watch TV, DVD, or downloaded/streaming entertainment, why not choose quality entertainment with great role models and some actual depth, that actually encourages your kid to use their brain and think? Or at least exposes them to quality story telling and production value? Why raise them on cheaply made shallow mindless entertainment that throw those qualities away because its "just a kid's show". Animations these days that are aimed at young children are often so cheaply made with very little effort or actual thought put into them. If an animated show is for a child, my opinion is all the more reason to make it quality! Raise them on something that actually sets a good standard so they make better choices as they get older on what to watch.
If I could give this show a negative score, I would.
Sean Saves the World (2013)
Good! Not great, but good!
I really like this show. It's one of the few sitcoms I watch besides my favorite Big Bang Theory, and Two and a Half Men.
I care about the characters, the show makes me laugh, and I've stayed interested. Season 1 is nearing the end and I hope there's a second season. I think the best way to gauge how much I like a show is to think about how I would feel if I missed an episode. I'd be moderately disappointed but not upset, and try to watch it on On Demand or somewhere online.
So what if the writing isn't great, its not that clever, and the humor feels forced? Its a sitcom, I don't expect it to go above and beyond. Its just supposed to be a casual show that gives me enough chuckles to stay interested, and I think it delivers on those points.
I give Sean Saves The World a score of 7 out of 10. Not great like I said, but good!
Underworld: Awakening (2012)
Boring
I love the Underworld movie series... but this one, ugh. It wasn't even interesting! It felt like one of those Syfy channel original (B) movies. The acting was decent, the atmosphere was okay, character development was below average, and the plot was just boring as hell. Nothing about it interested me. I liked the fan service shot when Beckinsale was crawling around in the vent ducts though. That almost made the movie worth watching but not quite. This clearly was not made by the same team that made the others.
So crappy plot, fan service, shoddy character development... for me those are the ingredients for a pretty standard B movie.
I think this could have been a great great movie if the right people had made it and did some script editing to make the plot more interesting, but they didn't and the end product for me is a flop.
I give it a 2 out of 10.
Really Beckinsale, you should have known better... your career isn't THAT dried up yet. I think career wise this was a big mistake on her part.
The Mist (2007)
Good but I didn't like the ending
Mostly the movie gets good marks for plot, characters, suspense, suspense, etc. All good marks. You genuinely care about the characters and what happens to them, mostly. The special effects are also good.
BUT, in the past... I dunno... I guess ten years maybe? The movie industry has gotten so damn brooding and depressing! Every time I watch a movie like this one, it nearly ALWAYS ends in tragedy! What the hell ever happened to the hero prevailing (even if its by a small margin) in the end, and teaching people to fight for survival and maybe you'll come out alive in the end with your loved ones at your side? I'm getting tired of this crap, its getting old and I for one am totally sick of it.
An abundance of tragedies where all the characters you care about die in the end and/or the hero is doomed to a lifetime of everlasting sorrow and depression, is a fad. I get it. But I don't want to see it anymore, its depressing! Why is everyone so damn melancholy and brooding?! I've had enough to last me a life time. PLEASE someone bring back the traditional hero who wins in the end and saves his family and friends! But you know, make them work harder for it. Don't make it easy on them. ;) I'd also like to mention, I loved the message in this movie about how dangerous and destructive religion is and how when the world falls apart, those who are very religious are always the first to go nuts, cause violence, and make matters worse for those who are just trying to survive and keep their families safe. Religion preys on those of weak character/intelligence and paranoid, and this movie really shined a light on that. For that I give it an extra point.
In summery, the movie gets good points all around for all the important stuff, but this movie falls into the fad of depressing tragedies that is turning me off from movies of this genre all together, so that takes off about 3 points from the 8 I originally was giving it. Then one bonus point for a positive lesson. So I give it a slightly above average score of 6 out of 10.