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Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV (2024)
Not what you think!
Where to even start...
First two episodes are incredibly underwhelming. Nothing like what you'd expect to watch based on the title or trailers. They try to set a tone like they're spilling dark secrets when in reality it's a weird combination of complaining and over reaction via hindsight.
Let's add context, now I'm not excusing things from the past that were perhaps 'out of line' by today's standards. However, we also cannot apply the current 2024 standards to everything in history. Otherwise shows like Gilligan's Island should never be shown again, with all the physical and mental abuse that takes place in each episode, the exploitation, and so on. If by now you're going "chill out" that's the exact same thing you'll say watching this show.
Former cast members complaining about wearing superhero leotards and how "it's gross", that's how most all superheroes were parodied back then. A kid had to wear a prosthetic nose for a skit and tries to say it was explicit because it looked like a set of B@lls & P3n!s. Or someone getting sneezed on, or 'goo' blasted on them was a facial from BangBros.
I grew up watching it, and nothing was 'inappropriate' about the majority of what they're stating so far in the 1st two episodes. That said, I agree Dan was predator and waste of a human being. That's what I thought going into this I was going to learn more about. Instead I get the aforementioned complaining and sexualization of jokes that were never seen nor meant to be seen as such.
And sure, admittingly there were a few episodes where things had double entendres. Nothing over the top, and certainly nothing that wasn't in the majority of cartoons from the 80s to 90s. Hell, the 60s & 70s were filled with them.
The Requin (2022)
What fresh hell was that?
This...this was just...I can't even begin to say how...words can't describe how terrible this thing was. I say thing because I can't bring myself to actually call it a movie!
Let's see, as everyone else has been pointing out the CGI is looks like something from a B movie from the 80's could of out done. The acting (if you can call it that) had me in tears laughing. Alicia's clearly doing this either out of complete desperation for quick cash or because she owed someone a major favor.
***SPOILERS***
All that aside, I get we're suppose to have a suspension of disbelief for movies (especially shark movies). From a bus jumping a partly finished expressway in Speed to the Rock vs an Earthquake & Tsunami lol. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief because of the acting, story, or both. But this...this takes it too far. From the perfect cut chunks of wood in the water, to magical sharks that change sizes, Oh and let's not forget the teleporting land around her.
Alicia's on an island/atoll and jumps off a big rock to an ANCHORED boat. Suddenly the island/atoll is GONE! The ANCHORED boat that was maybe...MAYBE 15' max deep is now suddenly an abyss of darkness under her. Then with in a few minutes she's just outside the bay surrounded by land again.
This was a giant middle finger to movies...Sharknado at least knew what it was and ran with it. Don't waste your time.
NarcoLeap (2018)
NOT original
This is neither original or unique even in terms of concept. They basically took the Scott Bakula show 'Quantum Leap' and changed it to a female with narcolepsy instead of a guy trying to travel back in time. Poor execution, especially when chopped up into segments that can fit into a commercial break.