Spaceman Spiff

A bit of a slog to get through for me. I was never "I really need to see the next episode" so it took me bit finally finish. Everything was happening too slow, long drawn out visual shots or peoples reactions didn't hold my attention and get me asking for more. Worst character was Max. At first I was all "fist pump" when he let his knight die (cause he was an asshole) and he got the armor, I was thinking now he's gonna prove himself, but nope he was still just a big idiot. I can't bear to watch someone who consistently fails upward. I'll watch a 2nd season, but won't be eagerly anticipating it.

No but I do get Georgina Haig.

Never played the game, but I really liked the opening sequence with Goggins and his little girl, very impactful.

My thought process during this episode. Oh look Nolan got Emerson for this new show. Awesome And they gave him a dog like in Person of Interest. Double Awesome Crap they took his leg away. Fuck they killed his dog. Oh wait they gave him a new leg. Crap he has to walk with a limp like he did all of PoI. Ooooh the dog wasn't killed. Awesome. Crap the Ghoul gonna use the dog to track Emerson. Fuck Emerson just killed himself. Best line of the episode. "I'd offer you a cherry tomato, but you have hole in your neck" I was also getting Fin/Ren Force Awakens vibes for Lucy/Max when they met in the town.

Jenna Ortega is really becoming the go to actress to carry the torch in these iconic IPs, first Wednesday and now this, and I am here for it. Good to see Winona back for this as well.

I caught this trailer this week and it was just a giant NOPE for me. The look they gave Eric made me cringe as it looks like he was a reject for Jared Leto's Joker which was the worst interpretation of that character. So I am in the group that loves the original and saw no need for a remake. It's a sad time when the only ideas they come up with these days is doing remakes of movies that don't need to be remade (see Roadhouse).

I completely agree. Also, I must be in the minority in that I do not find anything appealing about Gosling as an actor, and keep scratching my head as to how he became A List leading man material.

Kraven will tank just as badly. All these "spider verse" movies are just dumb and make no sense without Spiderman, because otherwise no one care about these characters. I'm actually surprised one movie made it over 50%

We already knew this 2 years ago when he appeared in the Hawkeye Disney+ show.

I gave the first 2 episodes a try, and I don't think I will be continuing since I found all the acting to be utterly atrocious. Which surprised me, since I thought the lead looked like the kid from The Adam Project, who I thought was excellent in that. I found out he was and wondered why his acting has devolved so badly. Must be the director I guess. None of these kids can act. At all. The adults weren't much better. So again, is this on the director? Besides the subpar performance of the folks attached to this project, the dark scenes were too dark visually, and the editing was god awful as well. The quick cuts to black in what seemed like a scene that should be ongoing were really jarring. It almost seemed like they were cutting this with commercials in mind.

I really didn't understand why Nathan and Nora had to work for the farmers. They brought the HDD of the son, accepted a dinner and a stay for the night, so what they had to work the meal and the beds off? That didn't make any sense considering they had a duffel full of other HDD they had to get to other families. I also don't get how Luke hasn't seen NuNathan in Lakeview yet. I felt the pork cancer, the cow with teets that gave different milk/cheese and Ingrid forcing Tinsley to make her avatar look Shrekish with extra boobs was bordering on making this show a farce.

They seemed to be making Matteo extra dickish so we wouldn't mind when he got shot, at least I didn't.

He is what ruined the last episode of season 1 and the new Ant Man movie for me. I don't find him to be a good or compelling actor either.

Reverse grip doesn't mean holding the blades point down.

At least we finally saw Ahsoka's classic reverse grip on the light saber this battle. All series long during every fight all I could see/think is "that not how Ahsoka holds her blades."

Reminds me of the TV series Manhattan that aired on WGN America back in 2014. I do get a wee bit tired of seeing Cillian Murphy in Nolan's films though.

I agree. Twilight Zone or Cabinet of Curiosities that I recently watched. I really haven't like many of the shows this season, it veered more toward horror instead of technology/futuristic. Plus so many episodes had loooong drawn out scenes that never seemed to end, and some very dark lighting that made it difficult to watch.

The only episode I liked out of an extremely boring season. Salma Hayek saying "Fuck Cate Blanchett" with suck vigor made me laugh.

Watched this last night. It was ok in my opinion. Nothing really made me laugh out loud, I would say I always had a wry smile on my face though. Small things like Dr Demento always being in his top hat, the Eat It song being an original and how furious Al got when he thought Michael Jackson parodied it, Madonna becoming a drug lord because it was all just "business", all the celebs at Demento's pool party. Jack Black as Wolfman Jack was a good casting since I used to listen to Wolfman, but whomever they had do PeeWee Herman was waaay too short. At times I had to remind myself that this was a parody of Al's life when things go a little over the top. I personally think UHF was a better movie, so many LOL moments in the one.

I watched it this weekend on MAX and agree with most of what you stated here, it was my major complaint about the first movie. The first movie would have been a ton better if this didn't occur there. I like Levi and think he is a good actor. But I blame the script for both movies as well as direction. They seem to have wanted Levi to play it this way which is wrong. They do make a passing joke in this movie of "So much for the Wisdom of Soloman..." Jerry O'Connell did way better with the voice acting on the JLU with the occasional "golly" "gee" and such when he spoke.

Good to know, I look forward to watching the tv series again, I enjoyed it when it first ran.

I thought this scene was for more for Edgin's promise to Xenk that he would return the gold to the people and that his group would not keep all the treasure. So it was more threefold in it's purpose. Give the spoils to the people, while also spurring them on to flee the area as well as keep Forge from fleeing as he would return for his ill gotten gains.

I thought the reveal that Edgin actually stole a piece of the red wizard gold which led them to come after his family and that it was indeed all of his fault was a slight twist. Sorry you found it so predictable, that can definitely lessen a movie in ones eyes.

In the minority since lots of folks here seem to be ohhh Lizzo, ahhh droid bar. Didn't care for Lizzo (don't know who she is) nor her "acting" and the droid bar to me was a big WTF?!? Star Wars droids have all shown to have distinct personalities for sure, but that bar reeked too much of sentient life. Since when do droids congregate together, much less express a "we don't mind being your slaves and doing the crap work for you." ?? Random obscure laws on the planet to forbid them from using the Mandalorian force already at their beck and call was just dumb. The claiming of the Dark Saber went pretty much by rote, since once Bo had freed Din in the prior episode it only made logical sense. Guess all episodes can't be winners, and this was at least far better than any 1st half episodes of BoBF.

A really enjoyable movie. The story properly zigged when I thought it would zag. My favorite easter egg was seeing the crew from the Dungeons & Dragons (TV series) as another group within the maze (they were in the cage). The displacer beast was cool as was the mimic treasure chest, and I really liked all the wild shapes from the druid. Everyone had a moment to shine. Having read all the Forgotten Realm novels it was also cool to hear all the locations and names that brought back memories from those books.