A few hours ago Netflix released the official trailer for Stranger Things 3, and I’m whelmed. Not under, but certainly not over, either because the producers efforts to evoke a particular time period have always rang a bit hollow to me. In other words, I think they’re trying too hard. That’s not to say I […]
Not a bad episode, though certainly not among the best. It’s brought down by an extended stay in the Uncanny Valley (some of the CGI of Samira Wiley’s face is just…not good) and a story that seems a bit contradictory at times. If you’re a fan of aerial combat (the warplanes in this episode, which […]
I’m not done yet with Love, Death + Robots but if Fish Night isn’t the best episode of the series I’ll be genuinely shocked. It’s by turns beautiful–with animation that looks rotoscoped and vaguely like that of Ralph Bakshi–and terrifying. It’s somewhat simplistic story-wise, but as I’ve said before, that’s not a criticism in and […]
Helping Hand is a bit of a joke, and I mean that in the best possible way. It’s a study in what can go wrong in a given situation, and when things go wrong, they GO WRONG. It’s also a story about survival, and about one person will do to stay alive under remarkable odds.
What a disappointing episode. The worse thing is not that the story is relatively simple–as I said with The Dump, there’s nothing wrong with a simple story as long as it’s well-told–it’s that the story demanded a more nuanced way of moving forward. Shape-Shifters revolves around the American military in some Middle Eastern country, fighting […]
The Dump is likelier among the simpler episodes of Love, Death + Robots, but simple isn’t in and of itself a criticism because the story is well-told, which in the end is all that matters. The art is gorgeous, and very reminiscent of Richard Corben’s work .
When Good Hunting began I was thinking that I was watching the best episode of the series yet. That is, till the end, when I realized the story at points made little sense and was terribly illogical. Which is a pity because the animation is remarkable, starting out with somewhat simplistic hand-drawn animation, and eventually […]
Visually speaking, Beyond The Aquila Rift is remarkable. In fact, it’s so good that if someone told me that this movie existed in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus/Alien universe, I’d have little problem believing it. The problem is that the storytelling is the weakest point, and that’s a HUGE issue. The story just meanders in that you […]
Not a terrible episode, but a very ‘Meh’ one–which is in it’s way worse because at least terrible had the potential to be pretty horrific, as these scenes from The Stuff (1985) illustrate . When The Yogurt Took Over feels more like visual wallpaper: It’s interesting to look at but when all is said and […]
Sucker of Souls, the fifth episode of Love, Death + Robots, is a lot of fun. Traditional drawn animation, as opposed to CGI, it’s pretty refreshing to see. And the thing is, I’m not a fan of this particular style of animation, though seeing it presented among, so-far, an entirely CGI field makes it pretty […]
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