This is truly the best thing marvel has produced post end game and one of the best thing the MCU has created, period.
I love marvel unapologetically and even i can say this is more than the superhero genre, this is full on sci-fi and its up there with some of t best.
bash was infuriating in this episode and i had to skip most of his scenes.
the firefighter had it right, how could he think he had more info and skill than the team of 20 experts? i know the show started with him being a hero and a risktaker but he just crossed right into suicidal hero with a god complex... which again i understand because of his past but it's still quite frustrating having a character with zero development season after season.
I love the Daddario siblings and will watch anything they are in. I loved Alexandra in this and so i was immediately pulled in.
Unfortunately, I think, like many shows recently, this has fallen victim to a short episode order. This needed to be in the 22-episode tv format and not 8. They tried to cover too much in too little space and nothing had a chance to build out and be adequately explained.
This was a 22-episode script compacted down instead of being written as 8 episodes and so, everything was rushed and at times confusing. I'm hopeful that season 2 is better as I think it could end up being worthwhile.
I've never watched this as a kid but with the willow series just launched, I thought it was a good idea to get some backstory. From the reviews here I can see that a lot of people like the movie... For me, not so much. It's not bad, and it's not good - It just is. It might be because I don't have the nostalgic childhood feeling associated with it.
I really can't say much happened in the story. There wasn't a lot of depth, backstory or reasoning behind anything. Honestly, from start to finish, nothing truly happens. One major thing that made me want to give up was the pacing - an hour in and I was sure 2 hours had passed and that this was a 3-hour movie. Nothing happens for a really long time and then nothing continues to happen. All in all, it's very lacklustre.
For anyone about to watch because of the new Willow series, you can skip this because you won't miss anything and it won't give any more backstory than the wiki page (and in episode 1 the first two minutes summarise this entire movie just as well as watching it did).
Story = 2/10
Acting/Cast = 3/10
Music = 1/10
Rewatch Value = 0/10
Overall = 3/10
This has been on my watchlist for years and I’ve finally got around to watching it. For the most part, it was fantastic but the sheer number of plotholes is outstanding.
The first season is excellent. Second, less so, but still okay.
Third and fourth? The writers were scrambling with no plans or clue as to where anything was going and it was clear a few episodes into season 3 that they hadn’t thought this far ahead. Anything they couldn't figure out they just washed away or created an alternative timeline for.
Season 3 basically made it so they didn’t have to answer any of the pressing questions from the first two seasons and could just wipe away anything they didn’t know or understand. No more flashbacks, no acknowledgement outside of Kiera saying that she wanted to go home. The last season is where they try to tie everything back in, but it feels rushed and desperate.
The ending was the perfect mix of bittersweet and made the poor planning and odd filler episodes worth it. It was great to see that both Alec and his brother had become a better version of themselves. Keira not understanding that her son wouldn't be born was frankly baffling though - everything they had done was so that future didn't exist so how was her son and marriage supposed to? Plus, why did they have him look exactly like her son with two totally different parents?!
Key unanswered plotholes:
The CIA/NSA investigation just magically went away, even after the lead was mysterious murdered.
Did the husband know what Alec was planning? Scenes would indicate that he did, but this was never answered.
What was the deal with Alec's father? Nothing there was explained including his reasonings for everything. Same as how Alec's son escaped from the freelancers.
The big cooperative overlords that told evil Alec to slow down and were halting production... Who were they and what was their purpose?
Liberat8? Oh, we don’t need them anymore, so let’s let them just fade away and have a few turn allies. Never mind the fact that they were a nationwide (global?) organization at that point.
The freelancers were only talked about for half a second and things were never adequately explained. Plus, who was the original freelancer and why was Curtis so obsessed? Nothing about the freelancers was even slightly explained well. It had the vibe of when a show is desperately trying to create a spin-off and using the current show for momentum.
:movie_camera: Overall:
Story = 7/10
Soundtrack = 0/10
Acting = 8/10
Total = 6.5/10
Overall not a bad show and it's a nice cop/time travel/saving the world mix of genres that mesh quite well together.
All together great, but this needed another 5+ episodes to let stories play out correctly + I wish we could have got more than 2 minutes of all the couples happy together.
While it's sad that Felix ended up without Pilar/Lake, he got what he needed the most - a family and I think they did that really well.
I've loved every episode so far but this was very 'filler' which is normally not so obvious for an adventure of the week type show.
Was the equivalent of a musical episode on the pointless and boring scale.
Also, Rebecca Romijn was in, maybe, 2 minutes of this episode but even then you really see how weak of an actress she is. I notice it every episode, everyone else is fine so she really stands out as someone who is visibly 'acting'.
A dreadful backstory that makes you think the entire movie has a £5 budget and no actors who took acting lessons, but if you sit through the first 5 minutes it is a good enough movie.
:movie_camera:
Story = 5/10
Production Design = 6/10
Soundtrack = 3/10
Acting = 7/10 (ignoring the backstory)
Total = 6/10
No real depth to the characters or plot. Feels like they tried to fit 3 seasons of a tv show worth of plots and characters into one movie and just decided to ditch all the worthwhile bits.
couldn't have asked for a happier ending
Because the year 2020 wasn't awful enough, it had throw one last curveball at us... This movie.
this was a shocking zero budget film. what was this??????
2 minutes in on the first scene and you can tell its awful with the actors on their second lesson of acting class.
I very rarely leave a film unfinished but I couldn't take even 10 minutes of this. Ryan Phillippe must either had a gun held to his head or been in some serious debt and needed fast cash, though I can't image they had any money to pay him.
Shockingly bad, avoid like the COVID-19 pandemic.
I really wanted to like this... But its sadly the perfect mix of every CW show and Riverdale and there's enough of that going around.
Doubtful that I'll give it more than one chance.
That ending felt very bizarre and misplaced.
the weeping angel episodes are always the best, but I'm heartbroken about Amy and Rory!
the friendship was one of my favourites.
rory and amy were really endgame, it was a quiet love, unlike most tv shows where it has to be over the top but there love was truly epic
That ending was very surprising and not something i expected at all but damn was it a beautiful sight to behold.
why has their always got to be incest in shows???
it feels like its happening in more shows than ever! - got the vibe from episode one
I just honestly cannot believe they killed chuy
