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Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi (2022)
Be wary
Prepare for dumb and easy, outrageous plotlines. First episode, a mother goes hunting with her baby. Excellent choice for sneaking on prey. The baby must be very experienced in the way of the hunter, since it stays quiet to allow the approach and the successful shot. Moments later, a tigerlike creature attacks the hunter, who manages to shoot it with a laser weapon (which looks like an old musket because they are equally primitive and high tech) that harms it not because reasons, and another moment after, the whole village, alerted by the sound of the rifle (but not by the previous sound made in killing the prey) arrive at the location and save the day. So the hunting grounds must be placed in the backyard of one of the houses of the village i guess.
It´s hard no to get pissed off by the sheer laziness of these writers and it would be in the interest of the viewers not to reward such lame efforts.
Loki (2021)
makes no sense
I may never understand how people who dedicate themselves fulltime to intellectual labor, to reading stories, analysing them and creating new plots (are they really writers, or just marketing people?)... can come up with an idea that immediately strikes you as making no sense. Of course, time-travel stories never do and are always lazy and childish, but beyond that...
It contradicts itself absolutely. Spoiler: it posits no free will in the universe, which should mean life has no meaning, and the protagonists know this, but somehow go on in some missions, not even to change that scenario with some sense of romantic futility, but to guarantee it stays that way... because it´s safer than chaos: don´t change the timeline! Why not? Because. You have to be a tiny bureocrat to create a story like this, in the end it´s only a police chasing bad guys plot, with a rebel sidekick coming along. A rebel that is the god of mischief Loki, and reflects upon his past actions and wants to make up for it, chasing the agent of chaos (which is himself in the past, yeah, time travel fans seem to love these transactions).
Neither the scenario nor the characters make any sense. I´m sure it´ll be a success though.
Solar Opposites (2020)
The opposite of Rick And Morty
If you´re a writer looking for a fast easy way to detect and get rid of all the clichés of modern tv writing, come here. You have no interesting or humorous situations, just stuff happening coupled with poor attempts at worded cleverness, a cleverness that we´ve all heard a million times. This might be worse than Familiy Guy, so stick to the classics until something good comes out.
The Field (1990)
Almost perfect movie
Does the work of our hands give us any right? A piece of paper says it doesn't. Generations of sacrifice says it does. A whole life dedicated to the patient creation of -in words of the peasant- "a living thing", the field, bonds the man with the land. This question is the core of this excellent movie, located in a small Irish town, with the opposing characters of the catholic priest, the policeman, the proprietor and the wealthy man on one side, and the common people on the other. Richard Harris is enormous as the main character, and the cast is excellent. The only flaw of the movie is the ending, which is simply ridiculous, since it's capricious and it actually looks as if the priest of the story had written it, as a moralistic message, a cosmic punishment. Too bad, but you can skip the last minute.
Nighthawks (1981)
One more of the kind
This film is about a street cop (Stallone) who is recruited to catch a terrorist, the problem is that while he is used to catch the bad guys, the trainers push him to kill without hesitation. This dilemma will be the background of his actions throughout the movie. The pursue of the terrorist (Hauer) is a classic one: it becomes personal, and of course, the writers can't resist the temptation to make the bad guy say how he is actually the same as the good guy... there must be a law in the US that makes that line obligatory in this kind of stories (maybe it would make sense for ideological reasons, but i won't go into it). The actors do their parts effectively, the settings and atmosphere are well done, the characters are credible... Where the story fails is in the plot: regrettably there are crucial swifts in the story which are triggered by implausible events caused by either incredible stupidity on one part, or miraculous good luck on the other part. Actually, it's lack of imagination by the script writers. A shame.
Cobra (1986)
Quite boring, plus ideologically transparent
I love a good action movie, but i prefer not being able to anticipate every development in the story. Without surprising twists, the mere accumulation of dead bodies lacks interest. This is the main fault of the movie, plus the bad guys are implausible (you never understand their motives, this is a very poor comprehension of the criminal mind, an ideologically misguided view of it as an innate -non social- psychopathy). On the other hand, this film bears a message which is too transparent to be effective (not to speak of its primitiveness). Stallone keeps repeating throughout the movie things like "Hell, without human rights and rules to follow, my job would be much easier". The thing is that he repeats it over and over, so it becomes annoying, it's like right-wing propaganda for dummies (other movies are right-wing propaganda for not-so-dummies), and on top of that, the obligatory pretty-girl-to-rescue says "Yeah, you're right, i can't believe what the judges do!" etc etc (like US hadn't the largest population of inmates by far). If you see the movie you'll find many other stereotypes, like the guy who is a law-abiding cop, who of course looks weak and wears glasses... the "latinos" being submitted by the mighty Stallone who conquers a parking spot... After all this, you may believe my own ideology is blocking my enjoyment of Cobra, but that's not the case, i have enjoyed Dirty Harry and other such movies, without indignation.