Time to Take Out the Well-Made Trash: Stuff I Watched

I spent most of March watching quirky dramas on DVD, all but one of which was shot in Canada.  One-and-a-third of those were made for Canadian TV too.  So really that leaves April and May and half of June for what I watched.  And it will probably start small and just keep getting bigger.  But no one really cares, so whatever.  The good thing for me in doing this is later if I don't remember whether I watched something, I can look it up on here and realize that I did.

The King's Man:  I really liked the original Kingsman movie but the sequel looked lame so I never watched it.  This is a prequel that goes back to 1914.  As I said on Facebook, this really could be called "An Idiot's Guide to World War I."  Basically some Spectre-like group led by a Scottish guy played by an Irish guy (Matthew Goode) starts a world war because he hates England for oppressing Scotland and whatever.  There's a whole Legion of Doom like Rasputin, Lenin, Mata Hari, and some other dudes.  And later Adolf Hitler. [eye roll]  Ralph Fiennes is the Duke of Oxford whose son dies in the war and so he tries to help England win the war by getting America into the fight.  I guess we're supposed to be thrilled that thousands of Americans will die to save England...for 25 years, until we do it again.  And it's all so dumb that I'm surprised Matthew Vaughn made it and not Michael Bay.  Like most of Bay's movies it's well-made trash.  (2/5)  (Fun Fact:  As I said on Facebook as well, if you're a woman in a Ralph Fiennes movie don't go to Africa because things will go badly for you.  As in this movie, The English Patient, and The Constant Gardener.)

Nightmare Alley:  More well-made trash!  This time by Guillermo del Toro.  Bradley Cooper is a guy who murdered his father, joins a carnival, and then becomes a mentalist with his lovely assistant played by Rooney Mara.  Being a del Toro movie I was waiting for something creepy or macabre or something, but it's just a really, really dull fake noir movie as Cooper attempts to con a rich guy with the help of a psychologist played by Cate Blanchett until his scheme falls apart.  From looking at my unauthorized biography of del Toro, I guess this was a remake of a 1946 movie; if I had known that, I might not have been waiting for some kind of creepy plot twist. The last ten minutes were so annoying as I already knew what was going to happen.  It was telegraphed pretty clearly when he takes refuge in a train car full of chicken cages.  So I was almost literally screaming at the screen to just get on with it and make him the geek already.  Look up what a carnival geek is to understand that. (1/5)

No Time to Die:  "Well-made trash" is how I could describe a lot of Bond movies--but not really this one.  I have not been a huge fan of the Daniel Craig Bond movies that often seemed too concerned with constant movement and dumb plot twists.  But this final film gives Craig's Bond an actual character arc as he goes on one last big mission to stop a bad guy planning to use a secret virus to kill millions--which would have been less awkward if this had been released in 2019 as it was originally slated.  There are still plenty of chase scenes and fights, but there's more of a purpose for Bond this time around, which makes it more worthwhile.  But really, for a guy who deals in secrets and lies, Bond is pretty easy to deceive as it turns out. (3/5) (Fun Fact:  I was curious at the end to see if this would say, "James Bond Will Return" as they usually do--in the old days it was with the title of the next movie but then with studio troubles and such that was sometimes hard to predict--and it does, which was a little disappointing because it pretty much negates the ending.  Saying "007 Will Return" would have made it a little more open.  I mean, I know James Bond is going to return, just like Batman or Spider-Man and so forth but we just had the big emotional death scene like 10 minutes ago.  Give us a little time with that, why don't you?)

Death on the Nile:  The sequel to the latest remake of Murder on the Orient Express with Kenneth Branagh as French detective Hercule Poirot.  This begins with the secret origin of Poirot's mustache!  (Seriously.)  It also shows some woman he loved...who really has no bearing on the plot at all.  I mean you might think she'd come back or even be the murderer, but nope, she's not seen again.  There's a lengthy setup as a wealthy star (Gal Gadot) and her new husband take Poirot and a bunch of friends and family on a steamboat up the Nile.  It's almost halfway in when she dies and Poirot starts "investigating" basically by asking everyone questions.  If you want a lot of action there's not much here, just a couple of brief moments of murder and mayhem.  If you like that old-fashioned kind of mystery where the detective gathers everyone together and works out the case verbally then you'll like this.  If you want something action-packed or with more humor like Knives Out, then it's not for you.  I didn't hate it as much as the previous two movies on this list because it's not dumb or extremely dull, just old-fashioned.  I don't think I've read the book to know how accurate it is, but I think it's a good adaptation of the style of an Agatha Christie mystery.  (3/5) (Fun Fact:  Besides Branagh and Gadot, the cast includes Black Panther's Letitia Wright, Oscar winner Annette Bening, Russell Brand in a strangely conservative role, and the now-disgraced Armie Hammer.)

Wrath of Man:  The hook for this movie is it reunited director Guy Ritchie with Jason Statham, who starred in Ritchie's early movies like Revolver, Snatch, and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.  Instead of the UK, it takes place in Los Angeles.  And unfortunately it's more well-made trash.  You could say Ritchie is parodying himself with a lot of style but not much substance.  Basically like the Nic Cage movie 211 I talked about a couple times before there's a crew of former Army guys (led by Burn Notice's Jeffrey Donovan) knocking over armored cars.  Jason Statham is a mob boss whose dorky son is killed in one of the robberies and so after killing a bunch of criminals, he joins an armored car service to wait for the bad guys.  It's a sorta simple plot that Ritchie tries to make a lot more complicated by not telling things in order and jumping POVs.  I suppose the tricks are necessary, because we know what's going to happen:  Statham and the former Army guys are going to tangle.  It's definitely not as good as Ritchie/Statham's previous team-ups. (2/5) (Fun Fact:  I thought this originally streamed on HBO Max but I saw it on Paramount+ and also saw it advertised on Amazon Prime.)

Jerry and Marge Go Large:  This is on Paramount+ and is sort of a modern-day Frank Capra light drama about little people beating the system.  In this case a retired Kellogg's employee in Evart, Michigan (Bryan Cranston) realizes a lottery game called "Winfall" has a flaw:  if you buy thousands of tickets, you'll make enough to profit even if you don't win the jackpot.  After a couple of successes, he tells his wife (Annette Bening) and she gets into it with him.  But after Michigan closes the game, they have to travel to Massachusetts and play there.  Soon they're selling "shares" to most of Evart but their enterprise meets some competition when a douchey Harvard kid figures out the same thing.  I'm sure the real story is not really as cheery and neat as this movie, but it's still a fun story of a small town that manages to beat the system and make their lives better.  Not really a bad way to spend about two hours. (3/5)

Scream (2022):  The problem for me from the start is the filmmakers really expected you to remember what happened in Scream 4, which came out in 2011 but I hadn't even realized was a thing until I saw it on Netflix in 2014.  I haven't watched it since, so I really had little to no memory of it.  My example on Facebook is it's like if they made a fifth Jaws movie 10 years after the poorly-received flop Jaws 4: The Revenge and expected everyone to have intimate knowledge of it.  Why would people?  So why would people intimately know that fourth Scream movie?  Anyway, it's largely the same as always:  Ghostface kills people and they try to get clever about who's doing it and why.  The motivation is supposed to harken back to the first one.  But really they got it wrong.  They should have been trying to frame Sam, the survivor character of the fourth movie who's the daughter of original killer Billy Loomis, and drive her to become the psychotic killer her father was to make her the "villain" of the franchise.  Anyway, the "legacy" characters Sidney, Gale, and Dewey don't really do a whole lot and one of them dies.  What was sad to me is the stuff they talk about in relation to movies actually relates to Star Wars (especially when they talk about the 8th movie directed by the Knives Out guy) and Zack Snyder's Justice League, where it talks about toxic fandom.  So at this point it's not even "a horror movie about horror movies" like the first three.  That's what really worked with the first one is it was a horror movie about horror movies, so it seems like they drifted a bit too far off brand when they start referencing sci-fi and superhero franchises. (2/5)

Sonic the Hedgehog 2:  I really liked the first movie, despite I never really played any Sonic games except maybe a demo in Best Buy or Electronics Boutique.  I didn't have high hopes for the sequel because sequels for movies like this are usually not very good.  But the movie managed to exceed my low expectations.  Not really enough to make it better than the first one but at least so that it's not a disaster.  While it brings in Tails and Knuckles, it doesn't try shoving in too many new characters or creating a "cinematic universe" for Sega or creating a "multiverse" or any junk like that.  There's a fairly typical hunt for a MacGuffin--a giant emerald that's sort of like the Infinity Gauntlet.  There's too much scene-chewing Jim Carrey and not really enough James Marsden and his wife but mostly it manages to retain the fun and heart of the first movie.  Knuckles turns out to be a big surprise as I thought he'd just be an evil henchman but he has surprising depth; maybe I should have expected that since he's voiced by Idris Elba.  Michael Bay and the writers of those awful Transformers sequels could have taken a page from this as both Tails and Knuckles actually have something of a character arc.  (3/5) (Fun Fact:  There is an awkward cookie scene to set up an evil Sonic clone or robot or whatever for a third movie.)

All the Old Knives:  This Amazon original stars Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton as CIA agents who worked in Vienna.  Eight years earlier their torrid affair was ended after a planeload of people were killed by terrorists on the runway.  Newton went to California and got married and had two kids while Pine stayed in Vienna.  Now someone wants to reopen the case to find out what went wrong so Pine goes to California to talk to his ex.  It can get a little confusing to figure out when stuff is happening because it jumps back-and-forth a lot between 8 years ago, 2 weeks ago, and the present.  There are a few twists and turns to keep you guessing.  If you like a John le Carre-type spy thriller then it's a decent movie.  If you want a Bond-type spy thriller then you'd be disappointed. (3/5)

The Protégé:  This was not trash, though a bit on the cliché side.  Maggie Q is a hired killer who was taken from Vietnam when she was a little girl by Samuel L Jackson after her entire family was murdered.  She lives in London and runs a bookshop until someone comes after her and seems to kill Sam Jackson for some old job.  The trail leads back to Vietnam, where she meets a hired killer on the other side played by Michael Keaton and they have sort of an Out of Sight-type thing, only they're both killers.  While it didn't reinvent the genre or anything it was an entertaining and Maggie Q is pretty badass.  It was a little disappointing when the final act mostly uses her as a decoy.  I was relieved when the final shot shows who won the final gunfight because some annoying movies would cut off before letting you know who survived when you know there's not going to be a sequel. (3/5) (Fun Fact:  A chubby Robert Patrick plays the head of a biker gang in Vietnam, which seems pretty weird.  Do they have biker gangs over there?)

Deep Water:  Back to well-made trash!  This Hulu original stars Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas from that last James Bond movie.  They've been married for years despite that she seems to hate him and is always drunk and flirting with guys and even bringing them around to kiss and probably fuck them.  He's rich from making drone computer chips and for some reason farms snails.  At one point he says that snails with food in their bellies are poisonous but nothing is really done with this.  Basically he kills some of her paramours while she and everyone else seems to be oblivious.  One old writer guy is suspicious and catches him in the act of hiding a body, but he stupidly veers off the road instead of running Affleck over.  The whole thing is sooooo boring just waiting for something to happen.  This wants to be Fatal Attraction or Gone Girl but it's just dull. (1/5) (Fun Fact:  the end credits have their kid doing carpool karaoke.  Because nothing screams erotic thriller like an eight-year-old singing "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" or whatever it's called.)

GI Joe Origins: Snake-Eyes:  I will have more to say on Wednesday.  Suffice it to say it was not even that well-made of trash.  The first 3/4 are a decent kung-fu movie but when it tries wedging in the GI Joe stuff it starts going off the rails. (2/5)

Love and Monsters:  Basically it's like if you took Zombieland or Warm Hearts and replaced the zombies with giant bugs/reptiles.  A wimp has to try to survive a harrowing journey across the monster-strewn surface to find his former girlfriend.  It's pretty fun and I kept really hoping this wasn't the kind of movie where they'd kill the dog he finds that follows him around.  It stars Dylan O'Brien of those Maze Runner movies and Michael Rooker appears for one section of the movie but otherwise not a lot of known actors.  Anyway, I really enjoyed it despite that I'm sure it's not scientifically plausible--someone get Neil deGraase Tyson on the line!  I had it on my Hulu queue for a while but never got around to watching it there and when I was going to I found it had moved to Amazon/Paramount+.  By now maybe it moved somewhere else. (3/5)

Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar:  I had vaguely heard of this but one day I saw it was on Hulu and for the hell of it I watched it.  I'm not sure what exactly I was expecting, maybe something like a parody of the Golden Girls from the looks of the main characters and the Florida setting.  What I was not expecting is the whole female Dr. Evil wanting to release mutant mosquitoes to kill the titular town.  It seemed a bit too much for me.  And I'm not even sure what they were lampooning in terms of Barb and Star, who are two gabby Middle American women who live together--in separate beds--and really don't seem to have much of a life.  I work with and am generally around middle-aged Middle American women and really they aren't much like Barb and Star.  For me maybe it would have worked better if instead of the female Dr. Evil (played by Kristen Wiig, who also plays Star) they just inadvertently bought some drugs or something and had to run from more ordinary drug dealers or gangsters.  You know, something not so big and crazy as to be completely unbelievable.  Anyway, mark this up as well-made trash. (1/5) (PS:  Can someone tell Hollywood that not everyone in Middle America talks like a character in Fargo?)

Moon Knight:  Since this time around Amazon Prime Reading didn't offer any "free" comics, I really had very little idea about Moon Knight going in.  I knew in the comics he was pretty crazy, but that was about it.  Fortunately you don't really need to know much because the actual Moon Knight character is on the screen for maybe 15 minutes combined in all 6 episodes.  This was easily the worst Marvel series since the boring Punisher series on Netflix.  Really since this has absolutely no MCU connections, it has the feel of the Netflix shows.  It really squanders the talents of Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke in a story that's more style than substance and most of which has already been done better in Legion and Ordinary People.  And I'm 99% sure multiple personality disorder does not work they depict it here.  This probably needed the 10-13 episodes of a Netflix series season instead of trying to cram the whole story into 6 episodes.  Anyway, the first episode really made me yearn for a Scarlet Knight or Night's Legacy TV show as it's mostly in a museum with Egyptian artifacts.  Either of those would be 10,000% better than this. (2/5) (Fun Fact:  At least the cookie scene in the last episode wasn't a 10-minute musical number that had nothing to do with anything.  So there's that.)

Halo:  I never really played the video game series, which maybe wasn't a bad thing?  There's less shooting and fighting than you'd probably expect since it's based on a shooter video game series.  It's mostly about John, the Master Chief, who finds an alien artifact and suddenly starts regaining the humanity he lost when he was abducted from home as a child.  So there's kind of a Robocop aspect as a guy who was forced into becoming a killing machine starts remembering things.  Meanwhile there's a lot about this planet called Madrigal that has some kind of importance.  Most of it was pretty good but the ending leaves a lot of questions for a Season 2 with no real closure to all the Madrigal stuff or the former soldier-turned-pirate. (3/5) (Fun Fact:  I have such a crush on Cortana.  Someone actually make a real version of that!)

Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers:  This Disney+ original movie trades on a lot of 80s/90s nostalgia.  Besides referencing the early 90s TV show, there are tons of other properties shown and mentioned from a lot of non-Disney properties:  Batman, ET, Looney Tunes, South Park, Beavis & Butt-Head, Peppa Pig, Gumby, He-Man, My Little Pony, Voltron, and most prominently the original version of CGI Sonic the Hedgehog, aka "Ugly Sonic."  Other than Paul Rudd there was a surprising lack of Marvel and not much for Star Wars either.  The story follows Chip and Dale as they reunite to find Monterrey Jack when he's kidnapped.  It was pretty funny even if the story was fairly cliché.  If you're Gen X or Millennial you'll probably like all the reference humor.  If you're a Boomer or Gen Z it'll probably go over your head. (3/5) (Fun Fact:  Besides voicing a weird CGI Viking, Seth Rogen reprises his role as Pumbaa, the same one I have on my couch; seeing that cameo in the trailer was the main reason I watched this.)

Road House:  I had watched this a long time ago but with all the references to it on MST3K, Rifftrax, and Family Guy, I decided to re-watch it.  It's a pretty corny movie that at nearly 2 hours needed about 20 minutes cut from it.  I mean we know what's going to happen, so why do we have to drag it out that long?  As far as adversaries go, Brad Wesley might have money and power, but we know he's not really a match for Patrick Swayze in a fist fight. (2/5)

The Mechanic (201?):  A while back on This TV I saw the original version of this movie with Charles Bronson as the assassin and Jan Michael Vincent as the young protégé.  Later I watched The Mechanic Resurrection with Jason Statham and Jessica Alba.  But I hadn't watched this remake of the 70s movie until I saw it on Pluto TV On Demand.  So I watched it and it was pretty much what I expected.  Jason Statham is the "mechanic" or assassin who kills one of his bosses, Donald Sutherland, and then takes on Sutherland's screw-up son, Ben Foster, as his protégé.  They do a couple of jobs until Foster finds out the truth about his father.  That final battle could have been better, but for the most part it's a pretty typical Statham action movie that will somewhat entertain you for not-quite two hours. (2.5/5) 

American Siege:  Not even well-made trash.  Just trash.  Sadly (or not) one of Bruce Willis's last movies before a medical condition forced him to retire.  To cover for Willis's condition that makes it hard for him to talk, his character is a well-known drunk--who's also the sheriff of a small town in Georgia.  After getting out of prison, a guy, another guy, and that guy's sister take a black doctor hostage because they think he had something to do with the latter two's half-sister going missing and probably dying 10 years earlier.  They lure the cops in to I guess try to force some kind of situation that will reveal the truth.  Which in a half-assed way it does.  It is predictably cheap and other than Willis you probably won't recognize any of the actors except the missing girl might make you think, "Hey, is that Zendaya from those Spider-Man movies and stuff?"  Except this is way too small a movie for her, right?  Yeah.  Anyway, it's a below-mediocre action movie that tries to have some deep message, but doesn't really.  Not really how you want Bruce Willis to go out. (1/5)

Grand Isle:  Nic Cage is a greasy drunk who lives with a faded Southern belle who for some reason is into voodoo.  As a hurricane approaches, they lure cut-rate Zac Efron into their old Victorian-type house and mayhem ensues.  Not really very good mayhem. Like Cage's Dying of the Light, there's a final act that seems kind of tacked-on, as if the producers didn't want the bad guy to get away.  Kelsey Grammar plays the Bruce Willis sheriff role, only more fake Southern and less drunk.  As I noted on Facebook, for some reason the cop cars they use look like ones from the early 70s despite this takes place in modern day.  (2/5)

Looking Glass:  Nic Cage and his wife buy a motel in Arizona (actually southern Utah) after their daughter dies in an accident--or something; it's never fully explained.  Then it's kind of like part of Bad Times at the El Royale as Nic finds all these hidden passages to let people spy on the rooms.  And he spies on people having sex.  And someone is murdered.  And a pig is thrown into the pool.  Because why not?  It's not great but not terrible either. (2.5/5)

American Hero:  The concept is Hancock meets Chronicle as it's a "found footage" type movie (or mockumentary would be more accurate) about a guy (Stephen Dorff) who has telekinesis but he doesn't really do much with it.  Mostly he just gets high or drunk and chases tail in New Orleans.  When he finally does try to do something heroic he forgets the reason heroes wear masks:  so the bad guys won't go after you or your loved ones.  I wasn't expecting Spider-Man type action set pieces, but the "plot" is pretty lethargic; I kept waiting for it to really get going and it never did. (2/5)

Dicktown:  Like Cougar Town, this is a funny comedy with a shitty name.  I mean you'd think with a name like that it'd be about porn stars or something.  Actually it's an animated comedy that's sort of like Mike Tyson Mysteries that I have repeatedly watched throughout the pandemic.  Only this is a little less Scooby Doo-inspired as comedian John Hodgman is John Hunchman, a cut-rate amateur detective who mostly solves mysteries for teenagers with a slacker friend.  A lot of it is really about the culture clash between Gen X and Gen Z.  The second season has a little more serialized format as there's someone from Hunchman's past who keeps sabotaging him, which ultimately leads to some revelations about a past case.  It's pretty funny and like Mike Tyson Mysteries, only about 10 minutes per episode on FX/Hulu, so it doesn't take long to watch. (4/5) (Fun Fact: Paul F Tompkins, Janet Varney, and Kristen Schaal guest voice characters and all three along with Hodgman were part of the 2013 Rifftrax Live show at Sketchfest in San Francisco.  The animation is from the same people as Archer and Sterling Archer himself, H Jon Benjamin, voices a villain in one episode.  The name "Dicktown" comes from the town being named "Richardsville."  It's still pretty lame; calling it John Hodgman Mysteries or Hunchman or Hunchman Mysteries would have been better.) 

Welcome to Flatch:  While I guess this is based on a British TV show, to me it was like Letterkenny if it were written by the writers of Parks & Recreation.  It uses the same fake documentary crew style as The Office and Parks & Rec to chronicle life in the small town of Flatch, Ohio.  The opening card talking about the population of the town invokes Letterkenny, but not much else does because this has actual, coherent stories instead of a lot of riffing.  A lot of it focuses on two clueless young people who I think are supposed to be in their 20s but act more like teens.  Anyway, while some of it is funny, it feels really fake and artificial; you know watching it that it's a TV show and not a real small town.  Letterkenny probably is a better depiction of small-town life with all the drinking, fighting, drug use, and sex. I don't necessarily want all of that but more of a PG-13 edge would have been nice.  (2.5/5)

Ghosts:  I got desperate enough to watch this CBS comedy, which is also based on a British TV show--because of course it is!  Americans can't make their own TV shows; not even most of our reality shows originated here.  Anyway, a woman inherits an old house in upstate New York and along with her husband decides to turn it into a B&B, but it's haunted by a variety of ghosts.  When the woman falls and dies for a couple of minutes, it gives her the ability to see and talk to the ghosts.  I thought from there it would be about her helping them cross over, but I guess then they would need to keep updating the cast, so instead it's just a variety of sitcom things that are sometimes amusing and sometimes less so.  Michael Offutt would probably like the one involving Dungeons & Dragons more than I did. (2.5/5) (Fun Fact:  Someone on Facebook called the show "campy and unbelievable" and so I asked what ghost show is believable, to which she said The Ghost Whisperer.  Um...OK then.  This probably would be better with Jennifer Love Hewitt's boobs.)

No Activity:  I saw previews for the fourth season that were in an animated format.  But it turns out the first 3 seasons were done in live action.  Not that a lot of action is involved.  I mean the whole first season is just 4 groups of 2-3 people taking turns yammering.  There's two cops in a car, two police dispatchers, and two groups of guys digging a tunnel from Mexico to San Diego.  There are some OK bits but since it is mostly just sitting/standing around talking it's not all that fun to watch.  It's better to just put on in the background while playing on my phone or reading a book. (2/5) (Fun Fact:  the cast in the first season includes SNL alums Tim Meadows, Will Farrell, and Amy Sedaris; as well as Breaking Bad alums Bob Odenkirk and Jesse Plemmons; Oscar winner JK Simmons; and Jason Matsoukas of The League/Star Trek Prodigy.)

Ewoks: Caravan of Courage:  I saw Disney+ added these two old Star Wars TV movies from the 80s that feature the Ewoks.  The first one is about two kids whose parents are taken captive by a giant after their ship crashes on Endor.  The kids meet the Ewoks and then it becomes Fellowship of the Ring meets Jack and the Beanstalk as they go on an epic quest to the giant's lair.  While it might have been exciting or scary when I was 6, 38 years later it was mostly boring and the effects were not great even by the standards of 1984. (2/5) (Fun Fact:  the narration is provided by Burl Ives, the narrator of the famous old Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer special.)

Ewoks:  Battle for Endor:  The sequel a year later was a pretty bad mess probably from being thrown together too quickly.  It can't seem to sort out whether it wants to be a fun family adventure or a rugged action movie as it cuts between scary pirates murdering 3/4 of the family from the first movie to the surviving little girl and Wicket baking pies for Wilford Brimley, a grizzled old guy who crashed on the planet a while ago.  There's a lot that doesn't make sense, like why there's a huge pirate fortress on Endor and why the pirates think a starship's power supply is "magic" and yet they use laser blasters.  Most of the effects manage to be even worse than the first movie.  They really must have been using ILM's interns or something. (1/5) (Fun Facts:  The dad from the first movie is replaced by the crusty principal from The Breakfast Club--for all ten minutes he's in the movie.  The bad guy is played by Carel Struycken, whom you might remember as the silent valet for Mrs. Troi on Star Trek The Next Generation, Lurch in the Addams Family movies, an alien in MIB, or as Gaunt the undertaker in Oblivion and Oblivion 2.  The production designer for both movies was Joe Johnston, who helped create Boba Fett and directed movies like Captain America: The First Avenger.  Clearly this was not his best work.)