Open Bar #27 - Cavill Leaves Witcher, Frosk Meltdown, Is Wakanda Forever?
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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Henry did the the most respectable thing, by walking away. As, a book and game story lover my respect has grown immensely.
Ps:- not gonna watch the series anymore, as the only reason to watch it has left
Why would you want to after season 2?
Who wants to see them beat a dead horse?
@@O1OO1O1 Cavils Abs.
@@richyrich7260 that pretty much sums up
@@richyrich7260 why not just watch porn? It's not like Witcher gives you a good story with their porn.
@@O1OO1O1 yeah even henry couldnt hold me in the season 2 ... it was so horrible shit
To think that The Witcher the Show was initially supposed to be helmed by THE guy from CD Project Red who directed the cinematics of Witcher 3 (which are ALL fantastic, every single one), is a huge fan of the source material, and had complete storyboards and a great vision - and he got kicked out and swapped for Lauren is such a slap in the face, too. Like, damn, just imagine what could've been.
Wow!
Is there any reason they gave for kicking him, or worse, giving teh job to her?
@@denkerbosu3551 I'm guessing he refused to update the show for a modern audience.
indeed, what could have been !! the cinematics are some of the best I've ever seen
Shit, I didn't follow it back then. No wonder the series was lacking, aside from Cavill's performance
You could see in season 3 , they were leaning heavily from going away from the books. What I don't understand is the Witcher story is a woke story, about a young girl who is extremely powerful, along with all the powerful mages who actually distrust the male wizards due to their lust for power. The story is perfect for the modern era. But No, woke culture can't accept one strong male character in any show they watch, its completely delusional and ridiculous at this point. Its literally the opposite of equality, its actively putting down the male gender not about enhancing females.
but by woke standards (men are terrible and stupid) its not woke enough. Geralt, Vesemir, Eskel, Emyr Var Emris, and many others are smart, capable and dangerous which is unacceptable to the woke Hollywood writer. For woke writers all male characters must be stupid and inept, unless they are evil in which case they are skilled and competent until easily taken out by the female main character.
And, she's literally an overpowered, moody teenage lesbian wath tattooes canonically, too.
It's actually a story about the evil of people, but don't let that get in the way of your political fantasies.
@@O1OO1O1 yeah literally the point is that people are the real monsters not the typical ones geralt hunts and its not even subtle at all
@@veronikavartanova4044 she s not a lesbian, Mistle was just a rapist
Little Platoon and Disparu are my favorite things to come out of the last few months of garbage entertainment. Welcome!
Little Platoon > Disparu by a fair margin
@@scottfreedoms9584 I think your right if you're comparing. Disparu is ok I'm small doses and goes well with open bar, but I find him a bit one note in his videos. Still great growth by him though.
@@scottfreedoms9584 disparu is the weakest imo out of everyone in the critical drinker community of UA-camrs
It struck me while listening to Little Platoon that his voice reminds me of a young Christopher Hitchens.
I like Disparu. He’s got great energy and makes some profound points now and again, but I can see how he’s not everyone's cup of tea.
I love how laid-back open bar is. Everybody lets each other talk, and even when two people start talking at the same time, the default response is for both of them to stop and say "go ahead." Friday Night Tights needs to take notes. That show is utter chaos; everybody yelling, interrupting, and talking over each other for the entirety of the stream.
i dont like jeremy and ryan on fnt's as they have way too much rope and it just becomes the jeremy and ryan show with shad screaming in the background. when they are guests i dont mind them at all. they are not good as the leads.
It's the alcohol...
That IS FNT though, and you're all kidding yourselves if you think otherwise or that it'll ever change.
I admit I enjoy the laid back, polite atmosphere of open bar. But FNT's chaos is part of what makes it great. Sometimes it does get out of hand, and IMO it's Az that is the biggest issue, but if they started acting like they do here on open bar, you wouldn't enjoy nearly as much. And that chaos generates so many funny situations and memes; I love open bar, but I never laugh a tenth as much as I do at FNT.
@@mattg5791 " *it's AZ that is the biggest issue.* "
Yeah he's pretty bad. Also Ryan, Jeremy, and Gary.
" *If they started acting like they do on open bar, you wouldn't enjoy nearly as much* "
I don't enjoy FNT at all though, for the aforementioned reasons. Can't even watch it. I would vastly prefer open bar style.
" *that chaos generates so many funny situations and memes* "
I don't recall a single meme ever being created by people interrupting and talking over each other, which is the show's main problem.
And sure, every once in a while, one of AZ's tantrums or Kinnel's soap box rants turns into a meme. But to me, these occasional jokes just aren't worth listening to 12 people yell into a camera for hours. It''s like being in a packed bar at 1 AM.
On the subject of scale not equaling stakes, totally agree, and in fact the smaller scale stories usually have greater characters and emotional impact. The avengers protect earth, Spider-Man protects the city, and Daredevil protects the Neighborhood.
Isn't it Spider-Man protects the neighborhood - from "your friendly neighborhood Spiderman"
@@kimoralee6066 that is the saying, and they could certainly make him just stay in Queens. I guess I was more referring to the usual level wed get in a lot of their stories recently, aside for FFH/NWH
Exactly, thank you. I am so sick of this childish mentality in Hollywood now that everything _at a bare minimum_ has to be about stopping the end the world, but even more often it's the end of the galaxy, the universe, or the whole fucking multiverse.
10 year olds are writing this stuff: "If we make the stakes a million times bigger, people will be a million times more excited!"
Whenever scale and stakes are brought up, I always recall the dialogue with Mordin Solus in ME2 about his nephew. “...contacted him for family connection. Hard to imagine galaxy. Too many people, faceless, statistics easy to depersonalize. Good, when doing unpleasant work. For this fight, want personal connection. Can't anthropomorphize galaxy. But can think of favorite nephew. Fighting for him.”
@@AdomMekanica I had forgotten he even tried to get personal with anyone.
Cavill realized that he was the only sane person in the whole production
He was the only one who truly cared
Fuck...
Picking the next Black Panther was so easy I can’t believe they messed it up.
1) Killmonger completed his arc in the last movie and died. MBJ was super popular.
2) They’ve introduced multiversal travel.
3) Just drop in a Killmonger from another universe and have him overcome his rage to become a better person. There’s a lot you can do with that character arc.
There. Now you have a good actor for the franchise and future engagements. They already did this with Loki. Might as well.
Personally I think they should’ve recasted him. I mean they did it with Dumbledore when Richard Harris died.
I think it would’ve been better to bring in someone new, MBJ is an amazing actor but I wish they’d bring in a new guy. Some unknown actor who’s just caught his break
I like this idea. Maybe his Tu'challa died saving him from some *comic book reference, even though they were rivals. How DO you screw that up?
Killmonger getting a redemption arc makes sense. All guy did was steal some shit, murder some people, and stage a ritually-sanctioned coup on a nation he had a claim over.
By MCU standards, the guy's a straight antihero.
wow... an interetsing idea... i hope they pick up that for the story...
I'd love to see Cavill do both a more positive solo Superman movie, more like Christopher Reeves mixed with the cartoon Superman, and a Connery-inspired Bond film. There's a chance at the former, but I have no hope about the latter coming to be with how that last Bond movie went unless the production rights/leadership change hands.
Superman Redeemed.
How are you feeling now that they FIRED Cavill to pursue your vision of a "younger" more "positive" Superman?
@@blockwriters5728 Are you trying to be a troll, or is this a genuine question?
Netflix's The Witcher is a mediocre show, but even I knew the appeal of it was due to Henry Cavill. The show is going to suffer without him, well, more so. Funny enough, Liam Hemsworth looks more like Geralt in the books than Henry.
Whisper your sweet tisms to me...
1st season was great. 2nd season was boring.
I agree. S2 was terrible
@Opener73 Why?
@Opener73 Yeah, but it's a Netflix show for the mainstream. The mainstream don't like good things and Netflix don't like funding things.
It's like expecting a Berserk adaptation to match the source material. Nobody is gonna air that.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
But together we can stop that...
Africa had its chance...
Africa is not something that is loved 👏 It’s an idea!
God left Africa
Africa is barely habitable
Africa is my city!
I predict shenanigans will occur with the audience scores for Wakanda Forever like with what happened with The Rise of Skywalkers audience score.
That's not shenanigans, the scores will be fortified...
I don't know where this idea that westerns kicked off in the 50s comes from. Westerns were a major genre since film's inception. John Wayne started with them in the 20s and did them his entire career, deep into the 70s. Hell, they were around so early Wyatt Earp himself got to consult on them.
It's not a Western if it's in black and white. Smh
For this batch of UA-cam "movie critics" cinema started in the 80s. This might sound mean, but check their references. They have a very narrow palate. Really not trying to be mean, but these are the facts - their exposure to anything not blockbusterish, not post-80s, not American-made is really minimal and happenstance. Which is a pity, but it is what it is.
@@etme1000 Tom Mix, known almost exclusively for Western films, DIED in 1940!
Great Open Bar as always. Happy to see TLP is on. Wish I woulda caught it live. Cheers!
I canceled my subscription after the cuties fiasco. Im not paying you more and more money to get less and less, having things I DO like removed or canceled while child grooming is acceptable. So I only saw season 1. I liked it, I did, but Henry was the best thing about it. Well... Honorable mention to Joey. I thought he was hilarious. But I imagine he gets grating.
Henry had the perfect catch 22. They either had to show the source material respect, or the show gets effectively cancelled. They called his bluff, he's making them pay.
I cancelled mine long before that when they kept jacking up the price to fund their trashy "original content" and less of the classic TV and films that I actually felt like watching. They had a licence to print money and they pissed it away somehow.
Fan fatigue is bs. If it's good people will watch a constant stream.
Star wars had fans camp out to see the films and get tickets to watch 3 times in a row. I myself saw revenge of the sith in theaters 4 times (granted I was 9). Force awakens turned me off pretty hard but last jedi killed all enthusiasm for me and a lot of others. Not because Rouge One came out in between them, it's because they were bad.
It's such a weird argument, it comes off as a bit of a marketing excuse that people bought into.
It's like if you pointed out that a local restaurant is going under because they poisoned 100 people in a week, and I start saying "but to be fair, it's in a terrible location", like wtf one problem kinda outweighs the other.
@@insensitive919 the Netflix binge trend is proof people are happy to gourge on something they like
With Shuri, I think they're forgetting their own rules. In Wakandan law Now Shuri can be challenged at any time to hand to hand combat on top of a waterfall Depowered. She's not winning that fight.
You act as if that won't be conveniently retconned to have someone fight in her stead, only for her to swoop in after the replacement loses to make it a tag-team fight.
Or they'll just have her win on her own, anyway. And not with strategy, even; she win via brute strength. Because how dare you acknowledge physical differences!
Obviously she'll use her 5-dimensional thinking to calculate the perfect tipping point in the opponent's footing. The opponent is thinking about his next punch, but the smarter girl notices the slight aberration in the water current which tells her there's a trippable ledge behind his foot that could send him tumbling with the right shove trajectory.
Basically, Sherlock Holmes that shit.
I'm joking but this sort thing _could_ actually be done well.
Dredd (2012) is an incredible film. I own the blu-ray, have the 1/6 of Anderson, the comics, etc. I think, like the Drinker says, it wasn't marketed well. I've been a fan of Dredd and 2000AD since the 80s, and still have my Dredd novels somewhere. It was a good version of the idea of Dredd. I think the perfect Dredd film is more towards 2012 than the 1995 Stallone film, but I think they needed to put in a bit more dark comedy. However, it's still a great film, and deserves more recognition. Even Karl Urban would like to come back and do another film. There's rumours of a Netflix series called Mega City One, which I think would be a perfect chance for individual stories within the Dredd franchise, with a potential overarching plot (the Dark Judges, for example).
True, I didnt hear about Dredd 2012 until a few years later and when I watched it ... damn that was good.
Too bad we never got a sequel, maybe because we entered the Wokellywood era soon after idk.
You know they'd mess up a series though, don't you?! Look what's happened with Trek, LotR, The Boys, Star Wars to name but a few... The wrong people are put in charge and kill the product stone dead with 'modern' agenda preaching and wooden characters.
@@wraithneon I kinda mis-remembered it. The guys behind the 2012 film have a plan for a series, but they need to get funding for it. Apparently no one seems interested though. I think they could try crowdfunding, but would they get enough? And you're right about them giving it to a major service to produce.
Highly underrated film, was let down by lack of marketing support and some coincidental similarities to The Raid which was released the previous year.
@@nathangriffiths6218the raid is cool, but it didn't starred Peach Trees...
Apathy shall spread to every thing audiences once “liked” watching known as films and that is the true horror film we’re witnessing in our own world.
Dredd was one of the best movies ever.
It didn't help that Dredd 2012 was compared to The Raid, a lot of reviewers mention that it's liked a remake/ripoff of The Raid. I liked both movies.
Little platoon is friggin brilliant. And I think he's onto something regarding the cyclical pattern of genre predominance. I'm calling it now, the next big age of films will be animated shows/movies for adults (stuff like Castlevanis, Arcane, Edgerunners, etc...)
Star Trek writers apparently can't tell a car battery from the engine. I'm going by what they did in that Strange New Worlds pirate episode. I generally liked the show, but Pike telling his crew to fire on the impulse thrusters and NOT the warp engine and then having them fire exactly on the nacelles was one of the things that made you go "FFS".
The MCU is suffering from a few issues. 1 is bad writing and identity politics. 2 Is that it use to be a big screen special event that you could go see with friends or family. There was value in the rarity. And there's burn out in that sense, they have made the mcu too generic and accessible. 3. There's no Avengers front liners holding the heroes together anymore, characters we care about and know will bring the group back for a big screen event. Since phase 1 to 3 did this so well, we now expect it which segues into my final factor. Number 4, lack of direction. The mcu feels like a jumbled mess with no direction. I think it would be smart of them to end a movie soon with a cliff hanger that brings the new Avengers team together hinting that the next movie will be the next Avengers movie. This last point is why you create stories using a structure, people find value in organization. Order, not chaos.
Multiverse od Madness already set the precedent of having to see the shows to understand the films. The entire plot was a continiation of Wandavision. If you hadn't seen that (or watched a dozen videos spoiling the entire thing because you didn't actually want to pay money to see it) than you'd have no idea what was going on. Why is Wanda evil now? What kids is she talking about? Where did she get magic? If you wanna know, you have to pay the subscription fee and watch the show.
It's bullshit.
Not to mention both wandavision and Multiverse of Madness is ass
I always love seeing LP on open bar. The calm eloquence he brings is most welcome. Some guest have a little too much manic energy, but not him
*cough* Ryan f*cking cocaine kinnel *cough*
@@chattaboxxx2332 I was thinking of Gary, but that works too
I appreciate both styles personally. One of my favorite channels is Shadiversity. Another being mauler. Both with different tones and energy levels. But I do agree that LP is great.
@@bus3957 I absolutely love Shad! Didn't get into FNT till a few months ago, never realized he ran with this crowd till then
@@Alivair He didn't really start making appearances until recently. At least not regular ones. He was on EFAP before FNT I'm pretty sure. I don't think he started going on FNT until he got Knights Watch going. He made appearances on EFAP (which I'm also a big fan of. Shad actually introduced me to them) before Rise of Skywalker came out.
The whole reason I brought him up is that a common complaint is about him being too energetic. That he is too loud. I personally like it bcuz it is just him being passionate. But to each their own I guess.
Namore. I honestly thought he said his name is No More.
“Wheeen the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie that’s Namore!”
As soon as I saw that Disney had Doctor Who, I knew immediately they were going to try and use that narrative to try and tie together a lot of their other franchises, similar to what I was trying to do with my shared universe stories.
@Critical Drinker After Hours 6'2 , as a 6'4 I finally I feel represented ! good to see people like me on screen, now I can know for sure that I can relate to you Drinker, cheers ;)
Is MauLer tall as well ? (asking because of his nickname)
P.s. I am happy for Henry he should have done it after season 1 (it was already bad to begin with), sad for everyone else that not only we didn't get a Witcher show, but we lost the only good thing that was in that show.
@EL am I not talented ? sure thing buddy :)
@EL you owned me so good, god damn ! those flashy words of yours surely come from the knowledge you have. I will now take a step back for your greatness master troll for it is your place to shine above all including the drinker, and shed your enlightment upon us. Ho mighty you, guide us all with your wisdom show me my errors and lead us to victory ! By the grace of God almighty you had been blessed and touched for you and only you can see beyond the curtain of the internet, know the intamecies of the peasants around you and truly call out everyone, including I the humble person who just sought to share an opinion online, now I will forever know my wrong doings and retreat back to the shadows of where I can from, for it is you the master troll, the troll to rule them all, the troll of the internet. I will embrace your truths as a kid embraces his parents ! you have conviced me of your cleverness and I will be grateful for you contribution keeping you in my heart henceforth. Praise and be praised !
Not :) #insert Borat voice#.
Thanks for wasting your time and reading all the bullshit I just sat and wrote for fun
The first Non Halle Berry Black Female Super Hero movie! Let the marketing commence! 🤣
Great question about Dredd. That movie was a great solid watch. I think NOW Karl Urban's name would draw more people to it but back then his name was not what it is.
We was a big deal for fans of Jason Bourne: great villain, kind of Russian Treadstone.
If someones interested in anti-war movies vrom the 50ies, where people participated, who actually experinced the war, I can recommend "Die Brücke (1959)" from Bernhard Wicki. Bernhard Wicki was the co-director of "the longest day" (he directed the "german" scenes. In this movie "Die Brücke", which made him famous, its about the last days of the war, where a group of young, fanatic teenagers are drawn into war. One of the best movies of this genre, I have ever seen. Had a huge impact in Germany, when it came out.
Ulysses claw was a fantastic character, he could have played a similar function to Turk Barret in the Netflix Marvel shows. I really would have liked to see more of him.
There are some entertaining personalities here, always. Love your content
It's like with eating your favorite food. If you eat it all the time nonstop, you'll get sick of it. But if you save it for special occasions and build time to grow your craving for it, it becomes that much more delicious.
True, I stayed clear of bananas for a few years then one day I treated myself to a banana split sundae, it was the best banana ever.
I can still eat mashed taters everyday. Can always add anything to it.
@@thehermitman822 Lol.... Yep! I love my tators! You can make them into so many delicious things it’s impossible to get sick of em ever!
Yep potato in some form with most meals, I love rice and occasionally will go for pasta some sort but even with a rice-cooker i'll go for potato as the meal-starch 80% of the time by choice. Too much of this particular good thing would mean I had bought too much so some would "go to waste", boiled, mashes, roasted, simmered, fried, in soup, in salad, in/on/under/next-to a cut of meat/sauce i enjoy them all.
But feed/sell me some bad-potatoes and sure enough i'd walk away from the place that fed/sold me them and look/shop elsewhere.
@@IRMentat Even the tater flakes that need water added are viable, especially after a certain hurricane, but I definitely have to add something to them.
Proper mashed taters can be a meal in themselves for me. 👍
Henry Cavill was fantastic in the Tudors. Guy really getting shafted in performance roles. Be it bad timing, idiotic studios, or just the bad batch of general writing and showrunners.
Nailed it. Guy is in his 20's and nails middle age gravitas. He is a fantastic actor. He was great in the first two seasons of the Witcher too.
If I understand his mindset on the GQ Australia comments make sense too. The guy is insanely good looking and the vast majority of women he encounters do flirty showpony shit with him. I heard Charlize Theron hid with the crew on a private flight. Christ on crutches if it is true.
So I'm sure the only chick on the planet who doesn't do that-is the only one he would want. My last ex was that insanely good looking too just taller. And being the only woman who really didn't care about his looks was everything to him.
Dang!!! Little Platoon (and Jeremy). - schooled. Both are legit!!! Thank you both for context.
Love little platoons takes. Please keep bringing him back
I think there is such a thing as fatigue, though I believe it goes both ways. For audience fatigue, it is our patience. We can only stomach a string of bad movies for so long before we grow disinterested. Like what was stated before, Love and thunder may have made bank if it was made before Endgame. If they constantly bring out bangers, we don't grow tired of them.
The only thing on Amazon Prime that I would say is great is 'Bosch' & 'Bosch Legacy'
I was working in a movie theater when Aquaman came out, and to my dying day I will remember this. Opening night, the place is packed, I'm stepping over people because it's a movie theater where they serve dinner so I was doing the waiter thing. A mother and her 18-20 year old college age daughter who's home for the holidays are watching the movie as I squeeze past. Jason Momoa drops onto the scene in the submarine, shirt off, soaking wet, turns around with the smolder look, and he says, "Permission to come aboard." I shit you not, the 18-20 year old college girl gasps "H*ly fuck!" right in front of her God, her mom and everyone.
It was at that moment I knew I'd need to get the crew to spray down all the seats between screenings.
The MCU issue is not that there is franchise or genre fatigue. The MCU took a turd when Disney (Iger) gave Kevin Fiege complete reign over the MCU. Phase 4 is the first phase of the MCU where Ike Pearlmutter has not had any say. He was the guy that kept Fiege grounded. Its not that Pearlmutter was perfect. He was not. However he was not afraid to tell Fiege that idea wont sell or that the story was crap. Kevin does not have that governor anymore. Fiege need someone in there who looks at these stories from a business perspective. Right now he does not have that and it is not working.
1:09:00 I care about Antman, I always loved that power, shrinking down to be able to ride ants, being Lego man sized, I'd lay in my backyard pretending I was "honey I shrunk the Kids" and Antman staring at the ground and finding the best places to live as a couple millimeters high or an inch tall.
To me, Dunkirk was a movie where it was really all about the _event_ of Dunkirk rather than any particular characters, although I would say that most of the characters do have pretty poignant moments even though you don't get to know them that well. It's really all about what they do or don't do rather than who they are.
How Pearl Harbor should have been written.
_A Bridge Too Far_ did a much better job of educating about a specific battle with both big-picture strategy context and boots-on-the-ground subjective experiences; by the end you _know_ about Operation Market Garden and the normal people who suffered its failings.
Dunkirk had oddly little information _or_ character. It felt like it could have taken place anywhere at any time period.
Imho, the 1958 Dunkirk was both a better movie and also a better account of the event, with a more engaging cast. It is also very grim and bleak at times, perhaps very painful for the audience of that time. There are some clips on YT eg "Stukas!".
One thing I found strange about the Nolan version was that it seemed to make little use of CGI, to the extent that parts of the film look like it was made in the 1960s. CGI is often overused, but it can really help to take the audience back in time and place. The 2013 'Stalingrad' overdoes the CGI at times, but also does it well, constructing a convincingly devastated city, in which everything is covered in grit and grime.
I managed to struggle through the first season because I wanted to give it a chance. My relief at finally finishing the damn thing was considerable. My joy at knowing I’d done my duty and would not have to suffer season two was profound.
I couldn't even finish season 1. I'm trying to watch the Witcher, but Geralt's rarely on screen. That Toss a Coin to a Witcher song is fun though.
I couldn't even finish episode one. I bailed when a girl killed her dog so she could sell its parts to tag along with Geralt or something... Fuck, I wished John Wick existed in that universe.
I don't believe people would have got sick of the MCU if it didn't start to suck.
what mic is @thelittleplatoon using? clean AF haha
The Expanse is still really good. It's stronger at the beginning, but the space battles only get better.
Hence the meme, Henry Cavill is "King Of The Nerds!"
1:36:40 amazon shows with global appeal: the grand tour, the boys. Minor appeal i'd like to consider Reacher, the expanse and jack ryan.
*Question:* Was anyone REALLY satisfied with the Witcher and are they looking forward to it continuing into Season 4; let alone Season 3? If not, does that mean we have “Fantasy Fatigue”? House of the Dragon would disagree…
Although I don’t agree much with Jeremy, I’ve been in the same line of thinking that it’s not so much a [insert Genre] Fatigue, but a BAD STORY Fatigue we are going through. Start putting out Super Hero Movies where there is Care & Respect for the Source Material WITH a Good Story, people WILL watch it! Which btw, people looking forward to Henry Cavil FINALLY playing the Superman we want will prove my point.
And to answer Little Platoon’s question of how do we get over this Bad Writing “Phase”, it’s REALLY EASY! Barely an Inconvenience!
All you have to do is STOP Hiring and get RID of these UNQUALIFIED SJW, CRT, Agenda Driven, Misandrist Diversity Writers who (let’s admit it here) HATE the IP they’re working on and PURPOSEFULLY destroy the Franchise because they enjoy (said by a writer & critics on Twitter), “drinking up the Man-Babies Tears they filled their mugs with.” It’s sickening!
It’s so bad now that EVEN IF you put in Writers and Producers who are brand spanking new to the film making process BUT Respects the Material and Genuinely WANT to make a Great (hate to use the word) PRODUCT, it would be 1000x’s better and MORE watchable than what we have now!
In light of the recent trailers it puts Black Panther in a really, awful light, knowing that he actually fought to support this extremely xenophobic, selfish and ultimately fascist regime.
On the dredd issue iirc there was a distribution issue too. Of the 2 main cinema chains here in Ireland the main one didn't screen it at all and the other was SOLELY 3d (which most hate) I had to take a bus ride for near an hour to even get to a screening. If it had of got a normal 2d release in all chain's I reckon ya wouldve had another blade on your hands.
It's easy to do a psychological drama about the predator.
Simply tell it from the perspective of someone who is living near the Predators lair. They think the Predator is their demon, their drug-induced, or psychosis-induced horror that haunts the attic of the nearly dilapidated abandoned building that they're still a tenant in or what have you. Imagine hearing the footsteps of the Predator every night above you, or blood dripping down from your ceiling from its cleaned prey, or you hear the rough alien language of some "demonic" being.
And then you have the person we're following start to believe that they themselves are a serial killer, so you get to see people being killed on the news or around his area of living and he thinks it's all connected to him. Ofc, the only reason he's still alive is because he never has a weapon around the predator. He sees the predator and he even interacts with it sometimes in tense moments we're simply dismisses him as unworthy prey because the state of a psychology or his physical being. It would be truly interesting if he was perhaps disabled with the limp or a deformity which is why the Predator would not want him.
You then have a moment where he decides that he has to deal with this and he thinks that himself being the cause must take responsibility and therefore tries to hunt the Predator through his own dilapidated building. He then goes on a battle with the predator whereby he strips it of its weapons and its defenses to where it is just an animal now the same as him and the battle progresses through the building into the lower subway tunnels.
Naturally he does not come out unscathed but he's had years of preparation now because the Predator had made the mistake of dismissing this unworthy prey. , you can even throw in a cop that does courtesy calls or something has some kind of connected to him and he comes in behind seeing all the destruction and the chaos that the traps that the previous man had set up and then the end gets to the final battle to see the disabled man fighting the predator on hand-to-hand combat grounds and helps and then it's 2 on 1.
In which case the man has to then realize that this is not his personal demons and this is in fact creature a creature from outer space in fact and then he has to deal with that fact it does he let it live? How does the Predator respond to this unworthy prey now suddenly putting its life on the line? Basically you want to tell the story of how the lowest of us could still fight to survive. Not a soldier, not a peacekeeper, not a warrior, not some rich investor backed scientist, but worthless disgusting hobo human. Saves the entire city, and no one cares about him.
Make him a veteran and it would make a little bit more sense too.
See? Easy.
Snyder's problem was that he made DC grimdark. Even bigger one was the fanboy level of cramming every possible storyline in one movie and referencing everything.
Nice to see you back bowlstrek/cultivated media. Great show
I don't understand how Shuri is going to survive the first leadership contest. Without the powers she'd be snapped like a twig in melee combat.
Always love the little platoon
Kamaru Usman: Mixed Martial Artist, Charming male role model…FROM…AFRICA!!! How is this not the first choice for the Panther?!
Drinker's sleepy dog MVP
Don’t underestimate Covids effect on Stranger Things... it allowed writers more time... they could film, write, and because of d3layed release of episodes, they could go back and strengthen the narrative, which allowed them to drop in additional scenes / plots. When the money making machine is forced to slow a bit... sometimes good stories materialize
The exact opposite of the Writers Strike (anyone remember that..??) where the condensed time of producing both immediately before, and picking up after completely derailed any chance Lost had, and demolished the storyline of Heroes - similar thing with Babylon 5 when it was cancelled after Season 4, then picked up for a 5th by another network - having already crammed (very very well!) all the 4-5 arc into 4 alone; it left a hasty 5 to be created out of almost nothing.
I think too that (an extreme example!) a Top Gun sequel in 1989 would not have turned out as well as Maverick did.
@@OsellaSquadraCorse Oh man, Heroes. I don't think I've seen such a promising show turn to complete dogshit so quickly before or since lol. Season 1 was great. From what I recall anyway, it has been a minute.
Tremors 2 managed to pull off the psych/horror vibes again with a threat that evolves and the rules change, but then that franchise immediately abused that trope. In 4, they make it into a western, and it's worth a watch.
I don't mind the actec/mayan/incan(no clue which/if any)? take on the atlanteans, it's a nice separation between the marvel and DC iterations (plus I have seen entirely too much of namor in comic costumes that varied between twink and leather bedecked body-builder with fishnet cut-outs and thigh high riding boots), this could (have been) be a case of change is good.
I do however have one question, where the hell is an underwater civilization that's effectively isolated itself from the surface getting so many damned feathers from?
When that chick asks “who are you” to Namor, I just want him to yell “I am Mr Nimbus!”
Whats the time stamp for the frosk stuff?
I can't wait for the next installment of a day in the life of a Twitter employee where they're sitting on a street corner begging for change.
I do believe X genre fatigue exists, right now it's super hero fatigue, but it's not on the part of the audience. The fatigue hits the producers, the writers and directors because they always wants to do something new and different and within super hero films and shows pretty much every other genre has been mixed and matched within it so they have resorted to scraping the bottom of the barrel first doing full deconstruction and now taking identity politics to the extreme with the genre.
It's the mismatch between what the audience likes and what the "creatives" wants to create, the audience will gobble up and consume anything well made even if it's the same thing over and over again but the people making it can't maintain the enthusiasm required to do it well without trying something "new" each successive project.
The irony is if they went back to basics telling a straight up story focusing on improving the fundamentals like consistent characterization, a well structured plot, fewer cuts and edits during action scenes so the audience can follow what's happening and grounding the stakes that would be the "fresh" take they are so desperately searching for.
Outer Range on Amazon is better than any show the other streaming services have released in the past few years.
It's pretty good.
Missed opportunity for the new King of Wakanda to be taken through combat by Scarlet Witch or even better Captain Marvel. Who better than an OP white Karen to be the new Black Panther?
I dislike that Im aware of what a Frosk is, never heard of G4tv either but its just sad giving this person any attention at all
I'd be fine if she was a hot topic for like a week, because you do need to reinforce the idea to people that "yes, this is what an entitled see you en tea looks like, not a victim" or else people are AFRAID to even hold that position, but when you feed them months worth of attention for every daily stupid thing they say, you ensure that you will see hundreds more of them.
I guess it was like a recruiting drive for old-school G4 watchers to come watch FNT and their adjacent channels, so I'm just a hater, but I've seen how this cynical e-celeb thing plays out and people will regret buying into it.
DC can absolutely fix their connectivity issues by making the sequel to ZSJL 2 Hello Darkseid is on his way. Build up several films to that. Zack gave them the roadmap and it is still possible to build up to that by teasing and weaving events that culminate to Darkseid. This is the way because we all saw Darkseid so ignoring that is gonna be weird and ridiculous because that film 🎥 came out just last year they have momentum with that which could be built upon. If u don’t want ZS directing ok but the audience saw Darkseid and it happened so WB should embrace it and build to it
I want a Happy Hour for This is Spinal Tap.
Good open bar. More substance, less politics. Much appreciated 👍
Lol rejecting the woke is political as the woke itself is political, you need to come to terms with that.
And everything is now politicized. I should not have to point that out but so many folks are voicing their over sensitivity to politics and it is just feeble.
I think people are overthinking this. I don't think Top Gun: Maverick succeeded because of genre fatigue or anything like that. I think it succeeded because it concentrated first and foremost on being an entertaining movie. It seems like an obvious thing but many recent action franchise reboots and sequels are obviously much less concerned with being entertaining than featuring the right sort of messaging. Make an entertaining movie and people will go see it. Make a tedious feminist lecture posing as an action movie or a 2 1/2 hour long snoozefest about people talking and eating posing as a superhero movie and people will stay home.
They keep giving these giant, high stakes projects to people with practically no track record at all. They gave the middle movie of a huge franchise to some guy who had directed one feature film and some TV episodes. They handed a $200 million superhero to a director who had done a couple of indie dramas and some shorts. They handed the Charlie's Angels reboot to a director who had one feature film credit to her name which was Pitch Perfect 2. I don't get why they keep doing this. Who do we get to direct The Eternals? I know. Let's get that woman who directed Nomadland. I mean, it's a good movie but it's not the same kind of movie at all.
Netflix spent a massive amount of money on some really weird, really risky stuff. They made a lot of weird, niche stuff and some of them, like Sense 8, were also very expensive to make. Because of the way it had to be shot at multiple, widely separated locations, that show cost $9 million per episode to make. That's a lot of money for a show that was always going to be niche. Who thought that making an animated series based on a weird, obscure indie comic like Bee & PuppyCat was a good idea? Most comic nerds don't even know what that is. Carole & Tuesday was a really good show but no one beyond a niche audience of fairly hardcore anime fans was ever going to watch or care about it. Its big draw was that it was directed by Shinichirō Watanabe. How many people outside of fairly hardcore anime fans even has any idea who that is? They shotgunned a ton of money at a bunch of weird stuff and most of it sank without a trace and were canned after 1 season.
Frosk strikes me as someone incredibly bitter that other women are more desirable/attractive than her, but blames men for it rather than changing herself in any way.
...Kinda like a femcel.
When do they talk about frosk. Time code ? Please 🙏
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Wait... did I hear this correct or did I imagine things. Drinker likes Retro Wave? Can I subscribe twice? :p
Me being named dropped in a Super Chat has made my day
Really wanted another Dredd movie. Shame it didn't take off.
I am not woke at all but I am offended that Frosk is called a female. I would rather roll a 20 sided dice and take my chances.
I love this community. 👍
2:38:45 capaldi has a new series on amazon prime, i looked at the trailer and basically said "evil dr who?".
Next time I get prime i'm planning to take a look.
I didn’t even get a chance to watch this live, UA-cam kept screwing up the time and real life. Loved the show as always.
You ever do inception or interstellar or other stand alone sci Fi modern movies
I believe Mauler despises Interstellar
Namorrrrrrrr! Aiieee, Dios mio! It's so patronizing to those of us with Latin heritage.
I care Caville isnt in the Witcher. I like the themes in the show. I have never read the source material but I love dark fantasy. If you throw in a good actor who just happens to have a passion for the story and happens to be a greek god incarnated, I will watch the show and wont mind the view. The more the merrier.
Read the books.
@@abalayn22 probably to lazy to lol
I'm curious how MauLer would do one of the fan met ups lol
superhero movies are just a genre and any movie can be good or bad.
2:07:56 It’s the 68th Anniversary
2:09:17 You’re welcome!
SKREONK!
Blank Man was a Superhero
I really liked this episode. You guys should do more streams where it’s not just about movies
My hospital has crackers for the pts and we're allowed to eat those. And sometimes we have peanut butter. So take that twitter employees.
Why I still have prime: The Expanse!
Plus The Boys, and Fallout maybe next year. That’s about it though.
@@aldunlop4622 Invincible as well. Still waiting for a season 2
Wait, *THE* Longman in the flesh??
My god.
*Sam Neill Scream Intensifies*
What is the software they use to share the screen and do this podcast?
I think it's streamlabs or something like it
It's streamyards
@@dannycool69 you the man
How about a movie from the Predator's POV, where it is being hunted by SOMETHING ELSE, and is bricking it ?
Here's my speculative opinion, I think DC does dark very well, they've been the kind of the juxtapose to Marvels light hearted and fluff.
As mediocre as it was Sandman is a DC character and so was Constantine and it opens up this entire world that also ties in Batman and lesser known characters like Zatanna and Deadman...
There was also adaptations of Preacher, V for Vendetta, Fables, A History of Violence was too. I think that the issue is that they almost seem afraid of the old Vertigo titles and avoid marketing them.
DC's Blue Beetle would be interesting. The alter ego is already a POC, the suit has a lot of features. As long as the writters don't turn it into DC's take on extremis Ironman and treat it like the scarab verses the host.
Imagine that as a concept the host is trying to be a hero and the suit is basically taking the path that reduces the chances of the danger recuring.
Basically Black Adam V Hawk Man but in one character with a parasitic suit.
I'm not sure how the host of blue beetle's name is spelled but I know his a native american.
Wakanda is a lot like wokeness itself, it appeals to a minority of people who don't know any better but they ARE in the minority and now that twitter is under new leadership the conversation MAY just may be more balanced. Hopefully, those in the minority will not be amplified to a ridiculous degree by a small army of bots. I'm not sure if Elon Musk is a good guy the same way as I have my reservations about Trump... but one thing is for certain... he will DEFINITELY make things more INTERESTING.
It isnt just twitter that they control, they also control tumblr, instgram, ticktok, and a few other social media sites.
the woke knows it must control the general perspective to entice the youth and normies
Natural _Predator_ sequel is two opposing special-forces groups show up to the same place to take out the Predator, but realize the Predator is on neither side and OP, so the Russian and American teams compete against each other to take down the Predator first. It'd be more of an action romp where we see each stereotypical macho man come up with their own ambush plan and watch it fail horribly. And with two teams going on you'd have tons of impromptu alliances, double crossing, intentionally getting the other guy killed, and shit talking. Meanwhile the Predators laughing his ass off wiping the floor with all of them
And because it's a black-ops mission with two groups who "aren't supposed to be there" trying to capture a game-changing bio weapon, there's a hesitation to call for help from drones or airstrikes so this could be a modern military story without ballooning the stakes too much.
Honestly it's a no-brainer and it's embarrassing no one's done it yet.
Have you guys seen Reacher on Amazon? That and Jack Ryan with the guy from The Office were both good.