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The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
Soulless, uninspired, sloppy.
Real mess of a show. More concerned with Boba Fett appearing to be the "good guy" than making him an interesting character. The writing was so all over the place with way too much time spent on flashbacks and too little time setting up things like conflict with the pikes, any criminal underworld stuff (seriously, no criminal/gangster stuff whatsoever), why Boba Fett even cares about the city or being a crime boss (with no interest in crime?)in the first place. And then it just switches to Mandolorian season 3 and a Luke Skywalker Jedi training montage that just feels so out of place. Heaven forbid that you have a contained story and not advertise your expended universe.
There was no interesting set pieces (other than than the Mando and Luke tangents), everything was very brown and drab. I know it's a desert planet but it gets so tiring to look at. And the action scenes... the action scenes, my oh my. The moped chase scene in the third (?) episode was laughably bad, everything moved at a snails pace and looked goofy as hell. The last episode was just an 45 minutes of shooting lasers uselessly at a shield, it was giving me a headache.
And Cad Bane, was very excited to see him make his debut live action appearance but then he just gets killed in the next episode? What the hell!? One of the great Star Wars villains, with a great legacy from Clone Wars and Bad Batch who would have made an excellent nemesis towards Boba and Mando but he just dies in the finale, and the death wasn't even earned they just wanted to give Boba Fett a hero moment.
Just a stupid idea for a show. Boba Fett isn't a character he's just some guy that looked cool in Empire Strikes back.
The Bloodhound (2020)
Baffled by the low rating
This was a really interesting movie, it's a slow burn and has quite a few creepy moments. It is well shot, has a understated yet effective score, and the two main leads give great performances. It's under 90 mins so if you're interested in seeing a brisk and intriguing film, I'd highly recommend it.
Polar (2019)
Polar for POLAR-izing
Not understanding the hate. I saw the reviews and decided to give it a chance and it was far better then I expected. Mikkelsen is great as the retired assassin and Vanessa Hudgens gives one of the best performances of her career. The main weakness of the movie for me was when it focused on side characters, these scenes gave cheap B-movie feels and relied on raunchy, gross-out humour and violence that really hurt the film. If you can look past the flaws and the ultra-violence there is a really good movie here.