Tell me why they grouped season 1 and 2 together in TMDB? Anime is no different than a TV show with multiple SEASONS, for anyone who is editing the database, stop trying to be different, please
The movie is BEAUTIFUL, and if you're looking for an action movie I definitely recommend it. However, if you're an actual fan of Avatar 1, you will be disappointed.
Overused plot twists :
- bad guy that comes back to life (terminator like),
- a boy raised by the Na'vi that is actually the son of the bad guy (jungle book / star wars like)
Remakes of scenes from the first movie :
- Jake riding sea horses for the first time,
- his son becoming friend with the most dangerous Tulkun (VS Jake and the big Leonopteryx making him Toruk Makto);
- Colonel being overconfident while getting his Banshee (just like Jake);
- Earthers burning the houses of Metkayina (VS when they burnt the Mother Tree);
- the wife of the chief (Ronal) losing her Tulkun and accusing Jake for bringing the Earthers (VS Neytiri losing her ikran and saying she never wants to see Jake again);
- exact same sentences ("The people say that the energy is just borrowed and you have to give it back");
- Jake's son behind chased by a very agressive fish in an unfamiliar environment (VS Jake chased by the Thanator in the forest;)
- the obvious end with a close up shot on Jake's eyes... (was thrilling once but come on...)
The apparition of useless characters :
- Spider makes no sense. He hated his dad, then decided to save him and then joined back Jake and the others???? so obviously the bad guy will come back;
- the Earthers who stayed from the first movie (they just appear 10 seconds to help Jake's daughter),
- the female colonel who brings nothing to the plot,
- Neytiri's mother who appears for 5 seconds maybe...
The lack of character development : they pretty much have 1 personality trait at the start and don't really grow from there, which is very different from the first movie -
- the colonel still hates the Na'Vis even after learning their language and getting his flying pet (his personality is basically "I hate Jake" throughout the entire movie),
- Neytiri hates Spider from the beginning,
- Jake is insufferable with his sons until the very very end where he softens up a bit...
The lack of plot coherence :
- Where the hell did the Metkayina go once the fight actually started?? (because their chief was supposed to get his daughter back);
- Why would the Earthers risk to lose the amrita (product from the tulkuns) that is funding all the actions on Pandora just to satisfy the seek for revenge of a soldier??
Lastly, and this is what frustrates me the most : the many stories started that do not have an end -
- Why is Kiri able to control Eywa? Why is Ronal not saying anything when she's supposed to be that spiritual??
- How is humanity actually planning to move to Pandora?...
Overall, I would recommend the movie if you decently liked the 1st one and want to stay in the same universe. But if you are looking for an actual sequel with a great plot and story / character development, be prepared to be disappointed.
Ryan Reynolds' well established brand of sarcastic quips isn't nearly enough to salvage this film. In fact, the humor isn't even a saving grace, as it's way more miss than hit, often feeling stilted and obligatory. The paper-thin plot doesn't bring anything new to the time travel genre, boiling down the typical elements to the absolute bare minimum. All talk of mechanics and paradoxes are swept under the rug without any meaningful explanation, with the allegedly high stakes often expressed through nebulous expository dialogue (e.g. when Reynolds explains to his younger self that 2050 is just like in terminator but worse). Combine all that with noticeably cheap special effects, less than compelling acting from most everyone involved, and ineffective sentimental moments, and the end result is a disappointingly forgettable mess.
People downvoting this like we know anything at all about the show.
Dont understand why rating shows/episodes before the release date is still a thing.
Funny as shit. And then sad as hell when you realize it's basically just a documentary.
More or less the as good as season 2 in terms of quality, but for very different reasons.
First of all, I like what they did with the story and most of the characters this season.
It pulls from things like The Matrix, Terminator and Minority Report in order to create something we haven’t quite seen before.
It’s more streamlined than last season, but it hasn’t been dumbed down in any way, as the show still messes with your mind.
I loved pretty much everything they did with Dolores, Maeve, Hale, Caleb and Serac.
Also, visually and musically, the show’s better than it ever has been before.
On the other hand, they really had no idea what to do with Bernard, Stubbs and William this season, so much so that their scenes got increasingly more dull as the season went on.
The post-credits scene in the final episode pretty much undoes the whole arc of one of these characters.
I also feel like the amount of forced plot mechanics has increased.
There is a lot more plotblocking than what is usually the case in this show, and sometimes characters conveniently show up at locations because the writers want it to happen, not because it would be logical.
Finally, they really have to up their game when it comes to the action scenes.
They used to be quite strong, but the hand to hand combat specifically tends to look like something out of a movie from the ‘70s.
7.5/10
Season 3 feels like a whole different show. Feels almost unrelated to the first and second seasons. It's a good extension to the show, not sure why there's so much hate for it online.
This was the best season of Westworld yet. I’ve been a fan of the Westworld franchise since I saw the original movie in the late 90s. But I digress, if you like cyberpunk fiction and media, you’ll really love where they took this season.
They basically take all the best tropes & inspirations of: Equilibrium, Terminator, iRobot, Ghost in the Shell, Big O (the androids subplot specifically), some original extra bits & twists of their own; and create this dystopic shithole that I love to see in cyberpunk. There’s this really sick drug called Genre where Aaron Paul’s character is tripping hella hard on for the majority of the episode. Gotta love when futuristic media creates new designer drugs that work with the subjects chemical brain and mechanical augmentations at the same time. To he honest tho, there were a few parts that were a bit to convenient for the plot. But if you can ignore that and get immersed in the world building, fantastical sci-fi, and beautiful cinematography; then you’ll have a fantastic time. The music in this season was also pretty on point.
I’ve spent the last two-ish weeks watching and falling in love with Westworld, after years of contemplating watching it, and after months of stalling after having paused my initial watch of the first season from last year. And I’m now finally ready for the upcoming Season 4 premiere tomorrow/Monday for me. I’m in love with the ideas at play in this series and how it’s been executed for three seasons, and I’m glad to say after my initial doubts, it’s quickly risen to become one of my favourite shows I’ve ever seen. Love that there’s a masterful sci-fi series out there (right now) about consciousness and free will and the soul of humanity in what makes us humans. It’s brilliant, it’s inventive, it’s entertaining, it’s emotionally cathartic, and it’s really darn bloody good. Can’t wait for S4!
I liked this better than season 2. Season 1 was a masterpiece with a novel concept that was introduced wonderfully. Second season was more of the same. This season has taken the challenge and brought the fight/story to the real world and seems to have evolved the show into something completely different.
I wish more shows did this rather than trying to remake the same season of a show again and again until audiences tire of the show (Walking Dead, Hand maid’s tale, prison break etc.).
Absolutely the best season of the show for a few reasons. What, why, how?!? some will say. Here is why - there is no ridiculous western theme with an enormous and often tedious backstory that frequently has only superficially to do with the issues the show is dissecting (do androids dream of electric sheep). There are still plot holes, but the story is more or less logical, there is a humanly comprehensible amount of characters and they interact and coalesce in logical ways. I almost didn't watch this season after reading the reviews, but it is honestly what I expected the first season to be.
Season 2 was absolute garbage, glad season 3 managed to save the show again!
This was the worst anime of Fall 2021.
Story was just a rip-off of Arifureta (https://trakt.tv/shows/arifureta-from-commonplace-to-world-s-strongest), characters were over-exaggerated & no side-character development whatsoever, animations seems a bit dull at few points and above all leading female character is a :point_right_tone1: GORILLA :point_left_tone1:.
I won't recommend this to anyone.
Glad to see tradTrek (traditional Trek) is back! I miss this format and style of Star Trek.
Nothing wrong with the other nuTrek, they're all great on their own, but as someone who grew up watching Star Trek, the style of TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT, have grown on me. It's more about the issues we are facing today, in real life, as well as meaningful life realizations. Picard is like that but it is more about Jean-Luc. Discovery is like that but it is more about the conflict and the characters.
But tradTrek is different. The approach is to let the audience relate and think of the world around them.
Best of all, finally, we have a Captain Pike canon series! We seriously lack canon materials around Pike and his time with the Enterprise and it has been requested since the 90s. Finally! Let me say that again, FINALLY!
Woot, new episode.
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stupid interview criime eposodes.
what else is there to watch?
Please stopmaking this type of episode.
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my fuckin mind is getting so high
like how the hell finishing Aot Episode and then watch this
like please you wanna give me a heart attack xD???
I swear i wanna say understandable review but i have no words
just watch and enjoy every detail specially the ending fight, This will make happiest and most sad person on the earth
Amazing!
What an absolutely botched ending to an otherwise strong show. Spoilers: Monica and Darcy are completely tossed aside, Evan Peters is entirely wasted as Quicksilver in favor of a dick joke, the writers show zero creativity in leaving characters to die and Wanda has ultimately learned nothing about her magic, ending the show exactly where she stood 8 years ago before 'Age of Ultron'. What a complete mess devoid of consequences, leaving characters storylines wide open for projects years away instead of tying character arcs up. Wanda apologises to the town members after tortuing them for weeks and we're supposed to feel bad when her fake children are erased? No, sorry, you're responsible for that. Monica really told Wanda the town should be grateful.... after she released them from their torture slavery. Wanda belongs on the Raft, Avengers need bodycams after this abuse. This is exactly what the Sokovia Accords were for. This isn't a show, it's a promotional ad to go see the next Marvel thing. I thought they were doing something special when the show began, embracing the wierd and unexplained magic in the MCU, but by the end the Marvel formula is intact and the story falls into laziness.
Who the hell was the missing person Jimmy Woo had in witness protection to begin with?
I think I see the need for last episode now, but I still assert this show would be much more interesting if it could be entirely sitcom.
My issue is that I don’t entirely see this series as more than an experiment. As we see more and more, Wandavision is little more than doses of things we’ve seen elsewhere: Truman Show, Annihilation, Pleasantville, Inception. It makes for something decently interesting, but it brings up a branding problem that it feels as though it’s fighting really hard to course-correct. Marvel has built a brand mercilessly for nearly thirteen years now and although we were given the heads up that Phase 4 was going to get a little more out there, I’m not sure how this is correlating yet. When I think Marvel, I’m not sure something like Wandavision is what I’m expecting/wanting and yet when I think of weird, surrealist cinema Wandavision doesn’t really reach the depths of brilliance there either because it has to retain elements of the MCU when it could be David Lynch directs Marvel if they’d run with it.
Once again the most interesting part of this whole fucking show is the stuff that gets the least amount of time. I could not care less about the sitcom shtick and I wish they would stop ripping off other shows when it serves little purpose except to make this all ridiculous when it could've been so much better.
In the movie Far From Heaven, you get this practically picturesque town and home life of a housewife in Connecticut. It's gorgeous and full of colors and 50s/60s "retro", what have you. It looks so perfect and lovely yet hides all sorts of ugliness underneath the perfect veneer of "All American Dream". Imagine that kind of set up but with horror and mindfuckery and that could've been THIS FUCKING SHOW.
Each episode continues to disappoint.
Each episode shows me how this would have been better served in a binge-watch (if they ever fucking do anything with the reveal).
Each episode annoys me with a pointless, obnoxious laugh track.
And each episode has me not giving a single damn about this couple or buying into any of their "chemistry" or love. This relationship was developed completely offscreen, and now I'm just supposed to believe they are some shining example of True Love because Marvel clearly wants Young Avengers? Nope. Not happening. I demand better writing and pacing, thank you.
Olsen and Bettany are very talented and capable actors in other projects but here, I can't buy anything between them.
The pacing is just painful and not at all suspenseful. There's tension and then there's annoying the shit out of your audience. This show is the latter.
This show continues to be the epitome of "my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined".
I really missed real Archer. This doesn't reach the heights of the early years but at least it's really good, again
If what Chidi said to Eleanor didn't make you cry, what is wrong with you?
Am I the only one that thinks this movie f'ing sucks balls. Didn't like this at all
[8.2/10] Oh man, what fun this was! Rainn Wilson has been a revelation as Young Mudd, and letting him play the mealy-mouthed, flattering, manipulative but theatrical snake role to the hilt for fifteen minutes is just a delight. Everything from quibbling over regicide, to trying to seduce or buy off his captors, to promises of future conquest and resistance against Federation hegemony are a laugh riot as he tries to wriggle out of his bonds. Each attempt at subterfuge is better than the last, and the flashbacks to the different ways he’s tried to talk his way out of a capture were just as delightful.
I especially enjoyed the twist. It harkens back to Mudd’s robot duplicate adventure in The Original Series, and Mudd posing as a bounty hunter and turning in his own duplicates for the reward money is so the kind of harebrained but hilariously brilliant scheme only he would come up with. I do enjoy it when Star Trek gets to shed its starched collars and have fun, and this was a great heaping dose of that.
Damn, it must really suck to have been snapped while being on a plane.
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6/10
This episode is incorrectly labelled. According to TVDB and IMDB it's season 3 episode 1.
The problem with The Spy Who Dumped Me is that it feels very disjoint -- it feels like two different films were shot and then they tried to edit them together without much success. There is a mediocre comedy that works some of the time and there is the mediocre action film that gets quite dark. Mixing these two mediocre elements together only dilutes each other.
Great episode, a lot of people complaining about her use of the word 'cunt' in describing Ivanka Trump's attitude to her father's policy of separating children from their parents at the border. I don't think she should have apologised but can understand the pressure from the network and advertisers. Hopefully John Oliver mentions this on the next Last Week Tonight.
