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That is the case, but the show takes place primarily in 2552 (the same year as Halo 1), 27 years after first contact at Harvest and by now there should be no "outer colonies revolting" plot by the time of Halo: Reach and Halo 1 yet in season 1 (and somewhat in season 2) the UNSC are "bad" is a bigger plotline than warring with the Covenant and stumbling on Halo which is just strange, but that's one aspect I don't have much issue with compared to everything else I mentioned. When you play the original games you get that the UNSC, like any militaristic organization, gets up to some shit but you never get the sense they are completely incompetent and evil like the higher ups are portrayed on the show. It's just a tonally strange swerve to make when adapting Halo of all things. But the human touch point I'm referring to is a McKee, who is a human raised from a young age to follow the Covenant and for some reason is still around and it's like: just give us the Arbiter from Halo 2 and make him the Covenant POV, no need for McKee (they almost did it with the not-Arbiter that was following McKee around, but that's not Keith David's Arbiter so who cares).

I land about where you do - the show isn't very good but whenever it tries to actually be like Halo (namely in the action sequences and the set, costume, and production designs) it's actually quite good. It's very unfortunate the show introduces the Flood wrong, has mystic mumbo jumbo, no Avery Johnson, the UNSC is "bad", etc. I feel like viewers deserve to get a season 3 after all the fucking about the show has been doing as an adaptation. And yes the human touch point has been a problem for two seasons now.

The weekend recap: -Road House (2024; dir. Doug Liman): 6/10 -Miami Vice: Unrated Director's Cut: 8/10 -Bulletproof Monk (2003; dir. Paul Hunter): 5/10 -Captain Marvel (2019; dirs. Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck): 6.5/10 -Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997; dir. Steven Spielberg): 7.5/10

The A.V. Club really liked the season, giving it a B+, which is promising as I'm about to dive into this series though Moa's take is tempering that a bit. 3 Body Problem review: So is this the next Game Of Thrones? WWW.AVCLUB.COM No, Netflix’s heady sci-fi series isn’t that (which is just fine by us).

As a big UC Gundam fan, I'll be watching, been interested in this given it's made in UE5.

Yeah as soon as they attack the bookstore the movie was like: "welp, let's forget about this plotline until the very last scene". It also felt like there should have been more of a relationship (non-romantic) between Dalton and the bar owner but she sort of disappears in the back half of the film, as most of the characters do.

That is correct, it was co-written by Michael Mann, came out a few years ago. It's both a prequel and a sequel to the original film. Mann has been using the novel as a jumping off point to get a film version off the ground, which is now happening, likely with Adam Driver (De Niro's role) and Austin Butler (Kilmer's role) in lead roles.

Yeah, I agree with this, having just seen it last night. The first half of the film is quite enjoyable, comes off as a Jake Gyllenhaal version of Denzel Washington's The Equalizer movies. The setting is utilized very well and director Doug Liman (who has more hits than misses) utilizes the live music at the bar quite well. The action also slaps (literally in one case) and so you're engaged on that level throughout (the amount of punishment everyone goes through in the extended finale action sequence was well done). You just have to go into this movie knowing it is nothing like Swayze's Road House. I'm not some super fan of that film, I consider it a "so bad it's good" movie. It's charming, stupid, silly, and fun. And very quotable. Jake Gyllenhaal does really well here but his version of Dalton isn't the "tough on the outside, but likely sweet on the inside" of Swayze's version. This version has a deep darkness that is lying just underneath the surface, more Nightcrawler than Road House, like a coiled snake. And Gyllenhaal plays the character as very laissez faire to everything that's happening around him which made the movie more amusing even with the darkness. Ultimately, Conor McGregor shows up in the back half and while he plays the character likely as written, it is very over the top and hammy. Each person's mileage will vary on him, I thought he was fine, the problem is unlike the original film, Doug Liman seems to be trying to make a real movie so when the movie has hammy over the top villains it doesn't really mesh tonally with the serious cinematography and internal main lead performance. And it doesn't help that in the back half of the film the film forgets about all the characters that were being established in the first half for just a bunch of fights with the villains, which is a shame because all the characters at the bar like Billy, the owner, and the bartender were interesting and I wanted to see more of them interacting with Dalton, stopping bar fights rather than the villain plot taking over the whole narrative. Ultimately, I'd give this a 6/10 with the caveat that the action is really fun to watch so it may be worth it on that level anyway (I'd give this more like a 6.2 or 6.3/10, it's not a 6.5 but 6.0 is a little harsh as well). Also Jake Gyllenhaal is distractingly ripped in this, so you can enjoy it on that level too as he is frequently shirtless.

Late this week, but here's the past weekend's recap (well, two weekends' worth really): -Dumb Money (2023; dir. Craig Gillespie): 7/10 -Kate (2021; dir. Cedric Nicolas-Troyan): 6.5/10 -Triangle of Sadness (2022; dir. Ruben Ostlund): 7.5/10 -The King (2019; dir. David Michod): 7/10 -Broken Arrow (1996; dir. John Woo): 6.5/10 -Star Trek Beyond (2016; dir. Justin Lin): 6.5/10 -Immortals (2011; dir. Tarsem Singh): 7.5/10 -Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003; dirs. Patrick Gilmore/Tim Johnson): 7/10

Stopped after your 20's? Rookie. I'm still going strong.

Alien: Romulus Trailer Prompts Fans to Re-Evaluate Prometheus and Covenant - IGN WWW.IGN.COM The first trailer for Fede Alvarez's Alien: Romulus prompted fans to re-evaluate two of the franchise's most divisive entries: 2012's Prometheus and 2017's Alien: Covenant.

Oh don't worry, the game opens up and when it does the open world is enormous.

Did you read it? I'm curious as to your further thoughts (without spoilers as I have not read it). I heard the same, that it's pretty good.

It's probably because the old RE games can be (in)famously beaten very quickly and so it's sort of part of RE that how long you take is "part" of the skill (or ranking) of the game. I don't care about that aspect myself either, but it's always been a part of RE that they've kept around since the games can still be beaten pretty quickly as I underatand it.

A lot of things seem to be coming to a head all at once given the end of episode 6 that dropped today. Show is expanding out whilst keeping things character focused, really thought the conversation editing between Amber and Mark when discussing their relationship with others was really well done.

This drops today - the few reviews I saw really liked it! I'll definitely be checking it out at least.

There's no question that Prometheus and Covenant have problems but everything with Fassbender is mesmerizing in both movies. I also love the euro sci-fi aesthetic used, since then also prominently used in The Callisto Protocol, Raised by Wolves, Death Stranding and Returnal.

I'm looking forward to both this and Noah Hawley's upcoming Alien TV show (probably moreso the TVshow because I think Hawley is a better filmmaker than Fede Alvarez, at least so far). I'm not as down on the Alien movies as some are (given my love of the two new ones by Ridley Scott), so now's as good a time as any to rank them, are they all mostly bad? I don't really think we should count the two AvP movies but I did so for completeness's sake. I'm sure most here will disagree with my "good" tier. Great: -Alien -Aliens Good: -Alien 3: The Workprint Edition -Prometheus -Alien: Covenant Decent: -Alien Resurrection Bad: -Alien 3: The Theatrical Edition -Alien vs. Predator -Alien vs. Predator: Requiem

My sentiments exactly. A person can dislike, even hate the movie but for what I think is such a good and well made film, you gotta have some real/honest criticisms and not vague, general dislike.

A terrible film by which metric? This one from IMDb? With a 7.6/10 after 840,000 votes (incredibly high)? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7131622/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_once%20upon%20a%20time%20in%20 This one from RottenTomatoes? With an 86% (both top critics and all critics) with a 7.9/10 after 540 reviews? It certainly can't be the high 70% all audience score with a 3.7/5 can it? There's nothing snobbish about saying a 1/5 is a ludicrous score for a film when you put forward no criticisms other than it had no script (it did, literally) and had no story (yet in your post you explain what the story was). You say it was "pointless" without explaining how or why. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/once_upon_a_time_in_hollywood So without further to go on it just seemed like you didn't get the movie, hence it going over your head. Something doesn't go over your head because "you thought it was shit", something goes over someone's head when they don't realize what's going on, or in this case, what the point of the movie was. If you thought it was shit, that's fine, but your reasoning is weak - I responded hoping to elicit more elaboration, which I didn't really get. Also your victim complex is a waste of time. Going against the grain doesn't mean anything - I go against it with film opinions with others on this board all the time (Snyder films, The Last Jedi, etc.). Your intelligence is frequently attacked because, simply put, you don't sound or come off as smart or intelligent. It's not surprising my posts would come off as snobbish rather than normal to you. Any time a person injects more complex thoughts or opinions online than "this is my opinion, that is your opinion, we're both right, let's move on" is considered "snobbish" or "pretentious" just makes the unintelligent person come off as insecure.

It sounds like Tarantino's love letter to 1970's cinema went over your head. Additionally, it's a slice of life/day in the life kind of film, it's not meant to have some propulsive story, etc. But at least you gave it a shot. A really solid late stage Francis Ford Coppola joint.

Basically . . . This. It's a great adaptation, but it sands off the rougher edges of all the characters, particularly Buntaro and Yabushige. Blackthorne is a little more virtuous but he was always a bit more virtuous given his different value set than all the Japanese people. I'd say the book fills in a lot more detail about every day Japanese life in that era for the different castes, there are a lot more characters to add to the mystery/intrigue of the political machinations and you get a lot more of the inner thoughts of all of the characters where you learn how truly weird (or different in 1600) everyone was. Still, this is the best adaptation one could get given the density of the material. I absolutely recommend the book.

It's Michael Mann, he's never done a sequel before and it's certainly ambitious to try and reach the heights of the first Heat by making a sequel, but I hope hope/faith. He already co-authored a book version of Heat 2 which took him awhile, so this has been in the incubator for a bit, which I think helps. This may very well be Mann's last film too, given his age.

One of the great game creators, no question.

Nope is awesome, here are some reasons why I'm right. It also gets points for having one of the best scenes to come out of an otherwise very sedate film and yes, that's not sped up.