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Into the Badlands (2015)
When TV is GREAT
Outstanding, and visually glorious. Combine that with excellent writing, plot and dialogue, exquisite fight sequences, it doesn't really get much better than Into the Badlands. It is Storytelling at its' very best, at least for our early 21st C, so much more elegant, intelligent and fast paced compared with what else is available on the telly, and entirely original. It looks expensive, It looks Classy, and I do think it will become a Cult Classic, plus a standard that wannabees will try to reproduce (badly). This is a whole new genre, unlike and outside of the commercial rubbish which is being peddled endlessly to a mostly bored audience, who don't even realise they are bored. Be engaged, stick with Sunny and MK, let us see where they go, how bad the Badlands can be, but I want the entire story.
Into the Badlands: Chapter VI: Hand of Five Poisons (2015)
Best Show 2015
I was so sceptical going into this series...martial arts etc., I didn't think it would captivate, but WOW, it is SUPERB. The quality of writing, the visual beauty (the sets) are spectacular and visionary, each major character is 3 dimensional and interesting. I wish all of TV were this original, this gorgeous to view and as fast paced. As of the 1st January, my cable provider is dropping AMC, yet for this show alone, I am going to subscribe to an alternative provider. I do want to see the evolution of the show, it has so much to offer for multiple seasons, watching MK grow, Tilda (who is fascinating and ambiguous) and the humble, yet incredibly dangerous, Sunny. I hope that all the characters from the 1st 6 episodes survive, they are so well 'fleshed out', and the concept is fresh and startling. Please keep TV this good, this intelligent, and this original. Bravo and Kudos.
Chappie (2015)
Clever Film..Wonderful Character Realisation. Yay
Absolutely Brilliant. I loved every moment of Chappie, who is as engaging as Wall E, yet less predictable. Script/Dialogue is superb, the Action and Plot are seamlessly composed....Wow, kudos to Blomkamp for having such a stark, clear vision of the near future and telling it so well. Jo'berg didn't fare too good, hopefully this was CGI, which I never felt aware of anywhere in Chappie, and which has been ruining Sci-Fi for 20+ years. Excessive action for the sake of action, convoluted plots as a substitution for good writing...The latter 2 are both, happily, absent in this superior film, crafted by a director who is 'scooting' up beside David Lean in my library of Genius Film Making.