Comments by "Nicholas Conder" (@nicholasconder4703) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. I had no issues with how Smaug and the dwarves were portrayed. That was well done. The explanation for changing the black arrow from a regular arrow to a large crossbow bolt made sense. It was all the other excessive padding that ruined the movies - the extended chase scenes, the dwarf-elf romance, the prolonged battle scenes containing impossible stunts and combat action. Cutting these down to manageable lengths would have gone a long way to making these movies a memorable experience, rather than a somewhat tiresome marathon.
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  2. The original 1994 movie reigns supreme ... as a blatant rip-off of Osamu Tezuka's "Kimba the White Lion". For which Disney was successfully sued by the Tezuka Estate.
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  3. Just remember, if one is good, 10 must be 10x better. Or at least that's what the modern film industry thinks.
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  4.  @scottdoesntmatter4409  Couldn't agree more. Too much useless padding.
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  5. I found the first half of the original Picard series to be fairly good, the second half was absolutely awful. The second half of the series seemed to consist of how many Deus ex Machina plot contrivances they could stuff into six episodes. Adding in the "Hollywood prophecy" trope and tentacle hentai on a galactic scale at the end was just too much.
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  6. You pretty much summed up the entire new Star Trek reboot. I ended up accidentally watching the first 5 minutes of the first two movies. Even before seeing the credits or realizing it was Star Trek, it felt like someone was trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, or putting diesel into a gasoline engine. Something about the films just felt wrong, right from the very start. Finding out they were supposed to be Star Trek movies just made it worse!
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  7. Basically, the death of Star Trek started with the first JJ Abrams movie. It is really funny, but I watched the first 5 minutes of the first movie, and could tell it wasn't Star Trek, even though they slapped the title on it. I missed the first couple of episodes of Discovery, watched the 3rd episode and was able to see so many plot holes big enough to drive a starship through in the series that I gave up right then and there. Sadly, like a lot of movies and shows produced these days, they seemed to focus the story around the glitzy special effects, rather than having the special effects support the story.
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