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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Beautiful graphics, weak storyline
To start off, I did not re watch the first avatar and it would have been benefitial if I did prior.
The pacing seemed fast, yet slow at the same time. Let me explain. The story goes through a lot to try and build characters. However many parts were slow and dragged on. So overall, the pacing, for me, was just too all over the place.
The story seemed inconclusive and messy as well. It tried to build too many characters where I couldn't really connect fully with one. And where the story could have dug deeper to build a solid synopsis, it drifted elsewhere. It tried to do too many things all at once and remained on the surface level of each storyline it pursued.
The only good thing I liked where the graphics. It's an eye candy alright. I just wished the actual story was better.
Jo Koy: Live from the Los Angeles Forum (2022)
Comedy at its peak
What would comedy be if it's not pushing boundaries? If it doesn't have a chance of offending someone? If it doesn't tell truth to it?
Jokoy looks back and tells a background story about his first show on Netflix, and turns it into comedy. At the time, it was probably the scariest moment in his career: trying to make it as a comedian, and risking all his livelihood in this one show. He compared his experience with a white counterpart, where an exec saw the asian accent as racist and the white accent was normal. He's pushing boundaries here. And he did offend many. But he told the truth via his experiences that many could relate. Truth be told, many Asians don't think that the bits he does with an accent is racist, but actually relate-able. His point is that systemic racism is brought up by not having representations of other cultures, and he lived through it to tell the tale.
Among the other themes are: empowering women, minorities, and deconstructing cliché topics.
How he uses comedy to bring light to the topics he brings up is just comedy at its peak.