Wesley Quenichet

One of the dumbest and most formulaic action movies I’ve seen in a while, but still fun to watch. Jason Statham is cool but this thing should have gone straight to streaming. I still liked the plot but the acting was bad. The script seemed like it was sort of improved. I think the story may resonate in the US right now because of Hunter Biden and is possibly one of the reasons it’s been so well received.

Notice the movie doesnt say just do away with Barbies in general. It’s okay for little kids to blurt out “Fascist!” at whomever they don’t know or agree with. Nice. Also, it’s convenient that they don’t bring child rearing or the family unit into any of it in any real way. Pretty sure I don’t know many women who want to do construction jobs but they may have them all. Hauling rebar for 10 hours a day is super fun. It’s ironic that the way the Barbies take back control is by manipulating the Ken’s male desire to be helpful, then when the guys least expect it they go hang out with another Ken. So interesting that that’s what caused the war in Barbie Land. So it was in ancient Greece. Yay corporations!! Just a poser and pandering film made by a corporation willing to jump into a bandwagon to make money and sell plastic. Thanks Mattel and Hollywood!

I think the name is perfect. Extrapolations are something’ only the human animal can do. No other animal has a frontal cortex developed enough to imagine the future. as Michio Kaku is fond of saying, we have a built-in Time Machine in our brains. Fortunately, most of what human beings extrapolate inside their minds is not real. That’s what we call fear. Imagining unreal and untrue events that haven’t occurred most, which probably will not ever occur. Thus it’s fair to say this is a work of fiction based on the imaginings of dramatically trained artists and writers, who believe that it’s their destiny to cry out the sky is falling while using pseudoscientific, jargon, fake charts, and graphs, and of course, B list television actors to portray handsome, beautiful and elegant chicken Littles. Unfortunately, it’s also boring. I mean I like a good yarn as well as the next guy. But come on make it entertaining at least. For millennia people have been saying the world is going to come to an end, that we’re nearing apocalypse. It makes for awesome storytelling. Just not in this case. I love sci-fi. But this one puts me to sleep every time I try to watch it. I’ll keep trying though.

To be fair, Scooby Doo was a classic show that appealed to a wide audience of kids….and when it came out there were only three channels and like 5 cartoons to watch. It wasn’t terribly well written, but its characters were all archetypes the audience (little kid, maybe some bored teens) could relate to. So the new show is (I guess?) trying to be relevant to young adults, LGBTQ and Anyone else who watches animated shows. Put in lots of underage sex. I guess you could say the CW’d it. Writing is bad, there’s no Scooby yet though I hear “they” are coming. Thats a wild swing and honestly kind of stupid, and in a giant field of content I guess someone figured it couldnt hurt to waste a little money on this idea. Unfortunately it turned out somehow cliche, hard to watch, and just in general not Sooby Doo. At All. I give it two seasons but only one star.

I have it an extra star because there was nothing else on so I watched it anyway. I know, I’m addicted to tv. I’ve actually watched worse shows. I’m not proud of it. Ok, the good: Some of the acting was pretty good. A lot of the camera work was good. The sound was good. Editing seemed to be good. Congrats to post. You deserve a raise. Now the bad: Terrible, terrible story. Weak production. Bad script. No discernible motivation for anything the actors do. In fact almost all the characters were mostly unbelievable. It was so predictable you could basically watch the first 15 minutes and skip to the next episode. but I guess this fits the formula of the type of junk that people are eating and digesting and regurgitating and eating and digesting and regurgitating over and over again. when you sit down and watch loads and loads of streaming media you start to realize that the stories are all the same. somehow somebody stroked the formula upon Hollywood and since there’s no original thought anymore everybody is scrambling to fit the next in a Long line of trash into a form people will consume over and over again. This one sort of succeeded in that vein. So congrats hope you’re proud of yourself. Otherwise if you want to be good to yourself turn the TV off go outside and get some activity going on read a book anything else., because you’re wasting your time if you watch this.

I have not read the books, so I’m just reviewing based on what I see. First, the good: Michael Dorman is just plain fun to watch. The acting in the show is also pretty good, and the story is compelling emotionally. There are plenty of characters to love and plenty more to hate. David Alan Grier, Paul Sparks, really most of the cast is great. Now the bad: Being from Texas and a fairly regular hunter and fisherman, I can tell you that I have never seen a game warden act so weird. Game wardens are not park rangers, get it right. They’re law enforcement, and tough ones too. They have more authority than a regular cop, and are highly trained, aggressive, some of the time bullies. They can search you or your property without a warrant and come onto your place or in your house, and they will and do. Often. Since they rarely catch people, the ones who are unfortunate enough to be caught with an extra bird or a buck that’s a bit too small or with horns out of whatever regulation the county has figured, you will suffer. So to me the character Joe Pickett is not terribly believable. Also the Scarlett’s are not believable as people either. They are scary but that type of behavior, assaulting officers and murdering and threatening will get you run right out of town and into the state penitentiary. Finally, it’s trying really hard to make the show seem like it’s a champion for nature. I know, it’s politically in vogue, and animals ARE really cool and should be protected and the show IS a DRAMA about a game warden, but it makes the whole story seem not terribly real, at least to me. It could be a lot better I think, but I know some stories are better as books. I imagine this story is too.