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The season (series?) finale of The Orville: New Horizons was great. After a pretty heavy season, they went light for the finale. It had a lot of funny bits in it. Even the serious subplot was good I hope it’s renewed but if this is the series finale, it stuck the landing.
Bortus is the King!
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Sandman wasn’t one of Spider-Man’s more interesting villains, and his appearances in the films Spider-Man 3 and Spider-Man: No Way Home were underwhelming at best. Why would I want to watch an entire series about him?
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I thought Prey was OK. Kind of evoked the original Predator while doing its own thing, and the action was mostly pretty good. For a short film it did feel long though, and the final battle was a bit muddled.
I also felt like it might have been very influenced by a few recent AAA videogames – parts of it reminded me of God of War, HZD and the Tomb Raider reboot. I wonder if they had those in mind.
Trachtenberg’s a big video game guy; he got noticed for a Portal short film, and was supposed to direct Uncharted right before he did this instead.
I liked the movie, and Amber Midthunder was great, but I wish I’d gotten to see it in the cinema.
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I just finished Season 2, Episode 4 of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal. The new season has been absolutely fantastic and this episode was brutal on a visual and emotional level.
This is such an excellent show. It’s not for everyone but it is great television.
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Watched “Joker”. Don’t think I have much to add to everything that’s already been said about that one… it’s really not all that original in what it’s doing, but it has a fantastic central performance, very precise direction, and the story of Fleck’s descent does draw you in. Very well-made movie in the vein of Taxi Driver, King of Comedy or Falling Down – not the kind of movie we see often today. Don’t know how much the Batman connection adds; probably close to nothing. Though it’s interesting to see all of the Waynes being just total dicks (well not Bruce, because he just stands there, but everybody else). I’d go see a sequel in which Batman fights the Joker, but it’d be this world’s version of Batman – a sadistic rich dickhead who beats up poor people to elevate himself and feels that he’s in the right while doing it. I’d like to see the Joker rip that guy apart.
As to “message” or whatever, there was a discussion about this being a message of empowerment to troll culture or something, right? I don’t think that makes a lot of sense. It’s not very subtly an indictment of capitalism and the brutality with which it destroys people (going as far as to quote Modern Times as a reference for that). And honestly, as such it works pretty well; the inhumanity of the world Fleck moves in is not accidental, it is very clearly the result of a world in which people are measured by money and success and those who don’t make it are kicked further down and then left to rot there. Which, like, yeah, I can see why that resonated with an audience today. Sure.
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As to “message” or whatever, there was a discussion about this being a message of empowerment to troll culture or something, right? I don’t think that makes a lot of sense. It’s not very subtly an indictment of capitalism and the brutality with which it destroys people
I think it’s the old Fight Club thing isn’t it. If you ignore the (pretty clear) message and interpret the film as a superficial glorification of what the lead character is doing, it works in that way.
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Finally got through Paper Girls after chipping away at it for a week. I loved the comics but I thought this was a pretty dull adaption. The casting is great, the four main girls are lifted right from the page and all turn in good performances. But the execution is boring and kind of cheap looking as well. The general audience that haven’t read the comic might like it a guess. But I’ve seen how big and fun this story could be, so this just came off as a bit lazy.
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I think it’s the old Fight Club thing isn’t it. If you ignore the (pretty clear) message and interpret the film as a superficial glorification of what the lead character is doing, it works in that way.
FIGHT CLUB is a good comparison piece.
The interesting difference for me was that Tyler Durden was very attractive and charismatic and Cornelius was very relatable. Also, Cornelius never seemed entirely on board with Tyler’s philosophy or program. And there was no obvious class conflict in that film. There was no one to really point a finger at and say it is their fault. Instead, the entire sedated, domesticated and emasculated consumer culture was the general dystopian condition rather than any authority that became the object of Tyler and his followers struggle.
Also FIGHT CLUB wasn’t very successful upon release (like DARK CITY) but had a strong influence over time and almost immediately after it came out. JOKER was extremely and unexpectedly successful though I don’t think it will have much of a lasting effect.
In JOKER, Phoenix went “full retard” so to speak. Now, that doesn’t mean he depicted any actual mental illness though I am certain from his interviews that he researched possible conditions Arthur could have. Nevertheless, his characterization was not attractive or very relatable whether he was playing Arthur or when Arthur became Joker. It is also a good question whether Arthur is actually suffering any mental illness in the frame of the story or if all of his choices are actually sane but evil or inhumane decisions made by a rational person in the stressful conditions of the story. I believe that Arthur may simply have been a bad person more than an insane one. Even if he would say that he’s crazy, that is just another excuse he can use. It’s society’s fault that I hurt people, or it is my disease’s fault — it’s not my fault.
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I saw a trailer for Prey, and it seems to suggest that one primitive hunter with a bow and arrow can do what it took Schwarzenegger and a group of 20th-century special forces with unlimited firepower to do originally.
Maybe the trailer is a poor representation, but on the strength of what it shows I think I might struggle to suspend my disbelief for this movie.
I mean, the chick goes a bit too super at the end, but it’s not exactly “just” her who takes on the Predator… it’s not bad, it’s not super amazing… it’s worth a watch if you like that kind of movies.
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Yeah, there’s a fair bit more story that the trailer doesn’t give away and which helps make the developments make more sense.
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I saw a trailer for Prey, and it seems to suggest that one primitive hunter with a bow and arrow can do what it took Schwarzenegger and a group of 20th-century special forces with unlimited firepower to do originally.
Maybe the trailer is a poor representation, but on the strength of what it shows I think I might struggle to suspend my disbelief for this movie.
Uh… You might want to watch Predator again and see what happened to the elite soldiers with unlimited firepower.
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Uh… You might want to watch Predator again and see what happened to the elite soldiers with unlimited firepower.
Yeah, they made it bleed.
And if it bleeds, we can kill it.
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I just finished Season 2, Episode 4 of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal. The new season has been absolutely fantastic and this episode was brutal on a visual and emotional level.
This is such an excellent show. It’s not for everyone but it is great television.
Is it too heavy for kids Todd?
My kids are 6 and 7 (nearly 8).
They are fine with 12 rated stuff have watched things like Cobra Kai, The Flash, Stargirl, and all the Marvel movies for example, so they are used to action, peril, a bit of violence and some light swearing.
This probably is too much for them as there is a lot of gore and violence. The violence is very brutal and not softened at all. If this was a movie, it would be R-rated.
I could see it being quite upsetting to children that young.
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And if it bleeds, we can kill it.
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I saw a trailer for Prey, and it seems to suggest that one primitive hunter with a bow and arrow can do what it took Schwarzenegger and a group of 20th-century special forces with unlimited firepower to do originally.
Maybe the trailer is a poor representation, but on the strength of what it shows I think I might struggle to suspend my disbelief for this movie.
To be honest, I had similar thoughts initially, however in the build up to the movie being released I was more than willing to overlook all that.
The setting is a good idea, but the execution is just not very good.
With Predator you have a lot of memorable dialogue, set pieces, big personalities and great action.With Prey, you have none of that. It’s just a remake in an alternate setting but there’s nothing that makes it stand out, and criminally – nothing that adds to the lore. To compensate for fact that this would be a retread they really needed to find something to make it stand out, whether that was tightening up the action or giving the audience something that visually stands out. But there’s just nothing.
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Nevertheless, his characterization was not attractive or very relatable whether he was playing Arthur or when Arthur became Joker.
That’s an interesting aspect of the movie. Arthur remains pretty unattractive throughout the movie, but there are moments – when he accepts what he is becoming – when he comes across as cool. But I think it’s very relevant that those moments are quickly undercut and he looks pathetic again.
It is also a good question whether Arthur is actually suffering any mental illness in the frame of the story or if all of his choices are actually sane but evil or inhumane decisions made by a rational person in the stressful conditions of the story. I believe that Arthur may simply have been a bad person more than an insane one. Even if he would say that he’s crazy, that is just another excuse he can use. It’s society’s fault that I hurt people, or it is my disease’s fault — it’s not my fault.
While Arthur himself isn’t all that relatable, most of his actions are though. After all the humiliations he’s suffered, you kinda don’t mind him killing a few of his oppressors. Or at least I didn’t. Those guys in the subway definitely had it coming, and so did Murray. The clown guy? Also fine with that one. His mother? Well, she didn’t exactly have it coming, but still I didn’t blame him for doing it really. The only one that’s different is, did he kill the doctor at the very end of the movie? I wasn’t sure, but I think that’s what the ending suggests. In that case, that’d be him going full-on villain. But everybody he kills during the course of the movie… well, he may be a bad person, but they were all worse than him really. I mean, those are – apart from his mom – all definitely rational people and they make evil choices fully deliberately. (Wayne, too, even though the Joker doesn’t kill him himself.)
Paper Girls felt cheap, badly acted and boring. I don’t know how they churned out this given the first volume of the comic is really good – hard to get that so wrong. I switched it off after 20 something minutes. I’d like to excuse it by saying I’m not the target audience, but I quite like the comic and I’m sucker for 80s nostalgia, done right. Which this wasn’t. I doubt they’ll see a season 2.
Yeah, I liked the comic, too, but even the trailer for the series looks pretty cheap. I may just skip this one.
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Just watched the latest BCS. This whole ending to the season feels like adding 20 minutes on to Jurassic Park to tell you what they had to eat on the helicopter ride home. The story is told by that point and I struggle to care.
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Just watched the Woodstock 99 documentary on Netflix.
As someone who has a lot of festival experience, it’s terrifying. But the biggest question is how did the promoters not go to jail?
I mean, the kids were terrible but when people are getting trench mouth because the drinking water is contaminated? And that’s the least of their bullshit.
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If you’re hungry for more on festival bullshittery, go for the netflix documentary Fyre, or the Hulu documentary Fyre Fraud.
They’re great companion pieces to each other, and tbpf I don’t remember which one is which.
There is contained within both of the films a lot more schadenfreude than Woodstock 99 invites as the Fyre organizers (Ja and Billy) really set themselves up for all kinds of failure with this. And they’re being really fucking stupid about it.
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I don’t think it was ever a surprise that they would revisit the Gene timeline when they’ve spent so much time building it up with the season opens over the years. The disappointment is what they’ve done with it.
The truth is I just don’t think there’s anywhere near the same rich character territory to explore here as there is in the main body of the show, so it quickly feels repetitive and empty – and they have to resort to throwing in cameos and BB connections to try and keep things interesting. The overall story of the show didn’t demand any of those things.
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They’ve done that before, though. The main show didn’t need to bring in people like Hank or Tuco earlier on but they did.
I thought the Jesse bit this week worked really well. The two most redeemable characters of the whole thing, him and Kim, meeting at the bottom of her decline and the start of his. She flicks her cigarette away and runs from Saul’s office into the rain, he finishes his cigarette and heads into Saul’s office. In the broader context of this universe there was more going on with that scene than just a cameo.
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This week’s episode of What We Do In The Shadows was absolutely hilarious. Guillermo in the cold open had me laughing out loud. Harvey Guillén is fantastic as Guillermo and it has been great to see the character evolve over the years.
I will say that was the best wedding I have seen in a long time.
Excellent! Looking forward to it now, but I have an episode missed over the festival that I need to get down first!
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The call with Kim was the final straw. It comes after he’s already gone through the trauma of how the events of BB unfolded, then having to ditch everything he had and vanish, then spend however long it has been in the living hell that is Gene’s life, then even after all of that he gets made by some random guy anyway, then he stages an emotional meltdown in the mall about how hopelessly shit everything is that hits a little too close to home, then he gets confirmation that he has lost all of the other assets he thought he had kept hidden, then there’s a fleeting thought that maybe Kim still cares about him, then that gets quickly extinguished while also dredging up all the hurt and guilt of their relationship and the events of BCS…
At that point it hits home hard that he’s got nothing to live for and so he snaps and dives headfirst into the only thing he’s ever been good at – scamming – only this time he’s way more reckless and villainous about it than ever before, as if he just wants to get caught.
In a weird way, he might actually enjoy prison life more if he can put his scamming mind to good use in the yard.
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My friend has a Netflix account, so I’ve just watched the first two episodes of Sandman. I thought it was amazing.
I won’t say more than that, I don’t want to go into the spoiler thread as I guess you’re all talking about episodes I haven’t seen yet.
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I watched the Kenneth Branagh version of Murder On The Orient Express and really enjoyed it. Great cast and a nice old-school classic feel to the whole thing. Not sure how well it would work if you’re not already an Agatha Christie/Poirot fan, but credit to Branagh he did manage to offer a reasonably fresh take on the character. Looking forward to watching the sequel.
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I watched the Kenneth Branagh version of Murder On The Orient Express and really enjoyed it. Great cast and a nice old-school classic feel to the whole thing. Not sure how well it would work if you’re not already an Agatha Christie/Poirot fan, but credit to Branagh he did manage to offer a reasonably fresh take on the character. Looking forward to watching the sequel.
Is the sequel going to be Murder On The Occidental Express?
No, it’s manslaughter if it happens occidentally.
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I caught up with Westworld S4… well shit, that was a ballsy ending, I’m guessing that’s the end of the series too. Anyhow, thanks to S3 & 4 it’s gone up in my appreciation… S2 still feels like a massive waste of time (for the most part), but at least they managed to do something more interesting with the following seasons.
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Also, capping off the Breaking Bad universe with someone baking bread is one of the best silly puns ever.
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I caught up with Westworld S4… well shit, that was a ballsy ending, I’m guessing that’s the end of the series too. Anyhow, thanks to S3 & 4 it’s gone up in my appreciation… S2 still feels like a massive waste of time (for the most part), but at least they managed to do something more interesting with the following seasons.
Yeah I was happy with how this season went. Although it dipped in the middle a little bit, it was pretty good overall and the most coherent season since the first one. Characters you could care about and a story that made sense.
While they could end the show here, it feels like they might try and cap things off with one last season. We’ll see I guess.
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Eh, I don’t see them continuing tbh… I mean they kinda killed everyone except Dolores… and I mean the entire human and host races =P
Nah, there are quite a few loopholes/wiggle room left open that means a lot of that stuff could still play a part in season five.
The main question for me is not whether the story has anywhere to go, as the setup for a further (final?) season was fairly clear at the end. The question is more whether HBO will spend the money on what is presumably a very expensive show with an increasingly convoluted story that more and more appeals only to die-hard fans.
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I watched the Kenneth Branagh version of Murder On The Orient Express and really enjoyed it. Great cast and a nice old-school classic feel to the whole thing. Not sure how well it would work if you’re not already an Agatha Christie/Poirot fan, but credit to Branagh he did manage to offer a reasonably fresh take on the character. Looking forward to watching the sequel.
Watched Death on the Nile tonight and enjoyed it just as much. These are good old-fashioned whodunits that make me wish we had more of these kinds of movies. I guess Knives Out is the next closest thing.
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Watched Nomadland tonight. I thought it was pretty good – weirdly it kind of reminded me of Lost In Translation as while the story was pretty light and thin, it did a great job of conveying a mood, a vibe. Very atmospheric. And Frances McDormand was as great as ever. One of those films that I think will stick in my mind for a while.
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I’m not actually sure that the BCS finale worked for me. I guess they had two options – either he gets away with it all, or he doesn’t. They went with a third option of he could get away with it, more or less, but chooses not to but I don’t think they made that work to be honest.
It didn’t work as a means to protect Kim as nothing he said would have prevented Howard’s widow from pursuing a civic case (and his mere presence and testimony surely makes it likelier for Kim to be subjected to a criminal case as well).
I guess the idea was to have Saul finally take responsibility for his actions but the stakes being set to such an extreme of choosing 86 years in a maximum security prison rather than 7 years in a comfortable prison just made it come across as quite daft. I don’t think he was even being entirely honest/accurate in his testimony. Granted, I can’t quite recall what he did in BB in specific but there is definitely truth to his earlier argument of being intimidated by Walter White into helping him take things to even uglier places – and the cartel in the BCS years. He certainly initiated criminal activity but he got in way over his head and things spiralled out of control owing to other people’s actions.
Then there was the fan service getting way too indulgent. Why on earth would Marie have even been present to watch Saul’s interrogation from behind the mirror? Unlike the cameos in the past few episodes those in the flashback scenes here added nothing of substance. It feels like it would have been appropriate to have one with Chuck and Howard but they only had one of those guys and the others that they used were largely aimless.
None of the Gene stuff factored into the conclusion, although I presume he would still be open to prosecution for his crimes in Nebraska. He reached a point in those episodes in which he was fuelled by anger, getting completely out of control and indulging in basic, thoughtless crimes. The whiplash of him changing his motivations to wanting to be open and honest was too jarring to convince.
Maybe if I ever get around to rewatching BB then my opinion on the character will change but I think it would have worked better had he served the 7 years and then finally demonstrated an ability to control himself and work with Kim in the legal aid centre so they can be together and use their skills for actual good, without money as a motivating factor.
Any indicators of what happened to Skyler and Walt Jr and the other kid? Did the kids even wind up getting any college money or was everything Walter made confiscated? I’m not sure if they ever clarified that.
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Any indicators of what happened to Skyler and Walt Jr and the other kid? Did the kids even wind up getting any college money or was everything Walter made confiscated? I’m not sure if they ever clarified that.
There’s a section in the Gene episode where he phones his secretary that talks about what happened to Skyler – from memory I think it suggests she got a decent deal and things worked out OK for her.
I caught that part but would have liked more details on it somehow. The thing that kickstarted the events of BB was Walter wanting to ensure there was money available for his family’s future. It would have been nice to know if he did actually manage to leave money somewhere that they could access or if it was all gone and his actions were actually for nothing.
My issues with the finale aside, it was rather amusing that Saul seems to have made everyone regard his as the mastermind behind the Heisenberg empire and left Walter being depicted as a dope that he manipulated. One last Grey Matter style kick in the teeth for Walter, even in death.
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Yep, I get that’s what they were going for but I don’t think it worked – at least not for me. I don’t think his actions will help Kim. She’s still subject to a civil lawsuit from Mrs Howard. His testimony helps to corroborate her story and so may even expose her to criminal prosecution again, since the point of that not being an option for the authorities was a lack of witnesses. Aside from all of that she seemingly gets left to continue living in her Florida purgatory, without the love of her life. If he really wanted to help her I think it would have been stronger for him to take the shorter sentence, reunite with her and then prove that they could actually live and grow together as decent people using their legal skills for the greater good.
Ah, well. At least we got the line “Your honour, I would like to be removed from this case.” Funniest moment the show has had in a long time.
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The Blacklist will soon enter Season 10. I think everyone is continually surprised it keeps getting renewed. I will say that the show does improve with Keen gone. Season 10 actually looks like it may finally move beyond her.
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I think everyone is continually surprised it keeps getting renewed.
Yeah, sorta like Supernatural in that way. It’s kinda ridiculous.
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I’m catching up with Only Murders in the Building season 2. The show is as great as ever, it has that mix of being genuinely funny, I snigger out loud several times an episode, and the whodunnit element works just as well too.
I love that Martin and Short, at their ages, are putting out some of their best ever work. Martin has some stone cold classics in his back catalogue but I think at age 72 this is the best thing Short has ever done.
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Absolutely. They’re both great in it (as is Selena Gomez) but Short just seems to be having so much fun with the whole thing. He’s great.
I also think the writing walks a really fine line between offering genuine drama and strong character stuff while also being pretty cartoonish and silly and self-effacing a lot of the time. You find yourself really engaged by it and then laughing at how nonsensical it all is, often within seconds of each other.
It sounds overly simplistic to say it, but it’s just a case of everything working and pulling in the same direction: great writing, excellent performances and chemistry, good directing… even smaller elements like the music work perfectly. It’s a show that has clearly been made with a lot of love and care.
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Now up to episode 4 of Sandman. I was half-expecting to hate #3 because of Jenna Coleman, but actually she does a great job. It then occurred to me that I’ve never seen her in anything except Doctor Who, and the reason she annoys me is because Clara annoys me, not because of the actress :D
And everything about #4 was just perfect. I actually cried.
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Watching The Warriors on Showtime 2. They’ve been playing it quite a bit.
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Christel and I watched the five I Am Groot shorts on Disney+.
They cute and a lot of fun. Each is about 5 minutes long which is the perfect amount of time. They are very enjoyable and make for a great palate cleanser.
They are a fun way to spend a few minutes.
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Tonight I watched Beavis and Butthead do the Universe.
This movie is as stupid as it is funny. Nothing too unexpected here, it’s just Beavis and Butthead as usual with some modern sensibilities (just a few) thrown in.
B&B might not be everybodys cup of tea, but I laughed out loud a few times. It’s not brilliant, the last movie was better, but it’s familiar and welcome.
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I’ve had the urge to watch an old Shaw Bros HK martial arts movie for a while now and I finally made time for it today. But, across all the various streaming and TV platforms available, I could literally only find one: Crippled Avengers. Not a name Marvel will be looking to appropriate any time soon, I imagine.
Anyway, it’s wonderfully ridiculous. A local crime lord type guy is widowed and his son has his arms cut off (by… well, it’s not made clear who they are), so the guy gets him iron prosthetics and teaches him kung fu. This is not a Crippled Avenger. When the kid comes of age, the father rounds up the sons of all the men who killed his wife and crippled his son. He has the kid test out his iron hands on them, but only crippling them, not killing them. These are also not the Crippled Avengers.
Some other people get crippled by the iron hands guy and his dad for petty reasons and they band together, get taught kung fu and seek revenge. One is blinded, one is made deaf and mute, one has his legs cut off and one is, erm, given brain damage that makes him child-like (but he already knew kung fu, so becomes an idiot savant type).
There are some wonderfully silly elements. There’s a long training sequence (standard) but it doesn’t actually bother to show progression, so you get “ok blind guy, you need to use your hearing to compensate for your lack of sight. Throw these darts at falling leaves” and he does it perfectly first try. The deaf mute is given a lot of mirrors to wear to increase his sight, which I guess is an advantage, but no-one thinks to teach him how to lip-read and his rudimentary sign language is dropped in favour of palm writing. The silliest thing though is that the one with no legs is given iron prosthetics, with which he easily kills a mid-boss. So the film then just keeps giving him nothing to do, for no reason. He turns up to the final battle really late having been doing f all. At least give him a horde of minions to have been working through. Also, I’d forgotten just quite how perfunctory the endings to these can be. They kill the boss and walk off. The end. Don’t even pick up the body of their comrade that died.
The real highlight is the fight choreography though. There are some amazing sequences, especially near the end, when Iron Fists fights Daredevil (I have no idea what the actual character names are). It’s on Prime video and worth checking out.
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On a related note, here’s a really interesting blog post about how dubbing worked for HK films back in the 70s.
Same people who dubbed the Japanese Transformers cartoons…
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On a related note, here’s a really interesting blog post about how dubbing worked for HK films back in the 70s.
Same people who dubbed the Japanese Transformers cartoons…
Yeah, I was wondering while watching the film if it was the same people, as there were some very similar voices and intonations.
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Started on WestWorld S4, which didn’t take long to go full-on dystopian. I’m up to episode 4 now, and things have escalated.
The twist that Caleb’s daughter is the older girl Bernard met was easy to see coming, but it was still pretty nice (if depressing) how Maeve’s and Caleb’s story played out. Interesting to see Bernard in a kind of Paul Atreides retracing the steps he saw make the future role – that’ll be fun to see play out.
Anyway, I’m completely hooked once again. It’s a great show, and I’ve loved every season of this (if not equally).
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In case you need conclusive proof that film critics
can’t be trustedshould be executed en masse:
I mean, I can see that Highlander has a lot of structural and story problems, some acting issues, while also being a bit flimsy moviemaking at times. It’s not exactly a masterpiece of the craft, but it’s entertaining as hell! It’s a bag of crisps with dip, it’s food from McDonalds.
But Highlander II? That’s a fucking latrine. A latrine with a hand grenade in it. Even if you’re vieiwing it from a distance, you might go blind.
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Nah, that’s proof that review aggregator sites are dogshit. Note that Highlander II has twice as many reviews as Highlander, so it has more scope for middling reviews drag up the score, and that’s not accounted for in the final rating.
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Note that Highlander II has twice as many reviews as Highlander
I did take note of that, and I was leaving it out of my original analysis because I felt like calling for genocide for comedic effect.
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