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Fallout (2024)
Fantastic adaptation
The best thing about this show is that they've managed to capture the feeling of booting up a new Fallout game. The world has such a unique feeling and tone - upbeat yet dark, nostalgic yet futuristic, comedic yet strangely mournful - and boy have they delivered with this. Doubly so when a sizable portion of the audience was pre-prepared to hate it, and have clearly flipped upon viewing.
Honestly if you enjoy fallout as a game, and even if you don't, then its worth watching at least the first episode. The plot is pretty simplistic, but that's fine when the world and the characters are both done so well.
Blood Quantum (2019)
Great start, but fails to keep it up
The first third of this movie is fantastic. Its a creepy slow burn with a few outbreaks of genuinely great violence. The characters work and the plot is intriguing. The concept is also unique and really works at the beginning. For fans of the zombie genre it might actually be worth watching this section.
Unfortunately the movie plumets in quality after a time jump at the beginning of the second act. We switch protagonist and the whole movie descends into see-that-before territory. You can basically guess the entire plot of the movie a few minutes into the second act. Sometimes that fine, when the delivery is great, but unfortunately it isn't.
The very final section, although predictable, does improve in quality. The pace increases and some well designed action set pieces - with impressive gore for a small budget movie - get to shine. Unfortunately by this point everyone else I was watching it with was on their phone.
Herd (2023)
Something different to your normal zombie film
This movie is divisive because it takes some pretty big risks that make it unique in the genre. I went into it blind and ended up really enjoying the film because the characters are engaging and the drama they have is compelling. It's all about how people react to an outbreak.
The big twist, and it's kind of obvious to viewers, is that it isn't *really* a zombie movie. There are zombies in it, there are gun battles and a few bloody deaths, but these aren't the focus and for most of the movie we don't get much out and out horror.
The trope is largely turned on its head, because the people who are usually considered 'stupid' in a zombie movie e.g those who have compassion for the infected and those who trust the Government to fix it, actually aren't so dumb.
If you've watched endless zombie movies and want something slightly different to normal, I'd give it a shot.
Yellowjackets: It Chooses (2023)
The moment of payoff... did not payoff
This episode is what the entire show has been building up to but due to some poor pacing and the now mixed tone it failed to hit hard.
Characters don't seem to be the same episode to episode anymore as their motivations now openly vary depending on what the plot needs. It makes the actions feel cheap and the characters feel paper thin. The supernatural side of it also, personally, devalues their actions - although I understand some people enjoy that side of things.
Another issue is with the number of visions and fake outs. It feels like we're watching a series of consequence free dream sequences. We can't trust what is on screen, and it basically doesn't matter most of the time, so why should we care?
Writers need to sit down and consider why this didn't work for the audience if they want session 3 to be successful.