Hurl Bruce
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Watching Invincible on Prime. It's the cartoon version of The Boys, sort of. Pretty good for a cartoon. Couple episodes left.
It was fine. It was like GoT without Peter dinklageAny rating on House of Dragon? I don't want to look in the spoiler thread because I haven't watched it yet and will probably wait until there are a few more episodes to start.
Very solid start.Any rating on House of Dragon? I don't want to look in the spoiler thread because I haven't watched it yet and will probably wait until there are a few more episodes to start.
Anybody watch Animal Kingdom? I saw a few season premiere promos while watching hockey the other night. My parents watched and recommended it but wanted to see if anybody else watches/watched it? Need a new show to watch from the beginning
Finished Terminal List on Prime. Critics way off base on this one as usual (obvious from audience score) Thoroughly enjoyed it.
I looked up the critics reviews and I think most just thought it would have made for a better 2 hour movie than an 8 episode season. I watched it and liked it but I can see where they are coming from. It's just the age of movies vs TV that we are in and it's just easier to get a streaming service to make a TV show than a studio to make a movie.
A TV show seems to be more valuable to a streaming services library than a movie that they throw a big budget at. This could have been a movie that a streaming service made as one of the few bigger budget features they put out each year but I think it would have buzzed for a week then fallen out of the algorithm for 99% of people.
I'd rather have the potential of more seasons of Terminal List vs a one off movie like the Tomorrow War that Amazon and Chris Pratt made last year.
Eh, most of the critics I saw disliked it because oh my, it portrays a big bad military man killing bad guys as the protagonist We can’t have that in this day and age! needless to say, they are silly and I’ll leave it at that.
As for your point though, I’d much rather have 8 hours of story than 2 hours as long as it’s well done. This worked better as a TV show imo. I love movies as well, but I dislike when stories are condensed into tiny packages. I did read a little bit about the source material for this and I’m not sure there needs to be more seasons, but I’d watch it if they did.
Eh, most of the critics I saw disliked it because oh my, it portrays a big bad military man killing bad guys as the protagonist We can’t have that in this day and age! needless to say, they are silly and I’ll leave it at that.
I mean, most everyone seemed to love Reacher, which is exactly what you just described, so perhaps there's more to it than that?
Note that I haven't watched Terminal List nor do I know anything about it.
Haven’t seen Reacher myself. To be frank, a segment of critics seemed to be ascribing political leanings to the show that just weren’t there.
The dissonance between critic and audience score is one of the most apparent I’ve seen. It’s actually one of the reasons I finally tried it, and ultimately came across the dialogue regarding its critic response. Anyways, it’s a good show - granted it’s right in my wheelhouse and just like anything it probably isn’t for everybody. But you’d be hard pressed to think it deserves a 29% rotten on RT.
A few of us are beating around the bush to call out a lot of the critics you see today as resembling activists rather than critics or journalists.Haven’t seen Reacher myself. To be frank, a segment of critics seemed to be ascribing political leanings to the show that just weren’t there.
The dissonance between critic and audience score is one of the most apparent I’ve seen. It’s actually one of the reasons I finally tried it, and ultimately came across the dialogue regarding its critic response. Anyways, it’s a good show - granted it’s right in my wheelhouse and just like anything it probably isn’t for everybody. But you’d be hard pressed to think it deserves a 29% rotten on RT.