What a snoozefest. That was boring af.
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What a fun and twisted episode this was!
"Control your animals, or i’ll have Sean put them on the grill." - One thing about Leanne, she is going to cause some chaos.
Finally got Sean/Julian screentime I've been craving. The show's real IT couple has come back to us. Some nice sentiments from Sean and Dorothy towards Julian, as well. This is the thing I've been waiting for episodes.
At this point Jericho is not even worth it. Mourn that baby and adopt or something. Leanne might rather die and have it all be over than let Dorothy and her family go away from her. She and her homeless disciples are aggravating.
A nice pick for the 100th episode of the show. Fry's mutant transformation bit was a little quick, but it was a neat idea that the show executed well enough, especially Mrs. Astor's disdain for mutants and her change of heart at Leela's grandmother's story. Some good bits of humor sprinkled in as well. Not as funny as classic Futurama, but still good.
It started off good and wholesome then it quickly jumped the shark. It was nice to see some familiar faces but it just wasn't enough in the end.
Predictable but all these Cinderella movies rope me in. To see the wicked stepmother get what’s coming to her. Plus Kat Decker is completely likable.
Oh what a twisted web we weave.
Leanne must stay.
"You don't need fixing..."
This show is short, sweet and scarily good.
There's not much in the way of plots this season, but that's not stopping the writers from watering it all down even more. The acting continues to be impressive, but the story has gone off a cliff.
[8.0/10] This one is just made of awesome. It’s nothing but action sequences and fan service, but both are done well! This is the Star Wars equivalent of candy for dinner. There’s little in the way of deeper themes, little in the way of emotion, and little in the way of character development. “The Tragedy” exists just to blow up the status quo in terms of plot and give the fans a rollicking good time, and it succeeds on both counts.
My favorite moment, though, had nothing to do with those rocket-launched fireworks. It was the quiet scene that Dinn and Grogu shared on the Razor Crest before landing on Typhon. Mando doesn’t want to give The Child up. He clearly feels like Baby Yoda’s space dad and has grown close to the little force-sensitive tyke in their time together. But he also realizes that, after testing the kid’s powers and ensuring it’s not a fluke, that Grogu needs to be with someone who can hone his abilities, who can capitalize on the potential this “special” little guy has in store. Mando believes it isn’t him, and however hard it is for them to part, he wants to do what’s right.
Pedro Pascal sells the hell out of the emotions in that scene, what giving up this child who’s changed his life menas to Mando. The puppeteers and sound designers do almost as good as ob on their end, conveying how even if he can’t articulate it exactly, Grogu has an intuitive understanding of what’s about to happen and shares some of his surrogate father’s wistfulness over it.
But then it’s time for some ressurections and firefights. Look, if it was up to me, Boba Fett would stay dead. Hell, as much as I love Ahsoka as a character, if it was up to me, she would have stayed dead too. There’s far too many people who seem to be goners who nevertheless come back to life in Star Wars. Enough with the fakeouts and returns.
Still, if they gotta do it, I like how they did it here. I don’t know that we ever saw signs of Boba Fett being this noble or decent, whether in the Original Trilogy films, Attack of the Clones, or The Clone Wars series. But it works with Temura Morrison’s sand-worn gravitas. The adjustments to his backstory work well, making him the progeny of another Mandalorian foundling, searching for his father’s armor, possessed of similar honor and principles as Dinn is. That doesn’t necessarily line up with the character we’ve known to this point, but it passes the smell test, and makes for a cool character regardless of whether that character matches neatly with Boba Fett.
Plus, Ming-Na Wen is back as Fennec! There too, we have a resurrection that seems like it shouldn’t be possible, but I like the character and the performance so much that I’m willing to let it slide (no pun intended). Fans of Mulan and Agents of Shield like me are excited to have her back in the fold, and robotic midsection or not, the prospect of her and Boba as a team makes for an intriguing one.
If that weren’t enough, director Robert Rodriguez, a proven action director, gives them tons of badass moments to make fans fist-pump. Boba gets two (arguably even three) of them. We see him in his Tatooine survivor form, knocking Stormtroopers around with his Tusken staff like a master. Then, when the show has made the audience wait just long enough, he dons his old armor once again and makes mincemeat out of not only the enemy troopers, but their transport ships. It’s a hell of a coming out party for the character we last saw gobbled up by a sarlacc.
Fennec gets her moment in the sun too, using her sharpshooter abilities to pick off imerials until she’s corner and has to improvise with a giant boulder. Throw in a backwards shooting dive off the rock, and you have anolther badass role for Ming-Na Wen to inhabit.
Mando gets his time to shine too. Beyond his usual rough and tumble style, we get a nice setup and payoff with his use of the whistling bird. More to the point, we see how much he strains and struggles to reach Baby Yoda, and how he resolves to protect The Child when retrieving him proves impossible. I don’t know who Grogu is communing with in that bright blue beam, but I’m excited at the possibilities, and it makes for a great escort mission for Dinn and his fellow bounty hunters.
And yet, this one ends, true to the title, in tragedy. The dark troopers zoom down and kidnap Grogu before our heroes can stop them. Moff Gideon’s ship blasts the Razor Crest, leaving Mando without a vessel to go off in search of his adopted son. Gideon himself bests The Child, wearing the kid’s force powers out on mooks before taunting him and eventually caging him. It’s the most distress we’ve seen our favorite little tridactyl in since last season’s finale.
But there is, true to this franchise, hope. Boba and Fennec guaranteed The Child’s safety if Mando returned Fett’s armor, so now they’re committed to helping him rescue Grogu. Cara Dune (ugh) is willing to use her position as a New Republic Marshal to help spring Bill Burr (ugh) to track down the evil Moff. There’s not a lot of depth to this, but the pieces are moving in exciting ways, and there’s a clear path between here and the end of the season,
That’s a good thing. Despite its name, “The Tragedy” is more like a basket of quadruple layer nachos rather than an elegantly-cooked meal, but it goes down easy all the same. I’ll take thrills and unexpected returns by the barrelful when they’re this good.
Here we go again! Lover Boy Cop has an Android phone. Just putting that out there, so don't be surprised when the twist is that he's also in on this, or a bad guy in some capacity.
Almost the whole time I was watching this movie (including the bath-scene with Margot Robbie) I felt like the biggest idiot on the planet.
I'm not a numbers guy nor do I know all the terminology in American banking and mortgage systems and most of it looked like watching some kind of alien language. In the end though I knew what happened, I saw people warning us for what was about to happen and watched it all crumble down when it did happen.
All in all though it's an excellent portrayal of a system that is quite frankly a big con, stripping away money from those "below" with people at the help that don't really know what they are doing. An intricate web of rules, regulations, lingo, faces and characters who don't know the full picture. I think the movie quite nicely mimicks this chaos in the way it is set up, the catchy camera movements and often loud and noisy environments the scenes play out in. Here's a famous face that will teach you plebs what it's about, "let's simplify this for ya" so you're lured in.
Despite it's dry subject, the vast amout of stuff I personally didn't fully grasp it is a very enjoyable movie that will keep you hooked till the end.
Oh and it took me about at third the movie to realize Brad Pitt was that one guy.
OK I GET it. A "slow burn" show like this isn't everyone's cup o' tea. However, IMO, in the case of "Invasion", it worked well, in that it made you "feel" for the characters, (love OR hate them), while intercutting between stories, all the while avoiding hitting you over the head with monster jump scares, but still teasing you enough to keep you intrigued. A fine line to walk, and, they didn't always do it well. But all in all, a pretty good series, which, especially after the seemingly "easy, tied with a ribbon" NOT ending, and the "we ALL saw that coming" reveal at the NOT end, I am glad is getting a second chance "at bat".
Yes, some of the characters were predictable and annoying, and yet, the one person I wanted dead murked at the start, actually partially redeemed himself, and a couple of the others may, or may not have shed their mortal coils, at least on THIS plane. It will be interesting to see if they can take this beyond the "they came here for our resources" (or our brains) trope, and actually come up with something new(ish). Especially intriguing is the thought that Caspar (and his epileptic visions) could somehow partly be the CAUSE ("they came here for ME") as well as the effect of the arrival, especially with the astronauts Father making an appearance in his dream(?) after (brain) death(?). (Vdub Fringe's "digital back ups?") (but why was the father there?) Trevante Coles BEARD gets an honorable mention as an additional character, as well as Aneesha Malik for actually being a good Mom and not pitting her kids against the Dad by withholding a critical piece of information from them, even (or especially) after his possibly assuming room temperature. (no body, then, perhaps, perhaps, perhaps?)
Yeah, OK, maybe they spent too much time on these character development parts of the plot, but, as I stated earlier, they got me invested in the characters, for better or for worse, and, I look forward to seeing how the "rest of the story" plays out.
This is just a movie about a movie about a play about a play. And that's where the disappointment lies.
There's no arch. No heroes or foes. No obstacles to overcome. Nothing gets solved, and there's no real payoff. It's just a story within a story within a story and you the audience is expected to marvel at how terribly clever it is. It's incredible clever. But it's not very watchable.
Ultimately it's just a series of scenes, one after another, that you don't care about.
Rhea Seehorn at her finest hour. In this episode she delivers one of the best performances of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad combined. Master class of acting in every way. That ending is chilling too.
As Butcher would say, “Fuckin Diabolical!”
Even Homelander was clueless when everyone started exploding haha
Jesus Christ!! That last minute :joy:. Just.... holy sh*t. Great episode.
I've never been more heartbroken over a character's death like Eddie's last words were the saddest and proudest words he's ever said and yeah i sat there screaming crying sobbing throwing up
The movie is way too unrealistic. No one plugs in a USB cable on the first try.
this is an absolute masterpiece!!!! and breathing is not allowed in the last five minutes
I wanted to like this movie, but the main couple has no chemistry , I liked the ending :full_moon_with_face:
Much better than I thought it would be. The Rock and Ryan Reynolds surprisingly work well together, and Gal Gadot is just divine as always. It is a fair bet that there's going to be a sequel, the ending made sure of that.
Gotta love a good use of a great song.
My favourite DC movie so far , I might have a few new favourite superheroes...
[8.6/10] This one was a little more disjointed than some of the prior episodes, but man, the ending. I like the fake out here. Veronica does some legit detective work with the help of Maddie (aka Veronica Jr.). Keith nails down the lead and feeds it to the cops. The cops use it to arrest the bomber. Badda bing badda boom. I’m not saying it’s totally plausible that this season would wrap up its mystery in episode 3, but you can envision Veronica Mars having the bombing be a minor red herring, or accidental entree into some sort of bigger mystery.
The episode actually sells it pretty well too! Fresh off of Patton Oswalt’s character bringing up how Keith had trouble with the Lily Kane murder, and got kicked out of the sheriff’s office for evidence tampering is a nice reminder of past issues with the Mars family being overzealous. Keith himself brings up that Veronica doesn't have more than a hunch to go on that there’s something bigger here, and that they’re known to “tilt at windmills.” You buy it, or at least the threat that this is building a sandcastle out of nothing.
But then, in a moment of calm, when we’re expecting nothing but more silly Dick Casablancas antics, the second bomb goes off. I don’t normally like voiceover in shows, but Veronica’s sarcastic asides and noir-esque monologues always work for me, especially here. The desire to be wrong, to want everything to be okay, only to realize that your instincts are unfortunately right, speaks well of Veronica’s detective bona fides, but poorly of her future safety and mental health. There’s a soft pain to that moment, which is well-directed, as everyone runs away from the blast, the danger, but Veronica can’t help marching into it, time and time again.
But hey, to lighten the mood, “PLAY NO SCRUBS!!!” As indulgent as some of Ryan Hansen’s schtick gets here, it’s nice to just see Veronica and her crew having a bit of fun and being silly at Comrade Quack’s. Again, one of the things that made this show great in its day was despite the dark subject matter, it always had a lighter side, and beyond the show’s classic exchanges, it’s nice to see it still vindicating that side of things.
It’s also nice to see the show following up on Keith Mars’s mobility and memory issues. Clyde getting him into a concierge doctor, and the medical wonderland that follows, is a nice indication of the show’s exploration of classism that’s still in play. It’s also a way for Clyde to ingratiate himself to the people most likely to be investigating his boss and associate.
I’m into what seems to be the larger mystery, namely some kind of conspiracy among the people who were at the prison in Chino: Big Dick, Clyde, Perry Walsh (the bomber), and the guy from the bakery who set the rat at Hu’s grocery, to run some “undesirables” out of town. (That’s also coupled with Veronica’s mugger, who she suspects of being in league with them, being the guy who took dumps in the Sea Sprite ice machines.) Now why do they want to do this? Maybe it’s a real estate scam with Big Dick, or some prison racket through Clyde. Whatever it is, I’m anxious to find out.
I’m less enamored with the continued amount of time devoted to the Congressman Maloof storyline. Him getting kidnapped and beaten by the rednecks, and then kidnapped and threatened with murder by the cartel members feels like things are starting to get far fatched and a little convoluted even for Veronica Mars. But maybe I’m just less excited by the non-Mars parts of the show.
That said, I continue to get a big kick out of the dynamic between the two goons, whose matter of factness and ways of ribbing one another get a big laugh out of me. Plus, we have a Weevil sighting! I was wondering when he was going to get involved!
Otherwise, we have the continued training of Maddie, and reflections on the anger of losing someone close to you at that age, which feels like a nice way to reflect on where the show started. The Patton Oswalt Murder club is less adept at wringing comedy out of that, and feels like the show trying to be meta in a too cute fashion, but it’s brief and light enough to be forgivable.
Overall, this is another winning outing from the revival season, with dramatic twists, some fun moments, and a hell of a beat to go out on.
Every year I pick out one or two cheesy christmas movies as part of my holiday season. Last week I watched the mediocre Lindsay Lohan movie and this week I settled on this movie. More cheese, right? Um, no. This movie is good. I mean really good. Sure, there are the occasional reminders that it is the holiday season but it almost certainly is not a holiday movie (although I do expect that the christmas village scene in the middle of the movie was a wink at the audience from the director). First, the two leads have ridiculous chemistry. And it isn't the crappy syrupy kind that we see in so many other xmas movies. The supporting cast is also excellent, of course (Bonnie Bedelia should have been a bigger star). It is the rare movie that completely sucks me in and allows me to give myself up to it. I didn't want it to end. Some reviews were critical of the fact that there is a bit of a mystery in the movie. I don't agree with that sentiment. As I said earlier, this movie would have been just fine on its own if it hadn't gotten tagged with the "holiday" tag.
Finally, the best thing about the movie is that it is subtle. It didn't beat you over the head with the potential for romance. I would image that many people were disappointed in the last scene (probably the same group that hated the ending of the Sopranos) because they didn't show you exactly what happened. The best movies allow the viewer to fill in the blanks. We don't need to see everything on screen to know that something happened. That's not the point.
The worst part about the movie? I think that this movie ruined the Hallmark-ish kinds of movies for me. The movie started in a traditional way and for the first 20 minutes I had the mindset that cheese was on the way. Instead I was blown away. How do I go back to the traditional schlock? Damn you, Netflix.
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That was such an incredibly sad but perfect and correct ending.
I don't understand people who didn't like the ending because their favorite character didn't win. After 4 seasons with these despicable characters did anyone expect the Roy kids to unite and defeat the bad guy with the power of love and friendship? It was never going to end that way.
The three siblings just could never get over their egos. They all proved, through the 4 seasons, that they’re basically useless and the only reason they were ever in the discussion to be CEO is because Logan was their father. They'd rather destroy everything than have only one of the trio take the upper hand. Shiv just could not let her brother have a win, even if it meant her losing as well. Perfectly summed up their whole family dynamic and the show as a whole.
The siblings are so entitled and self-absorbed they never saw Tom coming. They’ve never had to work for a damn thing. I don't like Tom, but it makes sense for someone like Tom, who worked his way from the ground up and earned himself the position he was in.
The scene with the siblings making that awful smoothie and them watching their dad reveal yet another side of himself was so nice among the insanity that came in between.
That penultimate shot with Shiv and Tom in the car was phenomenal. Complete shift in the power dynamic. After marrying him specifically because she thought he was weak enough to keep holding power over.
Kendall not winning every season. That’s rough.
Willa revamping Logan's apartment with a cow print couch.
In the end Conor was the only one to have any kind of a relationship with Logan, the other kids are never shown having moments with him like he did at the recorded dinner.
Greg translating the Swedish in real time is the smartest thing he’s ever done. Four seasons and I cannot for the life of me understand why he would put up with that. His uncle offered him $250mil to get away from the firm.
But the biggest thing for me coming out of this episode is Kendall’s son isn’t really his. It really came out of nowhere and seemed more like a fact than a rumor the way everyone reacted to it.
All in all, Succession stuck to the show’s core till the end. In a way it’s a predictable ending but because it’s television and we expect some twist where a cool character comes out on top we don’t expect the expected. The outcome is pretty much what you’d expect from all the characters knowing their faults
he showed todd a bug's life to encourage his inventiveness and make him feel like less of an outcast........... humans are inherently good idc what anyone says
