Missed potential. It is way less interesting than the comic and they completely altered the plot after the first episode. It might as well be an entirely different IP. Amazon clearly did not give this show the budget it deserved.
Forget about The Office. This is Peacock’s killer app! Much better than his Netflix show. When Bill Nye, Seth MacFarlane and Brannon Braga are involved in a project you know you’re in for a good time.
Ms. Marvel episode 1 impressions: First of all, why is Disney shooting these Marvel shows with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio? Shows meant to be shown exclusively on 16:9 displays. It's rather annoying. Especially after they made their huge marketing push of having 16:9 open matted versions of the Marvel movies on Disney+ with the "IMAX Enhanced" label. Seems really backwards to have the Marvel movies in 16:9 and the shows at a wider aspect ratio.
Second biggest problem: WTF did they do to her powers? This isn't faithful to the comics at all. Why is her ability this weird energy crystal power instead of polymorphing? And instead of getting her powers from having Inhuman genes, they made her get her powers from magic bracelets? It's like if they made Spider-Man shoot lasers instead of webs. She might as well be a totally different character.
In fact, making the source of her powers come from magic instead of from a genetic modification is a hilarious blunder as magic is considered haram in Islam. They might as well have made her a super fundamentalist Christian superhero who gets her powers from witchcraft.
I could excuse the strange casting choices that made Kamala and Bruno look too young compared to their comic counterparts if it weren't for the fact they ruined her powers. The constant shapeshifting body horror of the comics was central to Kamala's character.
For me this is another hatewatch just like the Halo series. Like Halo, while it has some things that appeal to fans of the original lore, it has many other aspects that drag it down and make it difficult to fully enjoy the show.
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Chromatic aberration = 1 star and DROPPED
Entertaining series but the ending was rather ridiculous. 50+ infected people and not a single one of them with the self preservation instinct to find some shade? I know these are Christcucks so they’re not the sharpest knives in the drawer but still, even with the buildings and the boats burned there’s still tons of ways to avoid sunlight, from hiding under rubble, bridges, stairs, trees, a tarp, digging a hole, putting clothing over any exposed part of your body, etc. Instead they all just stand there and die.
I was going to give this dumb movie a 9/10 but the final scene at the credits cemented it as a 10/10. People giving this low scores must be absolutely humorless people. Also I’m not even old. I never played any of this stuff in arcades, but you still have to be living under a rock to not recognize Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Centipede, Asteroids, Frogger, etc. even if you are a zoomer.
Outstanding. One of the best Christmas movies ever made
It's certainly not the best plot ever. That said, it was a greatly entertaining experience due to the number and quality of the action sequences. They're well edited, and well choreographed. It felt like a great Terminator-style action movie from the '80s/'90s bu shot with more modern technology.
From a technical perspective, the movie is outstanding and shows off the benefits of shooting a movie at a framerate higher than 23.976 fps very well. The 3D was solid too, and certainly a welcome experience (as it is for every movie that gets a 3D release), but the 3D ended up taking a backseat to the real draw of the higher framerate.
120 FPS was a great choice particularly for an action movie like this one and I'm happy to see someone in Hollywood willing to be innovative instead of just doing things for the sake of "that's how it's always been done."
From the opening train sequence to flying scenes or scenes that take place in water, it really gives everything an increased sense of speed that looks more close to how these activities would go down in real life. During the action sequences I felt like I was watching a fight taking place right in front of me instead of watching a fight that was recorded on a camera. There was a certain added level of engagement that I normally only feel when playing a modern video game. I think this high framerate technology is going to be a game changer, especially for action movies, if we can just get some of these old fogeys in Hollywood to start dying off and pass the torch on to younger directors who have grown up consuming higher framerate media.
You're certainly going to have the typical peanut gallery of boomers who grew up watching exclusively 23.976 films who have been brainwashed into thinking that a framerate considerably slower than the human eye can process is somehow more "realistic," but hopefully as we see more high framerate movies it will eventually be an adopted video improvement standard like color, widescreen, higher resolutions, surround sound, and HDR. As those older generations kick the bucket you will see less and less opposition to more realistic higher framerates in movies and eventually the majority of the population will think that slideshow framerate 23.976 movies are the ones that look "weird."
The inevitable 4K Blu-ray release with a framerate of 60 FPS is going to be the way to go for this movie, until we get some future format that can deliver the full 4K 3D 120 FPS. If you can see it in a cinema that can play it at 120 FPS, I highly recommend it, but even 60 FPS should be a considerable improvement over your typical movie's framerate.
One of the most boring movies ever made. At least it's native 4K + HDR so it looks pretty during the monotony.
Not nearly as bad as the critics made it out to be. Better than X-Men: The Last Stand and overall one of the most entertaining in the series. I'm not disappointed I saw it.
Great 3D effect too. Shame there's not going to be any 3D Blu-ray release of it anywhere in the world. What a waste of a good 3D conversion.
This movie has a wide gulf between audience scores and critic scores. As if we needed further evidence that critics are garbage
First one was better.
Disney quality, this is not.
The human sections drag down what was otherwise a very entertaining monster movie with a semi-decent lore behind it. The human characters are just so unbearably annoying and behave in an irrational manner at all times.
I cringed every time the camera cut to the protagonist's family struggling right in the middle of the monsters fighting, as if I was supposed to give one flying fuck about any of them.
Godzilla stepping on the whole lot of 'em and putting them out of their misery while they were driving the Humvee during the fight scene near the end of the movie, or better yet, much earlier in the film when they were all in in Antarctica, would have bumped my score for this movie up by several points.
Theatrical Cut - 4/10
Director's Cut with the proper ending - 6/10
Classic example of the theatrical release of a movie being vastly inferior to the home video release. I recommend watching this on Blu-ray and trying to forget that that 1987 theatrical cut ever existed.
What a dumb plot. Love the worldbuilding and the animation though.
Keep it up guys. This is the first Pokémon movie I've seen that wasn't terrible. I don't regret watching it at all. That's high praise for a Pokémon movie. This live action + CG render combination is the way to go.
Too many plotholes. Very slow start. What's the deal with Iron Man getting a funeral but not Black Widow? A very overhyped sequel that doesn't live up to the hype.
I enjoyed Captain Marvel more than this one tbh
It's a bad Quiet Place. So many logical inconsistences. The bats are too vulnerable and stupid. Given the wide array of tactics that worked against these creatures from bullets to fire to wood chippers, it just seemed unbelievable that this would be an apocalyptic scenario.
Just build some giant wood chippers on wheels and drive around with speakers blaring. They could clear out a city infestation in a day.
Oh please. It wasn't that bad. Not every science fiction movie has to be a bang bang shooty shoot fest. For an apocalyptic movie it was strangely relaxing and had a strange degree of comfiness to it. And it ended on a positive note. I'd recommend it if you like science fiction but are also in the mood to watch something easygoing.
This show doesn't get enough love. I never see anyone talking about it but it's better than any comedy on 'network TV' and you don't see a lot of shows like this with a cast of all female main characters that is genuinely funny.
Starfleet hands out life imprisonment sentences for disobeying orders and assault?
I remember when Star Trek was supposed to be about a utopian vision of the future. Starfleet sounds even worse than the American "justice" system...
