11-11-2023, 01:03 AM
It wasn't good.
It wasn't terrible, but as I think back on it... I'm moving towards... yeah... It was kinda bad.
Had a lot of the right stuff in it, but was almost entirely missing beats that would have added emotional weight. It felt slapped together, with a script written by an AI fed on nothing but Marvel movies and TV shows.
OMG! That was horrible and terrifying and a naive sixteen year old girl had to witness it! Let's quickly move onto the next thing and never speak of this!
A bad guy who just kinda zips in for a few critical moments, with a standard backstory.
Don't take a moment to make any plans. There's someone who can explain everything and tell you what to do IMMEDIATELY with no thought whatsoever using treknobabble.
Soooo many plot holes. The third act was basically just a string of them. Multiple deus ex plot devices. How about a MacGuffin that disappears as soon as it serves a purpose? Yeah, they did that. (No explanation. I guess they just forgot about it.)
I keep thinking about what it might be like with a Joss Whedon script-fix. Brighten up the dialog, add a few moments where the characters properly mourn, or get scared, or even just sit down at a meal together and bond. There was a moment where it looked like they were going to do that, but they quickly went another direction. What they have is little more than an outline. They needed someone talented to fill in the gaps.
...If you see the end-credits scenes, you have everything that this movie seems to exist for.
It wasn't terrible, but as I think back on it... I'm moving towards... yeah... It was kinda bad.
Had a lot of the right stuff in it, but was almost entirely missing beats that would have added emotional weight. It felt slapped together, with a script written by an AI fed on nothing but Marvel movies and TV shows.
OMG! That was horrible and terrifying and a naive sixteen year old girl had to witness it! Let's quickly move onto the next thing and never speak of this!
A bad guy who just kinda zips in for a few critical moments, with a standard backstory.
Don't take a moment to make any plans. There's someone who can explain everything and tell you what to do IMMEDIATELY with no thought whatsoever using treknobabble.
Soooo many plot holes. The third act was basically just a string of them. Multiple deus ex plot devices. How about a MacGuffin that disappears as soon as it serves a purpose? Yeah, they did that. (No explanation. I guess they just forgot about it.)
I keep thinking about what it might be like with a Joss Whedon script-fix. Brighten up the dialog, add a few moments where the characters properly mourn, or get scared, or even just sit down at a meal together and bond. There was a moment where it looked like they were going to do that, but they quickly went another direction. What they have is little more than an outline. They needed someone talented to fill in the gaps.
...If you see the end-credits scenes, you have everything that this movie seems to exist for.