Foe anyone into warbirds and WWII planes in general... you'll love this!... even if it was just about how the B-17s flying experience is shown and portrayed...this feels like something written by people that gets and truly understood that special bond pilots and crew had with those piston engine flying machines.
Just marked the 13th September on my calendar. From now on it will be Saint Filoni's day.
In retrospective this seriously risked to kill the whole franchise. That is how bad MI2 is, even as mindless action movie.
Only for Woo die hard fans.
I was willing and ready to see some minor or bigger changes adapting the books for the TV...but honestly with this last addition of the Flamekeepers, they definitely demolished the very basic dynamics on which the whole book original trilogy is pivoting.
Actually now I even get why they decided to split IT narrative function, in something like Judicial and IT.
And for no practical or creative reason, if not the one to push in certain themes that seem to be trending these days.
I think for anyone who loved the book, this is the the right moment to bail out from this show.
Or at least that is what I will do.
Is not bad for what it is, but seeing the meaning of something you know and love, bended and changed in something else..well is not nice and worth my time.
Panos Cosmatos. Someone please give this guy his own show.
...it might be just me, because I do not even use sunscreens because of how much I hate the feeling of those squishy mushy slippery blobs...but this episode was the creepiest ever!
The mood and settings in the Narkina Five scenes somehow managed to create the missing link between Thx1138 and Star Wars.
I don't know about you guys, but this looks like a 15 out of 10 rating episode to me..
A well done simple and honest sci-fi family movie, the story is a quite generic minor variation on the classic time travel theme, what makes it shine nontheless is a solid cast, great chemistry and witty dialogues.
Plus the movie manage to get perfectly especially in the first part that naive sense of wonder that made iconographic most 80s movies in the same genre, and this I guess is what makes The Adam Project engaging. Best family action movie I've seen this year (so far).
11/10 for Ben Stiller and Dan Erickson for making the best season finale ever since Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica 'Kobol' s last gleaming'.
Straight from Chapter One of Cliffhangers Base Rules Handbook.
And still does the damn trick...
Almost more unsettling than latest pandemic.
Now the thing is that the underworld street gang as idea itself works well, gives depth to a location like Mos Espa that otherwise would only be a familiar backdrop to move already known characters.
So ok, nothing wrong with what...but is the how not the what..that is really kind of puzzling...at best.
First off the design of those speeder-vespas is so blatantly wrong, and I mean in everything, they do not look like Star Wars tech, they do not fit in the context, they are even without considering the colors simply designed bad.
Since the standard visual design of Star Wars is always been based on the styles set by McQuarrie/Mollo/Chiang..I find incomprehensible if not simply unbelievable how come that those designs managed to survive from exploring ideas in pre-production up to actually shooting something so evidently wrong.
So my main problem is that those ridicolous speeders screaming "WTF" pulled my attention to a not so good gang characterization, which is another thing that doesn't fit well with the overall Star Wars style...it may have been slipped in the background if at least most of those characters screen time wasn't on such silly vehicles.
Then there are another couple of things in the overall tone that are starting to bothering me, I do not like personally and maybe is just me but to be honest do not even fit well with the character characterization and the general SW lore: Boba Fett is becoming a bit too incline to diplomacy. A bit too much and a bit too fast I would say.
I do understand this is the old Boba Fett but after going through some transformative experiences, from the bonding with sand people to the new role of "daimyo", which ok means he has to switch from the solitary bounty hunter mindset to a different one as ruler of a more complex and variable organization.
Ok, there's going to be some "politics" to deal with. Still this is or too rushed or just too broad in how is represented, because after all a character need to stay true to a given nature, otherwise it will loose its own peculiar traits and personality.
The other thing, and I'm afraid this is unquestionably the heavy hand of Disney, is the progressive pet-ification of animal-like creatures...which now reached even the Rancor.
That is definitely the nowadays typical Hollywood histeric industry reaction to the dumb online criticism that already came around with how the Boba Fett showed the treating of wildlife.
We live in horrible days for creativity and art...
Well the moment that Nic Cage wearing Ray-Ban Aviator, starts forging himself a f*ckin scythe in some basement flooded by 80s neon lights...I mean, that's when you really know that some epic ride is about to start... XD
I saw this as a child in the '80s and I loved the show. Rewatching it today as an adult I'm honestly surprised about how adult oriented this must have been for the average standard of anime of those days. And how ahead of its times it was, as science fiction not even as anime or cartoon in general, storytelling though with all the naivety of those days, is still so modern in contents and form...I mean in this episode basically we get to know that Gundam is powered by an artificial intelligence algorithm....that's crazy!
That 'negative pressure' moment was one of the nerdiest scenes ever. Or at least ever since men invented vendor machines....
Ronald D. Moore, making epic season finales since January 25 2005 (Battlestar Galactica, Kobol's Last Gleaming - Part II).
If anyone wants to add an 'amen', that's the right moment...
Pre Vizsla is voiced by Jon Favreau in the episode where the dark saber and Mandalore are introduced for the first time...this was a decade before The Mandalorian...and the mysterious ways of the Force were already set in motion...
Another good episode and whatever could have been done good or wrong with it, this was going to be an easy win in the end just because the return of a Star Wars icon like Boba Fett was destined to steal the scene anyway.
Still I didn't like the gratuitous violence that (as usual) Rodriguez felt so necessary to tell his part of the story, I mean all those slashing and armors fragments flying al around, and especially a couple of shots where the camera indulged few seconds too much on a smashed helmet or a dead stormtrooper body. Pulp Wars uh..?
Melee combats have always been a Star Wars trademark, still coreography and visual storytelling never needed graphic violence to bring to life the most epic Star Wars fights, action and pathos. We have been through mutilations and body slashing before in this universe, but always with a certain narrative style.
Besides the fact that this is still a show and a franchise for the whole family, little kids included, gratuitous violence remains just that. Not sure why the production let this pass without any apparent restriction, but at least Rodriguez spared us some blood splatter so in the end should we even be thankful somehow I guess?
Plus I found some other weaknesses in the screenplay that gets streched a bit too thin for me in the central part of the story, where the more stormtroopers lands, Mando goes back and forth from Grogu always getting bounced back by the Force field, etc...well this is just what keeps happening for like ten minutes and to be honest is not exactly great writing, felt more again, like an excuse to have Rodriguez to carry on his smash and bash thing, which we all knew how good he is at..if only it didn't felt so misplaced in a Star Wars story. I remain with the feeling that this episode has been largely saved by the charisma and weight of a powerful character like Boba Fett that luckily managed to eclipse all the rest.
Wow...one of the worst storytelling I have ever seen in my whole life...this should be studied to show screenwriters how to not use flashback narrative and alternate timelines.
The most puzzling thing is how the production of a good show can so blatantly go off rail on so many things in just one episode.
At least now we have some relevant story backdrops about the main characters...still such elements have been introduced in the worst possible way.
Not necessarily the most original or structured storyline, so all goes down to a solid screenplay, tight editing and directing, and good performances by all the cast. Well if that ain't enough for you, at least just admit that Frank badass-o-meter went totally over scale this time...
Maybe should have been titled Rosebud, but that would have been too cryptic to most viewers .
This is probably the greatest (maybe unwilling) tribute to Orson Welles' Citizen Kane ever made.
If they do not bring back this show and this cast I'm going to pirate the shit out of Disney +
Even without dialogues the first scenes of this episode are so powerful visually (which is probably the exact reason why they do not need dialogues), that just those few minutes alone already made this show an instant classic in the Star Wars mithology.
That 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime' pairing was worth all the episode...
SyFy abandoning this show after season 2 will pass to sci-fi history like one of the dumbest moves ever made.
Ohmygod..so basically I just realized that Steve is totally a young Jack Burton (and if I have to explain you who Jack Burton is I'm sorry but you do not even deserve to watch this show!)...but..whatever...he doesn't even have to change hairstyle or anything! he's just perfect!...so ok, someone made it happen, give a shout to John Carpenter...a need a mini-series titled something like "It's all in the reflexes" or something like that!
And oh yes, by the way...the episode was awesome! XD
Best generational romantic comedy since 'When Harry meets Sally'. Flawless screenplay and dialogues, great editing, perfect casting, amazing soundtrack. The only reason you may not like this movie is that you do not like romantic comedies.
I like her but I want to kill her. I'm talking about Erica of course... XD
Team Steve-Dustin-Robin-Erica totally kick ass!
