That this movie, at the time of writing this, holds an 8.8 rating at IMDb is simply beyond my understanding. Needless to say I did not really like this movie. The story is not very good, the science is ludicrous and the visuals not all that impressive. Maybe the latter would be better in a big theater (I watched this on my home cinema system which has a relatively large screen by European standards) but I am not really sure about that either.
Be warned that the rest of this review might contain a spoiler or two.
The movie starts of with the usual “I told you so” wet dream of the green fanatics on a dying Earth so it is off to a depressing start right away. That is an overused concept today as far as I am concerned. Then they pour it on with a school official claiming that he Apollo missions and moon landings never happened. What the f…? If they wanted to depress the audience right from the start they succeeded, at least with this audience.
The story proceeds with our heroes finding these gravity waves in the sand and by a huge stretch of imagination decrypts them to mean coordinates which leads them to the secret NASA base. Once there Cooper is told that he is their best choice of pilot for a “save the human race” mission through a wormhole. Yeah, right! This guy was former NASA. His whereabouts could hardly been unknown to them. If he was their best choice why would they entrust a mission to save the human race to someone else until he stumbled onto their door? Typical Hollywood nonsense!
The movie is full of this kind of rubbish. Romilly wastes 23 years of his life doing pretty much nothing except deciding not to go into the sleep capsule. The supposedly highly trained and vetted professor that they do find turns out to be a psychopath as well as and idiot almost blowing up the ship when trying to proceed with a docking that all the systems tells him have not succeeded. Then they proceed to dock with the main ship and stop its spin as well as bring it out of orbit around a planet with the shuttles engines. That is one hell of a powerful shuttle not to mention the strength of the docking mechanism! This just goes on. When someone is not doing something illogical or stupid (or both) they sit around talking, philosophizing and dragging the movie forward at snails pace. 169 minutes is way too much for this movie.
The movie ends up in one big time travel mess (okay they do not travel in time, just sends messages through time but still…) during a bunch of psychedelic scenes while traveling through the back hole. Science? Not so much. And what about this totally ludicrous massively illogical and inefficient robot design?
The one good thing I can say about this movie is that the performance of most of the actors, especially Matthew McConaughey, are quite good. For the rest, not my cup of tea.
Beebo came. Beebo saw. Beebo kicked Mallus' ass
Absolutely amazing. What a crazy season finale! There's a part of me that still can't believe what I just saw. I've run out of ways of saying how happy this show makes me and how glad I am that I decided go watch it in the first place. If only I could go back in time and tell my younger self how much would I end up loving this show, I bet I wouldn't even believe it. Explaining what this show is all about to someone who's never heard about it its bonkers.
I fucking love the writers. I fucking love this show. I fucking love each and everyone of the characters. I'll never get enough of it. Somehow they feels like a second family and it's sad to watch any of them go, although they sure will be back. Seeing them calling themselves losers and yet trying to be heroic despite everything is life. That's Legends at its best.
I want some of what the writers are smoking. I can't believe how amazing this season has been. It all started in Aruba and there's were it ended. These guys deserve some days off for everything they've done.
Seriously, kudos to the writers because they manage to outdo themselves every episode. Matching this level of goofiness and wackiness can't be that easy, and yet, when I think nothing can top it, they set the bar even higher. The writers' meetings must be fun. And after that cliffhanger I'm ready to see more supernatural stuff next year. I'm even happier if you count Constantine in. That last scene with Gary, though. I almost die laughing. He needs to cosplay as each member of the Legends.
These gotta be the most insanely crazy 42 minutes I've ever seen on TV. I'm so glad I was able to witness it. My cheeks hurt from laughing; my belly hurts from laughing; and there are freaking tears rolling through my cheeks. It's been a long time since I've laughed that much at a TV show. I can't believe what I just saw. I even needed to pause it for a bit 'cause I wasn't able to breath. I can't believe this is a thing that aired on television. I'm gonna miss this merry band of losers til October.
I would've given good money to see how it all went in the writers' meeting. I can only imagine them struggling to come up with ideas, encouraging the others like "hey guys, this is the season finale and it needs to be big. Epic battle between good and bad, between light and darkness, between evil and goodness". And then, after a not-so-long thinking process, one of them says "We'll have the Legends use their totems to create something pure that can destroy evil. And that pure thing is gonna be wait for it a freaking giant Beebo displaying wait for it all his cuteness against Mallus and hugging him to death. But that's not all. When Beebo defeats him, he's gonna go out leaving a blue heart
long and uncomfortable silence and then everyone starts laughing and they give this man a raise. How long until a Beebo toy is avaliable to purchase? I really need one Beebo, the defender of the universe.
Seriously, whoever got that idea deserves a raise. I can't be thankful enough cause they've given me one of the most crazy, stupid, absurd moments in history this year. Give it to the Legends to make a fight between a Furby-like toy and a time demon to be that intense.
Can we talk about how many characters were on scene? Boy, seeing Jax back was amazing. He didn't have much to do, but it's always a pleasure to see him. And he's freaking married? And has a baby girl called Martina? Can this be more beautiful? (I'm never getting over Stein's death). Kuasa's and Amaya's scenes together were surprisingly emotional. Amaya's wink while fighting was great. The same goes for Dahrk sacrificing himself to save Nora. That made me more emotional that I thought. We daw him crying last episode and tonight he gave his life to save his daughter's. Seeing him do that, especially knowing where he comes from was surprisingly emotional. But I'm glad he sort of redeemed himself. I'm sad he died, though. I don't get enough of Neal McDonough. Nora being a potential ally to the Legends next season is great. And Helen of Troy. Goodness me, Helen of Troy. She's the real MVP. I loved seeing her fight. She needs to stick around. Jonah and Zari were kinda cute together. Great chemistry. Nate and Amaya are so pure it hurts. I know Maisie Eichardson-Sellers is coming back next season as a series regular so I'm not worried about her going back to Zambesi. However, that goodbye scene was heartbreaking with Nate saying "Don't turn around". Sara's speech was amazing as well. I loved her "Now, how do we sneak out the back?" I'm also glad Ava is stiking around. They deserve their happy ending. As for Rip, well, to me, nobody's really dead until I see the body, and even then, I'm not even convinced. I really hope he comes back because it's not the same without Rip, but please, come back douche-less. He's probably just lost in the timeline again, 'cause Legends never die.
Every single time Mick opens his mouth I automatically start laughing. "Seriously, are we making a baby?" "I'm just putting this slop out of its misery" and "Worst Orgy ever" were undoubtedly my favourites. Not to mention when he referred to Hawkgirl and Hawkman as "stupid hawk flying-chicken people".
Nate and his defense of Voltron, Defender of the Universe was also great.
I can't believe now we've got to wait until October for more shenanigans.
