That’s perfectly fair. As a recap-heavy review of the pilot, I found the piece fine. But would I say it succeeds at describing the general outline of the show to someone unfamiliar with the books in an elegant, lucid way, as one might hope from a pop culture web site built on great prose? Not so much.
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Depends on what you’re looking for. For a recap review, it’s fine. For those who’ve read the whole series, it’s a bit superficial. But for those who haven’t read a page of the books, it’s a pretty big list of characters and subplots dumped in a hurry.
Aye, but somehow, Y: The Last Man - Except for Several Hundred Thousand Others, and Maybe Some Trans Folks, if We Decide to Maybe Go in that Direction a Little Bit doesn’t have quite the same ring...
Yeah, that’s not a valid excuse for a regressive, one-note character.
“I personally don’t think she’s a hero - I’m just surprised that nobody does. Tripp blew the whistle on the most powerful man in the world.”
Given how cartoonishly adolescent-boy-wish-fulfillment Lily James’ role in Baby Driver was, I can absolutely picture Wright totally whiffing a movie with a woman protagonist.
Maybe, just maybe, someone who just signed up to make a movie for Disney, which uses its clout with distributors to bully smaller movies out of theater screens (and pretty much everything is smaller than a Disney movie), shouldn’t be so sniffy about other ways to deliver films to the masses?
Yeah, to not mention United 93 at all is definitely a bit weird.
Ke Huy Quan? Is that you, buddy?!
“Inexplicable the original didn’t launch a series.” - Really? Allow me to explicate: the movie’s kinda dull. It takes nearly an hour for the Rocketeer-ing to being. Campbell is adequate in the role as written, but nothing more. Connolly looks amazing, yes, but her character is also fairly flat. Having the leads start…
Post-TLJ, Hipster Law now states that Luke Skywalker began sucking the moment the Endor celebrations ended, and that no further positive depictions of him from that point in the saga onward will be tolerated.
I watched two whole seasons of Rebels. The animation sucked, the stories were rubbish, and the characters were dull. It was a bad show.
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Wait, do we want six-year-olds (of any gender) to look “cool, fashionable, and dangerous”?
You’re certainly entitled to your overall opinion, but it wouldn’t make sense for a character to viciously kill the Manson Family attackers while tripping acid if he wasn’t a genuine bruiser. The Bruce Lee scene establishes the character’s badassery in a context that still allows viewers to be surprised when he…
No, if you watch the interview, QT says the character is an extremely badass WW2 veteran. Which, okay, fair.
To be fair, “buy The AV Club, fire all the hack writers, and hire back the good ones” is totally on my Multimillionaire Bucket List.
It’s not that Tarantino doesn’t get that, given he’s a white guy and the main characters in his movie are white, there’s a crowd that expects him to make artistic reparations for genuine historical racism at every turn. It’s that he doesn’t care about that kind of scorekeeping.
Damn, that whole “Update” part is one helluva burn...
I was the same way for a long time, but then broke down and watched them, and they’re actually pretty great. Especially when they stopped trying to come across as serious in any way, and embraced the goofiness of whatever they’re discussing.