avis de dmshrmed

I enjoyed watching this for the most part, but it often felt like watered down Adventure Time fan fiction. There's a good chance that that's what Fionna and Cake is supposed to be, so I'm not going to be too harsh on it. I just didn't feel as much of a connection to it as I wish I did.

Adventure Time is one of my favorite, if not my favorite, animated shows. I remember seeing the first few commercials for it ages ago on Cartoon Network and honestly thinking that it looked stupid. But when I watched it, I realized just how wrong my perception had been. The show undisputedly had a soul, and was unlike anything I'd seen up to that point.

Fionna and Cake, however, seems to be lacking some of that soul and imagination. It's not totally without it by any means, but it isn't able to match Adventure Time. It also feels strangely depressing in a way that is hard to describe. It's like it knows that it's depressing, but doesn't want to admit it. Maybe that feeling is intentional, but I can't say it improved the experience for me.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but it also needs to be said. There is almost nothing redeeming about this show. Nearly every single aspect of it is subpar.

I have never watched a live adaptation of an anime, so it makes me question just how incredibly awful other live adaptations must be for this to be considered a good one by so many.

I'm not saying that there's no passion or effort behind this show, but it really doesn't show. All of the fun, energy, and thoughtfulness present in the anime's visuals and Japanese voice acting is just no where to be found here. The visuals are cheap and amateurish, while the acting is stale and unconvincing.

Animation and live action are two equally great but very different mediums. They are both visual and auditory experiences, but the way to make each convincing is not the same process. Bridging the gap is no easy task, so I respect the attempt, but in the end, this show just doesn't work.

I didn't expect much better, considering the quality of some of the recent Disney Star Wars shows, but I'm still ultimately disappointed.

I feel like there was no heart behind this episode, like no one involved, aside from the cgi artists, actually cared about what they were working on here. The cinematography, costume work, pacing, writing, and editing, were all let downs.

Each shot was very unimpressive (especially compared to the concept art shown at the end). The quality of most of the alien costumes immediately distracted me from the story (I swear it's somehow significantly worse costume work than the original Star Wars, like Lucasfilm is pretending poor costume work is a stylistic choice, in order to cut costs). The grass pirate guy looked especially laughable. The pacing was erratic at best, making for an awkward experience. The writing, in terms of story, was questionable, as too many different side quests were thrust upon Mando too quickly (and that monster attack scene at the beginning felt poorly implemented, like Mando just needed a cool looking entrance, and this random scenario is what the writers came up with). The editing was really distracting throughout the episode, but especially in the monster attack scene.

The two Mando episodes embedded in The Book of Boba Fett were very good (the rest of The Book of Boba Fett was awful), so I was hoping that some of what made those so good would have carried over to the third season of The Mandalorian. Unfortunately, only the questionable alien costume work (the low point of those episodes) appears to be the only thing that made it to season 3 of Mando.

I am not convinced, yet, that this season will be a loser, but this was not a good start.

I was really looking forward to this film! I haven't been a huge follower of Del Toro's work but I am a big fan of stop motion. The character designs, the animation, and the concept of a darker take on Pinnochio were all very intriguing. And considering that pretty much every Pinnochio film is questionable at best (except for the old Disney one) and animated films had been in a bit of a rut, everything seemed to line up for a great experience.

But in all honesty, Del Toro's Pinocchio really wasn't anything groundbreaking. It was better than most Pinnochios, but that's not saying much. I appreciate the quality of the stop-motion, but the pacing was questionable, the music was (mostly) awkward, and it was annoyingly juvenile despite its extremely dark themes. By juvenile, I'm not referring to Pinnochio's childishness or lack of understanding; that makes perfect sense for the film. I mean that the writing overall just didn't seem very well thought out. Things just sort of happened, and then someone would start singing a questionably written musical number. It just felt very flat in that regard. Much more thought and effort was clearly put into the aesthetic, and it shows.

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinnochio seemed much more interested in being weird and different than actually being a competent story. It was a light in the dark for animation, but not a particularly bright one for storytelling.

I haven't been this disappointed by an MCU film since Captain Marvel. Random, poorly paced, nonsense, low effort trash. What an absolute waste of a concept.

At least it was funny... not because it was written well but because it was impossible to take seriously. I laughed hysterically at every gruesome death, every lame attempt at horror, and every nonsense, pointless cameo.

I would accept this movie as a masterpiece if it was made purposely as a joke. It's like someone gave a $200,000,000 budget to a fan fiction writer.

This is the most painfully generic sci-fi show that I have ever seen. Not a grain of personality or vision, and it squanders everything that it borrows from the Halo franchise. Go watch the Expanse instead.

The horrors of war are often sidelined, in Stargate, for the sake of lighter themes. That works most of the time, given the show's mostly lighthearted and adventurous atmosphere. If every episode tried to dive deep into the true face of war, it simply wouldn't be the same show. This episode, however, using the previous episode as a necessary stepping stone, perfectly redirects a fairly typical Stargate plot into a masterpiece on the ugly chaos of war. It goes even further in asking how that side of war should be remembered, and whether it should be remembered at all. This was an episode that truly plays with your expectations, leaving nothing in exactly the place that you thought it would be, and doing so with genuine care and concern for the topics it's addressing. While I'm certainly up for more adventure, and will be watching and enjoying the rest of the series, this episode felt almost like a thematic finale for all of the horrors SG-1 and the SGC have suffered throughout the series.

Every episode directed by Robert Rodriguez in Boba Fett and The Mandalorian has been subpar. All perfect examples of how bad directing can ruin good ideas. Just look at the concept art in the credits for an example of how even just competent cinematography could have vastly improved everything in the episodes that he's directed. Lazy, cheap, and incompetent; Rodriguez should stick to Spy Kids.

You may not agree that it's the best Marvel film, but it is at least the best of the Thors. The poor writing and lackluster characters that held back the previous Thor films are either done away with or remastered to a much higher quality.

Much needed humor is injected into the world of Thor. The previous two Thor's took themselves far too seriously. However, that does not suggest a lack of serious themes in this film. They take center stage when they need to.

You'll probably enjoy this film as long as you're not a pretentious man-child still clinging to comic books as if they're some kind of infallible scripture. Not every super hero film needs to be directly transcribed from a specific comic story. Get over yourselves.

I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what it is, but this film is severely lacking in something the first one mastered.

Let's start with the easy stuff. There are way too many references and bad puns. Some reviewers would call these references "jokes the adults can understand", and while that is true, they aren't funny. They're just kind of there. They are references that exist for you to say "I get that". There is no "ha" preceding that. Yes, the original also had references and bad puns, but they were used well and there weren't nearly as many.

The first LEGO movie was very self aware, but it had a soul that really seemed to care about what it was saying. The second LEGO movie was so self aware that it was very difficult to take seriously.

There was an obvious message about how growing up should be about learning to work with different people, but it kind of fell flat beneath the veil of "play with others even if you don't like how they play". It honestly made me a little angry. Maybe it wasn't intentional, but the film seemed to suggest that traditionally masculine things are incapable of being used in an imaginative way. I couldn't help but feel a pinch of modern social politics biting for my throat.

The first film felt very apolitical, and I believe that's fitting for a film about a franchise of toys that cradled our imaginations before we cared about politics. This film certainly didn't "ruin my childhood" by any means, but it was a disappointment.