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Canada's Worst Driver (2005)
Reality tv in a nutshell
Inherrently exploitative and emotionally manipulative/inconsistent. The show ping pongs between gawking at bad drivers and milking emotion with people who genuinely need help. Some tests are also way above skill level for beginners. Defensive driving is good to learn but if these aren't things taught in driver's ed, don't do them? It just comes across as setting people up to fail. The people on the show aren't good drivers and are often times stupid and inept, but the show is so smug.
Whatever. Reality tv is trash. Often times how awkward the editing is makes me laugh. If this wasn't televised it'd be 100 times more productive.
Evil Dead Rise (2023)
Flash-in-the-pan film hype
Nobody will remember this movie in 6 months. Since COVID hit, a lot of people tend to treat movies like tv shows and play it really safe. So if a "decent" franchise film gets released, everyone loses their minds because they watch nothing else. What also annoys me is that they go with their initial impulse and gut reaction with how to rate the movie. If the same people who watched this that gave it a 10, I guarantee their rating would drop on a second viewing. Puss in Boots 2 is so overrated and so is this. The quality of mainstream entertainment has been so diluted. The movie feels extremely focus tested for youtube film channels. If this wasn't attached to anything, nobody would see this movie. You might say that's a no brainer statement, but this movie offers nothing new, and it's getting a pass only because of its franchise ties.
I'm sorry but this script is terrible. Every idea, scare, setpiece, and emotional beat has been done better everywhere else. I hate movies that rely on braindead youtube channels to gawk at killcounts or point at references and think that's substantative. I get it. People rely on the familiar, but take a chance on an original horror movie. Same goes for film studios. The bubble will burst soon. Stop churning out lazy, derivative crap. People will eventually wise up to the act and stop watching.
The Mandalorian (2019)
Nerd vomit
What can I say about this show? It's honestly disrespectful to anyone who genuinely cares about Star Wars. I like The Clone Wars, Revenge of the Sith and the Original Trilogy and this show crams in plot elements, characters and concepts from those stories with the deftness of an orangutan. I like Andor as well, but that is seriously the only good property that Disney is solely responsible for post-Lucasfilm merger. Season 1 is fine but as soon as the consensus hit, Disney couldn't help themselves but cram in as much fanservice as possible into season 2. The reason why I enjoy the afformentioned installments is because they don't gatekeep information and stand alone. Sure, it does help to watch them all in conjunction, but Clone Wars with Revenge Of The Sith is a complete story. The original trilogy is a complete story. Andor so far is a complete story. Isolated in a way where a newcomer can jump in and not be lost. That is good storytelling. I hated how Luke was crammed into the season 2 finale. I hated Boba Fett. Bo Katan annoyed me. Ahsoka irked me. I like these characters, but not here. Not in this context. Also, people got upset when Luke was contorted into an unrecognizeable husk in TLJ but nobody batted an eye when Boba Fett got the same treatment? I don't buy this Boba Fett at all. Boba in the Clone Wars was a huge deviation from the OT, but they explored his character in interesting and complex ways. Showing how he was a victim of circumstance, and ultimately got swallowed by the cycle of violence. Sure, his demise in Jedi sucks but there was a throughline. Here, they just make him the "cool and epic anti-hero" with no sense of irony or self-awareness. Boba Fett sucked before Clone Wars. Hate to break it to you. He was a boring flat character that had a cool design. I'm not even bothering with season 3. The show jumped the shark. I don't care anymore. Luke is a deus ex machina. It makes me so mad that people applauded the show for dangling deepfake Luke on the screen to damage control the sequel trilogy. Don't forget what they did. Don't forgive them. Expect better storytelling. Not fanservice.