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Velma (2023)
Terrible and mean-spirited
Scooby-Doo was a staple of my childhood viewing. It was never my favourite as I found the episodes to be a bit repetitive however it was good humoured and a decent cartoon. Now onto Velma, I'll leave it spoiler-free, I have literally no clue how this got made. It's objectively a terrible show, it lacks humour, is mean-spirited and all this would have been obvious from the initial scripts.
Why on earth did they go into full production and invest further money with such obviously bad material? It beggars believe. The new management at Warner seemed to have realised that a lot of stinkers were in production and killed them dead, though some series like Raised by Wolves didn't deserve to be killed but I understand the ratings weren't there. This series, I can only assume was already in the can and therefore no cost to release except the reputational damage. Rumours are that this might get a second season, if so, everyone in management needs fired.
My Son Hunter (2022)
I was going to give this a 9 but I gave it an extra 10% for the big guy
It's amazing that one of the biggest scandals in US politics during the last half century has basically got no coverage. The media and tech companies colluded to bury the story because they felt that the sitting president, the only one in 40 years not to start a war, was so dangerous that they'd throw their ethics in the dumpster, set it on fire and then pee on the embers.
It's funny that those accusing the other side of corruption is corrupt, that those who whine about political violence are actually the ones committing the violence and yet the media, bar a few good reporters, are not covering it. Even this week a Democrat politician was arrested for murdering a journalist and at the police press conference a journalist brought up Trump. The media is broken.
Fox was great as always, I'm glad he's getting work as he got screwed over for speaking the truth. It's a shame this movie won't get a wider distribution.
We need more movies like this, firstly because they are fun, and secondly to raise awareness.
Birdgirl (2021)
As a Birdman fan this is painful to watch
Birdman was a fantastic cartoon, this isn't. I really wanted to like this as a fan of its progenitor series but it just isn't funny. It doesn't have the HB characters which would have been fine if the writing was funny but it wasn't. To me it felt like what a thirty year old New York woman thought was amusing, alas, they were wrong and this didn't even illicit a chuckle. A well deserved 1/10.
Project Power (2020)
Mediocre and derivative
This is your standard Netflix fare. As you might have guessed I like a good Sci-Fi film or something similar by the fact I watched this in the first 24 hours of release.
This genre has been covered before and much better. Whilst watching it I would have given it an over generous 6.5/10 however when Casey Neistat appeared on the screen I reduced it to 5/10. I don't know if he got put in the film as a favour to someone, I can't imagine him being a "box office" draw, and I suspect there will be people who won't see it because he's in it.
As an aside, Netflix is a interesting case study, they have all the data a studio could dream of about what people like down to the second level (though they lost useful information when they dropped scoring to protect Any Schumer) but seem to have a battle between woke talent and the data they have about what people actually want. It will be interesting to see if they walk that tightrope, jump to what the public wants or fall to what the woke want. Interesting times.