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Stranger Things (2016)
Starts strong but they don't know what to do with the characters as time goes by
If I could rate the seasons I would give the first one a 10, the second one a 9 and the third one an 8. The show is fun, the theme is great but they obviously don't know what to do with many of the characters as time goes by. I haven't watched the fourth season and I'm not going to after the third one. I think it's better for me to quit before the show goes lower.
In the first season, Will goes missing. So you have the 3 friends looking for him (Mike, Lucas and Dustin), the brother, the chief of police and the mother all looking for him as well. And also Eleven escapes and we are all trying to figure out who exactly is she? What exactly is the monster? And what exactly is the place Will has gone too? Nancy (Mike's sister who is a friend of Will) is also looking for her missing friend, so we see her drama with her boyfriend Steve while she tries to look for her. This season is great.
In the second season, all these problems are resolved but also all the characters return. So, there are a lot of characters that simply don't know what to do. Eleven comes back and the chief of police is hiding her, these 2 make sense. They made Will still have problems being possessed so the mother there still makes sense because she is still worried. But nobody is looking for him, so the friends are not used on that. There's nothing for the rest of the cast to do. So they bring a love interest for one friend and give a pet to another just to make them do something. They turn Will's brother into Nancy's boyfriend and make them try to expose the government just so they can do something on screen. Steve (Nancy's former boyfriend) even becomes Dustin's babysitter just to show up on screen, even though they didn't know each other.
Season 3 is even worst in this regard. All the characters come back and all the problems of season 2 were resolved. So this there is really not reason for many of them to show up and this time is painfully obvious. The entire subplot of Dustin, Steve and the russians was pointless and it's there just to fill the time. Dustin telling them where to go, could have been easily skipped by Sergey telling them how to go from one point to another when he drew the map for them. The party of friends following Eleven like lap dogs are pointless there. They even say it themselves constantly saying that Eleven will fight the monster, they will just watch. And that's what they pretty much do. To keep Will's mother relevant, they try to make her the chief of police's love interest. It's really all a mess and it looks forced how they really want the characters to be in the show but don't know what do with them.
The show and the cgi is still pretty cool on every season, so it's still fun. But I think I don't want to know how are they going to "force" these characters into another plotline on season 4 or the one after that. I think I will only enjoy this show less and less from this point. It was great at first when characters had a purpose and I didn't know what was going on, but I don't care to watch more of this after a couple of seasons because the writers don't have anything interesting to do with the characters and insist on keeping them all regardless.
Silverhawks: Darkbird (1986)
Mon Star disbands the Silver Hawks while trying to secure the financial freedom of Brim Star
With a brilliant plan, Mon Star hires Hardware to create Dark Wing. A cyborg identical to Quicksilver. Then orders Dark Wing to attack a planet that is basically the bank of the galaxy making the planet think it's the silver hawks attacking them, reporting this to Earth. And thus Earth calls Commander Stargazer and tells him to disband the Silver Hawks thinking they have gone rogue. Then, Mon Star sends Hardware and Mumbo Jumbo to come back with all the money from that planet, but not before teaching us all a valuable lesson on how to handle an employee looking for a raise or anyone looking for money from you really.
Yes, robbing a bank is not a good deed but desperate times require desperate situations. At this point Brim Star has suffered a terrorist attack, they can't get to run the artificial sun as a service to the galaxy and the Silver Hawks stole all their power minerals. The planet is at the brink of an economic collapse because of the Silver Hawks. Money is needed, so this was a direct approach to a Planet-Bank where the people that incarcerated Mon Star keeps their money. It's almost justified from Mon Star's point of view
But "disbanding" the Silver Hawks has no effect on them because they continue to operate without any impediment proving that they are above the law and that whoever hired them to capture Mon Star can bribe anyone they need in Earth to let them work without interference to make sure their money is not touched by Mon Star or anyone else.
They intercept Hardware and Mumbo Jumbo and steal their money, then they are attacked by Dark Wing when they reached the Bank-Planet but Quicksilver manages to fight and defeat Dark Wing, Mon Star tries to support him against Quick Silver but he is eventually overwhelmed by all the Silver Hawks at the same time and has to flee.
Silverhawks: Journey to Limbo (1986)
Mon Star did nothing wrong
The Silver Hawks reach Limbo Galaxy and meet Commander Stargazer. Soon after, they are attacked by Mon Star. Now of course, Mon Star looks like the bad guy here but put yourself in his position. If you found out that the people that imprisoned you has hired some cyborg assassins to capture or kill you, would you just sit tight waiting for them to come for you? Or would you take the initiative and try to take them out before they get ready to attack? The answer is obvious. Mon Star did nothing wrong here.
Mon Star is not alone in his attack, he is accompanied by a group of followers that are labeled as criminals by the Silver Hawks just because they are associated to Mon Star. But there is a difference between them and the Silver Hawks. The Silver Hawks are being paid to capture Mon Star, it's their job. These "criminals" on the other hand are not being paid to follow Mon Star. They are helping him because they believe in him, they trust him, they have chosen him as their leader and they will follow him even to battle. That's the kind of inspiring leader that Mon Star is.
Unfortunately, Mon Star's followers are completely outmatched by the Silver Hawks and is not even close. Every single one of them lose their duels in a one sided way. Mumbo Jumbo the supposed "muscle" of the group is easily overpowered by the steel brothers, bullied in a very cruel way in fact. In the end, Mon Star is forced to call the retreat.
Silverhawks (1986)
I loved this show as a kid
I used to watch this as a kid, like most people that reviewed this probably. Back then in the 90's, the TV only had 1 channel with cartoons in my country Argentina and I would watch anything on it no matter how good or bad it was. I guess I came in the end part of this type of shows because I barely remember much of the Thundercats or He-man but I remember a lot of this show. That's why I'm not objective, this was my childhood. I'm seeing it with rose-tinted glasses here.
I started watching it again as an adult and dear God this cartoons were bad. Corny and extremely cheesy. Also kind of boring and simplistic plots. This is all fine because the cartoon is not for adults, it's for kids. People complaining about them breathing in space are missing the point. And if you didn't realized the show was for kids through the episode then at the end you have an educative section where they teach you a bit about space. Really basic stuff. The show is so old that they still thought that Pluto was a planet back then.
I had to change the narrative of the show in my head to make it a bit more interesting as you can tell for my reviews of each episode. The show it's basically a space gang against space cops. Every episode the gang tries to do something new and the good guys simply stop them. The bad guys are quite unique and different from each other while the good guys are pretty generic and similar. This is why I would always root for the bad guys, they were just more interesting and they were the ones trying to do interesting things each episode.
Recommend? Of course not. Like I said, rose-tinted glasses. If you watched it as a kid, and you want to watch it again, you will do it no matter what anybody says. If you didn't watch it as a kid and you are curious if this is could be a good cartoon to watch, let's just say: "You had to be there". Now watching it for the first time, it's not worth it if we are honest.
Silverhawks: The Origin Story (1986)
Who is funding these space mercenary cyborgs?
Mon Star escapes from his prison. But why was he there in the first place? That's never explained. Did he actually committed a crime to be there or is he there because he is an apparent political rival to the people that pays Commander Stargazer's salary? We don't know. All we know is that Commander Stargazer claims he is a "Universal public enemy number 1", but how do we know that this Commander doesn't have his own agenda? There are no good nor bad people in the world. Only people with agendas.
Mon Star tries to bribe the guards before his escape because who wouldn't in his position? And all they do is mock him and also accuse him of harming a guard in his previous escape. Something that is never proven I shall say. It could have easily been in self-defense as we later see, when he is shot by one of these guard without a warning, without receiving any command to comply. He proceeds to reflect this laser attack killing the guard, again in self-defense. Seriously, if the videos of armed black people being shot down by the police aggravate you then skip this scene, he gave no warning whatsoever before he started shooting at Mon Star.
Back on Earth a "Professor" and a "General" gather a team of highly trained soldiers and transform them into cyborgs. They give them an expensive spaceship that can disappear and they test their abilities against some jet drone that some green alien is controlling remotely.
The real questions here are who is funding this? Where is the money coming from? Is that green alien behind this operation or is he simply an arms dealer? Why do these people on Earth need to help out Commander Stargazer in another galaxy? What is in it for them? It's clear that the same people that are paying them to send these cyborg assassins to the galaxy of Limbo and that will provide the Silver Hawks the resources to fight Mon Star there for the rest of show are the same people that wanted Mon Star to be jailed. But why? Mon Star's true enemy has yet to reveal itself, the Silver Hawks are just it's goons. Paid soldiers. Mercenaries that will try to capture or kill Mon Star. No good guys in this world, only people with agendas.
Bad Sister (1931)
Watching this movie feels like using a time machine
The plot is simple but a good one with a nice twist, the movie last only 90 minutes. It was made 90 years ago. It's so hard to grasp the differences with today's world. So much has happened since then. Everybody that you see in this movie is dead. This is obvious but it's also feel kind of shocking realizing about that when you watch it. The parents were born in the 19th century. The kid will be around 18 when World War 2 starts. The main actress will stop getting roles in several years and will succumb to depression and commit suicide before she is 35 years old in the 1940's and yet her work in this movie will make her be remembered for generations, I'm here talking about her and she is being dead for nearly 80 years now. It's so crazy.
You can see in this movie that people talked differently back then. More polite, more respectful, more refined. Men treated women in a different more respectful way, and in fact they talked to other men in a more formal way. It was a different world. Movies today that are based on the 30's seemed to miss these details, maybe perhaps because they want to represent a tale from the 30's but with people that talks and behave like today, you know that talks in a way that modern people can familiarize with.
The cars, the hats, the "sexy dress" that she buys that is not revealing at all. These are all things that resemble this era so well and we are used to see it in shows based on these times like Boardwalk Empire and Peaky Blinders. But it's just so refreshing to see the actual real thing in this movie.
Sidney Fox as the main actress is great here but also Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart shine in their scenes as well despite having much smaller roles. They really steal the scenes they are part of.
The ending is great. It's not a "happy ending" by any means when you think about it but you feel like it is somehow. It seems that this movie wants to end giving out a message of hope or wants to leave with a "happy" tone in the final scene. And it's really well done because I must say that it left me feeling good even if what happened during the movie was actually very sad.
I liked the movie and recommend it but also as you can tell I enjoyed the trip to the 30's that movies like this one provides. I recommend anybody that is not used to watching movies from the 30's to watch this movie or one from this time because the experience is living this era that our ancestors lived through these movies is beautiful.
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
The ending ruined it
The more you think about it, the dumber it is. So Satan wants them to kill themselves for him. And the girls that previously refused, went away and killed themselves anyway. So what changes? Mission accomplished from the start of the movie then. Maybe he needs "8 sacrifices at the same time". But then why go for the new girl? He didn't have time to win her over and manipulate her like he had with the rest, every girl in the campus has fallen for him. Look at the way that girl looks at him the one that tells him that "there are still 8 girls in the campus", so much admiration. She worships him, even the dragon lady does as he says. They are all under his control. So why go for the only one in the campus that isn't? Even if he wants her specifically for some reason not stated in the movie, he made no attempt in the entire movie to connect with her. They had 1 conversation in class in front of everyone and that's all.
And then he tells them to wait while there is fire in the room and won't even hurry to catch the girl, and why go after her anyway, she needs to "sacrifice willingly" so there is no point in catching her. So they all die then, but they weren't 8 girls like he needed, just 7, so now he needs another 8 and do it all over. It's just stupid, Satan is stupid lol
Weakest scene in the movie is the death of Professor Delacroix. He fell on a pond and some girls started to poke him with sticks to stop him from getting out and... he died from that. Slowly drown in there I guess? That's just... I don't even... Girls poking him with sticks, really? Even if he can't swim and the movie forgot to state this, couldn't he have grabbed one of their sticks and get out of there? He surely could have overpowered any of them and gotten out out of there. It's just very hard to not roll your eyes on that part, that's all.