Great episode, but it didn't feel like Black Mirror. It's missing the sci-fi element, the dystopian topic, the futuristic technology aspect.
Seems alot of people don't get this show.
Coming here with their comments it's cheap, below average acting, can't take the characters serious, etc ...
Well peeps this isn't a freaking serious ZOMBIE SERIE.
It's a ZOMBIE COMEDY show.
The characters arn't meant to be taken serious.
The zombies don't have to be serious. It's a goddamn comedy.
Its perfect for what it is.
TWD is a zombie show thats serious and see what that gets us? Nowhere. Every episode is just another filler in TWD.
Thats why Z-Nation is that good. cause we don't have lame drama in this show. It resolves around humour and action.
Anyone that comes here and doens't get it. Don't even bother commenting here about the quality if you don't get the show anyways.
Every time it's over I feel like I got punched in the fucking heart. And I basically start counting days till I'll be ready to watch it again. There will never be movies more soulful, profound, engaging and gripping with everything from fights and visuals to the deep meaningful connections between the characters and the explorations of grant purposes and philosophical differences. Never. I will love this eternally. I wish I could rate it more than ten. There are movies and then there's Lotr. To be honest I have no fitting words to describe this, no funny remarks or beautiful epithets and definitely no slights. I'm just thankful this exists and I got to experience watching it. I'm out.
evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and destroy what is good
I'm in love with everything about this, but reusing the Game of Thrones title theme is some bullshit. Djawadi is perfectly capable of writing something new and exciting, or an alternate orchestration at the very least.
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So many Star Wars races in a short episode did not make a worth while watch and for me overall just made it a poor drawn out experience of what in my opinion is Disney milking the franchise a little more.
Same people that have brought Mandalorian to life are behind this.
So it begs the question: Why? Why do we need this series? Why not just expand on the Mandalorian series?
It's obviously during a different timeline.. but do we really need it?
First episode is somewhat interesting, but not even close to amazing. Will give it some time because Mandalorian didn't get good till the second season, but not sure how long I'll stay interested at this point.
Disney ruining the few mysteries left from the original movies, boring shit that actively makes the star wars saga worse.
These new Disney+ series are developing into the the modern, overbudgeted equivalent of direct-to-video films from the ‘90s.
In an age where popular and accessible television is continuously pushed to new and exciting heights (Daredevil, Money Heist, Ted Lasso, Stranger Things, Arcane to name a few), these recent shows banking on the Star Wars and Marvel brands feel amateurish, schlocky, and often read like bad fan fiction.
Look, Boba Fett in the original trilogy is nothing more than a visual.
He’s not really a character, I think he has about 4 or 5 lines, but he became popular because of his look.
You can’t just throw me in a story where he’s the main character and expect me to care without putting in the work.
It’s a show that operates in Disney’s new business model of throwing references, ‘member berries and empty spectacle on the screen, while the important and engaging stuff (character, story, drama, emotion, filmmaking) are reduced to an afterthought.
Granted, that’s pretty much the same problem that I have with a lot of IP related content from the past couple of years, but this show in particular feels so calculated, focus tested and cynical, it’s gross.
Even the production kinda sucks this time around (compared to The Mandalorian), it looks really ugly and washed out, more like Marvel than Star Wars.
Where is the voice of Jon Favreau?
Where is the voice of the director of Iron Man, one of the most character driven and vibrant blockbusters of the past 20 years?
This show is not even close to being up to par in just about every sense.
What a disappointing ending to a great episode...
Having Howard get killed off by Lalo out of the blue is the laziest thing they could've done with his character (and the impact of Jimmy's & Kim's actions on his life). I've read a dozen more interesting scenarios on Reddit ffs...
Yeah... that's about how I pictured Howard going out, once it became clear he wasn't going to be leaving by other means. Simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, due to Jimmy.
I feel like they haven't done that good of a job in crafting Lalo as a villain. He does despicable things, sure. But why? Basically all we get as an answer to that is "Salamancas be crazy, yo."
It was a good episode. But this "mid-season finale" gimmick crap needs to die out.
@Tasa24 - While I agree with the first and third of your points, I politely disagree with your second one, in that I still have high hopes for the show, and, as such, am willing to give the writers a chance to catch their second wind. This should give them plenty of time to brainstorm some new ideas, but, on a down note, we will have to wait until next season to see if the seeds they have planted sprout and flourish, or wither and die before they've had a chance to mature.
But when you think about it, unless they find a way to expand the mythology, this is really a one or two season concept at best, unless you start killing off main cast members and replacing them, as you can only wander the backcountry so long, or dig so many holes, rinse and repeat, before your audience gets bored.
This is nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be. Even the usual dudes that whine all the time about "wOkE" and diversity can't say sh*t.
It was too self-referential and meta in the first act but it got good once Neo was brought back.
Once you embrace the cynicism and ignore your neverending anger about Hollywood's zombie-like state, which is dead, but not quite, which nowadays cannot produce anything but unworthy remakes of classic films, the film is quite enjoyable. If you're a fan of the series of course.
But, I don't understand what did the commentators expect; not a single sequel of 70s/80s/90s classic is comparable to an original, they as a standalone pieces can't be even considered good, that's why you have to evaluate things in context, and the context is that this film, and many others like it, were not made for art's sake, for glory of the creation, were not made out of ingeniousness of an author, out of a unique idea - they were made rutinely, industrially, on a Ford's assembly line, without a pretence of anything else but for (more or less mindless) entertainment that makes your minutes and hours go by, and most importantly, because big heads concluded this model of filmmaking is the most profitable.
You know it, filmmakers know it.
Still, I feel that there's enough good philosophical and social ideas displayed, (some obvious, but some hidden, like the dialectics, evolution of Smith and Morpheus, evolved and more complex class struggle when it comes to humans and robots, capitalist incorporation of its critique, like the reality becoming just another simulation, and most importantly, true belief in positive social change), and that Lana Wachowski has more, but is restrained by powers that be for exactly described reasons.
Visually I wasn't impressed, also I was expecting a bit more from the "sci" part of sci-fi, first part of the film is too slow, and the second part is too fast, but it's hardly embarrassing like some make it
Face it people, Hollywood is finito. Nowadays, there is hardly a new film truly worth watching that isn't an art film. Your self-righteous wrath won't get you anywhere, you should've learned this by now (I did with the X-Files remake), and it certainly won't make you a better person if you bitch about it more than the next guy. If you look for deeper meanings of this world, then leave entertainment media, and go read some books (preferably not belletristica or poetry, those are for suckers).
I don't know where all the negative comments are coming from. I loved this sequel.
The Matrix Resurrections keeps to the theme of the original movie, while leveraging plot points from the previous sequels to resurrect the Neo :heart: Trinity love story after 20 years (according to the movie timeline it's 60 years) .
The Matrix movie critics love to over-intellectualize the philosophy of the story arcs and characters. Over the last 20 years, I've heard critics trying to justify religion (ex: Buddhism) using the Matrix movies. Today, reading the comments here, this seems to have evolved into people trying to explain transgenderism using The Matrix (maybe because the creators of Matrix are transgender?).
I always believed that these movies oppose group think and are about breaking free from hive-minds and intellectual-echo-chambers (aka The Matrix). For example, Twitter today, with its Leftist cancel mobs, is a great example of a Matrix. Every time I read about a famous person getting "cancelled" or "de-platformed" by a social media platform, I picture an image of Neo being dragged out of the embryonic sac and getting violently unplugged by machines and thrown away (from the original Matrix movie).
For me, as a career software engineer, The Matrix movies are also about algorithms and logic. The unpredictability of a code base as it gets larger and complex. Eventually, leading to anomalies and vulnerabilities. I loved Neil Patrick Harris' performance as the new Architect of the Matrix. What a legend!
Is the franchise getting stale? Absolutely. It's a formula movie franchise. I watched all Fast and the Furious movies and the spin-offs too. I'm not the one to judge. :rofl:
While some will undoubtedly criticize the perhaps overly meta set-up that accounts for the first 30 minutes of this film, relative to the rest of the movie, that portion was actually my favorite part and I can't help but wish they had just gone all in on the idea. The story of a game designer who is losing his grip on reality felt fresh and unique. The rest of the movie... not so much. At the conclusion of the original trilogy, the Matrix lore was already an incomprehensible mess, but skipping ahead 60 years and dropping a whole new collection of buzzwords and exposition dumps only made things worse. All the more reason to cut ties with all of that baggage and tell some new story in which the Matrix is simply a series of videos games created by a troubled mind. Alas, that's not the movie we got, and after those first 30 minutes the film turns into an unsuccessful rehash of various elements of previous Matrix films. To make matters worse, the action is also not up to par. Even just finishing the movie minutes ago, I'm having a hard time thinking back to any memorable set pieces or sequences.
Luckily, things aren't all bad. The cast are pretty much universally solid, including both new and returning characters/actors. Jonathan Groff leans into his role as the new Agent Smith, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II sells his version of Morpheus, and Neil Patrick Harris delivers some fun monologues as the Analyst. Unfortunately, great acting can only take you so far, enough to sell hammy dialogue or even save individual scenes, but not enough to save the overall plot.
This is so bad I don’t even know where to start. So I won’t. Because it’s not worth thinking or writing about. Just let it go Disney, you know nothing about Star Wars.
All those little service robots? Adorable! The Kid? In a space ship? Awesome! The kid eating? Cute! The kid using the force in battle? Great! The Mandalorian (the shiny one)? Cool! The little green alien man without a name? Intimidating! The other aliens? Astonishingly creative costumes and make up! Nice too look at!
The 80s Gothic Vespa/Cyberpunk gang? Stupid. Fennec? Boring! Boba? Couldn't care less!
How did they get that wrong? Constantly? I'm attached to every little service robot a lot more than to Boba...
Plus, it's a weak finale. All that alliance building, diplomacy, politics, befriending local townsmen, Boba in the back story shown as a man who became wiser and more experienced, all that parcours training was totally inconsequential. In the end, it was raw firepower of two guys in an armour and ä donated (!) beast. Yeah, I know it's stupid Star Wars and they love their lasers, but it feels pointless. Plus, the HAL killing robot's aim is extremely poor.
Funny how the episode with the least amount of flashbacks is my favourite. Unfortunately, I've come to ask myself a pressing question: Why should we (or Boba) care whether he keeps control of Mos Espa? In "Star Wars: A New Hope", we cared whether the Rebellion destroyed the Death Star because we knew the Rebellion was stationed on Yavin IV—lives were at stake.
Why should we care if Boba loses Jabba's empire? What's at stake?
7/10
That "car chase" sequence was so low energy and just plain awful!
Jesus Christ, He's supposed to be a crime-lord, not some fluffy peace bunny. Come on Disney, just let him kill somebody, or at least let him beat somebody up. Boba Fett is like a teacher now, scolding misbehaving pupils during lunchtime.
If asked to describe classic Star Wars using three words, they might be “thrilling space adventure.” This series has the same characters (or species, at least) and locales, sky-high production values, and great cinematography, but none of the thrill, none of the space, and none of the adventure. It feels a bit like touring a Star Wars wax museum; I’m left appreciating the artistry but wanting the real thing and wondering what’s the point. I came wanting an adventure story but I’m getting a character study. It’s problematic because, for me, Boba Fett’s allure was his mystique. The more the show humanizes and explains him, the less mystical and less appealing he becomes.
I've really enjoyed the first 2 episodes, while others seems to more uncertain. But this is the first episode I've been worried overall about the series. The modern underworld story just isn't interesting enough - I was kinda hoping we would see more Boba Fett the Bounty Hunter, not this form of a makeshift leader.
The humans grafting droid parts onto themselves, is a new concept in the Star Wars visual world, to my knowledge but it was executed so poorly. It's the first time I've looked at anything in the Disney SW era, and thought, "that doesn't look like Star Wars".
I'm not sure where this series is really going but EP4 needs to pick up the modern underworld story in a big way.
Stephen Root... Danny Trejo... awesome cameos!
on the other hand, the gang of scooter-riding-calvin-klein-models look way too comical for this show --- wtf??
An ok episode. That car chasing sequence on those awfully colored floating bikes though… yikes :grimacing:
The overall season will still hopefully be entertaining enough. But talk about retro fitting a character after the fact. Certainly not the Bounty Hunter we grew up with or imagined based on what little we saw.
I found this to be mostly a unsatisfying ending.
He killed the dog :(
That said, this was probably the best episode I;ve seen so far.
This whole season felt like a goddamn setup for season 6 and I'm a little bit angry about it...
Still very enjoyable, but also slow and too much filler.
At least there's a lot of hype for season 6 now.