elsadebarros Reviews

My Life with the Walter Boys (2023– )

Creepy show written by hormonal teenage boys

[1/10 · 6 March 2024]

It's bad.

It's shallow.

It's an insult to any viewer, and wholly inadequate for teenagers to watch: it gives them a very distorted view of what should be a good family dynamic and a healthy realtionship with peers and sentimental partners.

Kids run amock with parents who forget to do their job. There are no notable consequences for major misbehavior and even for dangerous actions. It's all fun ah ah.

A supposedly grieving young girl is put in a teenage male dominated house, where she does no grieving after all but a whole lot of dating her foster brothers.

What on "pornfantasyworldIfXXXdmystepsister" is that even remotely ok?! Could a grieving girl have not just found a new loving family to help through the horrific ordeal of losing both parents and her only sibling? Maybe eventually a love interest at school, or somewhere realistic for a teenage girl?

Said bros are 2 creeps, one cringy and super clingy looking like an anemic serial killer on the verge of suicide, and the other one a horny stupid jock looking like a 90's heartthrob with a bad hairday who take advantage of all the girls he can. Talk about icky stereotypes from the past.

A whole bunch of girls depicted almost all of them as empty headed groupies with little to no other life interest than dating or getting married. Or as hearthbroken confident. What a way too see women in 2024.

There is no show of guidance or answers for any important issues teenagers face. They are basically left to their own device in a world of sentimental/sexual problems. It's like an hormonal dumpster.

The show seems to have been written by a bunch of hormonal teenagers who saw too many bad sentimental tv shows, with no supervision by any adult professional screenwriter.

Lastly, the actors are not all even close to be able to act.

The main character is played like if she lacks any stamina or warm blood, an amoeba could have done better.

The Alex character is played by someone in such a creepy and cringy way it gives anyone the ick.

The Cole character is such a cliché it makes our eyes roll far so far back you risk not recover sight ever again.

Those 3 together have the chemistry of dead fish, even in the supposedly love or figh scenes.

Please, do not waste anyone's time with another season.

Dune: Part Two (2024)

Don't miss it if you like beautiful cinematographic art

[10/10 · 3 March 2024]

I'm so impressed.

I read the books, so I know how difficult it is to even write a script that could do justice to the saga.

I actually would not want to see the whole thing in movies, maybe books 1, 2 and 3 (Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune) covering Paul and his twin children, but I think futher with the time laps of several thousand years, and the whole transmutation in worm and so on, it gets much more complex, more difficult to create a powerful script.

Villeneuve's Dune part 1 was amazing, but this part 2 takes it to another level.

The movie's esthetics is pure art and reminds me of other iconic visual creations in movies like Frits Lang's Metropolis, Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey, Lean's Lawrence Of Arabia, the Mad Max universe in general, and of course the Star Wars movies - after all those are taking their inspiration from Dune, the book, so it's kind of a return to the source. Hard not to see as well Tarantino's influence in the treatment of violence.

There is some urban film noir esthetic going on, some religious crowds on messianic worship vibes, and even classic Greek theater - the tragedies, of course, after all Herbert's main characters are the Atreides - with the Bene Gesserit women as coryphée, but also graphic novels and bande dessinée (Canada and France have produced marvellous work in that area, no wonder Villeneuve takes that route), including, surprisingly, a nod to Saint-Exupery's Le Petit Prince, as I cannot unsee the visual similarities between Paul/Chalamet and le Petit Prince on top of those dunes, under the sun, his unruly hair and scarf dancing in the wind.

I love it. Don't miss it if you like beautiful cinematographic art.

Teachers (2016–2019)

A bit like if a bunch of 13 year old on the verge of drop out wrote this show while high on something.

[1/10 · 18 March 2016]

A walking insult to teachers, schools, students, parents and viewers of the show. Anyone really. It's beyond bad.

Obviously written, directed and produced by people who have not been in a classroom since their own childhood and have a more than juvenile sense of humor to say the least. A bit like if a bunch of 13 year old on the verge of drop out wrote this show while high on something.

This feels like a long bad painful sketch hat no one knows how to end.

And I feel really mad at the missed opportunity to do something really interesting and intelligently funny about teachers: after all there are so many shows about law enforcement, doctors and so on that it would be exciting to have the equivalent for teachers. It feels as if these particular profession is treated with ridicule and disrespect instead of the real interest it deserves. After all, it's only one of the most important profession in anyone's life, we all entrust our kids to teachers, they shape the mind of all of us. Why indeed take the time to really research what is going on in schools, with the immense reservoir of real funny anecdotes that any teacher knows and experiences? It's so much more fun to have a set of tired old jokes to offer.

Please... put this show out of its misery.