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The Old Guard (2020)
One Great Actress, and One Tantalizing Cliff Hanger
The best part of the movie is Nile, KiKi Layne's character, who is the only actor/actress who cared enough about her job to take a firearms course in order to deliver a convincing performance as a bad-ass marine turned immortal.
The only other redeeming factor of this movie is the end scene teaser setting up a future story that ties into an earlier plot point.
The rest of the movie is probably the most cringe thing I have ever seen. I know Netflix has access to good action/fighting/firearms instructors, and why they didn't use them is beyond me.
For example, in one of the opening scenes that sets up the main plot involving bad-guys who are para-military/mercenaries is so unbelievable, and had such little thought put into how even a normal person would act let alone trained killers, that it immediately ruins any possible immersion into the film and it's world.
Had they at least made the first act of the movie believable it probablt could've gotten a solid 5 out of 10, instead of the 2 for being such a cringe fest (again except for KiKi Layne, who was the only one who's effort and hard work was visible)
The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (2020)
Real Phenomena, Expected Cheese
Finally a show that explores real phenomena.
All of the reviews about it's cheesiness are valid (except the phone upside down thing, many many apps right themselves when phone is upside down), and the security team is definitely cringey, no reason "Dragon" couldn't afford to use a sling for his AR or Shotty...not sure how he hasn't gotten sick of manually carrying them around the ranch.
I believe the scientists are trying to actually capture the real phenomena that occurs there, but the new owner is definitely a little cheesy and the History Channel apparently ONLY knows how to make things extra cheesy.
Taking it for what it is tho, it's hands down my favorite History Channel cheese, and covers a REAL mystery that really does beg to be solved or at least better understood.
Samurai Jack (2001)
A Beautiful, Exciting and Deeply Touching piece of Art - Childhood Grownup
Never has a piece of visual art touched me so much as Samurai Jack has in it's last season. A show from my childhood abruptly pulled over a decade ago with no ending came back now in 2017, in my adulthood, as an adult show, and not only gave the show an ending and final rest it deserved, but elegantly deals with concepts that all persons must face throughout their life: from personal demons, to duty, to love and sacrifice - all in beautiful art and style.
Definitely worth a watch, even if you haven't seen the first 4 seasons.