The Transformers 1984 -- 1987 [Season 3, Volume 1, Disc 7] Episode 70: Five Faces of Darkness: Part 5 by AverageMansReviews

The Transformers 1984 -- 1987 [Season 3, Volume 1, Disc 7] Episode 70: Five Faces of Darkness: Part 5 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: this episode is lots of fun

Storyline/Action sequences/Artistic visions: the viewers get given this recap; now the reason why I have put these three components together in this section is simply put they work off one another strongly and fluently in a nutshell if they had out and out carnage in mind for this episode they achieved that by an unlimited distance.

In every situation in this episode means something in the bigger picture of things, rotations from situation to situation to situation and back again, just gives every situation that we aren't seeing at that specific moment space to breathe, so the time we come back to it things have chaotically progressed.

Now specifically for the action sequences and the artistic visions, well they will grab your attention; for these two examples there is this reference to the NFL [but you will have to use your imagination, it will not take much let's just say it has a massive Transformers/science-fiction twist over this transforming cog] and we have this gigantic action sequence between one Decepticon vs. one Autobot [I like to drop in new characters names after an episode or episodes, so briefly if you were to watch these episodes in the right order, I can't bring up certain characters names but I can later on; it's just so I don't give too much information away at a specific time when it would spoil your viewing pleasure before you have seen the specific project in question.]

Character developments: Autobot [Ultra Magnus] gets respect off me in this episode, I am not changing my mind on him; he should have never been given the Matrix of Leadership [worst leader ever out of the three of them, just to cover my back I will say of this Generation and yes I am aware I have said  something like this before in a previous episode review.] But as a soldier, yes he will complain about something or other, but he is someone that any leader of the Autobots can reliably trust to get results or die trying, like in this episode he will lay his life on the line so that Rodimus Prime and other characters can escape.

Here is something for you to watch out for this Decepticon's character developments [Blitzwing,] they are excellently built into this episode as in; in this situation he has grown wiser and more complex as an individual character and that is all I can say about them [you will see what I mean when you come to watch this episode.]

This episode receives: 10/10, this is the only mark I had in mind for this episode; it is hard-hitting, action-packed from beginning to end.

The Transformers 1984 -- 1987 [Season 3, Volume 1, Disc 7] Episode 69: Five Faces of Darkness: Part 4 by AverageMansReviews

The Transformers 1984 -- 1987 [Season 3, Volume 1, Disc 7] Episode 69: Five Faces of Darkness: Part 4 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: this episode is excellent

Warning: if your children or you are watching this with your children; there are elements of attempted suicides and kamikaze

Storyline/Origins storylines: we get this recap with voice-over; well this episode covers so, so, so much [I am not exaggerating.] I would have much more preferred if they had put the Rodimus Prime narrative in the next episode and given it much more time to work with [yes I can't say too much about this narrative let's just say when you come to watch this episode or seeing this specific narrative you will understand why I can't; after you have seen it you will come to appreciate why I can't.]

Action sequences/Artistic visions: on both counts these two components offer this episode so much be it the Autobots battling with either the Decepticons without Galvatron or with Galvatron [yes Galvatron is far from happy this separate unit has betrayed him in his thinking process and his words.] So you have this unit of Decepticons stuck in the middle taking fire from in front of them and behind them as well. There are these transforming Bats which their robot mode is of a Bat [I should point out this is what I think they are; because they sound like Bats or I think this is what they are meant to be, but just to cover my back I could be completely wrong about this.] But transformed mode is of a missile. Now on one hand this is highly imaginative, but on the other hand aren't these characters committing kamikaze when they have hit their target [like a Wasp when they sting somebody,] but these characters go out with more of a bang to them [I have found out whilst listening to the recap of the next episode that these creatures/characters go by the name of Lightpolls or just in the interest of fairness and balance it could be Lightpoles or two separate words on either spelling.]

Character developments/Comedy level: now if we ever needed more evidence that Galvatron is unhinged mixed in with having no patience there is more evidence here in fact everywhere he goes it shows itself in one way or another be you ally or enemy nothing will stand in his way.

There are little bits and pieces of comedy for one example and it also highlights what I was saying in my previous paragraph basically we have Cyclonus with confusion in his voice "Attack who?" with that Galvatron [in his transformed mode of Cannon] shoots Cyclonus then [transforms into his robot mode] then with anger in his voice says Everyone!

This episode receives: 9/10, this episode has lots to offer; but when you see the Rodimus Prime narrative you will say to yourself "They should have given that much more time than what they have." I have one final thing left to say on the subject and then I will finish this review here; it really does feel like a missed opportunity here with this Rodimus Prime narrative

Widows 2018 by AverageMansReviews

Widows 2018 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: this film is poor

Fundamental elements: there are voice-over elements, background music, cultural elements, mental imagery, yes and no to subtitles being used when another language is being used, time jumps and place jumps.

Movement; this film is incredibly slow, minus roughly into the final quarter and beyond, where it does pick up the pace a little; but for the rest of the time, I have seen snails move quicker than this film [minus Turbo from his self-titled film title in 2013 obviously.]

Back stories/Storyline: the back stories either get shown us either at the beginning of the film [with these two different timelines narratives,] mental imagery or in the dialogue exchanges or over dialogue exchanges with imagery of what happened. The storyline itself is something safe and reliable, but having said that with the movement and the pacing of this project it makes it incredibly hard work of it.

Artistic visions/Action sequences: now just to cover my back these are just rough descriptions, but still fairly precise. The first one can be seen as both an artistic visions and an action sequence; where in one of these timelines at the beginning of the film we have this robbery/vehicles chasing with weapons being used, but I am more specifically focusing on the camera work. The camera work in this situation is designed to represent us as if we the audience were in this situation.]

The next one is where we have this bad guy tailing our lead character/role; he is listening to the radio and having a drink of water watching/following her. Now once again the camera work has been designed to represent us the audience, but in this case we are really close up [sitting in the front passenger seat leaning over, I'm just saying leaning over to indicate how close we are to this individual,] so when this bad guy character turns this vehicle would get a very good picture of this scene [outside his window of traffic and so on.]

The next one is where we have these two characters/performers in this vehicle having this argument, but we the audience/camera is situated outside facing the front of this vehicle [we begin at one side of this vehicle] and driver [comes into the shot as the camera moves over to his side of this vehicle with this smooth move across] for this small journey; I do like the imagination, but I also have to point out it is a little bit weird at the same time, based on you would think we the camera would be situated somewhere much, much closer to this situation in the backseat instead of where we are.

The final one is where we have our lead character/performer for an this flare inside this vehicle and entering the driver’s seat of this other vehicle. The camera is situated more on this second vehicle so when she throws this flare in this first vehicle, we the audience are on top of this bonnet to see her in the driving seat and at the same time as she is driving away we can clearly see this first vehicle on fire; yes this can be seen as an action sequence as well.

Action sequences; there are weapons being used, vehicles, training, working out, combat and chasing.

Character developments/Performances: basically all of these characters/performers minus 5 characters/performers do a solid job; yes there is chemistry/friction it is the standard for the character types.

Veronica/Davis, Linda/Rodriguez, Alice/Debicki, Belle/Erivo and Bash/Dillahunt; now individually or in different numbers or combinations these characters/performers are a massive asset to this project

This is one of those occasions where I should explain; if this project have a better foundation or a better movement or spending more time with these characters/performers instead of the other characters/performers of this title; this film would have got given a higher mark from me in this review.

But as this film is there is so much wasted potential here and specifically the female characters/performers; the viewers get to see bits and pieces of this potential I am speaking of but they needed much more time on screen and more consistently to develop it [I should just point out this has nothing to do with the performers themselves, basically what I am saying is this; get them signed up to another project which is better, all working together as soon as possible. Because I am really interested to see what they can do with a better project on every single level [minus the artistic visions and the male role which I have highlighted this character/his last name.

This film receives: 3/10, yes as you can see from an artistic visions perspective and there are other bits and pieces which you can either see or listen to which I haven't put in this review like this Beat Boxing Rapping combination [two characters/performers] and likewise there is lots of potential with the characters/performers which I have discussed as well. But other than that this film is as I have said at the beginning of this review this film is poor.

Boundin' 2003/2004 by AverageMansReviews

Boundin' 2003/2004 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: this film is excellent, this project roughly goes on for 5 minutes.

Fundamental elements: there is voice-over narration/singing, background music, time jumps and place jumps.

Movement; it is smooth and it has a specific purpose in mind, to tell its viewers this story with these moral messages in it.

Back stories/Moral messages/Storyline/Story teller: the back stories [same back story] are either sung to us or discussed in the dialogue exchanges which is still being sung as well, the moral message is; first of all I think to cover my back I will explain a little bit about this project, this Sheep has recently been sheered [before this in his own words here is just a nutshell version "He used to be something."] But all his friends are laughing at him because he looks ridiculous and pink, so as it relates to the moral messages; it sounds like it doesn't matter how you look or what ethnic background or other you are; you just keep on bounding back and by the end of this project our lead character learns to live with it and doesn't care and on top of that subtly implies from another perspective  "Don't pick on someone that is different" [it implies this; when this Jackalope this looks at these Gophers, I will discuss this a little bit more later on in this review,] so the storyline is good, it comes to its audience using the formula of something like this; it may be an old man in a rocking chair and his friends playing their instruments with children and possibly family members sitting in front of them, listening to him telling them the story, it's moral messages is clear and they went with the 1980's cartoon approach generally speaking [of having a older/wiser character show up to solve this problem or give advice to this situation which was happening before they came into the scene/at the end of the episode or in this case; this Jackalope just bounding on through] to give this younger character some advice and wisdom and not forgetting to give these Gophers look of disapproval with his eyes/facial expression/body language [in fact they all stop laughing and quickly retreat into their holes with just the tops of their heads, ears and heads showing,] as I have already said there was more being said here without it being said in a very tiny amount of time.

Character developments/Artistic visions/Voice performer: the character developments are good; the artistic visions/animation is easy to settle down with, yes it is looking vintage by today's standards, but it is still all good, here is something for you to look out for; there are dancing elements. Now there is a reason why I chose to put the artistic visions/voice performer side by side, it is because we have this voice performer singing/telling us this story and being the voices for both characters and likewise this is good as well.

This film receives: 8/10, as I have already said this is excellent; this is one of those short projects which is designed to be an educational tool for children/young adults to take the moral messages with them throughout the rest of their lives and try to apply them whenever it is appropriate to do so.

Braven 2018 by AverageMansReviews

Braven 2018 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: this film is good

Fundamental elements: there are voice-over elements, background music, environmental, cultural elements, time jumps and place jumps.

Movement; in short [because I will be discussing this again] this film has a better movement/identity to it when our lead character/role Joe Braven/Momoa on screen.

Back stories/Storyline: the back stories get discussed in the dialogue exchanges and the storyline is good. But it really does miss an opportunity to be something better than what it is; basically without giving too much away for the opening section and more roughly I wasn't keeping a check on it, this project has two narratives [one with our lead character/role and one without.]

The one with our lead character/role has real substance and depth that needed to be given much more time than what it had over the second narrative which becomes the main focus [so these two narratives merge,] which as I have already said yes the storyline is good, but consequently predictable and the ending style is sudden and it could have done with some work, something like how this family moved on after this event, you know not much just a small sequence as it is; it leaves a question-mark which if they used something like my idea it would have given this film a more complete ending

Artistic visions/Action sequences: the scenery with sometimes animals in this title is eye-catching [you won't be able to miss them either with the animals or without,] excellent work here, tree cam [I went with this description, because the viewers are on this tree looking up as it goes from standing to falling] as it has been chopped down and the viewers can look down from the perspective of the character/performer's sight of their gun.

Action sequences; there are logging scenes and everything to do with this occupation, a snowball fight, weapons being used, combat, climbing, chasing [here is something for you to look out for; there is a quad bike being used in this film.]

Character developments/Performances/Blooper: on both counts the character developments and the performances are good; there is good chemistry/friction, yes depending where you are; is depending what you get. I mean everything I have said in this paragraph is true, but I should now point out this blooper and this is one of those kinds of bloopers that if you watched this film from a different starting point as in miss roughly the opening section or more, you really wouldn't know it that is supporting character/performer has a medical issue [I don't want to be too specific, because we never find out, basically if they would have specifically said what the diagnosis was I would have put it in here.] But in a nutshell version we gets hold that this supporting character/performer had an accident a year ago and his situation is getting worse, later on this character/performer tells us a little bit more about this accident.

But as you will see in this life-threatening situation, not once does his medical issue/problem show itself, even though we were specifically told his situation was getting worse earlier on in the film and on top of that is medical issue/problem showed itself when it was an average night, so you would think/logically speaking/rhetorical question if it shows itself when it is an average night; I am thinking it should show itself much more frequently/much more prominent, because he is in a life-threatening situation?

This film receives: 6/10, as I have already said at one point or another in this review; yes this film is good, but it could have been so much more than what it is; this project had a crossroads in front of it; focus more on the real in-depth substance, use the action as a secondary component of this project's potential or go for the action route and as you can tell from my review, which one they went for.

Updated: Thursday 06/02/2020

Last updated: Wednesday 26/02/2020

A Goofy Movie 1995 by AverageMansReviews

A Goofy Movie 1995 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: this film is good

Fundamental elements: there are voice-over elements, background music, mental imagery, time jumps and place jumps.

Movement; I would say the second half of this project moves much better than the first half; it finds the get up and go nature to it.

Back stories/Storyline: the back stories get discussed in the dialogue exchanges and the storyline is something safe and reliable, but on a quick side note the capital punishment elements in the storyline/dialogue exchanges [electric chair] feels like overkill, I mean they could easily have substituted this for either prison or jail [I know these two words mean the same thing, but either or it doesn't matter as long as they take out electric chair I don't care.

Artistic visions/Comedy level/Action sequences: the artistic/animation is easy to settle down with as there is lots to see and experience, such as this Wheatfield in the opening scene. The musical numbers are well-placed such as when we have Max [full first name Maximillan,] PJ and Bobby not singing, but between the three of them trying to do this music number in the style of a music video in the style of this music artist Powerline [the extremely limited budget version] or Powerline is on stage with his backing dancers at first [the film is simultaneously still going on] and then Goofy and then both Goofy and Max. Now something completely different Pete goes Camping with PJ [better known as Glamping by today's terminology [an outdoor activity,] but as you will see it is extreme, extreme Glamping [great imagination was used here.]

Moving on to the comedy level, it feels strange I mean yes we have Goofy finding himself in this predicament with a Hoover in the early stages of this title or when Pete uses this Velcro to keep this little girl sitting down, the strange thing is when the pacing of this title picks up the comedy level feels genuine and less rehearsed or stage [yes I am aware I am discussing an animated film.] But you will understand when you watch this title, here is something for you to look out for; watch out for Bigfoot, this character is lots of fun.

Action sequences; there is a bit of action in this project; but I will give you one example in a nutshell version Goofy catches Bigfoot on the end of his fishing rod [but he doesn't know it until it is too late,] so you have him trying to pull him in and recorded at the same time and no I have left out the best action sequence [but what I can say is; it involves rescuing of some description.]

Character developments/Voice performances: now the character developments between Goofy and his son Max are very relatable. Because the parents and their off-spring at one point or another have to go through this transitional stage where they aren't ready to fly the nest just yet, but they are young adults and this is what this project focuses on, so yes there is good chemistry/friction between these two characters, depending where you are; depending what you get.

But I have to say before this film wakes up it is good to have PJ or Pete around or both, because they do individually or together bring very good supporting characters to the table and they do liven things up when this film is still sleeping [yes I know Pete gives some good and terrible advice and drops Max in it,] but he is still a very good character and for all the other characters they are good and the same can be said for all the voice performances as well.

This film receives: 6/10, now considering I found myself watching the wrong film [after some research, I found out I had got confused with this sequel An Extremely Goofy Movie 2000] but as I have already said this film is good.

I was just thinking I would point this out; there is a word used in this project which you wouldn't think would be in here, considering it is a Walt Disney [it says it on the DVD case] or by today just Disney; the word is "spaz" this is a shorter version for the word "spastic"/in this project you are hearing out for "big spaz." [On reflection I have no idea why this film title just didn't go with something safe and reliable like this; Max is questioning why does he turn into his Father around women consequently he is concerned about turning into his Father; this in itself would reinforce why he had the dream he did at the beginning of the film so they wouldn't have to use the words "big spaz" and add a layer to his character developments, I mean he is in the right age bracket to add this layer anyway so they should have used it and just for the record Goofy is not a bad guy, but it is an interesting dynamic that they could/should have added to their relationship, which in turn would have made these characters more relatable on top of their already very relateability between them and their audiences, because generally it speaking we all have thought about it or said something to this effect "I am turning into my Father/parent figure" at one point or another in our lives.

But then again in this film's defence it was made in the 1990's so we weren't so politically correct by today's standards, but as I have already highlighted this is a Walt Disney/Disney project so you wouldn't think it would be in here. [Before I receive any form of comeback and just to cover my back; I am one, meaning I am safe to use the words spastic or cripple, in any way I see fit. I should just say I only used these words and other personal things such as my mental illness when I feel it is appropriate, I am just saying all of this because I know or not that some point in the future so I am just covering my back here; that if I don't point this out somebody from the Internet landscape will take issue with what I have dictated here and yes I am aware that even though I have taken the time to put this in there may be or not some people out there that will in some point still have something to say, I mean this is the current world we are living in, but at least it is here now in black-and-white.] Slightly moving on now even though I have defended this title from being from the 1990's on this point, I am standing by what I previously said about the electric chair in this review and taking 2 seconds to think about it, apologies for repeating myself but as this is a Walt Disney/Disney film title you wouldn't think references to the electric chair would be used either.

Last updated: Wednesday 05/02/2020

The Mule 2018 by AverageMansReviews

The Mule 2018 by AverageMansReviews

Review Time: this film is excellent.

Fundamental elements: there are words and numbers on screen, voice-over elements, cultural elements, background music, environmental, yes and no to subtitles being used when another language is being used, time jumps and place jumps.

Movement; I don't have too much to say here; it knows what it wants to do and just gets on with it.

Back stories/Storyline: the back stories either get shown to us or discussed in the dialogue exchanges, the storyline is good and it is based on real-life events.

Artistic visions/Action sequences: there are excellent flowers scenes, a band playing and singing or just singing and dancing. Moving on to the action there are weapons being used, combat, an ambulance and a helicopter.

Comedy level/Character developments/Performances: well I don't know what to say about the comedy level really, because on one hand I can't condone some of it, but on the other hand the character/performer that is saying it is very old and this character has no filter, which like I said I can't condone it but the most funniest thing about the comedy is the fact that this character/performer has no filter and yes there is one monologue joke which is clean on receiving this award, or this is something for you to hear/look out for a mature response; "then go and see a proctologist" in a dialogue exchange with another character/performer or our lead role is singing along to this song in his vehicle [his vehicle has been bugged unknowingly to him,] so the people he works for are singing along in their car behind him] and references about young people and their technology in this title.

Character developments & performances; these are all round good with good chemistry or good friction, depending where you are; is depending what you get.

This film receives: 8/10, the more you watch of this project the better it gets, so after everything is said and done I found myself at this mark