Observer X

Found it tedious and tries to be too smart. Two and a half hours of things just happening and at least half the characters reacting to them. That's literally it. We have an oil tanker beaching itself, a plane falling out the sky, a loud noise, a collision buildup of self-driving Tesla cars, intimidating ominous herd of deer, and explosions erupting from a nearby city. And are we owed at least an explanation for all this happening? No. Just an ending of the little girl stuffing her face and watching an episode of “Friends”. Now some might argue that this is the whole point of the movie – that things are happening inexplicably and no one can provide a straight answer. It was even, at one point, said in the movie. Well, I call this total cop-out nonsense. There are many, many movies that features world-ending apocalypses without any explanation and we’re mostly shown the survival of some family in said apocalypse. This was just flat-out boring. All we see are two dour families that are barely able to even stand looking at each other. At worst, we have a misanthropic mother who hardly gives anyone the time of day and a smart-aleck teenage girl with a big mouth who just doesn’t know when to zip it. Granted, there are some scenes that piqued my interest, like the encompassing deer, the Tesla collision buildup, and the scene where the teenage boy got sick from radiation, although I later got confused as to why him only and not others - it’s not like radiation discriminates. Ultimately, as much as I tried liking this movie, I could just not. I kept myself watching it through to the end because I held out whatever hope I had that there is an answer to all of this. Although it was mentioned in the movie, the only takeaway I got from it is that chaos happens, nobody knows how it started or who’s behind it all, and we all have to put up with it. Such an original message. It’s not like this has been shown many times before. Terminator. The Matrix. Cargo. BirdBox. A Quiet Place, and many others I may rewatch it again in the future and provide an update, but for now I’m giving it 2 out of 5 stars.

Truly an amazing show that glides above and beyond the limits of my comprehension. It's PC-based writing and humour brings a unique perspective into the modern agenda of America's youth culture, a perspective that I and none of my friends could possibly grasp, no matter how hard we tried. When random stuff happens in the show for seemingly no reason at all, I always come to the presumption that there is an underlying symbolic undertone. For instance, when a meanie threw a paper cutter at Velma, but Fred catches it at the last second, sends it spinning towards a wall, landing inches away from an innocent bystander, only for it to ricochet off that wall and blindside a ginger kid wearing a cap by amputating him. From this, my deduction skills tells me that Fred hates acadamic studies or even anything to do with, and loves sports and girls. He is your shining knight in armour who would do anything to protect the weak, the helpless, the impotent, but there is a dark violent side to him, shown when he totally disregarded the ginger kid's amputation. When Velma has her Wednesday hallucination episodes, I presume her daddy left her all those years back to get the milk but never returned, and due to this, is now suffering from her relapsing PTSD of paternal abandonment. This tells me that Velma never had the proper upbringing as a child, so she wanders the Earth in a suit of cynicism harbored by repressed emotions and can only act them out through her Wednesday hallucigenic episodes. These however are two examples that only barely scratches the proverbial surface. This show is laced with depths that were inconceivable before and after it's birth and that's what makes it conducive to it's total uniqueness. I'm glad this show was greenlighted because it tells me that literally anything is possible. Literally. Especially a brain aneurysm during mid-watch.

Polarized feelings. Great concept, terrible execution. Spoilers Ahead. Several people are invited to a remote resort. Very quickly, some of them began to inexplicably and rapidly age, most noticeably the children, quickly turning to teens, then adults. Fights break out, people going crazy killing each other, there was a miscarriage scene, some gruesome deaths, and then finally two children/senior adults make it out alive. It turns out, the resort was a front for medical research conducting tests for new drugs, and the guests were used as the guinea pigs, unbeknownst to them. While I found the concept amazing and unique to say the least, M. Night Shayamalan unfortunately did a subpar job at bringing it to light. For starters, most of the dialogue in the film was ill-fitting and downright weird. I literally cringed at some of the scenes when these characters were engaging at conversation. Some of the characters were weird themselves. For instance, Charles and Mid-Sized Sedan. What in the world was up with those two? They seemed so out-of-place most of the time and their interactions with others were at times quite off-putting to me. The cinematography was ok, but I felt that Shayamalan overdid it with some of the scenes to no desirable effect. There were a few scenes that was protracted. They could've been cut down or removed entirely and it would still give the same impact to the movie. To top it all off, the special effects were good and I found the ending solid - police was called in and they shut down the facility and research program. It wasn't one of those movies with its open-ended ambiguous cop-out nonsense, so I'll give it points for that. 3.2/5

My god Marvel has stooped to a much lower level. As if bad writing, bland stories and poor character development weren't terrible enough, now they are throwing misandrist themes, overpowered female characters with hardly any explanation as to why they're overpowered, and blink-and-miss villains. Just by watching the first episode alone, I can tell Marvel just wanted to get this over and done with by any means necessary, especially if its at the expense of butchering even their own formula for making superhero origin stories. This one is hardly an origin and more of a gimmick. By this logic, I guess anyone can become a hulk if Banner's blood gets mixed with their own. The thing I found the most irritating are the fourth-wall breaks. I literally roll my eyes every time Jennifer addresses the audience because I know it will be a bunch of needless rubbish trying so hard to be rubbed off as comedy. I believe this is a facade to try and excuse the bad writing and story by merely just adding more comic relief. And overall I don't even get why She Hulk was presented in the first place. Usually superheroes are made or born whenever there is a major crisis event. There was none whatsoever when this story started. Jennifer Walters wants to continue her life as an attorney? Fine. But at least make the story out to be with plausibility. For instance, who was that weirdly dressed chick who smashed into the courtroom at the end, and, a bigger question, who even attacks a courtroom, of all places? There was no explanation behind that fight scene. At least write the villain out to be a family member of a client of Jennifer Walters who was promised justice but instead got prosecuted to the full extent of the law and is now exacting her revenge. If this is what phase 4 has to offer, I'd hate to see what phase 5 is going to bring.