{"id":104141,"date":"2024-03-13T14:36:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=39667"},"modified":"2024-03-13T14:36:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:36:39","slug":"winter-2024-week-11-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/winter-2024-week-11-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2024 \u2013 Week 11 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. This has been an altogether productive week on my end, as my screening crew accompanied a fresh pile of films with a run through Netflix\u2019s recent Avatar: The Last Airbender adaptation, which I\u2019m frankly embarrassed to admit I actually quite enjoyed. Aside from that, my regular DnD group are now gearing up for our third shared campaign, wherein I\u2019ll be stepping back from dungeon mastering to once again participate as a player character. That\u2019s frankly more than fine by me; DMing was an absurd amount of work, and I\u2019m looking forward to taking a break from writing several novels\u2019 worth of narrative-sculpting and quest design to instead portray exactly one character: a goblin cleric with anxiety. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll have more to say about all that after our first session on Monday, but for now, let\u2019s break down a fresh week in film and television!<\/span><\/p>\n

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First up this week was <\/span>The Strangers<\/b>, a semi-recent horror hit that was pitched to us as being \u201cnot like those other home invasion films,\u201d ie not primarily concerned with gruesome violence and sexual assault. Well, I can confirm that The Strangers largely avoids the ugly, mean-spirited dalliances that frequently make this genre space such uncomfortable viewing\u2026 unfortunately, it really doesn\u2019t offer much <\/span>else<\/span><\/i> to fill its running time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The film starts off strong, opening in the wake of a clear relational upheaval between Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. As swiftly becomes clear, Speedman\u2019s marriage proposal was apparently met with an awkward \u201cI need more time,\u201d prompting a heavy emotional tension that cleverly masks the encroaching horror threat. But while the film gleans some decent impact from scenes of our leads fretting in the foreground while masked strangers loom in the distance, it eventually becomes clear that this is <\/span>all<\/span><\/i> the film will offer; all distant silhouettes and bumps in the night, no energetic setpieces or coherent hurdles for our leads to overcome. I suppose back in 2008, \u201cgeneral spookums\u201d could play as a more elegant alternative to Saw and Hostel, but from a vantage point here in the prestige horror era, I can only feel sorry that \u201celevated horror\u201d enthusiasts once had to console themselves with such weak tea as this.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We then watched another bawdy \u201880s adventure film, charging through <\/span>The Sword and the Sorcerer<\/b> with all possible haste. There\u2019s really not too much to say about this one; you\u2019ve got your nefarious tyrant, you\u2019ve got your ageless sorcerer, and you\u2019ve got a young hero named Talon, renowned for his preposterous three-bladed sword (two of the blades actually shoot out like torpedoes). Come for the ostensibly heroic adventure, stay for the luxurious costuming and set design, a reminder that even C-tier features like this once took place in actual locations with real props and everything. Someone should make me a version of that \u201clook what they need to mimic a fraction of our power\u201d meme with CG Thanos in the background and some goofy Labyrinth puppets in the foreground – that\u2019s basically<\/span> how I feel about our current era of fantasy aesthetic degradation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Next up was <\/span>Roujin Z<\/b>, a bubble-era anime film scripted and storyboarded by Katsuhiro Otomo, and directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo. The film centers on the Z-001, a revolutionary hospital bed that will allegedly handle all the day-to-day concerns of Japan\u2019s increasingly bedridden population. Elderly widower Kijuro Takazawa is unwillingly conscripted as the test case for Z-001, which of course swiftly begins to evolve and depart significantly from its caretaker mandate. As Z-001 rampages across Japan, it falls to Kijuro\u2019s nurse Haruko to settle things, and once again restore the human touch to elderly care.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roujin Z\u2019s thematic concerns are obvious: the irresolvable issue of Japan\u2019s aging population, the not-so-secret desire for remilitarization embodied by its right wing, and the lurking influence of the United States on all related civil projects. But though the film touches on a variety of weighty ideas, the actual viewing experience is light and breezy. Roujin Z is most fundamentally a comedy of errors, with Haruko\u2019s well-meaning efforts to support Kijuro frequently exacerbating Z-001\u2019s chaotic actions, and the vast majority of the \u201cdestruction\u201d wrought by its rampage amounting to little more than trashed arcades and traffic holdups.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nefarious government agents, a geriatric gang of hackers, and a robot with the personality of Kijuro\u2019s doting wife – what\u2019s not to like? Roujin Z is an irreverent artifact of anime\u2019s most optimistic era, wherein the endless spoils of the soaring economy allowed passionate auteurs to make all manner of gloriously animated features. The era of these luscious, creator-driven passion projects may be dead and buried, but we\u2019ll always have its treasures.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alongside all of the feature films, we also found time for Netflix\u2019s recent live-action <\/span>Avatar: The Last Airbender<\/b>, which I am ashamed to announce that I\u2026 pretty much enjoyed wholeheartedly? I know, I know, adaptation from animation without purpose is clearly The Enemy, an enduring reflection of the market\u2019s insistence that animation is somehow lesser than live-action media. But though I lament this production\u2019s complicity in a trend that inherently denigrates the worthiness of animation, I have to admit that this season was a pretty good time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though there was much bellyaching about changes to the source material for this adaptation, I can\u2019t say that I felt anything was really missing or realized in a substantially inferior way compared to the original cartoon. The changes made seemed like natural shifts based on the needs of two different mediums; repeated episodic conflicts are here combined into neat forty-minute dramas, particularly compelling one-offs are condensed into larger ongoing narratives, and the true core of Avatar, the compelling bonds between its heroes <\/span>and<\/span><\/i> its antagonists, is carefully preserved.<\/span><\/p>\n

None of this would work if the show\u2019s cast weren\u2019t up to the challenge, but Netflix have fortunately outdone themselves in terms of casting. Aang is simply Aang, Sokka is abundantly Sokka, and <\/span>most<\/span> crucially, both Zuko and Iroh impress at every turn, each of them selling the tortured complexity of their positions. Changes like adding Azula to this first season simply make sense for a three-season arc, with Aang\u2019s earlier realization of his failures and responsibilities also naturally fitting the scope of the narrative. And outside of shifts like that, the series simply luxuriates in the sturdy narrative skeleton of its source material, reveling in the friendships of its cast while offering impressive realizations of Avatar\u2019s many distinctive locales.<\/span><\/p>\n

I certainly wouldn\u2019t recommend this version as the definitive take or anything, and there\u2019s a touch of friction present in the discordance between Avatar\u2019s fundamentally children\u2019s adventure-style narrative and its prestige drama-style presentation, but I enjoyed every episode of Netflix Avatar, and concluded it hungry to see this production\u2019s take on Toph Beifong. Turns out Netflix seems to actually be figuring out this live action adaptation thing; I guess we\u2019re gonna have to find something else to be mad about.<\/span><\/p>\n

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