I'm half tempted to give this full marks just for daring to play Radiohead's Everything in Its Right Place during your typical military in dropship scene. Anyway my boy Gareth knocked out another cracking piece of scifi. You really don't mind when a director takes a few years off and comes back with something like this. There's certainly a fair amount of Rogue One, Blade Runner and Terminator in the mix, the latter of which he takes the Judgement Day plot and turns it on its head defying expectations where I assumed it was going just due to the tropes of the genre.
There's also a lot of stuff on screen for 80mill in comparison to other recent effects heavy films. Gets you wondering if budgets elsewhere escalate to $200 mill mark due to talent demands or that something like this has less behind the scenes VFX artists but take longer to bake? I dunno. Either way, check it out. The trailer gives too much away (as always my opinion) however there's plenty more that isn't shown.
NB. Watch out for the Scarif Easter egg
There was absolutely no reason for this to be four episodes long, the conspiracy theory nonsense just derailed the whole documentary. It was an awful, tragic case of a young girl off her meds which ended in a her sad, but bizarre, death. The speculation doesn't help this show. Making a Murderer this is not.
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.
What a sad sack of a film. If you keep having to CGI Harrisons Ford's face onto all the stuntmen that can actually participate in the scene then that's a good sign you probably shouldn't have bothered. The opening with a de-aged Indy at the end of the war is legit fun but is full of shonky CGI (there's a bit where a totally animated Indy running across a train in silloette that I honestly can't believe made it's way into the final cut) then it's downhill fast and never lets up. I'd take Shia as a companion over the irritant that is Phoebe Bridge unlike Toby Jones who steals every scene he's in a good way.
Oh and people that moaned about aliens finale in Indy 4? Well Indy 5 is like hold my beer I can top that ending in a tardis.
The projector packed in the cinema on the last ten minutes and it was more amusing than anything that happened the film. The projector was sorted and the madness wrapped up.
I honestly preferred Kingdom of Crystal Skull. At least it had Spielberg magic.
Episodes 5 and 6 won me over, episodes 7 and 8 has lost me again. I can't remember the last time I saw a show and thought this isn't for me, this is great, this is good, wtf is this, OMG I'm so bored in the space of a single season. On trying to be positive I guess there's possibly something in here, somewhere, for everyone.
This is one of those movies they used to knock out in the 90s. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
This was painful. Waititi is so obsessed with trying to make every line of dialogue comedic, even when it makes no sense, constant slapstick undermines any drama and turns it into a spoof of a Marvel movie. I watched this in a packed cinema and there was very few laughs from the audience. Even watching Christian Bale eat the scenery wasn't worth it.
Maybe Taika needs to sit down with Gunn to get a lesson in how to balance delivering laughs and drama. Ultimately however the box office receipts will be sufficient shield for any criticism.
I've never seen a film so full of action that's this boring. It's just noise. Abysmal.
Oh man. I was really liking SNW but this episode was Discovery level dogshit.
I'll be honest, if I didn't know how beloved the original was, how long it's taken Gaiman to get a screen adaptation, I'd be dropping this show at this point. I'm really not feeling any of this.
I love Filoni, enjoyed Rebels but I can't escape fan film vibes on this. I honestly would have preferred this story continued in animation. Episodes are twice as long as required. Disappointing.
This episode was absolute shite
It's a great series but has anyone else noticed that a lot of the footage of the Original Star Wars films (I am not talking the behind the scenes footage) appears not the remastered Lucas endorsed editions but actual original old footage, some shots look real sharp like they arent taken from archive footage freely available. What source did the Kasdan tap into? Any other documentaries or behind the scenes, especially made by Disney or Lucasfilm, you'll find that the movie footage they use is the Lucas approved special editions even if they are talking about the original making of, with the history being washed over, so this is actually a big deal that Kasdan managed to showcase the original OT footage so freely here.
Feels like The CW doing a film. The bloody things never stops going. At least watching it at home on Disney+ you can break it up over a few days. Struggled staying awake in the cinema. Dull
The best tribute to George Romero would be to not have made this mediocre zombie series.
NB. Zombies busting out of graves is Return of the Living Dead. At least be inspired by the right series.
Rod Serling would have dug this episode, true to the spirit of the commentary he pioneered and drove his original series.
It's amazing that they shelved Batgirl yet this was apparently ok to release. The most generic modern superhero film yet. I'd rather watch Batman and Robin.
Susan Sarandon officially takes the "worst performance in a superhero movie" from Mickey Rourke
I don't understand why they'd do young Ahsoka and not have Ashley Eckstein as the voice. Even this version doesn't match the plucky Clone Wars version. Whole thing still feels like a fan film still to me. Love Filoni but this series been so underwhelming for me.
Massive Star Wars fan but honestly end up looking forward to the credits so I can put something else on.
Tremendous entry for TV series. Excellent original music, incredibly well shot, the Chucky bits are hilarious and the tone is spot on. This is what happens when an organisation allows the original series creator to do his thing. Mancini did a great job
Just got out of my local cinema who are currently screening the extended editions of the trilogy over the next few weeks. Tremendous to see this back on the big screen. It's absolutely lost none of the its power, the cast is perfect, every one of them are firing on all cylinders, Howard Shore is just amazing, the amount of models mixed in with the VFX gives the whole thing a tactile lived in feeling. Superb.
Love how they turned the craziness up to 11 on this one. It's like descending into the final third of Resident Evil 5; you're thinking this is bit normal for a Resident Evil game and then you're like ah... they're you go.
Think that lad needs a nice job in a quiet charity shop
The biggest problem with this movie is that it's narrative structure is around three unsung heroes in the Ty story then they proceed to change their names and immediately loses any power it had by committing the same sins in robbing them of their story once again. Highly recommended reading Zac Bissonnette's book, its gripping!
And in one episode SNW gives a more satisfying flash back to the Klingon war than Discovery hobbled together in a whole season and to top it off they top give us Clint Howard in a Starfleet badge. Oh Strange New Worlds you are spoiling us.
Refreshing. Genuinely delighted people at CBS/ Paramount that can deliver the goods. Not only does it continue to provide something for the fans but easy in for casual viewer after some top tier TV.
A good editor would have had this down to a lean 90mins. However this is what happens when Netflix needs lots of content, quantity over quality
All hail to Raimi and Campbell. Never been a groovier director /actor combo in all of the multiverse
I'm enjoying the "present day" timeline way more than the teeny-bopping flashbacks, so I keep getting dragged out of the story as it flips. They get bonus points from me however for squeezing a Jamiroquai song in amongst the zombie carnage.
The show continues to drag. There's just not enough enthralling material in the story. It's a story of poor, silly women and awful, predatory men. Great drama does not make. They hit gold with the first season but have been this far unable to replicate the gripping drama successfully.
Written and directed by Filoni. That's all you need to know.
