These first two episodes have been delicious. I expect a bright future with this show! Especially as an ensemble rather than a star-driven cast. The Good Wife gave us five seasons of transcendent television, but it wasn't until the sixth season that it became apparent just what an amazing job the Kings had been doing…
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Personally, I don't think it ever gets truly bad (although there is some disagreement amongst fans about this). As I said, the acting, the dialogue, the procedural courtroom stuff, all of that stays strong. But from season six to the end, Alicia manages to wind up in a parallel narrative universe that has basically no…
The Good Wife crashed in my rankings too, but personally I think that practically all of its later-season problems stemmed from long-term plotting mistakes and behind-the-scenes drama. Even as the show took Alicia in a terribly stupid direction and bizarrely isolated her from all the original characters, the courtroom…
One of the benefits of Netflix dumping everything at once is that I don't have to deal with the incessant Internet over-analyzing of every episode for a week after it airs, which damn near ruins Westworld and Mr. Robot for me. Just let me be surprised by something every once in awhile, assholes!
Thanks Captain Cynical, but visual effects can still impress some of us, especially when they're used in such a creative fashion as they were in Doctor Strange. It all comes down to whether the filmmakers want us to be impressed simply by the effects themselves (hello, Jupiter Ascending!) or by what's happening within…
Fuck no. *Please* let's keep Star Trek off network television forever. UPN (and Rick Berman's stunning lack of creative courage) is the reason Voyager was straitjacketed into being off-brand TNG, rather than being allowed to develop its own premise.
"…who no one actually wanted."
In hindsight her strategy was misguided. But the mistake was one of misplaced idealism rather than incompetence, in my view. I too genuinely thought that someone as vile as Trump would prove repellent to a majority of people across party lines, and at many points in the campaign the polling also pointed at that. She…
From a completely pragmatic, electability perspective, Hillary wasn't the best option available to the Democrats.
……like who????
Again, just because you can't spot the difference between the styles of different film makers, don't assume the rest of us can't.
I'm pretty confident that in 25 years, BvS will occupy the same niche in pop-culture memory as Batman & Robin: a hazily-remembered disaster which is only ever brought up in conversation as a benchmark for how fucking badly a movie can suck. So bad that people won't even want to watch it ironically.
Just because you guys can't spot the difference between a movie directed by Kenneth Branagh and one directed by Shane Black, please don't try telling the rest of us we don't know anything about movies. Holy fuck.
The problem with the stupid bullshit on social media is not that there isn't also good, truthful, accurate reporting available through it. The problem is that stupid people don't want the truth and are now either incapable of critically evaluating lies or are unwilling to do so.
Mandatory retirment age for the armed forces (well, the Australian ones anyway) is currently 55. Kirk's not wrong to be concerned!
FYI - the full piece is on YouTube. I still like it!
They just bored me, and didn't really have anything in the way of an arc. None of our characters are particularly changed by events in the movie. Jyn Erso is pretty much the same person in the end as we're presented with at the start. Diego Luna kills a guy at the start but then doesn't kill Galen later, so that's a…
Here is my in-depth review of Godzilla, circa 2014:
Okay then! I've got the day off and nothing better to do than flesh out my argument in an Internet comment that won't change anybody's mind, so I present to you: