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I enjoyed it too, and more than I expected to. No, it's not for little kids, but I happen to be an adult, so it seemed like a movie for me, and I've certainly seen darker films. What I thought it was good at conveying was the sense of danger in a jungle where animals eat each other, which is real, instead of hugs and songs.
The movie did a good job of making me care about certain characters, even minor ones like Bhoot, and it moved at a quick pace too, so I enjoyed the thrill of "what happens next?" When Mowgli brought the fire to drive off Shere Khan, I wanted to cheer him on!
Agreed. Col Birch really hammed it to excess. Olivia seemed in her first acting job. The fat guy who wanted to go on a date showed more convincing personality than the others. The shrink with the beard was okay; the other guy talked like a robot.
I actually wish they'd found a better actress for Eleanor; overall, the weak acting was a distraction. But I enjoyed the movie all the same. B-, I'd say.
Something about the VR world was *not* compelling, so I had a little trouble understanding why the outcast misfits loved it and Adrian so much. But I enjoyed the show overall, more than I expected, and I binged-watched it over 2 days. I liked the cat & mouse game between Leila and Adrian, and the dynamics between all the those messed-up people kept me guessing. I really disliked Episode 5 (too long & bogged down in weirdness), but all the others were good.
I watched 2 episodes and gave up. I didn't find the characters interesting, nor this "power" interesting, and many things seemed amateurish and low-budget, such as the dialogue, acting, and car chases.
The one good thing I noticed was that the secondary characters all have stories behind them, the way real people do. Hence the brother with agoraphobia, the mother stuck with a near-zombie husband, etc. That made me think the show had potential, but the central story was too blase for me.
I'm sad it's over too. The only good thing about a forced finale like this one is that they don't drag out the "mysteries" for years, which I find tedious. For Season 1--sure, it was a whole new world, and explaining everything at once would have been overwhelming, so I accepted lots of mysteries. It was already overwhelming with all the new things the show tried--the sex, the characters being 2 places at once, how their connections to each other worked, the different cultures and perspectives we were immersed in, etc.
But I found Season 2 less gratifying to watch, and I didn't like being jerked around with teasers like "Well, maybe Angelica wasn't so good after all." So having the series finale wrap up that explanation quickly made me grateful.
On the other hand, it seemed we missed out on things. I always suspected Rajan's pharma company had some BPO connection, and Dani's father was a smuggler--was he in league with BPO too, or just a criminal? We'll never know.
**Spoilers**
Twists for me were:
1. The mystery of the tower of junk.
2. Everyone dies except the little girl. I was certain the hero guy would survive; they usually do.
3. The band of survivors was mostly women. That's unusual.
4. The race driver from the very beginning who had his girlfriend attacked is somehow a survivor at the end.
5. No one seemed to fit the usual stereotype. Even the little girl was not "traumatized, non-speaking little girl."
6. The zombies were smart enough to lay traps for people, so like the tower of junk, they were not totally brain dead.
My favorite: after Douzi has recovered from his addiction, Juxian asks Xiao Si where he was during the celebration party. He answers "At a meeting" and her answer is a slap to the face. (Which he deserved for abandoning the man who saved him from an abandoned infant's death.)
Next favorite is Douzi calmly walking past his racks of costumes and setting fire to them. He was so far gone, he seemed past grief at that point.
I'm white, and you hit on the point: these were not average white people, these were crazy, sick white people, and I was as afraid of their little cult as any person would be. If anyone is standing up for them, that's crazy too.
Moonglum, I'd give you a big hug, but I can't see you. Sorry.
I watched it all the way through, and it had a few twists I didn't expect.
What annoyed me throughout, however, was how stupidly people would wander off alone, over and over, and get into trouble. How did they survive that long being that stupid?