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Oh, we don't differ there. I still consider Game Of Thrones to be excellent and I'm going back to the start to watch them all again. A bad ending can't undo the excellent craft that has come before.
I'm probably going to give the prequel a go too, I'm just curious what other people will do as it could get cancelled quickly if nobody watches it.
There's no clear cut evidence, no. It is a lot of rumour and assumption so yes, for all we know they could be victims in all this.
But the evidence we do have is pretty damning. They suddenly have Star Wars just as Game of Thrones is hastily ended. Supposedly George RR Martin said the series should be 13 seasons and there was also apparently a clash between HBO and B & W over how many seasons there should be. HBO wanted more, B & W wanted to finish it all quickly. HBO have everything to gain from further seasons while it's not in B & W's interests at all.
You may not like First Class, which is fine. But Wolverine was received very badly critically and First Class was received well critically. So I'm going by general opinion. And I specifically chose X men films because these two films demonstrated the writers attitude towards the material.
Benioff's treatment of Deadpool in Wolverine clearly demonstrated his lack of respect. First Class tends to be spoken of as the most accurate in capturing the comic's tone, so even if you don't like the film you can still kind of see there was good will behind it.
But there's also Kick Ass and Kingsman which were also both well received.
But like Game of Thrones it could be great at first but then trash our hopes years down the line. That's the dilemma.
I'm a NolanTard. And I definitely, definitely do not hate this.
I do agree that this season was overrated (Though I do think you are going a wee bit overboard).
I think each season has been a bit worse than the previous. And this was the first where I noticed big flaws. It's still very good but doesn't match the awesomness of season 1 and 2.
Bullseye was really well develeloped in the first half but was very underused in the second half and became little more than a glorified henchman. I'd say the first half of the season was better than the second half and the climax especially was quite underwhelming. And still no set piece matches that corridor fight in Season 1.
But the part I hated most was the episode giving Karen a dark backstory. It ruined her character as she is supposed to be a sheltered, everyday sort of person to contrast the dark, damaged characters and twisted world that she's entered into. She's kind of supposed to be the audiences way in to this world. It also took away a lot of the shock and drama from when she killed Wesley in Season 1.
There is a strange assumption with mature tv shows these days that every character has to have dark, heavy elements to their character. But you need some characters to be relatively normal. It doesn't mean they still can't have some sort of natural depth.
It so wasn't beloved. It actually made a hell of a lot less than what people were expecting. It made a ton of money opening weekend but there was a huge drop off straight after that because word of mouth was so poor.
Are Howard, Speilberg and Kasdan the only other filmmakers on the planet?
There would have been countless big name writers and directors who would have jumped at the chance to get on board.
He's not fooling anyone. He wanted to do this shit himself despite the fact that his over the hill talent was in complete opposition to his gigantic ego.
He had forgotten what had made Star Wars so iconic in the first place. And there is no excuse he can come up with.
I'm not saying that at all. Of course you're going to have expectations. But you shouldn't penalize or reward a film more because of an emotion that you are bringing to the film.
If Scorsese brings out a new film and it's not as good as his usual standard you shouldn't say "Well, that was worse than Batman and Robin."
Additionally, if filmmakers do get some things right in a fairly bad film then they should get credit for the things they do get right as well as being chastised for what they got wrong. How else are they gonna learn?
Every film should be judged on it's own merits regardless of expectations, the filmmakers reputation, etc, etc.
A new Scorsese film comes out, it should be judged against all of cinema not the rest of his output. Otherwise it's unfair to the film and the people that made it. It's important to be objective.
Wolverine: Origins was an absolutely diabolical film. And I'm saying this as someone who kind of enjoyed it at the time because, hey, it was a solo Wolverine film. But I could be objective and see that it was absolutely horrifically made. The effects were cheap. The CGI on his claws looked like a joke. This was something they had hitherto been perfectly fine. The editing was horrendous. Deadpool was an insult. There was nothing positive to say about the film at all.
Apocalypse did have some good stuff mixed in with the bad.
Everyone in the film was stupid assholes. Regardless of gender.
And proceeded to hire the cretin behind Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat :(
Definitely Elektra. She's a much more interesting, conflicted character. Her issues create enthralling, edgier drama.
(although she did turn into you're typical campy, wooden villain in The Defenders.)
And yes, she is also a lot hotter.
Netflix don't have a choice. The deal with Marvel means they have to buy 13 episodes. Marvel won't let them have the characters otherwise. It's part of the reason Luke Cage and Iron Fist were cancelled. Netflix wanted to do less episodes.
Fear not. Robert Zemeckis has said he'll never let it happen.
The X-Men in space thing definitely does not appeal to me. It's too silly for the universe of the films. I'm glad we don't see any of it in this trailer. I like that it looks quite grounded.
I thought the trailer looked pretty good. It looks a lot better than Apocalypse. No stupid looking Ivan Ooze villain this time.
And, yeah. There's a good chance the actual film will suck. But let's wait and see, eh?
Elba was good in Luther but the show itself is unrelentingly run of the mill. I'm baffled how it's often rated so highly because all I saw was a typical BBC drama. It was cliched and predictable with absolutely nothing original at all. And Ruth Wilson acts like a panto villain. She's hammy as hell. And I did give the show a fair chance. I watched a season and a half hoping it would get better. It didn't.
Cavill's mustache was so ashamed to be in JL it asked to be CGI'd out.
Yes, I was expecting the sort of derivative, tv movie-ish depiction that we usually get about this sort of tragedy. But it was a lot better than that. Probably because it was more down and gritty, tell it like it is. The people did seem more real.