Best season of TV since True Detective S1*. Lindelof revamped this story for modern times and recontextualized old canon in ways that stayed true to Moore’s original intent, or at least it feels that way.
Really hope the show ends here, as this lone season makes for an excellent epilogue to the comic.
*I barely watch TV so this opinion is v uninformed.
I polished off the last 5 episodes last night and..... meh.
Devs does a lot of things right, but unfortunately the things it does wrong (1 specific thing) are placed front and center.
The One Thing is that I just did not know what to make of Sonoya Mizuno’s acting choices or direction. Her Shatner-like line delivery and often vacant expressions flat out did not engage me as a viewer. Even at the end when shit goes down, she has hardly…
At an appropriate time, I would very much be into another limited series adaptation, preferably on HBO. If it’s on Netflix I will commit arson.
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Spent the week watching this in pieces and boy did it impress.
A movie and a show are very different things, so there’s no real reason to compare them. I love them both for different reasons.
Given the gift of time, the TV show is the truer adaptation of the book (which is my favorite book of all time, as if it needed to be said) but not the better one in my opinion.
The film tweaks some things, combines…
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Shoulda been a movie.
I'm not going to echo too many of the criticisms (awkwardness, pacing, repetition) floating out there, just what got me the most.
Cinematography: This was of my own doing by watching Rogue One before I watched this, but as is the problem with the other Disney+ Star Wars shows there is a lack of "oomph" in the cinematography and visuals that I think Star Wars needs. I thought they would put a little more elbow grease…
Looking at the review spread for this one, it’s obvious that people’s opinions of Hillary are influencing their opinion of the documentary. Is that fair? Probably, because I certainly left this with the feeling that HRC was telling her story more than people were telling a story about her.
My opinion of Hillary? Mixed. From a politcal point of view, I’m a pretty staunch Democratic Socialist, and 2 of my last three votes for executive office are for Bernie Sanders.…
Joss Whedon’s Justice League > Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Because it’s shorter, less self-indulgent and had the “save one person” scene.
1 star per hour!
It took me three nights to finish this, and it was well worth the investment. Hamlet is a visually impressive, impeccably performed experiment that succeeds bringing one of Billy Shakes most known works to film without a single line out of place.
Loved it!
Is it good? You betcha.
Is it worth watching? Uh huh.
Do I think I'd love this if it was a tight 2 1/2 hours instead of pushing 4? Absolutely.
Pearce might give one of my 10 favorite performances of the decade here, but as a whole I just couldn’t get on this movie’s wavelength. Maybe I could have in the 2.5 hour version that’s buried within.
Well, I finally got around to watching the first (god willing, only) Trump show.
Quickly, my take on the October emails announcement is a little unusual in that I don’t think it decided the election. The further we get from 2016, the clearer it’s becoming to me at least that that election was decided the moment Hillary became the nominee. People were sick of her, the “corrupt” label was already firmly stuck to her and Trump’s base of loser white…
I’ve been eager to revisit this after Killers of the Flower Moon. Being only a few minutes longer, it’s interesting to see how Marty utilizes each film’s length and to what purpose.
Killers spends every available minute immersing you into a time and place that’s been both overlooked and underserved before now, using its final minutes to reckon with its own role in the tragedy-to-entertainment cycle. Irishman puts a character’s glory days and shopping of their own casket 50 years later…