This movie sucked for the most part. I never realized how bad Jennifer López's acting is until this movie. She couldn't cry a real tear if she was paid triple. And a lot of her acting was over dramatic and just unnecessarily over the top. Also, it's funny how "5 minutes" turned into more like 15 minutes. If you pay attention, you'll figure out the scene in talking about. I won't say the movie was completely bad, but it definitely was subpar.
Agreed with most of the bad comments. This is just another below average SciFi movie including the war between AI and humans. Seeing J.Lo at such a movie is just a shock for us peasants because she is also one of the producers. Anyway; acting is bad, story is bad ,full of low CGI. In short, it is just a time killer movie which does not worth any more attention. 4.5/10
Imagine lifting the single player story from Titanfall 2 - and then spaffing it up the wall.
Atlas is badly written, badly acted and a total mess. The FX are kind of well done, but you just don't care because it's so annoyingly awful in every other respect.
There’s something in common with all these Netflix movies… no matter how appealing the cast is, they all end being washed up boring movies.
Only 20 minutes in, and it's definitely not 'grrrreat!'. The casting and acting to start with is UNBEARABLE, and so is the comedy. Normally, I'd recommend a full-blown meal with any food related movies, but you'll be fine, even if you've skipped breakfast. Another big Netflix flop. Production was big. Everything else was a flop. Especially the sound effects. Anything sound related for that matter, dialogue included. I thought I was in a never-ending college lecture. How did such a colourful and tasty movie feel so dull and bland?
There were times it was a bowl of what the fuck am I watching and other times a bowl of laughter and entertaining, yes it had it's snap crackle and pop but I still enjoyed it and it made me laugh at moments, i loved it's sense of humor.
Another project f***ed up for SJW. Masters of the Universe is He-man. We don't want to watch Teela. We want He-man. You are ruining He-man as Disney ruined Star Wars with Rey.
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Skip it: would rather have watched the Ten Commandments on Easter.
Loved this movie when it first came out. I was shocked to go back later and realize that Mercedes was Heather Graham. Of course it veers into absurdity, and it hasn't aged all that well, but it's still a fun movie, especially for young teens who are still not old enough to drive and can only imagine what it might be like.
Why do all those US adult cartoons look the same?
I’ve been going through some really hard times lately, and this episode is the first thing in weeks that made me genuinely laugh. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Ah fun Trek is back. Strange New Worlds is a blast and nice departure from the melodrama of Discovery. I keep shitting on Discovery but this show keeps proving that it's possible to make good Trek in modern era.
So this episode released early (and also has lead to the rest of the episodes being brought forward a week) and I genuinely could not be happier with it. It's everything I ever wanted it to be and more and will definitely be something I watch over and over again.
Gotta give him credit. He didn't shy away from the negative stuff that both happened to him in his life and the negative stuff that he caused to others. Not having Maria Shriver or any of his kids in it at all as interviewees feels like a loud commentary on how she still feels about him and all of that. Nevertheless, I learned a bunch of stuff I didn't know and enjoyed the series overall.
Laughed 0 times, chuckled about 3 times. It was just boring from start to finish.
Only positive about this show, seeing the old cast pop up from time to time. The narrative with this new group of kids, boring characters, very political correct. Save yourself some time, not worth the watch.
I hope Netflix cancel this shit after this season.
It definitely got better. But the kids are a real problem.
The shows biggest issue is every scene with Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp are so much better that everything else.
Only Sam Morelos as Nikki is vaguely on their level.
The other issue is the length of the season. It simply hadn't earned Gwen and Leia's best friends forever stuff, and certainly hadn't earned the Nate Leia stuff either.
Don't know if it will be renewed. One wonders if the 70s show nostalgia will have managed to propel people past the very bad first couple of episodes.
That kid must be the worst child actor ever.
Loved it!
Hopefully Netflix doesn't cancel another good show.
Reboot this as much as you want Maguire was the best Spider-Man.
This is the worst episode of Star Trek, throughout the entire franchise.
Nic Cage probably did this movie to pay off a LED TV or something, its THAT bad...
Not sure why it’s filmed like a disney show or why it’s marketed as a comedy when there isn’t a single good joke in the trailer but i’ll give one episode a try just because it has writers from crazy ex-gf and has lgbt character(s?).
Don't know how to describe whatever this type of "acting" is called, but how on earth can anyone listen to and watch this for +40 minutes? East Asian over acting feels like an easy watch compared to this.
I feel sick after just hearing the first line being delivered in the trailer.
Its another show where they made all but one character incredibly stupid (Including the one who was a lawyer) in order to make the main character seem more intelligent than they actually are.
The problem is, that it feels incredibly artificial since they seem to forget that they are stupid from time to time and start talking like normal people.
Blech! This is a terrible show. LOVE the players, but the writing is south of the mark.
[7.9/10.] I grew up with The Next Generation as my entrée into the Star Trek Universe, and many of my favorite episodes centered around Q, the pain-in-the-ass, mischievous, seemingly all-powerful being who returned time after time to liven up things around the enterprise while being a considerable thorn in Captain Picard’s side. So the “Squire of Gothos” which features Trelane, a similarly omnipotent and similarly impish foil for Captain Kirk and his crew, has the ring of pleasant familiarity, and is squarely in my wheelhouse.
These extra-dimensional troublemakers like Q, Trelane, and Superman’s Mister Mxyzptlk are so much fun because they bring an air of possibility and enjoyable lunacy every time they show up. While Captain Kirk is not quite the vision of dignity his TNG successor was, Starfleet can still be a fairly stuffy bunch. The presence of someone who introduces a bit more whimsy into the equation and who cannot, like the similarly colorful Harry Mudd, simply be corralled by the security team, creates a funny and challenging problem for our heroes.
That problem arises when the crew of the Enterprise runs into the planet Gothos in what’s supposed to be a “space desert.” After Kirk and Sulu disappear, Spock sends a search party down to the planet, who encounter the spritely Trelane. A being of immense power, “General Trelane (retired)” has a fascination with Earth’s predators, and has replicated the form, if not the substance, of Earth’s past culture in an estate where he’s holding the Enterprise’s Captain and its helmsmen. The attempts to return to the ship and to escape Trelane’s dangerous abilities make up the bulk of the episode’s adventures.
What makes “Squire of Gothos” so entertaining, in contrast to some other “weird powerful being of the week” episodes is how much damn fun Trelane is. William Campbell is a delight as Trelane, whose boisterous but playful bravado is one part John Delancey, one part Bruce Campbell, and one part Kenneth Branagh. One of the elements that always made the Q/Picard pairing work is the contrast between Picard’s stoicism and Q’s outsized demeanor. “Gothos” hits the same mark here with Kirk and Trelane. Kirk is toned down a bit, reserving his smiles and humor for a creepy leer at his yeoman and a ribbing of Spock, which makes the exaggerated qualities of Trelane stand out.
It also helps that “Gothos” lets Trelane bounce off of Spock a bit, with the placid Vulcan clearly perturbed by the incorrigible trickster god. Text cannot capture the great delivery of Leonard Nimoy when Trelane asks if Vulcans are a predatory species and Spock replies, “Not generally -- but there have been exceptions.” Spock is so reserved that when he intimates a threat, he comes off as a complete and total badass.
The same goes for the delightful exchange where Trelane essentially asks what Spock’s problem is; Spock replies, “I object to you. I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose,” and Trelane retorts, “Oh, Mister Spock, you do have one saving grace after all. You're ill-mannered.” Spock’s statement has an unanticipated resonance fifty years later, and the exchange speaks to the conflicting personalities, philosophies, and temperaments that make the two characters such interesting foils for one another.
But those sorts of character clashes are only half of what makes episodes like “Squire of Gothos” interesting. The other half is one of the aspects of Star Trek that’s hard-coded into the franchise’s DNA – creative problem solving. The prospect of an antagonist who is nearly omnipotent, so he can’t be overpowered; so advanced and patronizing to humans that he can’t be reasoned with, and so committed to toying with others and entertaining themselves that they can’t be appealed to creates a particularly unique challenge for the crew of the Enterprise.
It essentially requires Kirk, Spock, and the others to have to trick a god. And trick they do! Kirk uses Trelane’s desire to have the human experience, to emulate these “predators,” to give him the upper hand and allow his ship to escape. It’s indulging Trelane in a duel that allows Kirk to shoot the mirror that (maybe?) powers Trelane’s estate, and it’s the promise of a hunt and a sharper version of that experience that lets Kirk try to allow the rest of the Enterprise crew to leave and eventually buys him enough time to be rescued.
The (nigh-literal) deus ex machina ending takes some of the wind out of the sails of these schemes. There’s something to be said for the idea that it’s Kirk’s cleverness that keeps Trelane occupied long enough for his parents to notice. But for the most part, it’s just the arrival of some even more powerful beings that saves the Enterprise’s bacon. It works in one of those “aint the galaxy weird?” ways that Star Trek is fond off, but it takes away some of the agency of the characters.
By the same token, the reveal that Trelane is actually just a child in his species is one of those sci-fi twists that is cool enough in principle, but which has been played out in parodies and homages (most notably Futurama’s) and by cultural osmosis that it’s hard for it to have any real meaning or impact. The idea of dealing with a being with the powers of a god and the temperament of a child is a solid premise (and a scary one for those of us here in January 2017), and it recontextualizes the events of the prior hour nicely, but it’s not as novel anymore.
Still, “Squire of Gothos” stands out for being tons of fun regardless of its twists or resolution. There’s some of the same issues of not having enough plot to fill the hour that it, like many episodes in Star Trek’s early going, are guilty of. But on the whole, the episode is an enjoyable romp from the minute Trelane shows up on screen, presenting a colorful figure and unique problem for our heroes to solve. For someone who grew up with Q, “Squire of Gothos” with its prankster deity putting the captain of the Enterprise on trial, made me feel right at home.
