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Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week (2015)
Way to nice towards the female participants, but it is a good show
So it is basically a reality show with 25 people that is eliminated after the boot camp goes forward. Each episode is lead by different instructors from different countries, and here is where the charm is of the whole show.
The show, unfortunately, has a stench of a political agenda. As a soldier myself i can say that the female winner of the first season would never have gone past week 2. The pattern that all male contestants need to be eliminated but the female ones quit and then actually win the whole ting, it becomes to unserious.
While the three first episodes of the second season start to show who the main participants is, the main star is the instructor of the week that you can feel really pushes the participants to their limit. Their criteria to dismiss people varies so never known when one of the contestants leaves,(except women, they never gets dismissed from the first reccondo instructor who dismiss two people the first 15 minutes to the Green Beret instructor that rather wants to get the participants to quit themselves.
BoJack Horseman (2014)
Review for season 3, what an ending!
Bojack is one of those strange animation series that not everyone get. I can not watch this with my girlfriend because she feels "uncomfortable" with the animals/human crossover world. However i believe that if i can get her to see two episode it will end.
Okay, over to the review for this season, and i must say this is a show that really grows on me. The twelve episodes went by really fast, and the one with the aquatic world was great in all its dark conclusion. However nothing will prepare you for the downhill the last three episodes takes you on. Without spoiling it gives us a great voice-performance from the actors that really shows us the dark and human sides of the different cast, until it all again goes into a crazy frenzy, totally deluded from real life.
Behind all the madness and the surreal situation there is a pure human drama about an man, on the wrong side of the lifespan, forced to confront his accomplishments. While Bojack is riding high with his performance in a Oscar-worthy blockbuster drama, he is mentally still in the stage where we left him last season. Alone with serious mental issues. We now follow him in both present and in 2007 around the time of his "bojack horseman show" and we see more of the background to why he became who he are.
In some aspects the episodes focus on other characters also, but the main character is of course Bojack and in the climax of the last three episode we see the final breaking of him and the season ends on a semi-cliffhanger. For me Bojack represents the potential of good histories told on binge-watching. I can not recommend this enough.
Ghostbusters (2016)
Hemsworth steals the show!
I went to the cinema with mixed feelings about this movie. I have never been a big Ghostbusters fan, but i really enjoyed the Feig/McCarthy movie Spy, and i hoped that this one would be in the same alley.
In some few nuggets of comedy there are moments where you laugh good,but it is a little bit oxymoron that it is Hemsworth that actually provides these moments of comedy gold. Because it is obvious that there is a a political statement in this movies, to the jokes about how stupid men to the end battle where the bad guy gets castrated.
This would not bug me so much if the comedy was quality. Unfortunately its not. McKinnon and Jones are good, talentful comedians, but this movie is not right for them. Mainly because they need some more movie-experience to get the timing and body-language that is required by a top-movie, SNL can not provide that before tackling a Blockbuster-production like Ghostbusters. Especially McKinnon suffers here, as she has trouble with finding her own identity in a role that is more than a 5 min sketch on SNL, and her body language is trying to be a Jim Carrey light, without succeeding. In scenes where she is supposed to be in the background, she does strange things that draws the attention from the dialogue of the rest of the crew.
McCarthy is comfortable with Feig and they perform much of the same routine as they did in Spy, while Wiig manages to balance her role good enough. However, the big star of this movie is Hemsworth that is the pillar of comedy in this movie. His line and "dumbwitted" acting is perfect for the role.
Now, the biggest problem is the lack of a good foundament for the franchise. Feig unfortunately does not dare to go his own way, and the story feel forced to appeal to everyone. Some of the dialogue is also cringe-worthy (the power of patty) and made go into fetal position on the cinema-chair.There is no clear picture of what Ghostbusters want to be, and if a sequel comes, i hope Feig dares to make his own vision clearer in the movie.
So to end this review, not good, Hemsworth steals the show and makes it worthwhile.
Baroness Von Sketch Show (2016)
Not liking it, put some potential is there.
Okay, i will admit that i picked up this show a tired summer-day where every other show is on hiatus.
The first sketch was a good start, with some black humor parodying the everyday suburban house-life and our desire to leave it. However, this first impression was soon to be overshadowed by the next sketch, that was taken out of a feminist playbook. Now, you can have many opinions about feminism, good or bad, but it can not be denied that it is a very controversial topic that always bring a storm of debate with it.
The sketch about how the world would be Utopia if women were in charge could be seen as satire of feminism itself, or a feminist statement, but the sketch being so early in the pilot episode sets the tone, and i feel dragged into another debate about it.
The rest of the sketches are good enough, and reminds me of the British "the sketch-show", low-panned quick sketch with a singular punch- line. However instead of getting the funny point, it drags out into quip remarks about the society.
I do see where this show wants to go, and if they can master it, it would be a remarkable show. However, good satire is a satire that manages to punch in all directions and that has no political agenda to promote than to make fun of those in power. I do not feel that this show do this.
Marseille (2016)
A good first attempt from Netflix International
I like political thrillers, but this one did not hit right with me. First off all, the red herring of the relationship between Taro and Barres could be executed better. Throughout the whole eight episodes we know the twists and turns long before they happen.
The show also gives impression that the whole french elite is nymphomaniacs, and the series has more sex-scenes than a filler GOT- episodes. Not that i am complaining, they are shown for seconds at a time and does not feel out of place, and Nadia Fares is one of the most beautiful french women i have seen on TV.
The thing is that this TV-shows lacks experience. It is clear that the ideas are there to hold us for 8 episodes straight, but the execution is to weak. The clipping and the music is misplaced, and the thriller is lacking throughout the show. The mystery of Barres origins could be a great thread to keep the show going, but it ended up in nothing since we got it spelled out for us pretty early.
The story is built on a muncipal-election between the mayor and his former protégé, and that all you actually need to know. There are some subplots here and there, but in all they are pretty irrelevant.
The show ends in an unwanted cliff-hanger also, promoting a new season that we do not really need. If there is going to be a season two, call it "Lyon or "Lens" or "Bordeaux" and start anew. Keep the mystery alive for more than two season and make the political intrigue a little more complex.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Intimidation Game (2015)
Stereotypical and wrong.
Inspired by the "gamergate" controversy this episode is offensive to everyone that plays video games.
Bad guys are white males living in moms basement.(seriously) The main victim is a Indian female developer with the name Punjabi (seriously) and wearing big gold earrings. I now understand Muslims when they watch episodes where everyone of them are portrayed as wife-beating terrorists that hate America.
Cheesy lines like "whats the next level" and "lets level up" from the main characters pushes this in satire/parody level. The plots goes like this: Lady attending the Booth of the game Amazonian Warriors (seriously) in a games festival gets assaulted by two "gamers" who don't want women in gaming. And from there it turns out that every (white) male that plays a video game cant separate real-life from video-games and kidnaps Punjabi and then rapes her in front of a web-cam from the site Red-chan-it. (Get it? Its 4/8 Chan and Reddit combined) The plot narrative follows the normal pattern with escalation without any narrative then the victim. There is just conclusion that the bad guys does it because they do not want women in gaming.
Its basically black and white and in this age of Television i expected more.
V for Vendetta (2005)
There were many traps, this movie avoided them all
I have never read the comics, but still i can clearly see that this is a warning from an eccentric cartoonist about how the political system today can play on fear to get power. This movie could easily been a over drowned action flick, but there are only to matrix like scenes in the movie, the first is when V visits the tvstudio and kills some policemen's, the second is where he gets rids of some soldiers in the underground. Instead the producers have focused on building and creating a good backstory and atmosphere, something they have have clearly succeeded in. But still there are some flaws. There can be to much dialog and there are some parts in the movie where it is just plain boring. But still a masterpiece that are going to my DVD collection as soon as it is available.