Feel-good, it is, but it's hard to overlook the slow pacing and predictability.
Kind of disappointed they pulled the deus ex machina plot card and made everything perfect again, but honestly a "bad" ending would have contradicted the tone of the entire season.
Well, saw THAT coming a mile away.
Lots of bad CGI and questionable writing. The ending screams, "Please give us a sequel!" but there almost certainly won't be one.
There are some interesting facts in this show. Too bad they're dramatically overshadowed by the hyper-sensationalized narration that attempts to make the average viewer deathly afraid of anything technological.
Oh, and most of these aren't disasters of engineering at all. The vast, VAST majority of incidents this series scrutinizes are either natural disasters that no amount of engineering could prevent or protect against; or human failures of the people responsible for maintaining the systems that were engineered to perform well within tolerances. I'm sorry, but equipment that goes 16 years without inspection, or human errors at the controls, do not qualify as engineering problems.
Skip this.
"I analyzed the typing speed and patterns on the hard drive." You WHAT? I so hate meaningless technobabble.
Poor choice of words to say that an engine fire that disabled a ship left "thousands of vacationers dead in the water", no? Surely there was another idiom that would have served the purpose without implying that anyone died.
"Co-two-du-lack"? That's not how "Coteau-du-Lac" is pronounced… It's "Coo-toe-du-lack". Learn some French, announcer guy.
Thank Skidmark Jesus I don't have to listen to this show's theme song ever again.
Lots of points for being thought-provoking, but points off for the ridiculous depiction of the after-school activity center.
"Maybe I should enlist. I'll bring Julius. 'Take Your Son to War Day'."
"I'm hoping we don't get that desperate."
That's all the dialogue you need to know from this episode.
And now we're back to overly drawn out jokes. Lee's rant about Frozen is pretty good, though, and you only need to watch the first few minutes for that.
Trigorin, eh? Hah. Best episode so far, hands down.
Was an 8 until the tried-too-hard Ferris wheel scene. Ah, well.
"He dies at the end." First real laugh at this show.
Dialogue goof right at the beginning, eh? Rusty says "Nothing more?" but all Patton said was "I have nothing to say to you, Rusty."
And it really does just end. Wow. Nothing.
45 minutes in, I still have almost no idea what's happening. But I've had my fill of bad foley, bad editing, obvious splices where part of a shot was replaced with a different take, poor dialogue sync, a scene where half the French dialogue wasn't even subtitled, poor dialogue replacement (including some places where characters continued talking even though their lips weren't moving)… This film might be brilliant, but I just see a lump of coal. The technical flaws could be excused if it had been made a few decades earlier, at least. But unless something drastically changes in the next 58 minutes I won't have anything to say but: "Don't bother."
Edit: It did not get better, except for about ten minutes just after the halfway mark. Oh well.
Python 6? Seriously? This is clearly meant to be set in the present or near future, so why throw out an inflated version number of a programming language that ACTUALLY EXISTS?
"You're just a glorified Windows Vista" is a great line, though.
Meh. The tone feels wrong for a spin-off of that particular film. And it's so incredibly obvious that Vega's tits are being shoved in our faces to attract male viewers—ironically that turns me off, because it doesn't fit. We CAN see through you, Hollywood.
They held a certain headbutt shot waaaaaay too long—long enough to see Kara's head reverse direction. Someone needs to relearn editing.
Love the cinematography, but that's about it. Plot gets a 3/10 from me, for triteness and for being obvious an hour before the climax. Some good performances, yes, but also some flat ones.
I seem to be finding a lot of critically acclaimed media "meh" lately.
So much good, and also so much meh. Still don't know why Hank inexplicably reverts to his human form at the strangest moments. Probably won't ever know.
Benoist was good playing Hank-as-Kara, but the way "he" was written didn't sound like Hank at all, really.
Since when is kryptonite an ionized compound? I can't find any mention of it being charged, just that it's radioactive. Hooray for chembabble…
Wasn't sure about the thing with Adam starting, and even less sure why it ended. Seems like a lot of the relationships in this show happen (or stop) because the plot requires them to, not because they are or aren't working. It's too bad, because the actors are trying their level best to make it work no matter what the writers throw out.
Worth it for Max Lord's political commentary, though: "But holding people indefinitely against their will? Nothing more American than that."
Is it just me, or are the episode-ending teasers of next week's monster getting a little over-the top?
There are 10 bombs about to go off, better use my powers to make an inch-thick wall of ice. Nobody's gonna get hurt by flying bits of shattered ice—they're NOTHING like glass!
A lot of good character stuff happening with Hank/Jonzz. Not so sure about the James x Lucy plot; their chemistry feels off. Should be interesting to see how Winn x Kara plays out.
Edited down copy of the TV series, and it shows. There are a lot of details missing that make a lot of the scenes kind of nonsensical at times. What's there is beautiful, but what isn't there really detracts from the experience, even if you've seen the show.
Not digging the schtick with the dinosaur dude. Not at all.
And who are "the calvary"? Someone should have caught that on set. (While we're on the subject of mangling the English language, apparently Brian "Recoreded" an NFL game?)
I've been playing the violin since age 4, and I cringed at the violin animations. Using all the bow in half a second, then drawing several more seconds of sound out of the last two inches, etc.
Loved it anyway.
Are these characters humans or robots? The only acting worth watching came from Reg E. Cathey and maybe Michael B. Jordan.
Way too many different tones/genres squeezed into the same movie. Was almost like half a dozen people each wrote part of a screenplay and pasted them together, with the caveat that none of them ever took creative writing. Character motivations and thought processes were…for lack of a better word, absent.
Beautifully shot, though.
I said in my review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) that I'd have to watch and compare this with that and Spectre… Well, here we are.
The 2015 Mission: Impossible installment roundly beats out The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in writing, production, and on-screen chemistry. Rebecca Ferguson is no Alicia Vikander (LOVED her in Ex Machina), but the interactions between both leading men worked much, MUCH better in this film. It helps that Christopher McQuarrie let this film have a much calmer editing style—it's a hell of a lot easier to follow than Guy Ritchie's chaotic simul-action sequences with 2-5 camera views on screen at once.
I'm still undecided whether I like Spectre or M:I better for my top 2015 spy film, but I'm officially knocking U.N.C.L.E. out of the running. MI-6 and the IMF can duke it out.
(It's entirely possible that I'm being easier on this film because I lack a solid background with the franchise; I've seen very little M:I compared to U.N.C.L.E. But I don't think that's why I like this one so MUCH more.)
