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Seriously? Interviewing the first national video games champion seems like a totally legit move for a documentary like this. A one-liner about transgenderism served to reconcile the fact that Rebecca Heineman was being interviewed regarding Bill Heineman's win.
It's not like they hunted down some obscure person just to have a transgender person on the show. Had they chosen not to interview Heineman due to this issue that would have been way worse in terms of an agenda.
Seems like you have more of an agenda here than Netflix does.
I found this review to be more pretentious and convoluted than the actual movie, which is one of Lynch's more straightforward ones in my opinion. The comparisons with the Matrix are almost enough to make me think this was a troll review. I mean; "a crucial postmodern film of actual intelligibility, currency, finesse, wild originality and intelligent applications of key postmodern concepts"? I love the Matrix, but seriously?
Mulholland Dr. is a brilliant movie though I can totally see that it isn't for everyone. And that's fine.
Yes, it has rabbits. Wonderful movie.
Same here, the eyes didn't bother me at all (though they went overboard with the CGI on her other features - that did detract from the experience a bit).
The awful script, laughable dialogue and horrible acting on the other hand... Not to mention they set the whole thing up as an obvious franchise-starter instead of trying to tell a story.
I was majorly disappointed with this one. Way worse than Ghost in the Shell, which is saying a lot.
1-3: Agreed
4: Not sure I agree that he's altered in every way. Yes, his development is taken in a new direction and no, I don't particularly like it. But he does redeem himself in the end. At least it's a character arc.
5: Disagree. This is a way bigger problem in TFA. TLJ just didn't make it any better.
6: I don't watch Star Wars for it's science. It has to be pretty damn awful for me to pick on stuff like that in a space fantasy.
7: Stupid humour in SW is not a new phenomenon unfortunately. See RotJ.
8: Agreed, this is an over-arching problem with all their new films. Whoever's in charge is doing a bad job.
9: I'm sure this would bother me if I thought any of those questions were interesting.
10: See 6.
At the end of the day, the new trilogy is still better than the prequels. And to be honest, even RotJ is highly questionable, especially after George Lucas tinkered with it. Now that I think about it, there's only really two SW movies that are really great so perhaps we've been hoping for too much.
Thor fans want to see Thor rock and Hulk fans want to see Hulk kick ass. I totally get that. Fans of underutilised characters are disappointed.
What we're seeing here though goes way beyond disappointment. People are attributing the writers' decisions to some over-arching agenda to neuter white male characters. That's moving into conspiracy theory territory.
Personally I've never been that hyped about the Hulk, though the Ruffalo version is my favourite so far.
Thor I and II were disappointing to me but I loved Ragnarok and hope we get to see more of him in GotG3 or another solo film.
I think a pointless sentence is all this issue warrants. Some people need to get out more instead of raging about superhero haircuts on the internet.
Most of this list are issues with TFA, not TLJ.
I found TFA to be a tired re-tread of the original Star Wars, most likely in an attempt to cash in on people's nostalgia. The plot is derivative and the main character is a total Mary Sue. It's not a good movie.
I actually think TLJ was a small step in the right direction. The plot goes in a totally new direction and Rey actually receives some training to back up her total OP-ness. I didn't mind at all that they threw out everything TFA set up as those questions were never that interesting to me in the first place. Setting up Snoke as a new Palpatine would have been totally redundant (though I'm sure JJA would have done it anyway). It's still not a great movie but at least it has a few visually striking scenes.
I still can't believe that they went into this trilogy without an overall plan for how it would turn out. No wonder it's turned into a complete mess. What were they thinking?
I too was disappointed with this after seeing it in the theatre. But after watching it a few more times it has really grown on me.
Yes, there are a few Zack Snyder moments that it could have done without and no, it will never be as good as the source material, but I now think it's a rock solid movie and one of my favourite superhero movies.
The Director's Cut is the superior version in my opinion, though it does make for a pretty long film.
Waterworld's biggest problem is that it was too obvious a Mad Max 2 rip off. It is also inferior to that film in just about every way.
Had Waterworld been a more original work I think it would have fared much better. As it is, it just comes off as derivative.
It's still not without merit, some scenes are genuinely fun to watch. Overall though I'd call it a very average film. Absolutely not one of the worst ever but not a classic by any means either. I'd probably give it 5/10 on a good day.
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