I loved Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The sequel was disappointing despite some fun ideas and abilities. And their Tomb Raider sequel had the best tombs of the new trilogy, even if the story was prone to heavyosity.

Understood and agree that Ellis shouldn’t be coming back considering the circumstances. I’m just not expecting Netflix to go hire another comparable writer because they’ve already got their audience established.

The sad thing is, she’s still an extremely good writer, and arguably a good critic, but only when she “gets it”, and surprisingly often, she just doesn’t “get it”. Reading her wikipedia entry I see this is actually not an uncommon criticism of her, apparently I’m not alone in thinking this.

He also made Absolute Power, which randomly I watched for the first time this week. (Boredom+Tubi)

There is a non-zero chance that they’ll be able to match the quality, but I’m not holding my breath. Ellis made this series way better than it had any right to be; they could have shit out some paint-by-numbers story and still turned a profit.

I assume the whole point of rebooting this as a separate show and not just a new season was to get rid of Warren Ellis.

That might be the lowest moment of Clints career and I’m not even joking

Richard Jewell had a lot of good acting but that stuff with Kathy Scruggs was really sleazy. Also I couldn’t help but notice the whole narrative of innocent man framed by media and FBI and the actual crazy right wing bomber isn’t really discussed. I’m not dumb Clint I know what your doing.

On a purely dramatic level, Clint Eastwood’s Chris Kyle is a perfectly compelling character. But given that American Sniper is a depiction that celebrates Kyle as a war hero and shows us his funeral, the movie fully snipes itself in the foot by lionizing a shitty guy.

Late Eastwood movies only seem to be popular or talked about when they’re very bad. Whenever he makes something genuinely interesting or good, it gets largely ignored. American Sniper is embarassingly terrible and it was a huge hit. I’ll never understand it.

The only thing audacious about 15:17 To Paris is how bad it is.

Dirty Harry is definitely a reactionary movie, although you could easily point to Magnum Force to say Dirty Harry the character is not.

...that’s the most pretentious fucking title I’ve ever heard.

I still remember that scene in 15:17 where Pam from the Office said I trust god more then math. What a mess of a film.

One of my favourite critics, who has a big Eastwood soft spot, suggested that Eastwood added a touch of subversion\cynicism to the film...

Should we get the arguing about whether American Sniper is right-wing propaganda out of the way now, or wait for next week?

It’s hard to guess where his vision was compromised in a game about...apocalyptic Amazon workers with fetal ghost detectors? But who knows.

Jurassic Park is my all-time favorite movie. The sequels are all varying degrees of crap. So while I am always excited to see new Jurassic-related movies, my expectations are incredibly low.

I don’t know how you could have high expectations after that last film making no fucking set what-so-ever from start to finish.

That this sixth film in the franchise is doing something so bold and new makes us even more excited for it—and that’s along with the fact it’s bringing back Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern from the original trilogy of films. Plus the fact this is attached to F9 is just the cherry on top.