Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

The attempted unholy shipping I think was a step too far that they realized before it actually aired because I noticed shills and bots on Twitter and reddit immediately jumping in to try and say Sauron wasn't being romantic when he made his offer to share power with Galadriel and on top of that those who saw it as such don't understand human interaction (ie they're incels). There was too many similarities in their comments for this to be natural and it smacks of damage control. Somehow I think these same people would cry outrage if a manager (unhandsome of course) held a female employee's chin in their hand as they promised them a position in management. It's just amazing the depths the show and the shills will go to in order to gaslight people on what's right in front of everyone.
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with education standards eroding it may indeed
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@eduardorivera4343 no one is debating this film except why was it made? If not for the tie-in with the Aliens franchise it would have been another forgotten sci-fi flick.
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@nhmooytis7058 The origin crew were basically space truckers doing a job when the distress signal caused them to wake up. Neither the company nor android knew what was about the alien until after Ash did his studies and the company became interested in its potential.
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One quibble - her first mission is bad idea all around. She should have been fully immersed in what she thinks is her culture and military duties. This would make the fight with her team mates more meaningful rather than guys she's only known for a little while. She's a little too comfortable with her powers limited as they are a little too soon in the story line. Make where she's been doing missions for the Kree for 2-3 years and thus making it harder for her to accept the reality and the Kree's lie.
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It's weird that this Batman movie made the Nolan films look cartoonish in comparison IMHO. Nolan was trying to make a grittier more realistic Batman but in the end failed to do so because it tried too hard especially with Bale's goofy voice. I can't listen to him without seeing the College Humor parody of him. Even the much vaunted Dark Knight seems silly despite Ledger's performance. A friend of mine long ago dismissed the film as ridiculous because - "where does a psycho clown get rocket launchers?" That's more inline with the 90s Batman films but they weren't trying to be something they weren't. The first film has Batman in a magic ninja training camp FFS which is something I hope they don't do with this version. And the less said about the horrendous Dark Knight Rising the better. I like that this Batman is damaged borderline autistic. He comes off as creepy and eerie especially to the characters around him. He's understated not over-the-top because he lives in his head more. Other characters don't know what he's thinking. All this makes the Riddler a good mirror of his character something that didn't come off as well between Batman-Joker in Burton or Nolan. The Batmen in those films were more different than their Joker counterparts but here Riddler's insanity was much closer to the Batman's own mental state. Also his motivations were so closely aligned to the Batman that the Riddler truly was a dark mirror version - of what the Batman could become if he didn't keep tight control of his mental abilities. This Batman unlike the other ones is truly teetering on the edge struggling not to become the monsters he is fighting.
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@cyrusthagreat6649 Beyond wasn't bad as Darkness was in terms of convoluted illogical storytelling but it was a largely forgettable film in my opinion. You have a villain whose motivations are vague and of course he wants to blow up the galaxy or some shit. Everyone I saw it with has forgotten they ever saw it.
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yeah Moffat was like watching someone copy the formula of LOST but not understanding it because as LOST eventually revealed the writers were making it up as they went along and they had no grand narrative they had been building when they started. I still have no idea what the season finale of the first season of Matt Smith actually meant because Moffat left so many things unanswered because he didn't know at that time why the Pandorica was built or the Silence or who was manipulating the Tardis until 2 or 3 seasons later nor how Amy Pond was able to wish the Doctor back into existence. Old Doctor Who used basic story elements to tell a story. when a crisis was resolved they made it clear how and why it was done rather than letting it be resolved two seasons later.
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she got 8 seasons of work out of HBO and a couple of films. There are actors waiting tables who wished they could have a "failed" career like that
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They really missed a good opportunity to do a series on John Connor, his rise to leadership and his overthrow of skynet. It could have dealt with him having all this baggage of expectation on his shoulders, overcoming his fears, figuring out the weakness of skynet, etc... I know they wanted to do so with the girl from Dark Fate and knock-off SKynet - Legacy but let's go back to basics and a do a proper John Connor story.
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This movie was filled with forced plot devices and contrivances to make it bumble slowly forward like a drunken sloth with dementia. Batman somehow knows the parademons are attracted by fear because...? Fortunately he was able to snag a random burglar on a random night in order to snag a random parademon which randomly exploded into a plot point. Had that not happened, there'd be no movie because it was that thing that made Batman seek out Wonder Exposition Woman who sets up the premise for the whole movie making him go on a quest to put together a team (while Steppenwolf graciously took his time rather than just doing what he eventually did - popping in and mopping the floor with everyone) Why weren't those parademons as easily destroyed later and why didn't they all explode with mother box emblems and why did the first one do so in the first place? How was Steppenwolf defeated the last time if he showed up with all 3 motherboxes ready to transform Earth? It would seem to organize a huge army of different forces would have required some time and the movie implied that Steppenwolf would have transformed the Earth in a short matter of time. Everything is written backwards to explain the present situation - there 3 motherboxes on earth - why? Uh...because Steppenwolf came to earth before, was defeated, and the boxes were separated kept hidden for thousands of years (but really easily recoverable). Batman needs to create a team - why? uh...Because he discovered that Steppenwolf is coming back -how? Uh... he found out from a parademon - how? Uh... he discovered that they are attracted to fear - how did he figure that out? How the fuck should I know?
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yeah but hasn't the idea of sentient robots, clones, AI etc... already been done?
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I think admirers of the film being so jaded with modern films wanted to see something deep in this Emperor's New Clothes film.
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The preview looks like it was released from a mid-90s time capsule of a low budget show sold through UHF channels with overcompensating over-the-top hardcore female characters they used to do back then with a lot of bad acting from B-movie actors. Hard pass on this turd nugget from the past.
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Rewatching DS9 makes me miss old/slightly old Star Trek. The reboot and Discovery don't seem to resemble anything of the series. The reboot is drunk guy at the bar's version of the old series where "Kirk gets all the babes! And shoot everyone!" Discovery is more focused on socio-politics instead of a good story or rather making a good story first then incorporate socio-politics into organically.
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@corneliusmaze-eye2459 you can't tell nothing as she just brushes it off and orders Celebrimbor to make 3 Rings as though she was in any position to give any advice given how much she had messed up over the entire season. A person with any self-reflection would be wracked with guilt and self-doubt but not our psychopathic Galadriel.
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This kind of movie could be good if it were done in the style of a cheesy 60s sci-fi movie or 70s grindhouse film i.e. a completely silly excuse to have people fighting dinosaurs. But this story started out as science fiction horror from the novel to the first film. Even the two lackluster sequels as well as the reboot stay within this setting. Trying to still be kind of sciencey but having the world overrun by dinosaurs - how many of them were on that island? - just doesn't fit that setting. You'd need some unrelated catastrophe that puts human civilization on the brink which didn't also wipe out the few dinos that survived their island blowing up. Even if small arms were somehow ineffective against the big ones I'm pretty sure a rocket launcher would take out a T-Rex.
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This is the old debate of Rey vs Luke and the question of Mary Sue. Some Rey supporters fired back at the criticism that Rey was a Mary Sue by saying so was Luke (as though two wrongs make a right). They missed the obvious difference that Luke struggled through out the films especially the first one. This made his ultimate win seem more of an achievement. He got beat up by Tuskens, bar patrons, snow monsters, Darth Vader, etc... while being derided by even his own friends. Rey on the other hand barely struggled, was praised by everyone on both sides, and outdid everyone on everything from improving the Millenium Falcon to besting Luke and Kylo in fighting and using the Force. She was even called the best fighter. Another thing is she barely needed help from anyone unlike Luke. A theme in the originals was the importance of friends which Luke chose even over his Jedi training. This made him a more likable character. He was willing to risk his life to save Han from Jabba even with a whole Empire out there. In TROS in an effort to explain Rey being good or now better at the Force was her year of training with Leia which was done at the expense of her friends! Anyway, what the proponents of these uberfemsch characters fail to understand is that characters without flaws (or rather flaws that are praised - arrogance, emotionally-closed off, general bitchiness etc...) who don't have to struggle are boring. Even James Bond gets his ass kicked in every one of his films and he's an experienced trained spy
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Like he was speaking to JJ Abrams and have ilk
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