Yeah, that soulmate stuff is a hallmark of YA fiction aimed mainly at girls.
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I watched all of the second season of Konosuba and then re-watched the first season and watched the movie. Great experience! When it comes to "other world" (Isekai), harem anime Konosuba: God's Blessing on this Wonderful World is one of the best. Just plain good writing and good characters, plus great art and animation.
The start of the story:
An unremarkable boy is walking home back to his little country town from the city after buying a limited edition computer game with a figurine… He sees a pretty girl about to be hit by a speeding truck. I dives to push her out of the way and then everything goes black and he wakes up in heaven.
He's sad to be dead but happy his death was heroic.
The pretty goddess sitting in front of him laughs as she tells him what really happened. It wasn't a truck, it was a slow tractor. It wouldn't have hit the girl anyway. He fainted in terror when he dived to save the girl and pissed all over the place. He was taken to hospital but had a heart attack from fear. His family and the doctors all though it was hilarious… His death was ignominious and stupid, according to the goddess. The goddess ridicules and makes fun of him, she tells him he can be re-incarnated in Japan or transported to a fantasy world she manages. She gives him the hard sell on the fantasy world and says he can take one thing with him, whatever he wants.
So he agrees to come to the fantasy world and decides he wants to bring her, because she's a powerful goddess and also to spite her for being a total dick.
SO that's the setup.
When he and she get to the magical world they're both basically nobodies with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They're reduced to living in a stable and working as day labourers to make enough for food and rent. And they have to build up from there.
NOT your typical Mary Sue Harem anime crap. It's fun and doesn't get dull as the series goes. Even the movie was excellent.
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THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW - Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Fred Hechinger to name a few. Amy is a recluse head-shrinker, spends her time drinking wine and watching neighbours across the street, one of which may be a murderer. No make-up for Amy? yikes, she looked horrible. A just under 2 on the Moizmeter.
SELF/Less - Ryan Reynolds in a screwball drama about new bodies and identites??? Couldn't keep track of who or what is who or what. A 1 and a half on the Moizmeter.
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THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW - Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Fred Hechinger to name a few. Amy is a recluse head-shrinker, spends her time drinking wine and watching neighbours across the street, one of which may be a murderer. No make-up for Amy? yikes, she looked horrible. A just under 2 on the Moizmeter.
I was considering watching that one, and I spent half the preview wondering if that was Amy Adams or not LOL. She sure has carved out a niche playing women with loose grips on reality LOL
"Love, Death, and Robots" season 2. The only mistake the producers made with this show was to market it it as a group of edgy, daring, innovative science-fiction short stories. Now, if they had marketed it as a group of tired, hackneyed science-fiction cliches that have been done to death a million times over the past forty years, I would have at least given them credit for honesty.
The first episode in this collection is cute and funny. The last episode actually starts to scratch at the surface of thought-provoking originality. The rest are dreck.
It was a classic example of the old Hollywood technique of trying to save a garbage screenplay by throwing a heap of cutting-edge special effects at it and hoping that all the technical bling will distract the viewer from the product's essential emptiness.
@Jamesonmount:
I think you might have put two quotes together by accident. The last part of my comment, which you quoted above,
"I also really liked the old Pablo Escobar series “Narcos”. Where he did whatever he wanted, ate lobsters, killed people, played aussie online casino, it was great. I am very sorry that the second season is over."
Was not written by me.
Fallopiancrusader- that is a hilarious review of love, death and robots. I’m still watching bits of the first season and there’s some good stuff there! The preview for the second season looks exactly how Jamesonmount describes it - all looks exactly the same. Sad to hear it went downhill so badly. The season 2 promos suggested it had.
Not watching much lately, but began the bbc cop drama Line of Duty. A couple episodes in and it’s spectacular. I can’t believe how much has happened in just a couple episodes. The plot is thrilling, and it must be researched VERY deeply. There are nuances to the way the police operate that are fascinating, seem very true to life, and that I’ve never seen explored on other cop shows.
fallopiancrusader wrote:
"Love, Death, and Robots" season 2. The only mistake the producers made with this show was to market it it as a group of edgy, daring, innovative science-fiction short stories. Now, if they had marketed it as a group of tired, hackneyed science-fiction cliches that have been done to death a million times over the past forty years, I would have at least given them credit for honesty.
The first episode in this collection is cute and funny. The last episode actually starts to scratch at the surface of thought-provoking originality. The rest are dreck.
It was a classic example of the old Hollywood technique of trying to save a garbage screenplay by throwing a heap of cutting-edge special effects at it and hoping that all the technical bling will distract the viewer from the product's essential emptiness.
I loved the first season, the second was generally uninspired. Still I'll see what the 3rd season brings to the table.
Genejoke wrote:fallopiancrusader wrote:
"Love, Death, and Robots" season 2. The only mistake the producers made with this show was to market it it as a group of edgy, daring, innovative science-fiction short stories. Now, if they had marketed it as a group of tired, hackneyed science-fiction cliches that have been done to death a million times over the past forty years, I would have at least given them credit for honesty.
The first episode in this collection is cute and funny. The last episode actually starts to scratch at the surface of thought-provoking originality. The rest are dreck.
It was a classic example of the old Hollywood technique of trying to save a garbage screenplay by throwing a heap of cutting-edge special effects at it and hoping that all the technical bling will distract the viewer from the product's essential emptiness.
I loved the first season, the second was generally uninspired. Still I'll see what the 3rd season brings to the table.
For me, the first season seemed to take more risks and was more imaginative both in the stories and styles. It resulted in some excellent pieces and some that were just awful but at least they were uniquely awful. The second season fell into the mediocre, not daring to take risks.
I'm watching old episodes of Futurama and American Dad on Disney +
They're both good stuff. :)
I've also started watching White Collar.
It was always advertised after the old episodes of Miami Vice I was going through a while ago, so now that it was easily available to me I thought I'd check it out.
It's actually really bland. It stars a pretty male actor, there are a lot of shots of men in suits, there are under and over plots about the loves of the main male characters… these and other factors make me realise that show is aimed at over 30s women. In this world New York is a stylish place with great views, artist lofts, nice restaurants, parties on top of buildings with beautiful gardens and models and yet we mainly only see the handsome men in suits there XD
The story is about a handsome master forger who escapes jail just before his release date to go after his GF who has to leave him. The FBI capture him and he helps them with a case. Because he's such a MASTERFUL criminal and super intelligent fellow they hire him on to help them with other crimes and look handsome in his suit while in the office…
The stakes are pretty low and the characters are bland, unrealistic cutouts. Plus the FBI guy has a terrible haircut. I'm not enjoying it much so far.
I suppose they thought it paired well with Miami Vice because of the handsome protagonist/sophisticated city/fashion thing, but the plots and characters don't match up to that level. This is more like as if Miami Vice had been written by the Hallmark people.
I'm watching Fargo season 4 and enjoying it thoroughly. The show is packed with great performances but I can't take my eyes off Salvatore Esposito in any scene he inhabits. He plays Gaetano, the brother sent over from Italy to help sort out a few problems, but he might has well have been sent straight from the set of a silent movie, or a spaghetti western. His deliberately over the top characterisation is both cartoonish and menacing, quite something to behold. 
Top quote:
“In the land of taking and killing, Gaetano is king.”
AWAKE - Gina Rodriguez, Ariana Greenblatt, Frances Fisher, Barry Pepper, Jennifer Jason Leigh and a cast of sleepers. Movie's title should be changed to ASLEEP, as I had all I could do to stay awake trying to make sense of this hogwash, but I did and it gets a 1 on the Moizmeter.
THE LITTLE THINGS - Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Chris Bauer, Michael Hyatt. Veteran cop Denzel sent to LA to assist detective Rami in finding serial killer praying on hookers. Chris and Hyatt help out as well and gosh by golly, Denz focuses on Jared, sneaks into his apt and finds the clue he needs. Now what to do with the bad guy? An almost 3 on the Moizmeter.
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN - Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Alec Baldwin, Fisher Stevens. Norton is a private eye with a strange condition, makes weird sounds but most seem to ignore these as he is very good at everything else. His mentor Bruce gets killed and the chase is on, and sometimes gets very confusing. We are asked to believe Willem and Alec are brothers? whoa, didn't realize Willem is so short. NYC mostly run by crooks like Alec and we finally learn who killed Bruce, I think. Love affair begins with Ed and Gugu and everyone lives happily everafter? A muddled 3 on the Moizmeter.
NO SUDDEN MOVE - Don Cheadle, Benecio del Toro, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm, David Harbour, Matt Damon, and a cast of thousands. Should have had the sub-titles on as couldn't make out half of what was said, blah, blah. Way back in late fifties these crooks try and get design of new fangled auto-part for exhaust fumes…I think. I got lost most of the time on who was doing what to whom. Many have aged not so well, Ray, Benecio, Fraser, whoa, and he was in the Mummy movies? The money seemed to go right back to where it started with most getting killed except one. A confusing 2 on the Moizmeter.
JOHN WICK 3 - got the kybosh after about 20 minutes.
THE DEBT - Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Martin Csokas, Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciaran Hinds, and Jesper Christensen as the Nazi bad guy. Takes place in Berlin, first part in 1965 then moves to 1995. Jessica is the younger Helen, Sam the younger Ciaran, and Csokas the young Tom. The 1965 gang capture Jesper but he escapes so they make up story that they killed him. In '95 they find out where Jesper is and Helen goes after him and will she get him this time? A darn good watch, getting almost a 4 on the Moizmeter.
Tomorrow war
0 stars- boring as bad reality TV.
OMG this movie was shit.
The premise is that in the future the world is about to be wiped out by an alien invasion but the scientists find a way to bridge time back to the 2000s and set up a stable pathway. They get people over 40 who were going to die anyway and give them a 5 day tour of duty in the future to try and kill the aliens… There's a world wide compulsory conscription, so if you're drafted you HAVE to go.
The first 30 minutes of this SciFi movie is dedicated to following the BORING life of a guy played by Chris Pratt. He's a veteran, graduates uni, can't get a job as a scientist so becomes a biology teacher, has a family, blah blah… 30 minutes of following his dull life all in desaturated colour till we finally get to the SciFi element, which is just a stupid magical wormhole thing to 20 years into the future.
The aliens they fight a just cheap digital knockoffs of the aliens from Alien, updated for current tastes: so they move fast and have wavy tentacles as well. They fight them with boring little assault rifles.
Nothing about this film is clever, interesting, cool, imaginative, striking, or clever. Not the visuals, not the costumes, weapons, aliens, concepts, ideas, not even the story structure or plotting.
The only thing this piece of unimaginative detritus would be good for is a videogame premise.
I only made it an hour or so in before I bailed.
All that said, the acting was good.
THE CRAIGSLIST KILLER - (2011) Jake McDorman, William Baldwin, Agnes Bruckner. Based on true story but on the lame side. Med school Philip Markoff plans to marry Agnes but his dark side takes him to porn site where he killed a couple of pros. Gets arrested by Baldwin and commits suicide in prison. A 2 on the Moizmeter.
WORLD TRADE CENTER - (2006) Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal. Pretty good telling of the 2001 horror. Nic & Michael are cops who get buried under rubble after towers collapse, we watch from their view and of their loved ones above. A 3 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
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