Cowboy Bebop (2021) review

I didn't care for it, are you going to check out Wheel of Time? I read the books but the show seems like shit to me.

 

It's bad, simply put. I am not even the biggest Bebop stan but this show was a complete embarrassment. Specially in this timke and age when TV Shows can look like Squid Game, American Gods and th Boys. Everything in this felt like everyone involved was doing it as half assedly as they could muster. Dialogue is fucking terrible, like out of a Chuck Lorre sitcom terrible, like fucking porn dialogue it's awful.

Even the editing is half assed, while the stage design is good everything is shot and acted in such a poor way, and scenes are strung together in a very amateurish way. My "favorite" instance is when Vicious does the stereotypical anime thing where the swordman quickly kills someone and the camera focuses on the blood splatter to be stylish.... but the way the sequence is just ridiculpus, not helped by the dead guy's fake looking pedostache.

They made Jet black and this was followed by him being givn elements where he engages in tomfoolery type behavior, which is just.... let's borrow a word, problematic in implications. Why couldn't he be black and simply be the same Jet?

Faye is just terrible, she is writen like the most hacky way you can write a "strong female character"... in the 90s and played completely straight.

The characters are basically psychopaths that #QUIRKILY joke about all the people they are killing. The Bebop Crew wasn't like that at all, how come they made them never shut the fuck up and we ended up with more shallow characters?

Vicious is embarrassing, both in looks and characterization and whenever Julia appeared with Spike it looked more like a father and daugther because the guy they got for Spike doesn't look 27 at all and his clunky physical acting doesn't help clearing up the image of looking at a middle aged guy in a cosplay.

Their attempts at making this seem "more mature" and "edgier" feels like what a 13 year old who wears an ahegao hoodie and has never touched a boob in their life would write on their Fanfic they wrote with one hand, like Faye and another girl's "seduction" dialogue is about how big Faye's gun is.... but they are both women do lesbians flirt by making phallic inuendos? Is Faye trans?

The Ed scene.... terrible, a perfect close for a terrible idea of a series.


It trended #1 for a weekend so Season 2 is probably already in development. I am glad we don't get any new good shit and instead we simply get terrible remakes of things that should've inspired creators to make their own stuff. Tune in next for the live action remake of Mindgames.

No idea how you can say it went too faithful as being the reason is cartoonish, when the original anime in fact wasn't like this at all, favoring mood, muted colors and minimalist dialogue to set up a scene, not terrible actors flailing around and having a scene where Jet "hilariously" gets confused about what a bidet is for and he need Spike to explain to him that is to clean his asshole, followed by Faye HILARIOUSLY taking a sip of water and going "PUAGH what is this? Water? Give me beer much better!" this isn't faithful to Bebop, this is writen like Two Broke girls but no Kat Dennings anywhere....

4/10

 

Don't waste your time with Wheel of Time.
It is cheap fantasy-by-the-numbers for the "young adults" and forced diversity.
Much worse than i.e. Witcher, much closer to ill fated D'n'D big screen adaptations.
I expected it will not do justice to the Jordan's books, but at least I expected some kind of competence.

Bebop is next on my watchlist - my expectations are even lower: if they don't bore me completely, they haven't failed.

 

I really don't get the obsession people have with making live action adaptations of animated works. The original was already a great show. Go watch that instead of wasting time watching this crap.

 

Because a lot of the business is creatively bankrupt. Why make new stuff when you can just remake stuff that has no point in being remade and bank off of nostalgia? It's disgusting.

 

Hey guys, we are getting a reboot of the 90's Xmen cartoon, don't you love that Disney owns the Xmen now? Instead of getting a new show like we used to do before now we get more rehashes of the old shit! Whooohooo!

 

"Forced diversity" at this point is a meme at the expense of whoever says it lmao.

 

I’d like some forced diversity of new stories.

I guess the only thing I can really add to this is I thought the directing was pretty poor. Scenes were choppy when they could have just made a shot that showed more than one actor at a time. Didn’t have good flow when transition shots.

Sets and costumes seemed cheap too.

 

I'm glad that they didn't steer far from the original story, and that the original story is timelessly magnificent.

 

It was a diverse world but nations and their people were pretty distinct, the two rivers were people cut off from outsiders for generations, and Rand was supposed to be unique because he was so different than how everyone else looked.

 

American Rome movies should be made up of only Tri-state area Guidos.

 

Are the "Forced diversity" kids gonna throw a fit over the 90's stuff they are now rehashing? Multi etnic casts were all the rage since then, some even had at least one person on a wheelchair as well.

 

Kyles cousin kyle cannot be seen as anything but a victim or the facade wears off.

 

It's funny because Spike is Jewish and made him a Korean middle aged man, and Faye is from Singapore, so actually asian and they made her a white girl, Ed is dark skinned and they casted a white person and then they took Jet made him black but decided that it was necessary for some reason to make him much much less intelligent.

 

Barring him not knowing what a bidet is, needing to have interrogating for information explained to him despite being a cop, buying the wrong ship part due to stubborness, making up Spike's backstory and then get over emotionally angry about Spike lying to him about said thing he made up, the constant jokes whose only punchline is because he is a big black dude now (You are black and you are male!). He is basically a Family Guy black character. Then again everyone in this show is like a Chuck Lorre Sitcom sitcom character.

Also "Latino" simply signifies the place one lives, plenty latinos are white, black, mixed, various indigenous ethnicities and in peru there are even a huge amount of asian latinos.