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The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
The actors should sue Disney
Waited a full year to watch this because of all the bad reviews. Finally did it with a free promo Disney+ subscription once I heard Jennifer Beals and Timothy Olymphant were costarring, but wow. Just pure toilet destruction. I'm not sure if it was the director, the writer, good ol' Disney or a combination of all three that ravaged my toilet. Someone just forgot about the Gamorreans. Beals had maybe 2-3 scenes before it was decided to blast her into smitherings, yet, somehow the "super-hipsters" or aka "The Mods" riding whiskfully on their very colorful scooters were allowed to live? And, didn't someone say there would be a war, several times? Hold on, Boba needs a bath again?! The script literally mocks the audience from start to finish.
Luckily, I was given a few breaks from my seemingly endless and panicked flushing to watch a few random episodes from The Mandolorian, albeit, seemed completely random. But nay, I had been stimied again, as it was all just another ruse to beckon me back to the porcelain throne for one last shellacking. CGI Luke Skywalker even lets us know that Grogu isn't growing up anytime soon because Disney is making a killing off of the Yoda version of the almighty Teletubby. I truly channeled the dark side of Disney into my toilet watching the BOBF. Not all good things come to those who wait.
Primal (2019)
Season 2 is a Total Disappointment
Loved season 1, but season 2? Awful. Worse, this show started with Spear fighting for survival in the stone age, against all odds. Now he's fighting Vikings, Egyptians, Indians, and...Crusaders?! Did the writers just start eating paint chips when they puked out season 2?
Primal went from a very grown-up and raw feeling type of avant-garde graphic-art to over marketed PR trash. Now, it's lost and pathetically aimless. It was better off sticking with the dinos and psychotic bamboons.
They could have thrown Neanderthals in or even a few giant sloths for fun, but no, we need Spear to go off the rails for no apparent reason on an entire village of Vikings and then have him mercilessly get his butt kicked by a 90lb capoeira-kicking Egyption Queen.
Worse, he acts like some kind of love-sick and mentally challenged chimp whenever he sees Mira, whose name is the only word he says in two seasons. Just gut-wrenchingly bad.
Basutado!! Ankoku no hakaishin (1992)
If you don't like hair Metal, then you just won't get it
This manga was actually written in the late 80s early 90s, which explains all the references to all the American hair metal bands that were popular at that time.
It was written by a Japanese artist that truly loved American Metal music culture and wrote a fictional story reflecting his escape into it. It's all original and brutally honest, Japanese style. Two sorely missed attributes to movies and tv shows that really ticks off insecure people today. If you don't understand the genre or even respect the age of American Hair Metal, then you will probably be offended. I applaud Netflix for airing it.
I've read a few user reviews where some people think it's just more Japanese smut, but it's got way more depth than that. Yes, beautiful women really did fight over hair metal musicians 30 years ago, and no, it wasn't considered sexist or detrimental to the feminist movement at the time. In fact, women used to be attracted to men and weren't afraid to admit it publicly. It's a fitting manga-style testament to a bygone era when MTV actually had music videos of something other than Hip Hop dancers rear-ends and poorly scripted reality shows.