The Golden Compass
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/
I got pretty excited for it, though I realize I shouldn't have raised my expectations. Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel seemed like a pretty good move, and, deep down, I just really wanted a book series I loved to get an adequate film representation. That it was to be a kids film I was prepared to accept, but not a mediocre kids film at that, and I still wish that the dark materials trilogy would receive a grittier retelling more aimed at young adults and adults. In the end this interpration just left me bored. Light on themes and even, somehow, on immersive world building.
Resident Evil Revelations PC version
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/resident-evil-revelations
Not film or TV, but screw yall rules. I really wanted to love this game as I've been a pretty huge fan of both the older, scarier, resident evils and the newer, more action packed outings. Anything up to and including Resi 5 I've loved, really. Unfortunately this latest outing, while preferable in game-play to the disastrous resident evil 6 lightens the action features that made resi 4 and 5 a success, while never really truly reinstating the horror features that defined the earliest resi games. The result is a somewhat ineffectual mulch of resident evil history that inexplicably removes some of the series' best features while keeping some of its worst. Even this I could have enjoyed, but the last straw were the scripts and costumes for the female characters in the game.
Each being an immersion breaking slap in the face. And this is coupled with a script in which most of the female characters consistently were either hitting on or seeking the approval of their male counterparts. It just felt condescending, inauthentic, and incredibly childish. Video games are bad for sexism but this game was a tour de force of the male gaze. I felt alienated enough to stop playing and I don't think I'll go back to the series until they buck up their ideas.