Archies was a yawn…
Archies (2023) movie released on Netflix, and it’s an Indian reflection of what seems to be Riverdale, but without the gruesome murders and adultish political intrigue.
It was quite obviously a launch of various nepo-babies. I mean….is that even a question?
And aren’t they babies! They’re the 2000-borns, the Zoomers.
As a millenial I’m already offended.
But back to the movie: I tried. I truly did. I didn’t take personal offense regarding the age. I tried to suspend reality and allowed this Riverdale to exist. (Like those Anglos would’ve stayed in poor India, ripped apart and made destitute because of a bunch of their ancestors! Lol!)
But mid-way I found myself preferring to work on household chores. And when I got back from them, I just couldn’t watch it again. It’s the overall dullness of the movie. Not to mention the over-the-top, literal, fakeness. It’s faker than fake.
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Then I thought maybe my chores got in the way so I must give it another chance. And I did…and found myself forwarding every 2 minutes. I simply couldn’t.
I am not going to even comment on the acting. The non-2000-borns carried whatever was left of the movie (which wasn’t a lot at all), with the newbies probably being way to inexperienced to know how to do it. Only Nanda seemed to try and achieve something…but the inexpereince caught on really quick.
I am not sure who to blame. But I feel sorry for people who painstakingly made the set. It was a nice set.
I think the story absolutely sucked too. Just because it is an adaptation of a comic, doesn’t mean you must make it exactly like a comic made for pre-teens.
But who I am to judge…We are just random folk (sheep) forced to watch dull things by brilliant directors, who must, by turns, launch those nasty, entitled Bolly-crowd-kids. We can accept a few nepo-launch disaster movies once-in-a-while, can’t we? I mean, it’s for future talent development.
What stuns me is that none of the respective parents, with their own production houses, even came near launching them. Which I think is ultimate wildness. How do these nepo-kids even live!
Since Bollywood is a family-centric business, we may be seeing the 2000s soon. I’m not sure who’ll be watching…maybe the 2010s!
But what a waste of a set!
