I don’t even see how paying a billion dollars plus for all of this is actually a money making proposition to begin with. It’s gonna take centuries to make all of that back on Prime subs.
I don’t even see how paying a billion dollars plus for all of this is actually a money making proposition to begin with. It’s gonna take centuries to make all of that back on Prime subs.
Other shows don’t cost as much though…
Most 12-22 episode seasons usually only get good around episode 6.
I loved it as a kid. They did put together a great cast for it. It’s just had little to do with Mario other than the characters and a few references. It just felt like that the writers and producers didn’t know which direction to go or how to start with and what it wanted to be never really clear. Like it was more…
Yeah but that’s because they’re games, how much more “innovative” and “groundbreaking” can a movie about Mario be? Gonna add Smell-o-vision? Just make it that one joke movie from Futurama and let the audience decide what happens at pivotal moments?
Loved it as a kid, still love it today. Such a weirdly cool movie.
The original film is enjoyable as a deeply weird blockbuster that simply wouldn’t exist in today’s studio environment. But yeah, while I think it reaches “so weirdly bad it wraps around to being fun again”, I can see why it doesn’t for lots of people. And if you do that with a favorite IP, it’s almost always going to…
Am I the only person alive who actually kind of enjoys watching Bob Hoskins and Jon Leguizamo drunk on scotch running around in dino-blade-runner New York while Dennis Hopper sleazes around harder than he’s ever sleazed before? I get that it wasn’t an appropriate Mario Brothers adaptation, but I still think... it’s..…
As far as I know they paid for 5 seasons, so they’re making them whether they’re good or shitty.
I never read the LotR books when I was a kid because they seemed to take themselves SO SERIOUSLY, but the movies were decent enough (at least in the extended editions). So I figured I’d give the Hobbit a chance, and the first movie was amazingly bad. I read the Hobbit book afterwards as an adult and really enjoyed it,…
All I care about this is if there’s fan service and will my kid like it and it looks like a “yes” on both fronts.
Cautious optimism blossoming into regular optimism.
Jesus, right? The transparent money grab of turning The Hobbit into 3 movies. WTF was that? That was one of my favorite books growing up. Everyone else my age (late teens and early 20s) when the LotR movies came out was stoked about those, because they loved LotR, and I was all amazed how pretty it was but bored to…
All the money in the world can’t save mediocre writing.
Vox’s second season started in January.
I was gonna write about the same thing, this show looked super boring and I just don’t have the care and passion to dive back into middle-earth after Everything Else.
It is weird that nobody talks about how the godawful Hobbit movie trilogy killed a lot of interest in this. I just keep seeing reference to the LOTR trilogy as though nothing else hsppened in between.
Better Call Saul was much better than Breaking Bad IMO, for whatever it's worth.
The show was absolutely excellent. In all but one aspect, that I’m afraid makes it virtually unwatchable.
And then there’s the much larger percentage (like me) who never even started because it just didn’t sound great and the noise from people watching it was not convincing.