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The Strays (2023)
A thriller that's good at being a thriller, bad at being a coherent movie.
The story starts off with the mom (Neve) and she's doing random housewife stuff. She has a perfect life, but suddenly she's being haunted by these figures. Skip some steps, come to find out those people haunting her are the black children she abandoned to go make a new white family.
The og children were fully in the right to be mad, but they went way too extreme. They would convince the mom's other kids to do drugs and then suddenly scream at them out of nowhere. The breaking point to me was at the end of the movie where the og son kills the dad (which was completely uncalled for since the dad was on their side????) and the mom just runs off again to leave her new kids with the obviously mentally unstable og kids.
Also love how the two dark-skinned kids are violent, crazy, and were right to be mad but too violent for you to actually support them. The dark-skinned dad was also apparently "a bad man". Only the white people and mixed kids, excluding the son bc he possibly killed some kid just for teasing him, are all perfectly amicable people that SUPPORT the og kids, and are still victims. There was a message somewhere here, but it didn't just get lost, it was bludgeoned to death.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
The movie was boring and Amy was hands down the best character
First off, this movie is insanely misogynistic to Amy. Paul is legitimately stalkerish and tries to "stake his claim" on her like the other guys in the movie
Let 👏 this 👏 girl 👏 live 👏.
Second, all of the villains are stupid as hell. No, you're not getting $30 million from a discount mall. Half of the villains can do kick flips, but instead of going into parkouring, or literally anything else, they're riding around on bikes made for 12 year olds trying to chase down a 40 year old hypoglycemic mall cop. THE FEDERAL CHARGES ARE NOT WORTH IT HUNTY. NOTHING IN THIS MALL IS WORTH BURSTING THROUGH GLASS AND CATCHING LIFE IN PRISON.
Ofc since this is an early 2000s movie, Amy immediately falls head over heels for Paul by the end of the movie despite his creepy and inappropriate behavior towards her and the people around her throughout the entire movie.
3/10.
Extinction (2018)
Everything is infuriating
The only reason I'm rating this a 3/10 is for some of the acting and the visuals. The plot was incoherent. If you think too much or even use common sense to try and understand the plot it falls apart.
Spoiler, all the humans on earth are secretely "synthetics", which is basically just a humanoid robot. Then you have to ask, well do they get old, who created them, why would the humans leave and not just shut down the synthetics? It all falls apart the second you think critically about it.
The kids do the classic child thing in these sci-fi movies where they'll scream and stand around, putting everyone else's lives in danger. It's infuriating every time. Everything else besides the central plot and some of the characters were great, but since that's the core part of the story, then this is my score.
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (2017)
I love this show
I love OK K. O. It's a fun and enjoyable series I feel like any one of any age can watch. I love that platonic friends in the show can STAY platonic friends in the show, unlike some OTHER shows I know (Danny Phantom, Steven Universe and Star vs. The forces of evil, I'm looking at you). All the characters have their own personality, and the show heavily references game culture and coding culture without seeming pretentious.
This show is also able to be rewatched without spoiling the fun. One of the best shows I've seen seen since 2012 and I'm so sad it got cancelled.
Monsters of Man (2020)
The acting and effects was good but...
Everything else made me super annoyed.
Forced romance - check
Characters screaming out their location - check
People grieving and giving a memorial at terrible times - check
Whiny annoying characters that never want to leave people, even if they're dead or about to be - check
Horror movie logic that allows your enemy to have the best weapons and ways to track you through your own sheer stupidity - check
Also, the way the Vietnamese people were treated in this movie was a little suspicious. Ok, so 37 of them die in the first half, no one cares. Then a random blind old man comes around, mumbling to himself in caves. There was no reason for him to be there at all and it is not important in the slightest. That part really stuck out to me bc of how random it was.
This movie could have been great and been an amazing allegory on how AI becoming more advanced can achieve disastrous effects, but no, it just turns into a D-grade thriller movie.
Adventure Time (2010)
Amazing show
This show was a part of my childhood. I decided to rewatch it recently and still holds up as one of my favorite cartoon shows of all time.
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (2015)
I love this show
It is not AMAZING by any stretch of the imagination. There are many, many flaws in the show especially in the later seasons. But I love it anyway and I don't know why.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
Better than all the other Spiderman movies
That's how I truly felt when watching this movie. I loved it and I could see the care that was put into it.
Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2012)
Great show but...
Great show in the beginning half, then the last season rolled around it was one of the worst thing's I've ever seen. The horrible season doesn't outweigh the good parts in the show in the earlier seasons. But the last season just weighed everything down.
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)
Missed the mark for me
I saw the rave reviews for this show and so I decided to check it out. It did not live up to expectations.
The animation is a coin toss - it can look shoddy and look like it was done in Microsoft paint, or it can be beautiful.
The hero side characters - They are all one note and kinda boring characters. Flower child, edgy teen, spoiled rich girl, level headed best friend, and computer nerd with bad social skills. BAM I just described all the main heroes and they're clichés.
Diversity - There's plenty of HUMAN diversity, in female characters. Male characters get the short end of the stick in this series. But you can't introduce lizard people, and goat people, and other species/races and then have all of the main cast be humans. Where's the originality?
The Horde - Ok, so is the Horde dangerous or not? One minute they're decimating villages, then, in the NEXT EPISODE, they get beat up with palm leaves by hippies. How can anyone take the Horde seriously if they flip flop on being powerful or not ALL THE TIME.
Minor inconsistencies - Things that were established get immediately broken because reasons. Things is kind of a nitpick but it annoyed me throughout the show. Like Scorpia for instance, she's a fan favorite but her character is an inconsistency. So you're telling me that the Horde raises child soldiers to fight princesses and shows princess being portrayed as evil masterminds, but a former princess can just come in and get a leadership position? I don't care that she "wasn't well liked among the princesses", you would think her presence is something that would cause at least SOME hostility. Or Adora, you would think that a child soldier who has supposedly been training against princesses her whole life wouldn't be won over in an afternoon with some cake and change her morals and stance on life in A SINGLE AFTERNOON. Is the Horde bad, yes, but it made the character seem wishy-washy to me to turn over a new leaf so quickly.
It takes until SEASON 3 for the show to get good. And then it's good until the Season 5 finale which was disappointing. I don't know about you, but it just seems like bad writing if you have to slug through the first 2 seasons of the show
Catradora - This ship is abusive and I'm mad it was made cannon. Replace Catra with a man and anyone would be able to see how toxic it is.
Also Entrapta. Entrapta was one of my favorite characters but and I like that she was more chaotic neutral than the others but, the leash. They put a full grown woman that's older than all of them, on a leash. She's supposed to be autistic coded so this was double sus to me.
To me, I can't just give a show a 10-star review because it has diversity🌈. It actually has to have good plot, characters, and themes in order to get me invested. Unfortunately, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power barely has any of those things, and maybe that's why I wasn't as hype about it as everyone else seemed to be. I'm actually in the target audience, and the show had so many major flaws for me that I just couldn't get into it fully.