Henry did the the most respectable thing, by walking away. As, a book and game story lover my respect has grown immensely. Ps:- not gonna watch the series anymore, as the only reason to watch it has left
To think that The Witcher the Show was initially supposed to be helmed by THE guy from CD Project Red who directed the cinematics of Witcher 3 (which are ALL fantastic, every single one), is a huge fan of the source material, and had complete storyboards and a great vision - and he got kicked out and swapped for Lauren is such a slap in the face, too. Like, damn, just imagine what could've been.
You could see in season 3 , they were leaning heavily from going away from the books. What I don't understand is the Witcher story is a woke story, about a young girl who is extremely powerful, along with all the powerful mages who actually distrust the male wizards due to their lust for power. The story is perfect for the modern era. But No, woke culture can't accept one strong male character in any show they watch, its completely delusional and ridiculous at this point. Its literally the opposite of equality, its actively putting down the male gender not about enhancing females.
but by woke standards (men are terrible and stupid) its not woke enough. Geralt, Vesemir, Eskel, Emyr Var Emris, and many others are smart, capable and dangerous which is unacceptable to the woke Hollywood writer. For woke writers all male characters must be stupid and inept, unless they are evil in which case they are skilled and competent until easily taken out by the female main character.
@@scottfreedoms9584 I think your right if you're comparing. Disparu is ok I'm small doses and goes well with open bar, but I find him a bit one note in his videos. Still great growth by him though.
On the subject of scale not equaling stakes, totally agree, and in fact the smaller scale stories usually have greater characters and emotional impact. The avengers protect earth, Spider-Man protects the city, and Daredevil protects the Neighborhood.
@@kimoralee6066 that is the saying, and they could certainly make him just stay in Queens. I guess I was more referring to the usual level wed get in a lot of their stories recently, aside for FFH/NWH
Exactly, thank you. I am so sick of this childish mentality in Hollywood now that everything _at a bare minimum_ has to be about stopping the end the world, but even more often it's the end of the galaxy, the universe, or the whole fucking multiverse. 10 year olds are writing this stuff: "If we make the stakes a million times bigger, people will be a million times more excited!"
Whenever scale and stakes are brought up, I always recall the dialogue with Mordin Solus in ME2 about his nephew. “...contacted him for family connection. Hard to imagine galaxy. Too many people, faceless, statistics easy to depersonalize. Good, when doing unpleasant work. For this fight, want personal connection. Can't anthropomorphize galaxy. But can think of favorite nephew. Fighting for him.”
I love how laid-back open bar is. Everybody lets each other talk, and even when two people start talking at the same time, the default response is for both of them to stop and say "go ahead." Friday Night Tights needs to take notes. That show is utter chaos; everybody yelling, interrupting, and talking over each other for the entirety of the stream.
i dont like jeremy and ryan on fnt's as they have way too much rope and it just becomes the jeremy and ryan show with shad screaming in the background. when they are guests i dont mind them at all. they are not good as the leads.
That IS FNT though, and you're all kidding yourselves if you think otherwise or that it'll ever change. I admit I enjoy the laid back, polite atmosphere of open bar. But FNT's chaos is part of what makes it great. Sometimes it does get out of hand, and IMO it's Az that is the biggest issue, but if they started acting like they do here on open bar, you wouldn't enjoy nearly as much. And that chaos generates so many funny situations and memes; I love open bar, but I never laugh a tenth as much as I do at FNT.
@@mattg5791 " *it's AZ that is the biggest issue.* " Yeah he's pretty bad. Also Ryan, Jeremy, and Gary. " *If they started acting like they do on open bar, you wouldn't enjoy nearly as much* " I don't enjoy FNT at all though, for the aforementioned reasons. Can't even watch it. I would vastly prefer open bar style. " *that chaos generates so many funny situations and memes* " I don't recall a single meme ever being created by people interrupting and talking over each other, which is the show's main problem. And sure, every once in a while, one of AZ's tantrums or Kinnel's soap box rants turns into a meme. But to me, these occasional jokes just aren't worth listening to 12 people yell into a camera for hours. It''s like being in a packed bar at 1 AM.
Picking the next Black Panther was so easy I can’t believe they messed it up. 1) Killmonger completed his arc in the last movie and died. MBJ was super popular. 2) They’ve introduced multiversal travel. 3) Just drop in a Killmonger from another universe and have him overcome his rage to become a better person. There’s a lot you can do with that character arc. There. Now you have a good actor for the franchise and future engagements. They already did this with Loki. Might as well.
I think it would’ve been better to bring in someone new, MBJ is an amazing actor but I wish they’d bring in a new guy. Some unknown actor who’s just caught his break
Killmonger getting a redemption arc makes sense. All guy did was steal some shit, murder some people, and stage a ritually-sanctioned coup on a nation he had a claim over. By MCU standards, the guy's a straight antihero.
"If you constantly look annoyed, people tend to assume that you are working" Ah, so THAT is why I'm always in trouble! I'm trying to not look like I hate my life. Dammit, I need to change my habits.
I'd love to see Cavill do both a more positive solo Superman movie, more like Christopher Reeves mixed with the cartoon Superman, and a Connery-inspired Bond film. There's a chance at the former, but I have no hope about the latter coming to be with how that last Bond movie went unless the production rights/leadership change hands.
Netflix's The Witcher is a mediocre show, but even I knew the appeal of it was due to Henry Cavill. The show is going to suffer without him, well, more so. Funny enough, Liam Hemsworth looks more like Geralt in the books than Henry.
@Opener73 Yeah, but it's a Netflix show for the mainstream. The mainstream don't like good things and Netflix don't like funding things. It's like expecting a Berserk adaptation to match the source material. Nobody is gonna air that.
Be careful with the “Super Hero Fatigue” reasoning. Because the Studios will try to use that as an excuse for the incompetent shot they’re pushing out. See Disney/Lucas Film using the “Star Wars Fatigue” excuse… that is until Mando temporarily blew that reasoning out of the water! Rather. we NEED to push and establish more of the idea that we have “Bad Story Fatigue”. Because regardless the Genres, even IF there’s TON of one specific type, it IS a fact that if there is a Good, Compelling/Entertaining, Emotionally Investing Story, we WILL watch it. If not, then we don’t!
Fucking very well put. But at this point I've lost faith in Holywood. We need these damn movies to start losing money so they'll actually hire new writers.
It's pretty irrelevant whether you like something...you're still paying the company you moan about a monthly subscription. So all you are telling them financially is; you're doing good.
I canceled my subscription after the cuties fiasco. Im not paying you more and more money to get less and less, having things I DO like removed or canceled while child grooming is acceptable. So I only saw season 1. I liked it, I did, but Henry was the best thing about it. Well... Honorable mention to Joey. I thought he was hilarious. But I imagine he gets grating. Henry had the perfect catch 22. They either had to show the source material respect, or the show gets effectively cancelled. They called his bluff, he's making them pay.
I cancelled mine long before that when they kept jacking up the price to fund their trashy "original content" and less of the classic TV and films that I actually felt like watching. They had a licence to print money and they pissed it away somehow.
I don't know where this idea that westerns kicked off in the 50s comes from. Westerns were a major genre since film's inception. John Wayne started with them in the 20s and did them his entire career, deep into the 70s. Hell, they were around so early Wyatt Earp himself got to consult on them.
For this batch of TH-cam "movie critics" cinema started in the 80s. This might sound mean, but check their references. They have a very narrow palate. Really not trying to be mean, but these are the facts - their exposure to anything not blockbusterish, not post-80s, not American-made is really minimal and happenstance. Which is a pity, but it is what it is.
Fan fatigue is bs. If it's good people will watch a constant stream. Star wars had fans camp out to see the films and get tickets to watch 3 times in a row. I myself saw revenge of the sith in theaters 4 times (granted I was 9). Force awakens turned me off pretty hard but last jedi killed all enthusiasm for me and a lot of others. Not because Rouge One came out in between them, it's because they were bad.
It's such a weird argument, it comes off as a bit of a marketing excuse that people bought into. It's like if you pointed out that a local restaurant is going under because they poisoned 100 people in a week, and I start saying "but to be fair, it's in a terrible location", like wtf one problem kinda outweighs the other.
The MCU is suffering from a few issues. 1 is bad writing and identity politics. 2 Is that it use to be a big screen special event that you could go see with friends or family. There was value in the rarity. And there's burn out in that sense, they have made the mcu too generic and accessible. 3. There's no Avengers front liners holding the heroes together anymore, characters we care about and know will bring the group back for a big screen event. Since phase 1 to 3 did this so well, we now expect it which segues into my final factor. Number 4, lack of direction. The mcu feels like a jumbled mess with no direction. I think it would be smart of them to end a movie soon with a cliff hanger that brings the new Avengers team together hinting that the next movie will be the next Avengers movie. This last point is why you create stories using a structure, people find value in organization. Order, not chaos.
The only reason The Netflix Witcher was any good was Henry Cavill. You could sense his enthusiasm and he portrayed Geralt perfectly. The rest of the show was pretty meh. During the first two seasons my respect for Henry Cavill has grown immensely, and having heard the latest news I don't give two shits about The Netflix Witcher anymore. Such a shame. Instead, I started reading the books.
With Shuri, I think they're forgetting their own rules. In Wakandan law Now Shuri can be challenged at any time to hand to hand combat on top of a waterfall Depowered. She's not winning that fight.
You act as if that won't be conveniently retconned to have someone fight in her stead, only for her to swoop in after the replacement loses to make it a tag-team fight. Or they'll just have her win on her own, anyway. And not with strategy, even; she win via brute strength. Because how dare you acknowledge physical differences!
Obviously she'll use her 5-dimensional thinking to calculate the perfect tipping point in the opponent's footing. The opponent is thinking about his next punch, but the smarter girl notices the slight aberration in the water current which tells her there's a trippable ledge behind his foot that could send him tumbling with the right shove trajectory. Basically, Sherlock Holmes that shit. I'm joking but this sort thing _could_ actually be done well.
Dredd (2012) is an incredible film. I own the blu-ray, have the 1/6 of Anderson, the comics, etc. I think, like the Drinker says, it wasn't marketed well. I've been a fan of Dredd and 2000AD since the 80s, and still have my Dredd novels somewhere. It was a good version of the idea of Dredd. I think the perfect Dredd film is more towards 2012 than the 1995 Stallone film, but I think they needed to put in a bit more dark comedy. However, it's still a great film, and deserves more recognition. Even Karl Urban would like to come back and do another film. There's rumours of a Netflix series called Mega City One, which I think would be a perfect chance for individual stories within the Dredd franchise, with a potential overarching plot (the Dark Judges, for example).
True, I didnt hear about Dredd 2012 until a few years later and when I watched it ... damn that was good. Too bad we never got a sequel, maybe because we entered the Wokellywood era soon after idk.
You know they'd mess up a series though, don't you?! Look what's happened with Trek, LotR, The Boys, Star Wars to name but a few... The wrong people are put in charge and kill the product stone dead with 'modern' agenda preaching and wooden characters.
@@wraithneon I kinda mis-remembered it. The guys behind the 2012 film have a plan for a series, but they need to get funding for it. Apparently no one seems interested though. I think they could try crowdfunding, but would they get enough? And you're right about them giving it to a major service to produce.
Little platoon is friggin brilliant. And I think he's onto something regarding the cyclical pattern of genre predominance. I'm calling it now, the next big age of films will be animated shows/movies for adults (stuff like Castlevanis, Arcane, Edgerunners, etc...)
Everyone needs to check out Charlie Hopkinson on TH-cam. His deep fake RoP satires are hilarious, and really well done. Gandalf as a grumpy old man watching RoP is comedy gold!
Multiverse od Madness already set the precedent of having to see the shows to understand the films. The entire plot was a continiation of Wandavision. If you hadn't seen that (or watched a dozen videos spoiling the entire thing because you didn't actually want to pay money to see it) than you'd have no idea what was going on. Why is Wanda evil now? What kids is she talking about? Where did she get magic? If you wanna know, you have to pay the subscription fee and watch the show. It's bullshit.
Star Trek writers apparently can't tell a car battery from the engine. I'm going by what they did in that Strange New Worlds pirate episode. I generally liked the show, but Pike telling his crew to fire on the impulse thrusters and NOT the warp engine and then having them fire exactly on the nacelles was one of the things that made you go "FFS".
They should have had Bucky go to Wakanda and become Black Panther to repay the Wakanda People for the gift of his Arm. He would serve as their Protector and give his Life in payment if needed to protect them after that helped him regain his Mind after Winter Soldier. But we all know why that would never happen. Peak isms from the isms crowd.
I appreciate both styles personally. One of my favorite channels is Shadiversity. Another being mauler. Both with different tones and energy levels. But I do agree that LP is great.
@@Alivair He didn't really start making appearances until recently. At least not regular ones. He was on EFAP before FNT I'm pretty sure. I don't think he started going on FNT until he got Knights Watch going. He made appearances on EFAP (which I'm also a big fan of. Shad actually introduced me to them) before Rise of Skywalker came out. The whole reason I brought him up is that a common complaint is about him being too energetic. That he is too loud. I personally like it bcuz it is just him being passionate. But to each their own I guess.
They openly admit they want to follow the ESG guidelines aka the western corporate social score system. The Poles got woke with cyberpunk. Their stock price tanked and they seem to need the money of Blackrock
@@Barbarossa97 got woke?? CDPR are a bunch of slave drivers when it comes to employee treatment. They're in this for the money, and it's their shit work culture and mismanagement that bungled Cyberpunk and their reputation.
They are remastering it for modern controls and graphics... they are not changing the story and story beats.. it sucked bad on pc when it came out while the strory was great and it was never released on console. This has nothing to do with the horrible witcher series (tv)
I was working in a movie theater when Aquaman came out, and to my dying day I will remember this. Opening night, the place is packed, I'm stepping over people because it's a movie theater where they serve dinner so I was doing the waiter thing. A mother and her 18-20 year old college age daughter who's home for the holidays are watching the movie as I squeeze past. Jason Momoa drops onto the scene in the submarine, shirt off, soaking wet, turns around with the smolder look, and he says, "Permission to come aboard." I shit you not, the 18-20 year old college girl gasps "H*ly fuck!" right in front of her God, her mom and everyone. It was at that moment I knew I'd need to get the crew to spray down all the seats between screenings.
Ulysses claw was a fantastic character, he could have played a similar function to Turk Barret in the Netflix Marvel shows. I really would have liked to see more of him.
Henry Cavill was fantastic in the Tudors. Guy really getting shafted in performance roles. Be it bad timing, idiotic studios, or just the bad batch of general writing and showrunners.
Nailed it. Guy is in his 20's and nails middle age gravitas. He is a fantastic actor. He was great in the first two seasons of the Witcher too. If I understand his mindset on the GQ Australia comments make sense too. The guy is insanely good looking and the vast majority of women he encounters do flirty showpony shit with him. I heard Charlize Theron hid with the crew on a private flight. Christ on crutches if it is true. So I'm sure the only chick on the planet who doesn't do that-is the only one he would want. My last ex was that insanely good looking too just taller. And being the only woman who really didn't care about his looks was everything to him.
As soon as I saw that Disney had Doctor Who, I knew immediately they were going to try and use that narrative to try and tie together a lot of their other franchises, similar to what I was trying to do with my shared universe stories.
Great question about Dredd. That movie was a great solid watch. I think NOW Karl Urban's name would draw more people to it but back then his name was not what it is.
@Critical Drinker After Hours 6'2 , as a 6'4 I finally I feel represented ! good to see people like me on screen, now I can know for sure that I can relate to you Drinker, cheers ;) Is MauLer tall as well ? (asking because of his nickname) P.s. I am happy for Henry he should have done it after season 1 (it was already bad to begin with), sad for everyone else that not only we didn't get a Witcher show, but we lost the only good thing that was in that show.
@EL you owned me so good, god damn ! those flashy words of yours surely come from the knowledge you have. I will now take a step back for your greatness master troll for it is your place to shine above all including the drinker, and shed your enlightment upon us. Ho mighty you, guide us all with your wisdom show me my errors and lead us to victory ! By the grace of God almighty you had been blessed and touched for you and only you can see beyond the curtain of the internet, know the intamecies of the peasants around you and truly call out everyone, including I the humble person who just sought to share an opinion online, now I will forever know my wrong doings and retreat back to the shadows of where I can from, for it is you the master troll, the troll to rule them all, the troll of the internet. I will embrace your truths as a kid embraces his parents ! you have conviced me of your cleverness and I will be grateful for you contribution keeping you in my heart henceforth. Praise and be praised ! Not :) #insert Borat voice#. Thanks for wasting your time and reading all the bullshit I just sat and wrote for fun
The Year is 2050. Go to movies, it's the weekly MCU movie. Disney logo on screen. It's phase 12 of the story. Movie starts, Tobey Maguire is in a wheelchair. A burglar comes into his house, steals his Funko Pops. Tobey says "it's peterin time" (this is a reference to the hit 2022 film morbius). Also says "that sounded better in my head." He puts on his mask, the crowd screams until my ears ring. He swings at the man as he's running away. A portal opens and captain Europe steps into the scene. Tobey accidentally swings into him He says "it's all good I have healthcare". Crowd cheers, captain Europe had his own TV show in 2048 and this is a reference to his prostate exam episode in season 6 where he makes the same joke. Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield come through the portal and point at each other, making the funny Spider-Man meme again. They all start jerking each other off as the camera zooms out, revealing the Death Star and the Star Wars theme briefly plays. Crowd cheers again before the screen cuts to black and Darth Vader's laugh plays. Post credit scene shows Thanos reappear, and he says, "I'm coming for you Redditors." Crowd cheers one last time, before news sources are saying this is one of the best movies of all time. Thank you Disney for saving the film industry.
12:50 chadwick went out the same way totalbiscuit did. Orders of magnitude in relative fame but effectively the same timeline, never saw chadwick in public enough to tell if/how he was even treating things because TB was visibly diminishing over time as much due to the chemo as the cancer. Still, no will while under a terminal illness, seems like a dick move. 21:21 But drinker, you glorious inebriated person of dubious parental marriage status, that was the EXACT plot of Black Panther 1. Killmonger (t'challas cousin) won a late trial by combat (that for some reason t'challa refused to check for obvious side-motivations/evidence-of-heritage for ahead of time) to became tyrant in chief, his uncle was just as much of a terrorist who wanted to flood the ghettos with sci-fi weapons, because-reasons, t'chaka killed his own brother leaving a nephew to fend for himself. After the combat loss the former queen instantly made plans to flee with suri and the flower (but not with both of the BP suits) to plot from self-imposed exile, long before it was confirmed kill monger was out for their blood. I mean psychopathy was pretty firmly ingrained in the family line and/or politics at this point. That's ignoring the seeming lack of consequences for the defense forces willingly turning international arms-dealers and fighting their (now rebel? deposed rulers? internal terrorists? "freedom fighters"?) fellow countrymen with zero restraint, seriously I can't tell which side is the most egregious on this one. is the trial by combat the legitimate end of the ruling trials or can anyone just move in with a political faction, go for an assassination under the sun and become the ruler because of it? Is that why t'challa was so worried about the other 4 families(?), it's basically game of thrones but in a super sci-fi advanced society, society so maybe more cyberpunk than g.r.r.martin??? 2:35:00 I find that old shows in general are way better at placing people of the proper ages into the proper roles and experience levels they would have had even to this day. That the actors back then had little choice but to participate in worldwide events of the time only ever added to the authenticity of the roles. This works evermore in the favor of older sci-fi because you get WW2 vets in things like star trek acting like voices of experience. You got the 50s war movies where half the cast would have seen actual battle and if not taken then were in proximity to the various tolls that such events take on a person. There was a wealth of experience and worldliness to classic actors that the current crop of babied direct-from-film-camp/school/group mental-children just can not present meaningful figures or provide on-set feedback to pare back the ever more sardonic and disrespectful writing (another place failed by a lack of life experience). Sadly it goes beyond even simple situational experience so many of these writers and actors seem to lack the simple experiences of day to day human interaction of people living their lives where their only source of social contact is face to face be it friends, family or physical relations. Where once we got sometimes gaunt or broken looking looking people manning stations, guarding compounds or living to work and sleeping only as needed, we now get little but fresh faced, doe-eyed water-fat (to borrow the dune term, puni puni for the weeb one) blank-slate "perfect" children in all those roles and it just doesn't sell the characters. It looks like everyone has just come out of a spa and makeup session and for the most part that's almost exactly what's happened. 2:46:05 era jumping and letting the predators win are badly needed, they are an interesting species to use sparingly. Avatar basically usurped the entire story that cold have happened with the "human adopted by predators" thing that the predator books did well. i'd still like a proper aliens not-earth-hive bug-hunt setup beyond the aliens movie timeline where the predators interfere as a background faction. The humans are all-in on an extended campaign against the aliens (because reasons, maybe it's a science-run, maybe it's one of a limited number of habitable places, maybe it's a colony world fallen that they can't properly blocade so need to go in and wipe out anything that could get off-planet on it's own), it's slow-going because the aliens are ambush-creatures, they hide, bury, dig and next so ground can be taken only to fall like the base dizzy dies at in starship troopers (maybe a series needed not a movie), occasionally a nest can be found with a dead guard/queen no sign of the cause but plasma weapons clearly used (something the colonial marines now have because it's a full strength unit), missions come, missions go for a few episodes then there's a shimmer seen that freaks out a guard. later on a mission going bad is taken over by the predators because they can move-in without needing to worry about the guard-forces because the dead humans cleared the chaff leaving only the queens-guards (and a rolling- head plus functional camera at the entrance), the brass freaks out thinking they are fighting 2 species. hilarity ensues, so now there's tooled up marine patrols with air/orbital support freakling out but the preds want to finish up, maybe grab some human trophes then get out. a little tit for tat, preds get a win, humies get some damage done, both go their own way (mightily pissed at each other) after needing to take out an alien swarm that got aggressive while they were both distracted. enemies forever but humies got in a few licks (thanks to smart-gun optics and combined arms removing cover over wider spaces) and predators shows to be terrifyingly effective even in limited numbers due to general high mobility and a tech/training-advantage, the end, marines pull out after deciding to just nuke the place from orbit, it's the only way to be sure (planet will be usable again in a few hundred years minus current foliage/nests and that's good enough)
1:09:00 I care about Antman, I always loved that power, shrinking down to be able to ride ants, being Lego man sized, I'd lay in my backyard pretending I was "honey I shrunk the Kids" and Antman staring at the ground and finding the best places to live as a couple millimeters high or an inch tall.
If someones interested in anti-war movies vrom the 50ies, where people participated, who actually experinced the war, I can recommend "Die Brücke (1959)" from Bernhard Wicki. Bernhard Wicki was the co-director of "the longest day" (he directed the "german" scenes. In this movie "Die Brücke", which made him famous, its about the last days of the war, where a group of young, fanatic teenagers are drawn into war. One of the best movies of this genre, I have ever seen. Had a huge impact in Germany, when it came out.
I like the idea of sustaining Franchises like the Predator and Aliens by changing up the Genre every once in a while. Here is the intro to the next Predator Movie… “Two households, both alike in dignity in the vastness of Space…” Or [🎵Upbeat Music🎵] “He’s an aggressive go-getter, with a hobby of collecting exotic items, who prefers to remain invisible… She’s a Cosplaying Weeb, Tentacle Monster, Hentai Fan Girl… When these two Worlds collide, all Hell breaks loose! Can the Predator hunt down the biggest Game of his Life? Can Weeb Girl get over Octopus Tentacles in favor of Crab Mandibles? You’d have to be an Alien to know the answer to this one!” [Tag Line] “Honogeneous Species, you’ve had a nice run…” Come see my Movie that wasn’t made for you, you Bigots! If not, you’re just a bunch of Alt-Right, Anti-Interspecies Raycist Yahtzees! So I don’t want you watching my movie… but watch it anyway! Reeeeeeeeeee! 😂🤣😂🤣
From what ive seen predator fans have for a long time just wanted faithful adaptations of the old avp comics (which are way better than the movies) or a solo predator film where we get to see them hunt alien wildlife on different planets with no human characters. Either one could work imo.
@@superbrainz2357 I think that HW needs to get over "needing" humans in every film. Great silent films have been successful in recent decades so a no human film can work with great writing.
@@thehermitman822 It would be really easy to have a silent predator film that works as a hunting movie in the style of a show like primal where there's little to no dialouge but plenty of emotions conveyed and violence. A lot of series have succeded without human protagonists or even not having humans in the stories alltogether but movie makers sadly still have bias against that style of film making. Just like feature length animated films for adults.
@@thehermitman822 Exactly! I’m tired of needing to always cram in a “Human Story” in Stories where the subject is NOT about Humans. Like the Transformer Movies for example. I was expecting to see a movie about Giant Alien Robots Fighting (like the G1 Cartoons) who were the MAIN FOCUS rather than being side characters to the Main Story of Shia LePoof trying to score with a Girl way out of his league. Having to watch a whole movie of that BS with only a tiny sprinkling of Transformers was infuriating! 😡 It’s also obvious that when they do that and cram that Human Story in, you can really tell that it’s because they’re being Lazy Hacks with no Imagination or are just trying to be Cheap with the Movie Making Process. The ONLY Movie that successfully subverted everyone’s expectations to see primarily Non-Humans was the first Jurassic Park. But in actuality, we get a total of 15 Minutes of Dinosaurs and everything else was about the Humans! 🤯 We just THOUGHT we had more Dinosaurs because the Story was Well Written and so Compelling in itself, we didn’t even notice! That’s how you do it! And don’t even get me started on Lazy “Fish Out of Water” Stories! Those are annoying too and due to the lack of Talented Writers nowadays, those need to go away for a while as well! 😤
The Witcher tv show showed its cards the second tokenized enforced racism casting Fringilla showed up on screen. But it still had enough Geralt in it to make it halfway decent. Then season 2 starts and right out of the gate they murder any possible undertones from the original story of episode 1. And then they do Eskel as dirty as possible and aftewards I barely remember what I was watching, I remember it felt like a CW women mage drama show. I'm sure Henry was done with that shit when he saw that and talking to his lawyer about when he could get the fuck out. Good thing he only had to be around for one more season.
It's like with eating your favorite food. If you eat it all the time nonstop, you'll get sick of it. But if you save it for special occasions and build time to grow your craving for it, it becomes that much more delicious.
Yep potato in some form with most meals, I love rice and occasionally will go for pasta some sort but even with a rice-cooker i'll go for potato as the meal-starch 80% of the time by choice. Too much of this particular good thing would mean I had bought too much so some would "go to waste", boiled, mashes, roasted, simmered, fried, in soup, in salad, in/on/under/next-to a cut of meat/sauce i enjoy them all. But feed/sell me some bad-potatoes and sure enough i'd walk away from the place that fed/sold me them and look/shop elsewhere.
@@IRMentat Even the tater flakes that need water added are viable, especially after a certain hurricane, but I definitely have to add something to them. Proper mashed taters can be a meal in themselves for me. 👍
The MCU issue is not that there is franchise or genre fatigue. The MCU took a turd when Disney (Iger) gave Kevin Fiege complete reign over the MCU. Phase 4 is the first phase of the MCU where Ike Pearlmutter has not had any say. He was the guy that kept Fiege grounded. Its not that Pearlmutter was perfect. He was not. However he was not afraid to tell Fiege that idea wont sell or that the story was crap. Kevin does not have that governor anymore. Fiege need someone in there who looks at these stories from a business perspective. Right now he does not have that and it is not working.
On the dredd issue iirc there was a distribution issue too. Of the 2 main cinema chains here in Ireland the main one didn't screen it at all and the other was SOLELY 3d (which most hate) I had to take a bus ride for near an hour to even get to a screening. If it had of got a normal 2d release in all chain's I reckon ya wouldve had another blade on your hands.
*Question:* Was anyone REALLY satisfied with the Witcher and are they looking forward to it continuing into Season 4; let alone Season 3? If not, does that mean we have “Fantasy Fatigue”? House of the Dragon would disagree… Although I don’t agree much with Jeremy, I’ve been in the same line of thinking that it’s not so much a [insert Genre] Fatigue, but a BAD STORY Fatigue we are going through. Start putting out Super Hero Movies where there is Care & Respect for the Source Material WITH a Good Story, people WILL watch it! Which btw, people looking forward to Henry Cavil FINALLY playing the Superman we want will prove my point. And to answer Little Platoon’s question of how do we get over this Bad Writing “Phase”, it’s REALLY EASY! Barely an Inconvenience! All you have to do is STOP Hiring and get RID of these UNQUALIFIED SJW, CRT, Agenda Driven, Misandrist Diversity Writers who (let’s admit it here) HATE the IP they’re working on and PURPOSEFULLY destroy the Franchise because they enjoy (said by a writer & critics on Twitter), “drinking up the Man-Babies Tears they filled their mugs with.” It’s sickening! It’s so bad now that EVEN IF you put in Writers and Producers who are brand spanking new to the film making process BUT Respects the Material and Genuinely WANT to make a Great (hate to use the word) PRODUCT, it would be 1000x’s better and MORE watchable than what we have now!
#2:00:45 Normaly you want your workers between 50% and 70% workload. if you demand more, you burn your workers out and you have no Buffer for workload Peaks.
In light of the recent trailers it puts Black Panther in a really, awful light, knowing that he actually fought to support this extremely xenophobic, selfish and ultimately fascist regime.
I agree with Jeremy on the whole burnout vs. bad writing thing and let me set the stage to demonstrate: Let's sat that tomorrow we get a flurry of news that Disney has sold Lucasfilm back to George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy has been fired (out of a cannon and into the Sun, preferably), and the entirety of the Lucasfilm story group has died tragically in a fiery excruciating train fire, even through all the passengers and train staff not affiliated with Lucasfilm somehow managed to escape completely unharmed and also they found twenty bucks on the ground when they left. Then we hear Drew Karpyshyn has been brought on as head writer for a new Star Wars trilogy and it's announced that it's a live action Knights Of The Old Republic AND the casting is spot on AND they're going to take their time in between films. If that happened. I think you'd find that nearly all of even the most burned out, apathetic, former Star Wars fans would flip their shit in antici ....
18:09 Had to pause here to realize. Poor immigrant kid comes to Wakanda, becomes Black Panther by punching the other guy harder... That was literally Killmonger.
2:38:45 capaldi has a new series on amazon prime, i looked at the trailer and basically said "evil dr who?". Next time I get prime i'm planning to take a look.
Don’t underestimate Covids effect on Stranger Things... it allowed writers more time... they could film, write, and because of d3layed release of episodes, they could go back and strengthen the narrative, which allowed them to drop in additional scenes / plots. When the money making machine is forced to slow a bit... sometimes good stories materialize
The exact opposite of the Writers Strike (anyone remember that..??) where the condensed time of producing both immediately before, and picking up after completely derailed any chance Lost had, and demolished the storyline of Heroes - similar thing with Babylon 5 when it was cancelled after Season 4, then picked up for a 5th by another network - having already crammed (very very well!) all the 4-5 arc into 4 alone; it left a hasty 5 to be created out of almost nothing. I think too that (an extreme example!) a Top Gun sequel in 1989 would not have turned out as well as Maverick did.
@@OsellaSquadraCorse Oh man, Heroes. I don't think I've seen such a promising show turn to complete dogshit so quickly before or since lol. Season 1 was great. From what I recall anyway, it has been a minute.
I managed to struggle through the first season because I wanted to give it a chance. My relief at finally finishing the damn thing was considerable. My joy at knowing I’d done my duty and would not have to suffer season two was profound.
I couldn't even finish episode one. I bailed when a girl killed her dog so she could sell its parts to tag along with Geralt or something... Fuck, I wished John Wick existed in that universe.
I think there is such a thing as fatigue, though I believe it goes both ways. For audience fatigue, it is our patience. We can only stomach a string of bad movies for so long before we grow disinterested. Like what was stated before, Love and thunder may have made bank if it was made before Endgame. If they constantly bring out bangers, we don't grow tired of them.
I don't mind the actec/mayan/incan(no clue which/if any)? take on the atlanteans, it's a nice separation between the marvel and DC iterations (plus I have seen entirely too much of namor in comic costumes that varied between twink and leather bedecked body-builder with fishnet cut-outs and thigh high riding boots), this could (have been) be a case of change is good. I do however have one question, where the hell is an underwater civilization that's effectively isolated itself from the surface getting so many damned feathers from?
And everything is now politicized. I should not have to point that out but so many folks are voicing their over sensitivity to politics and it is just feeble.
Snyder's problem was that he made DC grimdark. Even bigger one was the fanboy level of cramming every possible storyline in one movie and referencing everything.
Missed opportunity for the new King of Wakanda to be taken through combat by Scarlet Witch or even better Captain Marvel. Who better than an OP white Karen to be the new Black Panther?
the LAST thing they'll figure out is "quit hating your audience". so long as the same people are running the studios, they will never figure this out. warner has a remote chance of realizing this...once they fire for cause (and permanently blacklist) every one of those making movies there who hate their audiences (from producer to director to writer to actor to advertiser to distributor). it's the only way and they are only just beginning to understand that. disney? well disney has ABSOLUTELY no chance.
It's easy to do a psychological drama about the predator. Simply tell it from the perspective of someone who is living near the Predators lair. They think the Predator is their demon, their drug-induced, or psychosis-induced horror that haunts the attic of the nearly dilapidated abandoned building that they're still a tenant in or what have you. Imagine hearing the footsteps of the Predator every night above you, or blood dripping down from your ceiling from its cleaned prey, or you hear the rough alien language of some "demonic" being. And then you have the person we're following start to believe that they themselves are a serial killer, so you get to see people being killed on the news or around his area of living and he thinks it's all connected to him. Ofc, the only reason he's still alive is because he never has a weapon around the predator. He sees the predator and he even interacts with it sometimes in tense moments we're simply dismisses him as unworthy prey because the state of a psychology or his physical being. It would be truly interesting if he was perhaps disabled with the limp or a deformity which is why the Predator would not want him. You then have a moment where he decides that he has to deal with this and he thinks that himself being the cause must take responsibility and therefore tries to hunt the Predator through his own dilapidated building. He then goes on a battle with the predator whereby he strips it of its weapons and its defenses to where it is just an animal now the same as him and the battle progresses through the building into the lower subway tunnels. Naturally he does not come out unscathed but he's had years of preparation now because the Predator had made the mistake of dismissing this unworthy prey. , you can even throw in a cop that does courtesy calls or something has some kind of connected to him and he comes in behind seeing all the destruction and the chaos that the traps that the previous man had set up and then the end gets to the final battle to see the disabled man fighting the predator on hand-to-hand combat grounds and helps and then it's 2 on 1. In which case the man has to then realize that this is not his personal demons and this is in fact creature a creature from outer space in fact and then he has to deal with that fact it does he let it live? How does the Predator respond to this unworthy prey now suddenly putting its life on the line? Basically you want to tell the story of how the lowest of us could still fight to survive. Not a soldier, not a peacekeeper, not a warrior, not some rich investor backed scientist, but worthless disgusting hobo human. Saves the entire city, and no one cares about him. Make him a veteran and it would make a little bit more sense too. See? Easy.
To me, Dunkirk was a movie where it was really all about the _event_ of Dunkirk rather than any particular characters, although I would say that most of the characters do have pretty poignant moments even though you don't get to know them that well. It's really all about what they do or don't do rather than who they are.
_A Bridge Too Far_ did a much better job of educating about a specific battle with both big-picture strategy context and boots-on-the-ground subjective experiences; by the end you _know_ about Operation Market Garden and the normal people who suffered its failings. Dunkirk had oddly little information _or_ character. It felt like it could have taken place anywhere at any time period.
Imho, the 1958 Dunkirk was both a better movie and also a better account of the event, with a more engaging cast. It is also very grim and bleak at times, perhaps very painful for the audience of that time. There are some clips on YT eg "Stukas!". One thing I found strange about the Nolan version was that it seemed to make little use of CGI, to the extent that parts of the film look like it was made in the 1960s. CGI is often overused, but it can really help to take the audience back in time and place. The 2013 'Stalingrad' overdoes the CGI at times, but also does it well, constructing a convincingly devastated city, in which everything is covered in grit and grime.
Henry did the the most respectable thing, by walking away. As, a book and game story lover my respect has grown immensely.
Ps:- not gonna watch the series anymore, as the only reason to watch it has left
Why would you want to after season 2?
Who wants to see them beat a dead horse?
@@O1OO1O1 Cavils Abs.
@@richyrich7260 that pretty much sums up
@@richyrich7260 why not just watch porn? It's not like Witcher gives you a good story with their porn.
@@O1OO1O1 yeah even henry couldnt hold me in the season 2 ... it was so horrible shit
To think that The Witcher the Show was initially supposed to be helmed by THE guy from CD Project Red who directed the cinematics of Witcher 3 (which are ALL fantastic, every single one), is a huge fan of the source material, and had complete storyboards and a great vision - and he got kicked out and swapped for Lauren is such a slap in the face, too. Like, damn, just imagine what could've been.
Wow!
Is there any reason they gave for kicking him, or worse, giving teh job to her?
@@denkerbosu3551 I'm guessing he refused to update the show for a modern audience.
indeed, what could have been !! the cinematics are some of the best I've ever seen
Shit, I didn't follow it back then. No wonder the series was lacking, aside from Cavill's performance
Cavill realized that he was the only sane person in the whole production
He was the only one who truly cared
Fuck...
You could see in season 3 , they were leaning heavily from going away from the books. What I don't understand is the Witcher story is a woke story, about a young girl who is extremely powerful, along with all the powerful mages who actually distrust the male wizards due to their lust for power. The story is perfect for the modern era. But No, woke culture can't accept one strong male character in any show they watch, its completely delusional and ridiculous at this point. Its literally the opposite of equality, its actively putting down the male gender not about enhancing females.
but by woke standards (men are terrible and stupid) its not woke enough. Geralt, Vesemir, Eskel, Emyr Var Emris, and many others are smart, capable and dangerous which is unacceptable to the woke Hollywood writer. For woke writers all male characters must be stupid and inept, unless they are evil in which case they are skilled and competent until easily taken out by the female main character.
And, she's literally an overpowered, moody teenage lesbian wath tattooes canonically, too.
It's actually a story about the evil of people, but don't let that get in the way of your political fantasies.
@@O1OO1O1 yeah literally the point is that people are the real monsters not the typical ones geralt hunts and its not even subtle at all
@@veronikavartanova4044 she s not a lesbian, Mistle was just a rapist
Little Platoon and Disparu are my favorite things to come out of the last few months of garbage entertainment. Welcome!
Little Platoon > Disparu by a fair margin
@@scottfreedoms9584 I think your right if you're comparing. Disparu is ok I'm small doses and goes well with open bar, but I find him a bit one note in his videos. Still great growth by him though.
@@scottfreedoms9584 disparu is the weakest imo out of everyone in the critical drinker community of TH-camrs
It struck me while listening to Little Platoon that his voice reminds me of a young Christopher Hitchens.
I like Disparu. He’s got great energy and makes some profound points now and again, but I can see how he’s not everyone's cup of tea.
I'm so happy that little platoon is becoming part of the group now. He's a great speaker with a massive intellect.
On the subject of scale not equaling stakes, totally agree, and in fact the smaller scale stories usually have greater characters and emotional impact. The avengers protect earth, Spider-Man protects the city, and Daredevil protects the Neighborhood.
Isn't it Spider-Man protects the neighborhood - from "your friendly neighborhood Spiderman"
@@kimoralee6066 that is the saying, and they could certainly make him just stay in Queens. I guess I was more referring to the usual level wed get in a lot of their stories recently, aside for FFH/NWH
Exactly, thank you. I am so sick of this childish mentality in Hollywood now that everything _at a bare minimum_ has to be about stopping the end the world, but even more often it's the end of the galaxy, the universe, or the whole fucking multiverse.
10 year olds are writing this stuff: "If we make the stakes a million times bigger, people will be a million times more excited!"
Whenever scale and stakes are brought up, I always recall the dialogue with Mordin Solus in ME2 about his nephew. “...contacted him for family connection. Hard to imagine galaxy. Too many people, faceless, statistics easy to depersonalize. Good, when doing unpleasant work. For this fight, want personal connection. Can't anthropomorphize galaxy. But can think of favorite nephew. Fighting for him.”
@@AdomMekanica I had forgotten he even tried to get personal with anyone.
I love how laid-back open bar is. Everybody lets each other talk, and even when two people start talking at the same time, the default response is for both of them to stop and say "go ahead." Friday Night Tights needs to take notes. That show is utter chaos; everybody yelling, interrupting, and talking over each other for the entirety of the stream.
i dont like jeremy and ryan on fnt's as they have way too much rope and it just becomes the jeremy and ryan show with shad screaming in the background. when they are guests i dont mind them at all. they are not good as the leads.
It's the alcohol...
That IS FNT though, and you're all kidding yourselves if you think otherwise or that it'll ever change.
I admit I enjoy the laid back, polite atmosphere of open bar. But FNT's chaos is part of what makes it great. Sometimes it does get out of hand, and IMO it's Az that is the biggest issue, but if they started acting like they do here on open bar, you wouldn't enjoy nearly as much. And that chaos generates so many funny situations and memes; I love open bar, but I never laugh a tenth as much as I do at FNT.
@@mattg5791 " *it's AZ that is the biggest issue.* "
Yeah he's pretty bad. Also Ryan, Jeremy, and Gary.
" *If they started acting like they do on open bar, you wouldn't enjoy nearly as much* "
I don't enjoy FNT at all though, for the aforementioned reasons. Can't even watch it. I would vastly prefer open bar style.
" *that chaos generates so many funny situations and memes* "
I don't recall a single meme ever being created by people interrupting and talking over each other, which is the show's main problem.
And sure, every once in a while, one of AZ's tantrums or Kinnel's soap box rants turns into a meme. But to me, these occasional jokes just aren't worth listening to 12 people yell into a camera for hours. It''s like being in a packed bar at 1 AM.
Picking the next Black Panther was so easy I can’t believe they messed it up.
1) Killmonger completed his arc in the last movie and died. MBJ was super popular.
2) They’ve introduced multiversal travel.
3) Just drop in a Killmonger from another universe and have him overcome his rage to become a better person. There’s a lot you can do with that character arc.
There. Now you have a good actor for the franchise and future engagements. They already did this with Loki. Might as well.
Personally I think they should’ve recasted him. I mean they did it with Dumbledore when Richard Harris died.
I think it would’ve been better to bring in someone new, MBJ is an amazing actor but I wish they’d bring in a new guy. Some unknown actor who’s just caught his break
I like this idea. Maybe his Tu'challa died saving him from some *comic book reference, even though they were rivals. How DO you screw that up?
Killmonger getting a redemption arc makes sense. All guy did was steal some shit, murder some people, and stage a ritually-sanctioned coup on a nation he had a claim over.
By MCU standards, the guy's a straight antihero.
wow... an interetsing idea... i hope they pick up that for the story...
"If you constantly look annoyed, people tend to assume that you are working"
Ah, so THAT is why I'm always in trouble! I'm trying to not look like I hate my life. Dammit, I need to change my habits.
George Costanza Seinfeld? Agreed :)
Great Open Bar as always. Happy to see TLP is on. Wish I woulda caught it live. Cheers!
I'd love to see Cavill do both a more positive solo Superman movie, more like Christopher Reeves mixed with the cartoon Superman, and a Connery-inspired Bond film. There's a chance at the former, but I have no hope about the latter coming to be with how that last Bond movie went unless the production rights/leadership change hands.
Superman Redeemed.
How are you feeling now that they FIRED Cavill to pursue your vision of a "younger" more "positive" Superman?
@@blockwriters5728 Are you trying to be a troll, or is this a genuine question?
Netflix's The Witcher is a mediocre show, but even I knew the appeal of it was due to Henry Cavill. The show is going to suffer without him, well, more so. Funny enough, Liam Hemsworth looks more like Geralt in the books than Henry.
Whisper your sweet tisms to me...
1st season was great. 2nd season was boring.
I agree. S2 was terrible
@Opener73 Why?
@Opener73 Yeah, but it's a Netflix show for the mainstream. The mainstream don't like good things and Netflix don't like funding things.
It's like expecting a Berserk adaptation to match the source material. Nobody is gonna air that.
Be careful with the “Super Hero Fatigue” reasoning. Because the Studios will try to use that as an excuse for the incompetent shot they’re pushing out. See Disney/Lucas Film using the “Star Wars Fatigue” excuse… that is until Mando temporarily blew that reasoning out of the water!
Rather. we NEED to push and establish more of the idea that we have “Bad Story Fatigue”. Because regardless the Genres, even IF there’s TON of one specific type, it IS a fact that if there is a Good, Compelling/Entertaining, Emotionally Investing Story, we WILL watch it. If not, then we don’t!
they said it, I have poorly done movie fatigue..
Fucking very well put. But at this point I've lost faith in Holywood. We need these damn movies to start losing money so they'll actually hire new writers.
Well freaking said!
I watched 'The Boys' & 'Invicibile' just fine but not those marvel movies and shows.
Definitely tired with all the crap writings.
It's pretty irrelevant whether you like something...you're still paying the company you moan about a monthly subscription. So all you are telling them financially is; you're doing good.
@@jackcollins7061 True, that's why I only use Netflix my brother pays. F all these writers and producers and their bs.
I predict shenanigans will occur with the audience scores for Wakanda Forever like with what happened with The Rise of Skywalkers audience score.
That's not shenanigans, the scores will be fortified...
I canceled my subscription after the cuties fiasco. Im not paying you more and more money to get less and less, having things I DO like removed or canceled while child grooming is acceptable. So I only saw season 1. I liked it, I did, but Henry was the best thing about it. Well... Honorable mention to Joey. I thought he was hilarious. But I imagine he gets grating.
Henry had the perfect catch 22. They either had to show the source material respect, or the show gets effectively cancelled. They called his bluff, he's making them pay.
I cancelled mine long before that when they kept jacking up the price to fund their trashy "original content" and less of the classic TV and films that I actually felt like watching. They had a licence to print money and they pissed it away somehow.
I don't know where this idea that westerns kicked off in the 50s comes from. Westerns were a major genre since film's inception. John Wayne started with them in the 20s and did them his entire career, deep into the 70s. Hell, they were around so early Wyatt Earp himself got to consult on them.
It's not a Western if it's in black and white. Smh
For this batch of TH-cam "movie critics" cinema started in the 80s. This might sound mean, but check their references. They have a very narrow palate. Really not trying to be mean, but these are the facts - their exposure to anything not blockbusterish, not post-80s, not American-made is really minimal and happenstance. Which is a pity, but it is what it is.
@@etme1000 Tom Mix, known almost exclusively for Western films, DIED in 1940!
Fan fatigue is bs. If it's good people will watch a constant stream.
Star wars had fans camp out to see the films and get tickets to watch 3 times in a row. I myself saw revenge of the sith in theaters 4 times (granted I was 9). Force awakens turned me off pretty hard but last jedi killed all enthusiasm for me and a lot of others. Not because Rouge One came out in between them, it's because they were bad.
It's such a weird argument, it comes off as a bit of a marketing excuse that people bought into.
It's like if you pointed out that a local restaurant is going under because they poisoned 100 people in a week, and I start saying "but to be fair, it's in a terrible location", like wtf one problem kinda outweighs the other.
@@insensitive919 the Netflix binge trend is proof people are happy to gourge on something they like
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
But together we can stop that...
Africa had its chance...
Africa is not something that is loved 👏 It’s an idea!
God left Africa
Africa is barely habitable
Africa is my city!
Dang!!! Little Platoon (and Jeremy). - schooled. Both are legit!!! Thank you both for context.
The MCU is suffering from a few issues. 1 is bad writing and identity politics. 2 Is that it use to be a big screen special event that you could go see with friends or family. There was value in the rarity. And there's burn out in that sense, they have made the mcu too generic and accessible. 3. There's no Avengers front liners holding the heroes together anymore, characters we care about and know will bring the group back for a big screen event. Since phase 1 to 3 did this so well, we now expect it which segues into my final factor. Number 4, lack of direction. The mcu feels like a jumbled mess with no direction. I think it would be smart of them to end a movie soon with a cliff hanger that brings the new Avengers team together hinting that the next movie will be the next Avengers movie. This last point is why you create stories using a structure, people find value in organization. Order, not chaos.
The only reason The Netflix Witcher was any good was Henry Cavill. You could sense his enthusiasm and he portrayed Geralt perfectly. The rest of the show was pretty meh. During the first two seasons my respect for Henry Cavill has grown immensely, and having heard the latest news I don't give two shits about The Netflix Witcher anymore. Such a shame. Instead, I started reading the books.
With Shuri, I think they're forgetting their own rules. In Wakandan law Now Shuri can be challenged at any time to hand to hand combat on top of a waterfall Depowered. She's not winning that fight.
You act as if that won't be conveniently retconned to have someone fight in her stead, only for her to swoop in after the replacement loses to make it a tag-team fight.
Or they'll just have her win on her own, anyway. And not with strategy, even; she win via brute strength. Because how dare you acknowledge physical differences!
Obviously she'll use her 5-dimensional thinking to calculate the perfect tipping point in the opponent's footing. The opponent is thinking about his next punch, but the smarter girl notices the slight aberration in the water current which tells her there's a trippable ledge behind his foot that could send him tumbling with the right shove trajectory.
Basically, Sherlock Holmes that shit.
I'm joking but this sort thing _could_ actually be done well.
Some great discussion, definitely one of the best open bars ever
Dredd was one of the best movies ever.
There are some entertaining personalities here, always. Love your content
It didn't help that Dredd 2012 was compared to The Raid, a lot of reviewers mention that it's liked a remake/ripoff of The Raid. I liked both movies.
I probably wasn't going to watch the Witcher before...but definitely not now...
You can always give the original version a try: th-cam.com/video/yTN4xVjHTCU/w-d-xo.html
Dredd (2012) is an incredible film. I own the blu-ray, have the 1/6 of Anderson, the comics, etc. I think, like the Drinker says, it wasn't marketed well. I've been a fan of Dredd and 2000AD since the 80s, and still have my Dredd novels somewhere. It was a good version of the idea of Dredd. I think the perfect Dredd film is more towards 2012 than the 1995 Stallone film, but I think they needed to put in a bit more dark comedy. However, it's still a great film, and deserves more recognition. Even Karl Urban would like to come back and do another film. There's rumours of a Netflix series called Mega City One, which I think would be a perfect chance for individual stories within the Dredd franchise, with a potential overarching plot (the Dark Judges, for example).
True, I didnt hear about Dredd 2012 until a few years later and when I watched it ... damn that was good.
Too bad we never got a sequel, maybe because we entered the Wokellywood era soon after idk.
You know they'd mess up a series though, don't you?! Look what's happened with Trek, LotR, The Boys, Star Wars to name but a few... The wrong people are put in charge and kill the product stone dead with 'modern' agenda preaching and wooden characters.
@@wraithneon I kinda mis-remembered it. The guys behind the 2012 film have a plan for a series, but they need to get funding for it. Apparently no one seems interested though. I think they could try crowdfunding, but would they get enough? And you're right about them giving it to a major service to produce.
Highly underrated film, was let down by lack of marketing support and some coincidental similarities to The Raid which was released the previous year.
@@nathangriffiths6218the raid is cool, but it didn't starred Peach Trees...
Little platoon is friggin brilliant. And I think he's onto something regarding the cyclical pattern of genre predominance. I'm calling it now, the next big age of films will be animated shows/movies for adults (stuff like Castlevanis, Arcane, Edgerunners, etc...)
Everyone needs to check out Charlie Hopkinson on TH-cam. His deep fake RoP satires are hilarious, and really well done. Gandalf as a grumpy old man watching RoP is comedy gold!
Multiverse od Madness already set the precedent of having to see the shows to understand the films. The entire plot was a continiation of Wandavision. If you hadn't seen that (or watched a dozen videos spoiling the entire thing because you didn't actually want to pay money to see it) than you'd have no idea what was going on. Why is Wanda evil now? What kids is she talking about? Where did she get magic? If you wanna know, you have to pay the subscription fee and watch the show.
It's bullshit.
Not to mention both wandavision and Multiverse of Madness is ass
Apathy shall spread to every thing audiences once “liked” watching known as films and that is the true horror film we’re witnessing in our own world.
Always love the little platoon
The first Non Halle Berry Black Female Super Hero movie! Let the marketing commence! 🤣
Star Trek writers apparently can't tell a car battery from the engine. I'm going by what they did in that Strange New Worlds pirate episode. I generally liked the show, but Pike telling his crew to fire on the impulse thrusters and NOT the warp engine and then having them fire exactly on the nacelles was one of the things that made you go "FFS".
Love little platoons takes. Please keep bringing him back
They should have had Bucky go to Wakanda and become Black Panther to repay the Wakanda People for the gift of his Arm. He would serve as their Protector and give his Life in payment if needed to protect them after that helped him regain his Mind after Winter Soldier.
But we all know why that would never happen. Peak isms from the isms crowd.
John Candy as Uncle Buck as Black Panther! Brilliant! Buckanda forever!
Nice to see you back bowlstrek/cultivated media. Great show
I always love seeing LP on open bar. The calm eloquence he brings is most welcome. Some guest have a little too much manic energy, but not him
*cough* Ryan f*cking cocaine kinnel *cough*
@@chattaboxxx2332 I was thinking of Gary, but that works too
I appreciate both styles personally. One of my favorite channels is Shadiversity. Another being mauler. Both with different tones and energy levels. But I do agree that LP is great.
@@bus3957 I absolutely love Shad! Didn't get into FNT till a few months ago, never realized he ran with this crowd till then
@@Alivair He didn't really start making appearances until recently. At least not regular ones. He was on EFAP before FNT I'm pretty sure. I don't think he started going on FNT until he got Knights Watch going. He made appearances on EFAP (which I'm also a big fan of. Shad actually introduced me to them) before Rise of Skywalker came out.
The whole reason I brought him up is that a common complaint is about him being too energetic. That he is too loud. I personally like it bcuz it is just him being passionate. But to each their own I guess.
CK Projekt Red have announced they’re remastering the earlier Witcher games for ‘modern audiences.’ That can’t end well.
They openly admit they want to follow the ESG guidelines aka the western corporate social score system. The Poles got woke with cyberpunk. Their stock price tanked and they seem to need the money of Blackrock
@@Barbarossa97 got woke?? CDPR are a bunch of slave drivers when it comes to employee treatment. They're in this for the money, and it's their shit work culture and mismanagement that bungled Cyberpunk and their reputation.
@@blackosprey2219 Yes AND they got woke and even made a video about it.
@@Barbarossa97 What video? I wanna see it.
They are remastering it for modern controls and graphics... they are not changing the story and story beats.. it sucked bad on pc when it came out while the strory was great and it was never released on console. This has nothing to do with the horrible witcher series (tv)
I was working in a movie theater when Aquaman came out, and to my dying day I will remember this. Opening night, the place is packed, I'm stepping over people because it's a movie theater where they serve dinner so I was doing the waiter thing. A mother and her 18-20 year old college age daughter who's home for the holidays are watching the movie as I squeeze past. Jason Momoa drops onto the scene in the submarine, shirt off, soaking wet, turns around with the smolder look, and he says, "Permission to come aboard." I shit you not, the 18-20 year old college girl gasps "H*ly fuck!" right in front of her God, her mom and everyone.
It was at that moment I knew I'd need to get the crew to spray down all the seats between screenings.
Ulysses claw was a fantastic character, he could have played a similar function to Turk Barret in the Netflix Marvel shows. I really would have liked to see more of him.
Henry Cavill was fantastic in the Tudors. Guy really getting shafted in performance roles. Be it bad timing, idiotic studios, or just the bad batch of general writing and showrunners.
Nailed it. Guy is in his 20's and nails middle age gravitas. He is a fantastic actor. He was great in the first two seasons of the Witcher too.
If I understand his mindset on the GQ Australia comments make sense too. The guy is insanely good looking and the vast majority of women he encounters do flirty showpony shit with him. I heard Charlize Theron hid with the crew on a private flight. Christ on crutches if it is true.
So I'm sure the only chick on the planet who doesn't do that-is the only one he would want. My last ex was that insanely good looking too just taller. And being the only woman who really didn't care about his looks was everything to him.
As soon as I saw that Disney had Doctor Who, I knew immediately they were going to try and use that narrative to try and tie together a lot of their other franchises, similar to what I was trying to do with my shared universe stories.
Great question about Dredd. That movie was a great solid watch. I think NOW Karl Urban's name would draw more people to it but back then his name was not what it is.
We was a big deal for fans of Jason Bourne: great villain, kind of Russian Treadstone.
@Critical Drinker After Hours 6'2 , as a 6'4 I finally I feel represented ! good to see people like me on screen, now I can know for sure that I can relate to you Drinker, cheers ;)
Is MauLer tall as well ? (asking because of his nickname)
P.s. I am happy for Henry he should have done it after season 1 (it was already bad to begin with), sad for everyone else that not only we didn't get a Witcher show, but we lost the only good thing that was in that show.
@EL am I not talented ? sure thing buddy :)
@EL you owned me so good, god damn ! those flashy words of yours surely come from the knowledge you have. I will now take a step back for your greatness master troll for it is your place to shine above all including the drinker, and shed your enlightment upon us. Ho mighty you, guide us all with your wisdom show me my errors and lead us to victory ! By the grace of God almighty you had been blessed and touched for you and only you can see beyond the curtain of the internet, know the intamecies of the peasants around you and truly call out everyone, including I the humble person who just sought to share an opinion online, now I will forever know my wrong doings and retreat back to the shadows of where I can from, for it is you the master troll, the troll to rule them all, the troll of the internet. I will embrace your truths as a kid embraces his parents ! you have conviced me of your cleverness and I will be grateful for you contribution keeping you in my heart henceforth. Praise and be praised !
Not :) #insert Borat voice#.
Thanks for wasting your time and reading all the bullshit I just sat and wrote for fun
1:52:11 for Platoons most iconic chuckle
The Year is 2050. Go to movies, it's the weekly MCU movie. Disney logo on screen. It's phase 12 of the story. Movie starts, Tobey Maguire is in a wheelchair. A burglar comes into his house, steals his Funko Pops. Tobey says "it's peterin time" (this is a reference to the hit 2022 film morbius). Also says "that sounded better in my head." He puts on his mask, the crowd screams until my ears ring. He swings at the man as he's running away. A portal opens and captain Europe steps into the scene. Tobey accidentally swings into him He says "it's all good I have healthcare". Crowd cheers, captain Europe had his own TV show in 2048 and this is a reference to his prostate exam episode in season 6 where he makes the same joke. Tom Holland and Andrew Garfield come through the portal and point at each other, making the funny Spider-Man meme again. They all start jerking each other off as the camera zooms out, revealing the Death Star and the Star Wars theme briefly plays. Crowd cheers again before the screen cuts to black and Darth Vader's laugh plays. Post credit scene shows Thanos reappear, and he says, "I'm coming for you Redditors." Crowd cheers one last time, before news sources are saying this is one of the best movies of all time. Thank you Disney for saving the film industry.
Ugh no, wouldnt watch that either, the crowd cheering is just seals slapping their flippers
That was horrible and beautiful at the same time. I'm probably gonna have nightmares about it, well done Sir.
12:50 chadwick went out the same way totalbiscuit did. Orders of magnitude in relative fame but effectively the same timeline, never saw chadwick in public enough to tell if/how he was even treating things because TB was visibly diminishing over time as much due to the chemo as the cancer. Still, no will while under a terminal illness, seems like a dick move.
21:21 But drinker, you glorious inebriated person of dubious parental marriage status, that was the EXACT plot of Black Panther 1. Killmonger (t'challas cousin) won a late trial by combat (that for some reason t'challa refused to check for obvious side-motivations/evidence-of-heritage for ahead of time) to became tyrant in chief, his uncle was just as much of a terrorist who wanted to flood the ghettos with sci-fi weapons, because-reasons, t'chaka killed his own brother leaving a nephew to fend for himself. After the combat loss the former queen instantly made plans to flee with suri and the flower (but not with both of the BP suits) to plot from self-imposed exile, long before it was confirmed kill monger was out for their blood.
I mean psychopathy was pretty firmly ingrained in the family line and/or politics at this point. That's ignoring the seeming lack of consequences for the defense forces willingly turning international arms-dealers and fighting their (now rebel? deposed rulers? internal terrorists? "freedom fighters"?) fellow countrymen with zero restraint, seriously I can't tell which side is the most egregious on this one. is the trial by combat the legitimate end of the ruling trials or can anyone just move in with a political faction, go for an assassination under the sun and become the ruler because of it? Is that why t'challa was so worried about the other 4 families(?), it's basically game of thrones but in a super sci-fi advanced society, society so maybe more cyberpunk than g.r.r.martin???
2:35:00 I find that old shows in general are way better at placing people of the proper ages into the proper roles and experience levels they would have had even to this day. That the actors back then had little choice but to participate in worldwide events of the time only ever added to the authenticity of the roles. This works evermore in the favor of older sci-fi because you get WW2 vets in things like star trek acting like voices of experience. You got the 50s war movies where half the cast would have seen actual battle and if not taken then were in proximity to the various tolls that such events take on a person. There was a wealth of experience and worldliness to classic actors that the current crop of babied direct-from-film-camp/school/group mental-children just can not present meaningful figures or provide on-set feedback to pare back the ever more sardonic and disrespectful writing (another place failed by a lack of life experience). Sadly it goes beyond even simple situational experience so many of these writers and actors seem to lack the simple experiences of day to day human interaction of people living their lives where their only source of social contact is face to face be it friends, family or physical relations.
Where once we got sometimes gaunt or broken looking looking people manning stations, guarding compounds or living to work and sleeping only as needed, we now get little but fresh faced, doe-eyed water-fat (to borrow the dune term, puni puni for the weeb one) blank-slate "perfect" children in all those roles and it just doesn't sell the characters. It looks like everyone has just come out of a spa and makeup session and for the most part that's almost exactly what's happened.
2:46:05 era jumping and letting the predators win are badly needed, they are an interesting species to use sparingly. Avatar basically usurped the entire story that cold have happened with the "human adopted by predators" thing that the predator books did well.
i'd still like a proper aliens not-earth-hive bug-hunt setup beyond the aliens movie timeline where the predators interfere as a background faction. The humans are all-in on an extended campaign against the aliens (because reasons, maybe it's a science-run, maybe it's one of a limited number of habitable places, maybe it's a colony world fallen that they can't properly blocade so need to go in and wipe out anything that could get off-planet on it's own), it's slow-going because the aliens are ambush-creatures, they hide, bury, dig and next so ground can be taken only to fall like the base dizzy dies at in starship troopers (maybe a series needed not a movie), occasionally a nest can be found with a dead guard/queen no sign of the cause but plasma weapons clearly used (something the colonial marines now have because it's a full strength unit), missions come, missions go for a few episodes then there's a shimmer seen that freaks out a guard. later on a mission going bad is taken over by the predators because they can move-in without needing to worry about the guard-forces because the dead humans cleared the chaff leaving only the queens-guards (and a rolling- head plus functional camera at the entrance), the brass freaks out thinking they are fighting 2 species. hilarity ensues, so now there's tooled up marine patrols with air/orbital support freakling out but the preds want to finish up, maybe grab some human trophes then get out. a little tit for tat, preds get a win, humies get some damage done, both go their own way (mightily pissed at each other) after needing to take out an alien swarm that got aggressive while they were both distracted. enemies forever but humies got in a few licks (thanks to smart-gun optics and combined arms removing cover over wider spaces) and predators shows to be terrifyingly effective even in limited numbers due to general high mobility and a tech/training-advantage, the end, marines pull out after deciding to just nuke the place from orbit, it's the only way to be sure (planet will be usable again in a few hundred years minus current foliage/nests and that's good enough)
1:09:00 I care about Antman, I always loved that power, shrinking down to be able to ride ants, being Lego man sized, I'd lay in my backyard pretending I was "honey I shrunk the Kids" and Antman staring at the ground and finding the best places to live as a couple millimeters high or an inch tall.
If someones interested in anti-war movies vrom the 50ies, where people participated, who actually experinced the war, I can recommend "Die Brücke (1959)" from Bernhard Wicki. Bernhard Wicki was the co-director of "the longest day" (he directed the "german" scenes. In this movie "Die Brücke", which made him famous, its about the last days of the war, where a group of young, fanatic teenagers are drawn into war. One of the best movies of this genre, I have ever seen. Had a huge impact in Germany, when it came out.
I like the idea of sustaining Franchises like the Predator and Aliens by changing up the Genre every once in a while. Here is the intro to the next Predator Movie…
“Two households, both alike in dignity in the vastness of Space…”
Or
[🎵Upbeat Music🎵]
“He’s an aggressive go-getter, with a hobby of collecting exotic items, who prefers to remain invisible… She’s a Cosplaying Weeb, Tentacle Monster, Hentai Fan Girl… When these two Worlds collide, all Hell breaks loose! Can the Predator hunt down the biggest Game of his Life? Can Weeb Girl get over Octopus Tentacles in favor of Crab Mandibles? You’d have to be an Alien to know the answer to this one!”
[Tag Line] “Honogeneous Species, you’ve had a nice run…”
Come see my Movie that wasn’t made for you, you Bigots! If not, you’re just a bunch of Alt-Right, Anti-Interspecies Raycist Yahtzees! So I don’t want you watching my movie… but watch it anyway! Reeeeeeeeeee!
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Ryan George needs to make this Pitch Meeting.
From what ive seen predator fans have for a long time just wanted faithful adaptations of the old avp comics (which are way better than the movies) or a solo predator film where we get to see them hunt alien wildlife on different planets with no human characters.
Either one could work imo.
@@superbrainz2357 I think that HW needs to get over "needing" humans in every film. Great silent films have been successful in recent decades so a no human film can work with great writing.
@@thehermitman822 It would be really easy to have a silent predator film that works as a hunting movie in the style of a show like primal where there's little to no dialouge but plenty of emotions conveyed and violence.
A lot of series have succeded without human protagonists or even not having humans in the stories alltogether but movie makers sadly still have bias against that style of film making. Just like feature length animated films for adults.
@@thehermitman822 Exactly! I’m tired of needing to always cram in a “Human Story” in Stories where the subject is NOT about Humans. Like the Transformer Movies for example. I was expecting to see a movie about Giant Alien Robots Fighting (like the G1 Cartoons) who were the MAIN FOCUS rather than being side characters to the Main Story of Shia LePoof trying to score with a Girl way out of his league. Having to watch a whole movie of that BS with only a tiny sprinkling of Transformers was infuriating! 😡
It’s also obvious that when they do that and cram that Human Story in, you can really tell that it’s because they’re being Lazy Hacks with no Imagination or are just trying to be Cheap with the Movie Making Process.
The ONLY Movie that successfully subverted everyone’s expectations to see primarily Non-Humans was the first Jurassic Park. But in actuality, we get a total of 15 Minutes of Dinosaurs and everything else was about the Humans! 🤯 We just THOUGHT we had more Dinosaurs because the Story was Well Written and so Compelling in itself, we didn’t even notice! That’s how you do it!
And don’t even get me started on Lazy “Fish Out of Water” Stories! Those are annoying too and due to the lack of Talented Writers nowadays, those need to go away for a while as well! 😤
The Witcher tv show showed its cards the second tokenized enforced racism casting Fringilla showed up on screen. But it still had enough Geralt in it to make it halfway decent. Then season 2 starts and right out of the gate they murder any possible undertones from the original story of episode 1. And then they do Eskel as dirty as possible and aftewards I barely remember what I was watching, I remember it felt like a CW women mage drama show. I'm sure Henry was done with that shit when he saw that and talking to his lawyer about when he could get the fuck out. Good thing he only had to be around for one more season.
Namore. I honestly thought he said his name is No More.
“Wheeen the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie that’s Namore!”
It's like with eating your favorite food. If you eat it all the time nonstop, you'll get sick of it. But if you save it for special occasions and build time to grow your craving for it, it becomes that much more delicious.
True, I stayed clear of bananas for a few years then one day I treated myself to a banana split sundae, it was the best banana ever.
I can still eat mashed taters everyday. Can always add anything to it.
@@thehermitman822 Lol.... Yep! I love my tators! You can make them into so many delicious things it’s impossible to get sick of em ever!
Yep potato in some form with most meals, I love rice and occasionally will go for pasta some sort but even with a rice-cooker i'll go for potato as the meal-starch 80% of the time by choice. Too much of this particular good thing would mean I had bought too much so some would "go to waste", boiled, mashes, roasted, simmered, fried, in soup, in salad, in/on/under/next-to a cut of meat/sauce i enjoy them all.
But feed/sell me some bad-potatoes and sure enough i'd walk away from the place that fed/sold me them and look/shop elsewhere.
@@IRMentat Even the tater flakes that need water added are viable, especially after a certain hurricane, but I definitely have to add something to them.
Proper mashed taters can be a meal in themselves for me. 👍
1:36:40 amazon shows with global appeal: the grand tour, the boys. Minor appeal i'd like to consider Reacher, the expanse and jack ryan.
The MCU issue is not that there is franchise or genre fatigue. The MCU took a turd when Disney (Iger) gave Kevin Fiege complete reign over the MCU. Phase 4 is the first phase of the MCU where Ike Pearlmutter has not had any say. He was the guy that kept Fiege grounded. Its not that Pearlmutter was perfect. He was not. However he was not afraid to tell Fiege that idea wont sell or that the story was crap. Kevin does not have that governor anymore. Fiege need someone in there who looks at these stories from a business perspective. Right now he does not have that and it is not working.
On the dredd issue iirc there was a distribution issue too. Of the 2 main cinema chains here in Ireland the main one didn't screen it at all and the other was SOLELY 3d (which most hate) I had to take a bus ride for near an hour to even get to a screening. If it had of got a normal 2d release in all chain's I reckon ya wouldve had another blade on your hands.
Thanks!
*Question:* Was anyone REALLY satisfied with the Witcher and are they looking forward to it continuing into Season 4; let alone Season 3? If not, does that mean we have “Fantasy Fatigue”? House of the Dragon would disagree…
Although I don’t agree much with Jeremy, I’ve been in the same line of thinking that it’s not so much a [insert Genre] Fatigue, but a BAD STORY Fatigue we are going through. Start putting out Super Hero Movies where there is Care & Respect for the Source Material WITH a Good Story, people WILL watch it! Which btw, people looking forward to Henry Cavil FINALLY playing the Superman we want will prove my point.
And to answer Little Platoon’s question of how do we get over this Bad Writing “Phase”, it’s REALLY EASY! Barely an Inconvenience!
All you have to do is STOP Hiring and get RID of these UNQUALIFIED SJW, CRT, Agenda Driven, Misandrist Diversity Writers who (let’s admit it here) HATE the IP they’re working on and PURPOSEFULLY destroy the Franchise because they enjoy (said by a writer & critics on Twitter), “drinking up the Man-Babies Tears they filled their mugs with.” It’s sickening!
It’s so bad now that EVEN IF you put in Writers and Producers who are brand spanking new to the film making process BUT Respects the Material and Genuinely WANT to make a Great (hate to use the word) PRODUCT, it would be 1000x’s better and MORE watchable than what we have now!
Excellent analysis and discussion 🖖🏼
Losing your main though... what a disaster...
what mic is @thelittleplatoon using? clean AF haha
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Normaly you want your workers between 50% and 70% workload. if you demand more, you burn your workers out and you have no Buffer for workload Peaks.
It’s shocking how rare this extremely reasonable perspective is
You mean people can’t just operate at 100% capacity, constantly, 100% of the time???
In light of the recent trailers it puts Black Panther in a really, awful light, knowing that he actually fought to support this extremely xenophobic, selfish and ultimately fascist regime.
I agree with Jeremy on the whole burnout vs. bad writing thing and let me set the stage to demonstrate:
Let's sat that tomorrow we get a flurry of news that Disney has sold Lucasfilm back to George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy has been fired (out of a cannon and into the Sun, preferably), and the entirety of the Lucasfilm story group has died tragically in a fiery excruciating train fire, even through all the passengers and train staff not affiliated with Lucasfilm somehow managed to escape completely unharmed and also they found twenty bucks on the ground when they left.
Then we hear Drew Karpyshyn has been brought on as head writer for a new Star Wars trilogy and it's announced that it's a live action Knights Of The Old Republic AND the casting is spot on AND they're going to take their time in between films.
If that happened. I think you'd find that nearly all of even the most burned out, apathetic, former Star Wars fans would flip their shit in antici ....
...pation
I don't believe people would have got sick of the MCU if it didn't start to suck.
I caught They Shall Not Grow Old in the theater and it was really impressive.
The only thing on Amazon Prime that I would say is great is 'Bosch' & 'Bosch Legacy'
My top pick for Bond?
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George Lazenby.
Definitely, George Lazenby.
18:09 Had to pause here to realize. Poor immigrant kid comes to Wakanda, becomes Black Panther by punching the other guy harder... That was literally Killmonger.
2:38:45 capaldi has a new series on amazon prime, i looked at the trailer and basically said "evil dr who?".
Next time I get prime i'm planning to take a look.
Don’t underestimate Covids effect on Stranger Things... it allowed writers more time... they could film, write, and because of d3layed release of episodes, they could go back and strengthen the narrative, which allowed them to drop in additional scenes / plots. When the money making machine is forced to slow a bit... sometimes good stories materialize
The exact opposite of the Writers Strike (anyone remember that..??) where the condensed time of producing both immediately before, and picking up after completely derailed any chance Lost had, and demolished the storyline of Heroes - similar thing with Babylon 5 when it was cancelled after Season 4, then picked up for a 5th by another network - having already crammed (very very well!) all the 4-5 arc into 4 alone; it left a hasty 5 to be created out of almost nothing.
I think too that (an extreme example!) a Top Gun sequel in 1989 would not have turned out as well as Maverick did.
@@OsellaSquadraCorse Oh man, Heroes. I don't think I've seen such a promising show turn to complete dogshit so quickly before or since lol. Season 1 was great. From what I recall anyway, it has been a minute.
Hence the meme, Henry Cavill is "King Of The Nerds!"
I didn’t even get a chance to watch this live, TH-cam kept screwing up the time and real life. Loved the show as always.
I can't wait for the next installment of a day in the life of a Twitter employee where they're sitting on a street corner begging for change.
I managed to struggle through the first season because I wanted to give it a chance. My relief at finally finishing the damn thing was considerable. My joy at knowing I’d done my duty and would not have to suffer season two was profound.
I couldn't even finish season 1. I'm trying to watch the Witcher, but Geralt's rarely on screen. That Toss a Coin to a Witcher song is fun though.
I couldn't even finish episode one. I bailed when a girl killed her dog so she could sell its parts to tag along with Geralt or something... Fuck, I wished John Wick existed in that universe.
I think there is such a thing as fatigue, though I believe it goes both ways. For audience fatigue, it is our patience. We can only stomach a string of bad movies for so long before we grow disinterested. Like what was stated before, Love and thunder may have made bank if it was made before Endgame. If they constantly bring out bangers, we don't grow tired of them.
I don't mind the actec/mayan/incan(no clue which/if any)? take on the atlanteans, it's a nice separation between the marvel and DC iterations (plus I have seen entirely too much of namor in comic costumes that varied between twink and leather bedecked body-builder with fishnet cut-outs and thigh high riding boots), this could (have been) be a case of change is good.
I do however have one question, where the hell is an underwater civilization that's effectively isolated itself from the surface getting so many damned feathers from?
Good open bar. More substance, less politics. Much appreciated 👍
Lol rejecting the woke is political as the woke itself is political, you need to come to terms with that.
And everything is now politicized. I should not have to point that out but so many folks are voicing their over sensitivity to politics and it is just feeble.
When that chick asks “who are you” to Namor, I just want him to yell “I am Mr Nimbus!”
The Expanse is still really good. It's stronger at the beginning, but the space battles only get better.
That Frosk guy seems like a real jerk.
I really liked this episode. You guys should do more streams where it’s not just about movies
Drinker's sleepy dog MVP
Good to see bowlstrek again. I havent in a while.
Snyder's problem was that he made DC grimdark. Even bigger one was the fanboy level of cramming every possible storyline in one movie and referencing everything.
I love this community. 👍
Whats the time stamp for the frosk stuff?
Missed opportunity for the new King of Wakanda to be taken through combat by Scarlet Witch or even better Captain Marvel. Who better than an OP white Karen to be the new Black Panther?
the LAST thing they'll figure out is "quit hating your audience". so long as the same people are running the studios, they will never figure this out. warner has a remote chance of realizing this...once they fire for cause (and permanently blacklist) every one of those making movies there who hate their audiences (from producer to director to writer to actor to advertiser to distributor). it's the only way and they are only just beginning to understand that. disney? well disney has ABSOLUTELY no chance.
It's easy to do a psychological drama about the predator.
Simply tell it from the perspective of someone who is living near the Predators lair. They think the Predator is their demon, their drug-induced, or psychosis-induced horror that haunts the attic of the nearly dilapidated abandoned building that they're still a tenant in or what have you. Imagine hearing the footsteps of the Predator every night above you, or blood dripping down from your ceiling from its cleaned prey, or you hear the rough alien language of some "demonic" being.
And then you have the person we're following start to believe that they themselves are a serial killer, so you get to see people being killed on the news or around his area of living and he thinks it's all connected to him. Ofc, the only reason he's still alive is because he never has a weapon around the predator. He sees the predator and he even interacts with it sometimes in tense moments we're simply dismisses him as unworthy prey because the state of a psychology or his physical being. It would be truly interesting if he was perhaps disabled with the limp or a deformity which is why the Predator would not want him.
You then have a moment where he decides that he has to deal with this and he thinks that himself being the cause must take responsibility and therefore tries to hunt the Predator through his own dilapidated building. He then goes on a battle with the predator whereby he strips it of its weapons and its defenses to where it is just an animal now the same as him and the battle progresses through the building into the lower subway tunnels.
Naturally he does not come out unscathed but he's had years of preparation now because the Predator had made the mistake of dismissing this unworthy prey. , you can even throw in a cop that does courtesy calls or something has some kind of connected to him and he comes in behind seeing all the destruction and the chaos that the traps that the previous man had set up and then the end gets to the final battle to see the disabled man fighting the predator on hand-to-hand combat grounds and helps and then it's 2 on 1.
In which case the man has to then realize that this is not his personal demons and this is in fact creature a creature from outer space in fact and then he has to deal with that fact it does he let it live? How does the Predator respond to this unworthy prey now suddenly putting its life on the line? Basically you want to tell the story of how the lowest of us could still fight to survive. Not a soldier, not a peacekeeper, not a warrior, not some rich investor backed scientist, but worthless disgusting hobo human. Saves the entire city, and no one cares about him.
Make him a veteran and it would make a little bit more sense too.
See? Easy.
I don't understand how Shuri is going to survive the first leadership contest. Without the powers she'd be snapped like a twig in melee combat.
2:07:56 It’s the 68th Anniversary
2:09:17 You’re welcome!
SKREONK!
Kamaru Usman: Mixed Martial Artist, Charming male role model…FROM…AFRICA!!! How is this not the first choice for the Panther?!
To me, Dunkirk was a movie where it was really all about the _event_ of Dunkirk rather than any particular characters, although I would say that most of the characters do have pretty poignant moments even though you don't get to know them that well. It's really all about what they do or don't do rather than who they are.
How Pearl Harbor should have been written.
_A Bridge Too Far_ did a much better job of educating about a specific battle with both big-picture strategy context and boots-on-the-ground subjective experiences; by the end you _know_ about Operation Market Garden and the normal people who suffered its failings.
Dunkirk had oddly little information _or_ character. It felt like it could have taken place anywhere at any time period.
Imho, the 1958 Dunkirk was both a better movie and also a better account of the event, with a more engaging cast. It is also very grim and bleak at times, perhaps very painful for the audience of that time. There are some clips on YT eg "Stukas!".
One thing I found strange about the Nolan version was that it seemed to make little use of CGI, to the extent that parts of the film look like it was made in the 1960s. CGI is often overused, but it can really help to take the audience back in time and place. The 2013 'Stalingrad' overdoes the CGI at times, but also does it well, constructing a convincingly devastated city, in which everything is covered in grit and grime.
How and when do I watch It live?
I appreciated Video Game High School shout out. Sadly no one from the guys knew it (or put it with acronym VGHS)
I want a Happy Hour for This is Spinal Tap.