scubadoo-35256
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This was not the way to try to explore moral ambiguity and corruption of the jedi.
For the good. I thought all the fights were very well choreographed and I appreciated the utilization of the force. Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, and Lee Jung Jae gave great performances, even with the script being lack luster. Also the music is good (i love michael abels)
So episodes 1-4 I didn't mind. Amanda Stenberg's acting is clunky and the sets are too shiny, not lived in enough, but I was onboard with the premise of a long lost twin seeking vengence against the jedi.
Episode 5 has some killer (pun intended) moments, but also the first few "but whys?" from me that I couldn't overlook.
Episodes 6-8 are what changed my mostly neutral feeling to straight garbage. The show fundamental doesn't understand the jedi order, or how lightsabers function, or it doesn't even convince me it knows it's own characters well enough or cares about making me care about them. At least Amanda's acting seem to improve, star wars fans suck, but I hope she can continue to improve and land more opportunities.
I'm all for trying to explore corruption in the jedi, however, the space buddists throughout most have canon have only had a few bad apples that always are eventually rooted out or leave the order. The show seems to want to explore it as a systemic corruption, where multiple people needed to let things go. If this was real life I would wholeheartedly agree with this take, but we're in magic space, so the believability is not present.
For the good. I thought all the fights were very well choreographed and I appreciated the utilization of the force. Manny Jacinto, Dafne Keen, and Lee Jung Jae gave great performances, even with the script being lack luster. Also the music is good (i love michael abels)
So episodes 1-4 I didn't mind. Amanda Stenberg's acting is clunky and the sets are too shiny, not lived in enough, but I was onboard with the premise of a long lost twin seeking vengence against the jedi.
Episode 5 has some killer (pun intended) moments, but also the first few "but whys?" from me that I couldn't overlook.
Episodes 6-8 are what changed my mostly neutral feeling to straight garbage. The show fundamental doesn't understand the jedi order, or how lightsabers function, or it doesn't even convince me it knows it's own characters well enough or cares about making me care about them. At least Amanda's acting seem to improve, star wars fans suck, but I hope she can continue to improve and land more opportunities.
I'm all for trying to explore corruption in the jedi, however, the space buddists throughout most have canon have only had a few bad apples that always are eventually rooted out or leave the order. The show seems to want to explore it as a systemic corruption, where multiple people needed to let things go. If this was real life I would wholeheartedly agree with this take, but we're in magic space, so the believability is not present.
I had a great time watching They Cloned Tyrone. Now let's get to it quickly
The Good: The soundtrack's catchy. Jamie Foxx and Teyonah kill it in their roles, and the banter the main characters have is consistently entertaining. PERSONALLY, I love how they shot it to make it look a bit older, a bit grainier - I think that helped set up the kind of sci-fi aspects well and enhanced the lighting work. There are some real funny lines and scenes, and I thought the plot was fun.
The "I'm conflicted": John Boyega is generally awesome as Fontaine, he has a great presence and he really made the character distinguishable to the tiniest details in how he walks, phrasing, etc. However, there are a couple scenes with heightened emotions where I just didn't buy it, it felt a bit overacted. Not a big deal but it stood out.
The Eh: The pacing was a bit slow and the movie was a tad long. I think a few scenes could have been combined to trim down the runtime and just keep it all moving along.
The Good: The soundtrack's catchy. Jamie Foxx and Teyonah kill it in their roles, and the banter the main characters have is consistently entertaining. PERSONALLY, I love how they shot it to make it look a bit older, a bit grainier - I think that helped set up the kind of sci-fi aspects well and enhanced the lighting work. There are some real funny lines and scenes, and I thought the plot was fun.
The "I'm conflicted": John Boyega is generally awesome as Fontaine, he has a great presence and he really made the character distinguishable to the tiniest details in how he walks, phrasing, etc. However, there are a couple scenes with heightened emotions where I just didn't buy it, it felt a bit overacted. Not a big deal but it stood out.
The Eh: The pacing was a bit slow and the movie was a tad long. I think a few scenes could have been combined to trim down the runtime and just keep it all moving along.
