Just been rescued after months of painful, psychologically-traumatising incarceration at the hands of the multiverse's biggest, nastiest speedster? Pull out the "I can't leave - what about my life, my friends!?" line when your father tries to save you from a horrible death.
Whoever wrote that needs a whipping.
Gotta love the gritty fight scenes, especially that final scene. Very reminiscent of the corridor fight scene in Old Boy and just as good.
Ugh. That was awful. Even for a pilot, that was terrible. My only hope is that it's not the actual first episode - that they leaked this version so that we could all tell them how bad it was, they could re-edit it, and release a decent episode.
I loved the LoTR trilogy movies so when I saw someone watching (what I presumed was) the second Hobbit film on a flight recently, I couldn't help but peek every so often. The visuals and action looked interesting, so now that I'm back on the ground I thought I'd give The Hobbit a shot. Within the first 10 minutes, I actually thought I must have been spying on the first Hobbit film in flight because the whole Smaug intro gave me deja vu... two hours later however, I realised I was wrong; I'd have to wait for the sequel to see all of the interesting things I'd seen over my fellow passenger's shoulder.
The Hobbit looked fantastic, contained decent acting, and a fairly safe script but it really was just a prologue to the next film. Having only seen and not heard the middle 45-60 minutes of Desolation of Smaug, I can still see why this first film was necessary but... as a standalone film, it's fairly unfulfilling. Even as I'm typing this, I'm thinking I could have just skipped the movie and had someone tell me the back story over a pint in 10 minutes so I could just move on to the next one. Movie, that is - not pint.
I've never read the books, so maybe this movie isn't really targeted at me. I hope the Tolkien fans enjoyed it at least. And I hope Martin Freeman wins the "Best Martin Freeman being Martin Freeman Performance" award at some point in the future. I really do.
I still can't watch it without the spelling errors bothering me ;)
There's nothing wrong with writing a negative review; it lets the showrunners know which episodes work and which don't. If you give every awful episode a 9/10, we'll just end up with more poorly written episodes. Keep your 9s for the great episodes and don't feel scared to rate low for the bad ones.
Why was this episode bad? Eliza's terrible lines and ham acting aside, a lot of it had to do with characters acting in strange and inconsistent ways. The award-winning investigative journalist turned newspaper boss who suddenly decides based on a single photo (and no other evidence at all) that the Flash is evil. Barry being a brat about taking that he was just told is lethal, then dropping and destroying the vial for no reason (hey, that was Caitlin's, you jerk - maybe she was keeping it for further study). Jesse being... well, Jesse. These writers love their tempestuous, OTT teenage angst and rebellion. Caitlin and Joe's fantastic "was it you? no? okay then, let's not bother delving deeper" interview with Eliza. The entire group flipping out over the realisation that Zoom is Jay. Didn't they just discover multiple dimensions? Have they already forgotten that dopplegangers are sometimes bad?
And seriously, if Jesse is underage and not allowed to drink, why did Cisco, Caitlin and Barry buy four shots of booze and line one up in front of her?
"a device that can destroy the entire internet"
Dear Arrow, you just went full retard.
Am I the only one who found the acting slightly jarring? The dialogue and acting seemed slightly out of place compared to last season (and I marathoned the last season right before watching this episode). I couldn't quite put my finger on it but the acting seemed a little forced and unsure, as if they'd lost some of the on-screen dynamic during their hiatus or fallen out of touch with their characters.
It might just be me, but I found this episode strange and uninspiring.
I'm on a roll with films that start off really well and then descend into ridiculous Hollywood nonsense. The first two thirds of this film were fantastic, and then... well... no spoilers. Just enjoy them using 90% of the special effects budget in the last 20 minutes.
It is what it is - a pretty simple and entertaining comedy. If you need something amusing to throw on while you're folding laundry, pick this ;)
Why can't every episode be like that one?
Some of the acting falls far short, but all in all it was a good adaptation and a decent film. Definitely one to watch for die-hard Lovecraft fans.
I enjoyed it immensely up until the last 10 minutes, and then I wished I'd had the other 90 minutes back.
First season was great. Second season was interesting. Third season should have been called Being Repetitive.
Did I see the same film as everyone else? It was dreadful. The dialogue was awful, Chastain was awful, the movie wasn't quite sure what it wanted to be and was all over the place. Dull, cliched, twitchy, and painful.
