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Another Life (2019)
Don't Support Garbage and Turn Away
This show is more about the dysfunctional characters than the science fiction plot. Maybe one of the malevolent aliens hired the ship's crew, that's the only way to explain the presence of so many idiots. Not only do they behave like whining teens when interacting, they do the dumbest things possible when landing, and never learn from their mistakes. Meanwhile the ship is about as reliable as a 1952 Studebaker that's never been serviced. If that's the best humanity can design and build, maybe we deserve destruction.
When I saw the drag queen doctor in the first episode, I knew it was only a matter of time until he had his tongue down some dude's throat on screen. The only surprise is that it comes in Episode 7, not 2 or 3. But what I DIDN'T expect was for two other dudes to be doing the same thing in the same episode. . There are specialty channels where that sort of thing belongs.
With luck, this series will be canceled.
Taiheiyou no kiseki: Fokkusu to yobareta otoko (2011)
Good Film Left Me Unsettled
This was a surprisingly realistic war film, although it did have factual inaccuracies, such as inexplicably exaggerating the casualties inflicted by the Japanese during the infamous Saipan Banzai Charge. And while I suppose it's possible that a handful of Americans existed who understood and respected the bushido culture of Imperial Japan, they were probably nonexistent in the war zone, and therefore I found Captain Lewis' character to be totally unrealistic.
I can't speak for the acting of the Japanese. As for the Americans, Treat Williams and Daniel Baldwin can act. I can't say the same about the rest of the cast; they are terrible.
This is a Japanese film. Given the enormous scope and nature of their aggression and war crimes in the 1930s and 40s (dubbed The Asian Holocaust), and given their longstanding refusal to acknowledge said crimes, or apologize to their tens of millions of victims, I find that any portrayal by the Japanese of their WW II soldiers as heroic - even if probably true - leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This was a film that should never have been made. Imagine if modern-day Germany released a film depicting the bravery and loyalty of their soldiers in 1942. It's just unseemly, no matter how accurate.