I am a big defender of most things MCU, but this one I flat out disliked. It took the tone of Ragnarok and dialed it up to 11, and it was far, far too much. As soon as the godawful goats appeared I knew we going to get that joke 37 more times. Ugg.

I finally got around to watching this movie on D+. Really mediocre and disappointing coming off of the third Thor movie. I liked everything with Jane and her battle with cancer but not much else worked that well. And those goats - who watched those goats and thought, yep, we need these guys in every other scene.

Son, we used to have to wait seasons before a show got really good, and each season was 20+ episodes. Someone getting into X-Files or Fringe or Babylon 5 or Buffy or any iteration of Star Trek today would do well to first look up a list of the most essential episodes from season one before beginning.

All the additional stuff teased that was in the original cut is just too tantalizing not to see now. Entire huge name actors apparently appeared and were excised completely! Jeff Goldblum! Peter Dinklage! Lena Headey (who wasn’t even previously in the MCU so this would be an all new MCU character)!

I wouldn’t say that Donner’s version of Superman II is a gamechanger for Director’s Cuts, but it is night and day from the goofy as fuck Lester version. It only really falls down at the ending, where they went “We’ll figure something out when we get there”, got fired, and only had the rough cut Time Reversal idea from…

I agree, Andor is really good.

This is firmly in fantasy utopia territory, but I like the idea of longer cuts of movies being made available. Not necessarily for mass consumption, but maybe something like a JSTOR archive. I have little to no interest in watching a 4.5 hour Love and Thunder (and I even quite liked the theatrical cut) but all the…

I think that’s called world building. I suppose it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

The first episode moved at a decent clip. The second really kinda dragged, though. It seemed like the same conversation six or seven times and a lot of meaningless busywork. The third ep got where we needed to be, though. 

Tonally the movie was all over the damn place. So I’m not surprised that a movie goes from “Jane has terminal cancer” to “Thor finds his sole surviving childhood friend half-alive and mutilated, then makes a joke about her missing arm” also included a scene where Gorr carves off his own tattoos.

Rings of Power has WAY more ‘people standing around and talking’ BS than Andor so far.

If ILM had never told us what the Volume was, none of us would ever have guessed it.

Because those feel less like Star Wars and more like you’re excited eight year old friend explaining Star Wars to you on the playground because he saw the movie first.

There is a clearly an improved look, of this over the volume.

Honestly I thought the first 10 minutes of Andor were interested and quickly set up how it contrasts with other Star Wars series.

This how bored are people line of questioning is misguided, as the most generous reading.

Why are people so bored nowadays that they enjoy like multiple episodes of exposition? Like seriously how bored is everyone.

Someone was like “you have to wait for episode 4 for Sandman to get good” and it’s like fuck you no I don’t how bout I just don’t watch it. There was a review on here that said Andor needed to be a 3 episode premiere and it’s like fuck off if I’m not interested within the first half hour I’m not watching. Typically…

I gotta express myself here: I checked out Sandman, Rings of Power, and Andor. They all on the surface level seem like shows I would enjoy... I gave them all a fair shot and I just.... kept falling asleep. I like fantasy and sci-fi stuff but just.... why do these shows suddenly have like multiple hour long walls of…

I’m digging it so far, real interested to see where it’s going.