I caught this at a drive in as well. I didn’t know the source material at all so I came in with no preconcieved notions about the characters. Well, that’s not entirely true, they did cast Arya Stark as the one who transforms into Nymeria.

Mostly I found it kind of dull. Maybe I’m too old but none of the characters…

I think I rented that from Blockbuster and remembering that a bunch of the levels seemed to be only half completed.  Like they would have all of these spots that seemed like they should be populated with enemies, but were entirely empty. 

Yeah, I thought The Bouncer was a launch title too. I guess that’s what I get for waiting a bit before buying my PS2. I don’t think I ever truely finished it. I remember there was something about going through it multiple times and being stronger each time and maybe there was some boss that got unlocked if you got…

I think this movie could have an amazing Rifftrax.

While I agree with you on principle, from what I understand this movie is excessively ham handed with the political commentary. 

It’s reality TV, everything is scripted.  I assume the corporate PR for each company basically goes over what they want to see in the episode and the producers write the script and deliver it to the poor peons working the counter at whatever franchise location is unlucky enough to be closest to where the CEO lives. 

Isn’t the racism the entire point of the story? It has been many years since I read it but I recall the big message being that being a Gentleman is dependant on the support of society and an Educated White Guy going into Africa becomes a savage because he’s away from the support of civilized people around him. So the…

People who ban books aren’t that great at reading them either. They hear a rumor that the character swears or maybe talks about sex or something and it’s off to the bonfire with it. Then you actually read the thing and there’s basically nothing there to object to. It’s a big tease with no payoff.

The Scarlett Letter isn’t that bad. If you want a book that really surprises you in a bad way try reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow expecting a monster story about the Headless Horseman. Surprise! It’s actually a really stodgy and religious book!

Is there a way to distinguish between a novel that doesn’t care if you like it, and a novel that is just bad? From what I could make of Gravity’s Rainbow there isn’t really that much to the plot, and most of the difficulty comes from the seemingly pointless digressions and from the author simply being unclear. Like…

Heart of Darkness is what the kids who looked at the book list and said “which one is shortest” ended up reading. So they were already predisposed to not liking the book, and the fact that it is somewhat inscrutable, slow, and ultimately unsatisfying makes it easy to hate.

I had to read it in High School and the prose…

There’s basically no payoff for the Ciri plotline in season 1.  She’s trapped in backstory hell for almost the entirety of the season.  She should have a lot more to do in the second season. 

The sense of grim fantasy realism is definitely out the door when Geralt is attempting to fish a genie out of a lake because he has insomnia and wants to wish himself a good night sleep.

Maybe the producers were disappointed that they didn’t get a dagger themed boob window on Olivia Holt’s costume.

It seems like an impossible situation to describe exactly because even people who are pansexual don’t agree on the definition. No matter how you try to define it there will be people very angry at you for misrepresenting the thing that makes them special.

Did he ever realize it or is he still stuffed too far up his own asshole to notice that the world exists?

I didn’t know. All I knew about her was that she was the charisma vacuum that got trapped in those Twilight movies.

I saw the movie in the theaters when it came out, but I was really young and don’t remember a single thing about it except that it was pretty dark for a kids movie and that it was pretty boring. 

I am weirdly not as annoyed with this as I was expecting. However, I hope that Netflix has a requirement that they are only allowed to adopt material that is already complete. No writing your own material from scratch.

The pro-anarchy angle is especially funny because these “anarchists” had so many damn rules.  It’s a running gag how many times people bring up “the rules” in their anarchist society.