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The Men

I went in completely blind and Im glad I did. The plot really to me off guard. Trying to be succinct: It isnt a perfect movie by far, but the good and great slightly outweighs the bad. Marlon Brandon, the real reason I wanted to watch this movie, also have great scenes and terrible scenes. It really amazes me at times and makes me break immersion at other times.

Even so, the movie is a great addition to Hollywood just for its subject. It really is rare to see a movie actually approach such subjects. It is of course, somewhat save, being made in 1950, but still an honest enough plot and story. Of course, if it does a good job at depicting what it is like to live without being able to walk, beats me, you ll have to ask another person, but so far I liked and I`d recommend it depending on the person.

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Final Space

Final Space suffers from The Walking Dead syndrome in some episodes, you get good moments only in the beginning or at the very end of the episode, the rest is useless things that have no involvement in the development of the characters or are just boring line moments with annoying characters being annoying. The show also has a pacing problem.

It has amazing awe dimension shattering events, though it gets constantly undercut for its annoying one lines and unfunny jokes. This is more in the lines with Regular Show + Adventure Time rather than Rick and Morty, but trying to have the cake and eat it too by trying to be serious while undercutting as stated. We have a key moment with nice pacing being halt because X character needs a funny line or needs to be insufferable. KNV is one of them, but Gary is the worse, while every character having they annoyance moment.

They should've balanced jokes vs seriousness better.

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Black Dynamite

Think Kung Fury but blaxploitation and a little less "silly". That is what you get with Black Dynamite.

There is no "i" in "revolut- team."

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Jungle Cruise

This movie is in the same level of quality as the third and fourth installments of the Pirates of the Caribbean. Yeah, that bad, but still good enough to play it in the background while you do another thing or watching with your family and or your kids. I should`ve watched it while playing Terraria or Factorio.

It still made really well and you can see the level of technical quality of the work, but the plot feels really lackluster without adding anything new to the plot. Only watching you can understand how PoftC this movie feels. It also has the same "vibe" (to lack of a better word) to Wild Wild West (1999), but somehow worst because that one was at least somewhat original, similar to Scorpion King (2002), similar, too, but also, worse than The Mummy (1999) triology.

Give it a try if that type of adventure movie is for you. But if you didn`t like any of those mentioned, keep it away like a plague.

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13 Reasons Why

My experience watching this.

Season 1: Amazing! This is a great series. They did most things right and the cast is amazing. Minnette is an amazing MC and his acting is more than good enough. Sometimes I feel him being a one man face similar to Kristen Steward, but sometimes you get some small surprises. The rest of the cast is also great. I cannot be impartial when rating Langford since I have a huge crush on her, I'm totally biased. Unfortunately, the cast also suffers from what I call the CW Curse; the "everyone is really good looking or at least nice looking" curse.

Season 2: Well, ok, that was... nice. Still entertaining but I'm starting to doubt the motivation of the characters.

Season 3: ................. WTF!?

Season 4: What kind of trashfire is this? Is this fanfiction? Am I watching Shonda Rhimes by accident? Who the hell keeps uping the stakes so stupdly besides Rhimes? Geezus fucking christ man! What is it with Clay obviously having a mental problem and not even the doctors seeing it? What stupid development. This was a mistake. SHUT IT DOWN, MAN! Shut it all down.

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Space Jam: A New Legacy

Still better than the emoji movie.

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Godzilla vs. Kong

Really good CGI and great action. If you are the type to have a good time with just that, join right in and watch the movie. The rest is pretty in the lower bar of film. There no character development and the plot is a little weak. This weakness becomes more obvious by how short the movie is, and because of how many characters they needed to create a cohesive story. They needed a team pro Godzilla and a team pro Kong for there to be any relatability towards both monsters. But of course, all humans feel just as uneeded and boring as it does in Transformers. The main message, if intended, was fine enough but there were no originality in it here and no depth too. Just another company's greed ruining something nice because of said greed.

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Chaos Walking

Fine enough movie based on a book I haven't read. The concept is interesting and the plot moves well because of charismatic leads in Holland and Ridley. Mads Mikkelsen is always great, especially in villain roles. The noise effect was interesting and well-made as well as its representation into a visual format. The movie is great for those looking for something curious and well made. The small dirt is that the movie's message was, if that was intended, shallow but I lack interest and motivation to debate about it.

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The Rookie

its about a police drama, but somewhat light compared with CSI, Law and Order etc, that shows the lives of police offices in Los Angeles. It isn't a pure comedy, there have heavy subjects approached in the show like the dangers of indeciveness when approaching certain situations, how much of police work is usually dangerous and really daming for the individual on a emotional and physical level etc etc.

Its MC is played by Nathan Fillion, but instead of a lovable comedian, it plays a little, just a little more serious compared with other character Fillion has played. It is a crime drama, but some moments are worth a shuckle or two.

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Castle

Really good crime show. Funny and weird at times. The characters are lovely. It is the to-go show for those wanting something nice that isn't too serious. It feels like mixturing the lightness of friends with criminal shows like CSI, a pinch of lovable characters and Nathan Fillion as the cherry on top. Stana Katic is also amazing, Huertas and Dever's friendship shines as the show goes one. They aren't the perfect bromance like in scrubs, but it is still a nice bromance. Quinn's character is a little weird as she is so perfect that I haven't even met someone that perfect irl.

Overall, watch it if you want something light that you can keep it on while cleaning or even eating dinner-lunch.

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Community

Dan Harmon, you sunnofabitch, you did it again, Im in. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. Now lets make a pillow, no a blanket fort. Erase that, let`s have a 50.000 US$ dollars paintball match.

This show is for those that like flawed likable and developing characters with some surrealism thrown into the mixture. The comedy is similar to Rick and Morty, however, lighter. The episodes, at least in the first 3 seasons, are excellent.

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Johnny English Strikes Again

It s a good enough movie to waste time, entertaining enough to not be bored. But if you have something more important to do, go do it. It is a Rowan Atkinson movie too, those who like him will like the movie (like me, even if my score doesn t show it), those who don`t will do better to sit this one out if you are not curious or do mind wasting time on a okay movie.

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Barbershop

Underrated movie is underrated. Comment must be 5 words.

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The Flash

Season 4 is the best so far, it is funnier and looser, it doesn't take itself that seriously and they did try some different types of jokes (with the usual bad ones here and there). But overall is a great season compared with the other four. The first season was pretty introductory and Reverse Flash was just annoying since we don't really know what truly motivates him so worse villain so far. The second season's villain was zoom, he was more interesting and better structured and developed. Savitar was also interesting. DeVos, however, manages to take the cake of best flash villain from this so-so TV series, I'm a sucker for plots "corruption of the good intended".

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Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

This is by far anything better than what we have from The CW DC series, not even Arrow Season 5 (which I admittedly found it pretty good with a villain that was in did stronger than the MC). I already know Thomas Wayne was Batman in the alternate timeline because of spoilers (this is an old movie) and wasn't that surprised by it. But the ending did surprise me quite a bit.

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Shaolin Soccer

Funny how the best soccer movie of all time is Chinese, its genre is Comedy and there is plenty of "Kung Fu" or the funny equivalent of it. It is unique and quite different from most western comedy movies and that makes for a pretty funny and nonsensical movie, especially since it doesn't take itself seriously.

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Arrow

Arrow can be considered just another CW Series, and it really is, so if you want to watch it, keep in mind what you'll get. If you usually don't like CW type of series this show may not be the one for you.

Season 5, was so far, the best one, it still a CW series with plenty of cliches and still pretty cartoonish and sometimes pretty cringy with its puns worth of a Tim Burton's Batman movie. But at the same time, Stephen Amell's acting in some key moments was really great, character development was better, the moral ambiguity of the villain and the hero is a nice contrast, Adrian Chase lose only to Deathstroke as a villain (because Deathstroke is too iconic and overshadows Adrian Chase) and the change of cast was interesting.

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Marvel's Luke Cage

Holy shit, Luke Cage went from so-so to a really great TV Series. The first season was nice, but it was kind of a mess. It still felt like a Netflix/Marvel TV Series but it lack more structure and a better pace. Season two didn't fix that too much, but it did make it up by developing some characters even more and presenting with a new villain with power. There much to say about season 2, but the main thing that really did like was how it depicted a real relationship (the closest I have seen from TV) how fights can happen, how can one see things differently from different points of view, and how one can lose their temper when your loved one can't understand your point of view (I'm with Clair on this one). Another thing that I loved was how it depicted Luke's fall from grace by trying to make him mad with power.

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Kiss Me First

This show is a nice surprise, there is a nice "original" plot. The only criticism is the fact that the protagonist has a sudden "grow of balls" and starts acting more confident really suddenly, if you disregard it (and some other annoyances) this Series can be quite entertaining. The villain is quite interesting too, and makes you feel angry and hate him (it is not Jack The Handsome, but he is a "fueling rage" type of villain). The "victims" and their relations to each other and the villain make you tune too. There are some nice scenes in CGI (in the game). It is interesting and should make you less bored in an "I have nothing better to do" time.

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Limitless

This show is the perfect example - together with The 100 - of how a show can come from mediocre to really good just taking risks and experimenting. From Ep 1-8 more or less, the show is pretty flat and horrible, it is a generic cop drama with a little twist, it is the same as Blindspot, Lucifer (and don't get me wrong, I still like it) and any other crime-solving show with a hint of conspiracy in the main plot. From Ep 9 and so on, they start slowly changing their tactics and experimenting with the show, they purposely twist cliches to try surprising the viewer. While the show in its end is still far from a masterpiece or any real great tv series, it is still a way better series than when it started.

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Tom and Jerry

This is the what one would call the Golden Age of Cartoons, I would call it more like the roots, the beginning, the Cartoon: Origins. Tom and Jerry are and always is on the same Top 10 Cartoons of all time for me, together with the other classics like Looney Tunes and Woody Woodpecker. But I still haven't decided if I would show this for my kids or any other kid because some episodes are kind outdated and need some explaining so kids understand that things were different during the 40s-60s and what we consider wrong today weren't consider in those days.

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The Leftovers

I understood nothing of this show, I like some of the conversations, I do not agree with the assumption that no way can get better and even if the show comes down on religious extremism they end up doing the opposite in the third season.

Considering that the show starts with the trope of "a part of the population goes missing" and it develops from there, I can't really say after watching all 3 seasons that I don't know how they go missing, why they go missing and even if they are dead. The third season was the weirder of them all to me. And besides the ending, all characters end up a fuck up and by that I mean they don't get better at all.

The conversations and talks about grief got me interested, the character development is nice, and acting is really good. Especially Matt who made such a poor job with as a Doctor Who protagonist and the main villain of Thor 2.

And the religious aspect of the show got really confusing because I can't say if it is all real, if they are hallucinating it all or that whatever.

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Rick and Morty

Rick and Morty manage to be an original piece while being based on Back to the Future. In an age where most TV shows manage to struggle to keep it generically entertaining, Rick and Morty give us what could be the equivalent of Absurd Comedy mixed with Dark Humor and a hint of gratuitous violence and it became one of the most successful cartoons for adults of the 2010s. Its humor is bold, gruesome at times, hilarious fart jokes at medium and some deep questions that make your skin crawl at best. This is the type of show where the viewer chooses what kind of they want themselves to be, if you wish to watch the show just for the absurdism of their adventure, that is great, watching just for the fart jokes and references? also great! One can even watch Rick and Morty paying attention to its philosophical equivalent theories of what they debate on each episode.

In the end, Rick and Morty is the go-to cartoon for grown-ups.

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Samurai Jack

Amazing. This is the epitome of great cartoon. I also found it to be better than the originals but only because the originals stretch the story too much and some times it gets boring. But this is also expected of a children's cartoon. I also loved the fact this one is a little more mature. Aishi is also interesting and has a similar charisma to Jack's, though Jack is still the protagonist. This is beyond fantastic. This is what Cartoon Network gets for trusting basically the same team as that of the original.

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Tin Man

While I like Zoey Deschanel and Alan Cumming, this is really bad. I mean, is not shitty but is not good either. Zoey's acting style (basically her being her own character) feels that she doesn't belong to this fantastical setting. She fits like a glove in her own TV Series New Girl, but here it makes her character looks like an outsider since she acts differently than those around her. It is like she acts in a more relaxed, "real lifey" way and the rest of the cast acts more like the generical type of a fantastical tale with seriousness in their lines.

The plot is entertaining enough, but boring most of the times. The villain is also weirdly boring. She is evil because she is evil. There is more complexity than the original story, but for a so short that complexity doesn't fit right. The ending is also cliched, but it is a bad cliche.

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Whose Line is it Anyway?: 5x02 Kathy Griffin

Wayne got some moves. Really funny. "Holy... Kidnapping, Batman!"

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Whose Line is it Anyway?: 5x01 Whoopi Goldberg

Laugh so loud my neighbors complained. Whoopi is the best! Seriously, the surprise face I was making was enough for anyone to laugh.

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Whose Line is it Anyway?: 4x31 Greg Proops

These guys manage to be really funny, sometimes funnier than comedy TV Series, but I'm together with Ryan, the "Hoedown" is really bad, and additionally, I don't like some of the games that use songs, though I do like it sometimes.

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Whose Line is it Anyway?: 4x30 Greg Proops

Come on, more heavy jokes! No "ooohhhhhhh", give them motivation for more!

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Whose Line is it Anyway?: 4x28 Brad Sherwood

Drew Carrey is the host so obviously does nothing.

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