bubblesort
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I had very low expectations for both Book of Boba Fett and Peacemaker. I wasn't going to watch either of them at all.
Then I had a molar taken out, and then they told me all about dry sockets... so I'm going on 4 days since my last cigarette. I never tried to quit before, and I started smoking when I was 14, and I'm 43, so... my brain is doing weird shit. Somehow, watching bad shows makes quitting smoking easier. Like, hating stuff takes my mind off it.
Also, Boba Fett and Peacemaker are both 3 episodes in, exactly. Peacemaker dropped with 3 episodes, so it's obvious HBO Max and Disney+ want to have some kind of dick waiving contest with these spinoffs nobody asked for. So who wins in this head to head contest of overproduced bad ideas?
Boba Fett was just bad. It's Jon Favreau, so I'm not even going to attempt to critique the story, because Favrequ's stories always fall apart. I will absolutely critique everything else, though. They have the slowest, most boring city chase scene I've ever seen in mos esper. I could do better than that with tricycles. The color palette, like the plot, is too toyetic. The colors are off everywhere, but just to focus on one thing... look at these two Boba Fetts. One is from Return of the Jedi, the other is from the Book of Boba Fett (try to ignore the scrawny Gamroeans). The lighting might be a bit different between the two shots, but even with the lighting and color grading differences, you can clearly see that Boba Fett now has some kind of stupid looking motley on his boots, the colors are all too bright in the new outfit, the armor is too small, he's wearing some kind of black dress shirt and slacks under the armor, and why the hell is the armor less damaged after the sarlacc pit than before it? I've seen a lot of cosplay that's better than what Disney put out. I expect better from them.
So Boba Fett was about what I expected.
Peacemaker was a surprise! I actually really like it. (note: There are post credit scenes in every episode)
My thing with Suicide Squad is when I was a kid, Suicide Squad was the only thing DC made that I liked... other than the occasional mini-series, like Lobo or something. So the Will Smith Suicide Squad was a huge letdown for me. The new Suicide Squad was acceptable, but still kinda meh. Also, I never liked John Cena. Even in the WWE, he annoyed me. His matches showed no imagination or skill. He just wove the flag around and acted like a douche while everybody else put him over. Then he openly came out as the CCP's bitch. Plus, he never really showed acting ability.
Peacemaker is kind of the first thing James Gunn has done with lots of creative freedom, since Disney black balled him for off color jokes on twitter, from over a decade ago. His jokes were in bad taste, but I mean... dude came up through Troma, what do you expect? He did the new Suicide Squad, but I don't think he was really free to do what he wants with that, because he was kind of just helping the studio apologize for the Will Smith Suicide Squad fuck up. With Peacemaker, Gunn took a bit character he invented in his new Suicide Squad and fleshed him out, and it really, really works.
Start with the opening sequence, which is like a 30 second long tik tok dance sequence. It's hilarious. The characters are funny, and relatable. I actually like John Cena in this. I'm surprised to learn he actually can act. Aesthetically, the over the top superhero costumes in the DC universe seem to fit James Gunn's style better than Marvel superhero costumes ever could. Also, I really like that Gunn plays with political correctness a bit. He doesn't run from his problems, he explores them. Making Peacemaker's father a KKK leader is super interesting to me. I think most white people have at least one living member of their family that is a really bad racist, and we don't usually know how to handle it well. Hell, most of white privilege really boils down to shit our families did, that we don't want to acknowledge, which is why racists love 23 and me, and hate doing real genealogy. Maybe Gunn has something interesting to say about that.
If all you are interested in is new stuff, I think it's better to have an HBO Max subscription than a Disney+ subscription this week.
Then I had a molar taken out, and then they told me all about dry sockets... so I'm going on 4 days since my last cigarette. I never tried to quit before, and I started smoking when I was 14, and I'm 43, so... my brain is doing weird shit. Somehow, watching bad shows makes quitting smoking easier. Like, hating stuff takes my mind off it.
Also, Boba Fett and Peacemaker are both 3 episodes in, exactly. Peacemaker dropped with 3 episodes, so it's obvious HBO Max and Disney+ want to have some kind of dick waiving contest with these spinoffs nobody asked for. So who wins in this head to head contest of overproduced bad ideas?
Boba Fett was just bad. It's Jon Favreau, so I'm not even going to attempt to critique the story, because Favrequ's stories always fall apart. I will absolutely critique everything else, though. They have the slowest, most boring city chase scene I've ever seen in mos esper. I could do better than that with tricycles. The color palette, like the plot, is too toyetic. The colors are off everywhere, but just to focus on one thing... look at these two Boba Fetts. One is from Return of the Jedi, the other is from the Book of Boba Fett (try to ignore the scrawny Gamroeans). The lighting might be a bit different between the two shots, but even with the lighting and color grading differences, you can clearly see that Boba Fett now has some kind of stupid looking motley on his boots, the colors are all too bright in the new outfit, the armor is too small, he's wearing some kind of black dress shirt and slacks under the armor, and why the hell is the armor less damaged after the sarlacc pit than before it? I've seen a lot of cosplay that's better than what Disney put out. I expect better from them.
So Boba Fett was about what I expected.
Peacemaker was a surprise! I actually really like it. (note: There are post credit scenes in every episode)
My thing with Suicide Squad is when I was a kid, Suicide Squad was the only thing DC made that I liked... other than the occasional mini-series, like Lobo or something. So the Will Smith Suicide Squad was a huge letdown for me. The new Suicide Squad was acceptable, but still kinda meh. Also, I never liked John Cena. Even in the WWE, he annoyed me. His matches showed no imagination or skill. He just wove the flag around and acted like a douche while everybody else put him over. Then he openly came out as the CCP's bitch. Plus, he never really showed acting ability.
Peacemaker is kind of the first thing James Gunn has done with lots of creative freedom, since Disney black balled him for off color jokes on twitter, from over a decade ago. His jokes were in bad taste, but I mean... dude came up through Troma, what do you expect? He did the new Suicide Squad, but I don't think he was really free to do what he wants with that, because he was kind of just helping the studio apologize for the Will Smith Suicide Squad fuck up. With Peacemaker, Gunn took a bit character he invented in his new Suicide Squad and fleshed him out, and it really, really works.
Start with the opening sequence, which is like a 30 second long tik tok dance sequence. It's hilarious. The characters are funny, and relatable. I actually like John Cena in this. I'm surprised to learn he actually can act. Aesthetically, the over the top superhero costumes in the DC universe seem to fit James Gunn's style better than Marvel superhero costumes ever could. Also, I really like that Gunn plays with political correctness a bit. He doesn't run from his problems, he explores them. Making Peacemaker's father a KKK leader is super interesting to me. I think most white people have at least one living member of their family that is a really bad racist, and we don't usually know how to handle it well. Hell, most of white privilege really boils down to shit our families did, that we don't want to acknowledge, which is why racists love 23 and me, and hate doing real genealogy. Maybe Gunn has something interesting to say about that.
If all you are interested in is new stuff, I think it's better to have an HBO Max subscription than a Disney+ subscription this week.
