TV, Movies, and Freedom

Current events, shows, movies, music, and postmodern satire.

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Attack on Titan

     The reason they mistranslated the name is because Attack on Titan sounds way cooler.

   Attack on Titan is the anime version of a collage between Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. It’s post-apocalyptic philosophies and its occasional badass animations make for the best anime of the new decade.

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Bates Motel

     It is not meant to be an epic sequel to Psycho, so don’t get your Hitchcock eyes on.

 When the critics saw Norman’s iPod and the slow steering off for his biographies, they were outraged. Especially catching on to Freddie’s Highmore’s sometimes too-posh-of-a-speech for someone like Norman Bates.

  The show was clearly never meant to pay homage to Alfred. The classic movie was meant as a starting point for the series. And besides Freddie Highmore’s rare slips in acting when supposed to lie and the lack of contemporary culture put in to the post modernizing of the show(a lot of people in the show still not being ok with weed and not nearly enough internet), the show is only second to American Horror Story in Psycho-Thrilling dramas.

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There Won’t be that Much Blood

  Here is a perfect account of a libertarian paradise originally written by Upton Sinclair.

   An oil-man, Daniel goes through a story of ruthlessness and competition. Onlymistake I see in this movie is that they don’t show Daniel coursing back to town in the beginning scene, showing how ruthless he truly is from the beginning.

     Playing the thin lines between money and pride and religion, Anderson outdid himself with this music-filled masterpiece that at most times seems like a collage of sceneries and developments that is the perfect way to tell a story that takes place in too long a time.

   The Daniel is the best characterization of the Robber Barons that I’ve ever seen. Ruthless from start to finish, the boy and the church are just obstacles in his way to gold.

  And though he shows that darker side for most, he loves his son like he can never love anyone else, we see at the end this is because he wanted his son to follow his footsteps.

The movie is great, and stuff.

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Django Unchained

  In Tarantino’s love letter to westerns, he makes probably the best one since No Country For Old Men.

   With its surprise humor and eerie background presence, Unchained is a classic western to be remembered for ages to come. Also, dibs to quentin for finally making Leonardio DiCaprio, and probably pissing Martin Scorsese off.

     Tarantino makes a superhero, who, like in Kill Bill, despite the fact he does the same things his enemies, thereby becoming the monster, is praised and succeeds at the end of the movie.

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Kill Bill Vol. 2

     Even though the first person narration is kinda off-color, it goes back to the genius suspense and mixed plot development that makes a good Tarantino movie.

   The whole background is revealed in the beginning, and we find out the messy relationship between the Bride and Bill, whose name turns out to be what Bill’s been calling her all this time.

  We see the Kiddo’s training period,

and her partner’s respect for her vengeance, even though he buries her alive later. But, no worries, her training gets her out strong enough to gauge one eye with one hand.

  The movie ends in a rather sublime way, revenge is still kept at the holiest of shrines, but it is clear, the movie is all about the code of any trained assassin, as everyone in her list gains utmost respect. The sublime relationship that ends Bill’s life is as complex as they get in movies.

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Kill Bill Vol, 1

Tarantino’s worst, yet still, it’s Tarantino.

  A mesh of crude comedy and overly exaggerated gore and violence, it stands as the one Tarantino film you could call “unrealistic.”

   Tarantino does still employ his awesome dialogue and high-art exploitation tropes, but the narration and disorder of the plot blows it, owing to the fact that the background is not well-developed.

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Reservoir Dogs

     This movie could have no audio, it would a one episode podcast and still be one of my favorite movies.  

   Mr. Blue, Mr. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Pink, Mr. Orange and Mr. Blonde make a heist… that we never see. Amidst the killer dialogue, and slowly paced suspenseful violence, themes of mistrust and faith and professionalism surface, each character making favorites among the group.

  The beginning dialogue is one of the best in film history. It sets up the ironic atmosphere of the movie. A group willing to kill for money and treat cops as “not real” people are morally outraged by one’s unwillingness to tip. A group who don’t and aren’t allowed to know anything about themselves talk like best friends and pretend to shoot each other right before they shoot a jewelry store up.

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Wedding Videography

     Garrett proposes and gets married, to his cousin.

     After entering the party late, and all from the view of Abed filming, the group decide to split up and do the other thing, only to unite again with Jeff’s best man speech, which figures out that Garrett and Stacy(his fiance) have a common aunt. Unexpectedly, Chang makes the climax speech getting Garrett and Stacy back together after the families(or family?) decides to leave the wedding. 

    After all the postmodern parodying of home recordings and romantic comedies, the writer of the episodes comes out saying why he decided to make one of themes incest in the episodes, in a hilarious attempt to raise awareness for a cause.

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My Brother’s Keeper Part 2

Rowena casts the spell and (with her powers gained from the Codex?) makes Cas into puppet who goes to kill Crowley. 

     Death makes a deal with Dean, since by destroying the curse, a mysterious force Death calls the Darkness-the nothing that God created the world from-will be released into the world and cause a havoc that would make the apocalypse just another day on the job by comparison.

     So Dean agrees to be placed in another realm where he can bear the mark without hurting anyone, and he has to to kill Sam since Sam’s going to raise all hell in the future to look for him.

But... after a trip to feels land.

Dean kills Death?

So, Sam and Dean are alive, the Mark is gone, everything’s good right?

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Death is Dead.

  Supernatural is over. For this year, and they’ve got plenty for the next 4 seasons.

     The episode starts how you’d expect it to. Cas and Sam push Rowena to break the curse, and since Sam couldn’t kill King Crowley, Rowena bargains her way to keeping the Codex. Dean goes on a case with a fellow hunter Rody and ends up killing him, deciding to give up. 

     Crowley agrees to help get the ingredients for the spell to save Dean, while summons Death, and this is where it goes nuts.

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Modern Espionage

    The great paintball rite of passage is fulfilled, and it looks like this might be the last postmodern homage to action adventures and westerns which are mistakenly labeled as parodies.

     It turns out that the ones cleaning up the mess are the ones making it. The custodians start an underground paintball competition and try to frame it on the (study?) group. Frankie, enraged by this, tries to root it out.

In the end, she gets the respect from the school and the competition stops, agreeing that it’s time for Greendale to change. Dean is shown to have 

kick-ass hitman skills though always hiding behind others for protection.

     I hope Frankie has a change of heart about such a tournament, these episodes are the best delivered by the show. Also, I know that Starburns was alive, but if you’re gonna bring him back, don’t make him a side scene, involve him in the plot.

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The Prisoner of Lies

   The Supernatural 2-episode finale has begun,and Charlie’s was a Death I did not expect.

   Dean bashes Charlie’s death on Sam’s face and Dean goes out to take revenge on the Frankenstein’s. Sam reads Charlie’s last email and goes on with the Book of the Damned plan, but is pressed by Rowina to kill Crowley.

     But, alas, Crowley is Crowley. Not another Demon you can kill with a hex bag.

And Sam becomes pacified, as Crowley almost kills him, and puts his mom on his death list.

     The finale is set up perfectly, and Death is on Dean’s side.

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Basic RV Repair and Palmistry

     An episode that takes the show back to its meta-themed roots and becomes a great reminder of Abed’s condition.

     Like a Breaking Bad spoof, the show centers round a strayed RV that gets worse when everybody keeps their devices plugged in(in Breaking Bad it was keys, here it’s phones). 

     Abed becomes obsessed with creating a coherent story and managing it with time skips and flashbacks.

     The dean falls to his scared self locks everyone out.

The show coalesces in Abed’s genius resolving the problem while still keeping his insanity, but will his genius always save him?

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Supernatural Finale?

So Charlie has died.

     The season in a path I did not expect at all.  The pace of the plot keeps getting faster and faster. I expect a lot of twists in these last two episodes. I thought Peter(the only archangel son of god that hasn’t been introduced)would be to come one this season, but I don’t expect such a cliffhanger now. Either Chuck will come out, since he was shown earlier in the season(Fan Fiction); or  the book will have a very dire curse. Wondewr if it has something to do with Lucifer...

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Who will come back in the Community Finale?

     This series seems to be going in all directions, but there’s an under-running nostalgia in all the episodes that seems to be converging in one end.

Ever since “Frankie“ Dart started wondering about the group’s past, I knew the season would coalesce into a conflict about the past, either having to do with Troy or Pierce, probably Troy. The theme of leaving the school and just endings in general runs all throughout episodes like “Intro to Recycled Cinema” and “Basic Crisis Room Decorum.”

So what do I think will happen in the finale? Either two things: Abed leaves to look for Troy out of disappointment in the failure of the group to stay together or: Troy returns.

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A Movie After the 6th Season? (How it’s going so far.)