Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. Who could have imagined that reorienting a children's entertainment company to aim at single adults in their thirties and forties could go so wrong?
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  2. As one of the many people who read the books because of the Witcher games, I would say that while Yennifer mostly exists to compare and contrast with Geralt though the Witcher Cycle itself becomes less about Geralt and more about Ciri as the story progresses. If they had stayed true to the source material, they would have had a story that ultimately focused on a young woman going from being a McGuffin to the protagonist as the story progresses. Ciri is prophesized to have incredibly powerful offspring, and that is the only thing about her that most characters in the story care about. Geralt and Yennifer both resent the fact that they have been made sterile, and both eventually become surrogate parents to Ciri and ultimately teach her that relationships don't have to be cynically transactional, while also giving her the strength to become the active master of her own destiny instead of a passive victim of it. The books already had a strong message about female empowerment, but since they did not emasculate the men, the show writers had to completely abandon them. Also, can I say, I really hate what the show did to Ciri's grandmother, Calanthe. In trying to make the freakin' "Lion of Cintra" more of a "girl boss" they somehow managed to make the most feared and respected ruler in the entire book series look like a weak and incompetent sop to feminists.
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  3. For a film done soup to nuts in a few months by a studio that has either distributed or backed existing projects before and couldn't get many professional actors to agree to star in, it's a lot better than you'd expect. It definitely could have used more time to cook, but it's serviceable as a sports comedy in the vein of Dodgeball. The meanest jokes come at the expense of Jeremy (Rob), Matt (Kris), and the Crane and Company guys (Jake, Blaine, and David) who are most of the main cast, and it's the "Lady Ballers" and the reporter who pushes them who are the villains of the film so it does not come off as mean as the movie's tagline suggests. Despite that, the ending is surprisingly heartwarming. It will probably take a few years of experience before DW+ hits their stride, but they are betting the farm on building a platform that will attract creators whose projects are unpalatable to the major studios and that large swaths of the public want badly enough to excuse less than Hollywood level polish. If it encourages more small studios to make genres of film audiences want with smaller and less risky budgets, it might help to convince Hollywood to leave their rut of the "safe" budget-busting blockbuster sequel flops that Disney and Warner Brothers keep pumping out.
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  4. "Write what you know." Brilliant.
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  5. 2016's Shin Godzilla was pretty great also. While it does not have giant robots, it succeeds at the modern Kaiju homage film idea that Pacific Rim tried for, but without falling into camp. Also, hearing the composer for Shin Seiki Evangelion, Shiro Sagisu, reprise his epic "Decisive Battle" theme in a Godzilla movie was a great callback since both stories involve high pressure situations where the coordination of millions of people are used to fight a hopeless battle against giant monsters with godlike power.
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  6. At this point, even the fans are saying, "doctor, who?"
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  7. "This will not be over quickly, and you will not enjoy it."
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  8. When the first movie came out I was so excited for a former storm trooper to potentially become a jedi and maybe to solve some fights with the faceless cannon fodder by humanizing them. And then they made him into the stereotypical, "black guy who the studio made us include but we really don't like." Johnson did him dirty. He tried so hard to be feminist that he managed to just be racist. If they had just focused on writing well we wouldn't have had Rey be a reviled Mary Sue and Finn being a hapless clown. Such a waste. I want my Knights of Ren brainwashed from Rogue One and my inspirational jedi Finn back.
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  9. I miss the days when bad Star Wars fan fiction used to limited to small run books.
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  10. Not sure why Disney thought they could cow a woman who has body-slammed far more imposing people than their executive board.
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  11. Generally speaking, if you think South Park had no criticism of your side of the argument; you either don't have a dog in the fight, or you might not have a hamster in the wheel. Trey and Matt regularly to appear to go all the way with one side, only to end the episode with a sucker-punch to everybody who hasn't noticed the pattern in the last twenty-six years. The hope being that if you think their criticism of the other side was fair, you might consider their criticism of your side also.
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  12. To drunkenly go where no man has gone sober.
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  13. Given the limited run time, the film swaps a lot of the banality and questions about how war changes men in the book for futility and poignancy which work better on screen. The Drinker is right that the adaptations work well for a film, keeping the pacing from dragging and helping the less historically literate get a better sense of context. The film was clearly adapted for the purpose of accentuating the meaningless horror of WWI and it delivers on that purpose. A great film based on a great book that could never have been done justice had it been made in Hollywood.
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  14. Somebody told the network it was a post war pioneering sci fi drama with deep characterization and sophisticated writing. They should have just told them brothels in space. I loved that show since the day the first episode aired. My only consolation is that at least Farscape was able to survive. I couldn't have handled losing both of them.
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  15. Oh, thank the Enclave. As somebody who played a little Fallout 1 and 2 but sank more hours into 3, 4, and New Vegas than I ever want to find out; I was afraid this was going to be another Witcher/Rings of Power level debacle.
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  16. Dredd was such a great film. I've watched it almost as many times as movies I have nostalgia for. Headley puts in a great performance but Urban takes the cake. His willingness to stretch his talents to emote through the mask in order to stay true to the character does not get enough respect. If Kurt Russel can emote with only his eyes in Soldier, Urban can do it with just his chin in Dredd. One of the absolute best parts of the movie is that Dredd acts consistently as the sorta Lawful/Neutral embodiment of cold ruthless justice. Seeing judge Anderson's transformation from teacher's pet to cunning enforcer under Dredd's tutelage is great character development. My only gripe is that Dredd didn't fail her in the end for losing her weapon. He told her in the beginning that losing her weapon would mean an automatic fail. If Dredd had failed her anyway and she freely admitted it but had showed that she was confident she would pass even Dredd's standards the next time that would have been the best was to show that she had fully integrated the lessons she had learned from the iconic hero and could fully stand on her own two feet.
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  17. My father was a huge Trekkie. He would take me and my brother to conventions every year and we used to watch TNG, DS9, and even Voyager religiously. After the third episode in a row where captain Archer from Enterprise was tied to a chair and beaten I swore off Star Trek. When my father called me to come watch the first episode of Discovery with him, because he thought Michelle Yeoh was the new captain, I came to realize I had made the right decision almost two decades earlier. The series is dead to me. Not even fond memories of my late father could entice me to consider watching another. I'm not even mad at them anymore. I just don't care.
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  18. In other words, it's everything the colossally ratioed trailer promised.
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  19. Might take even longer. I wasn't a huge fan of Voyager but I hated Enterprise so much that I have refused to even hate watch anything Star Trek has done in the last quarter century. Star Wars has now also reached full apathy for me.
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  20. Having a modern American Civil War movie where the press are the heroes is kinda like having a modern California Wildfire movie where the homeless are the heroes. The only difference is that the homeless are more likely to have the self-awareness to lay low after they set the whole place ablaze.
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  21. We breathlessly await the day an intersectional child tweets aloud that the house of the mouse emperor has no clothes.
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  22. Just like Palpatine, she keeps returning, no matter how much the fans hate it.
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  23. Maybe if they rename "Brave New World" to "1984" it will test better. Everybody loves nostalgia.
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  24. Here I was thinking this was going to be about the heresy of GW suddenly making Slaanesh preexist his/her/its birth for no good reason. I don't see the problem with femme custodes, after all the first thing I think when I imagine Darwinian Jingoistic Fascist Theocratic Patriarchies is highly progressive views of gender equality. I mean, it's not like people who want females in their armies can just play Sisters of Battle, Eldar, Tyranids, Chaos, or Tau.
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  25. I watched Guardians of the Galaxy III and Deadpool and Wolverine, but I skipped everything else in 2024. Probably won't bother with the next Avengers either. Marvel has become like DC to me where I only follow one or two franchises until they blow it and I maybe wait for a reboot in ten years.
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  26. If enough ditsy actors destroy their shows by saying stupid things attacking their audience, maybe studios will go back to demanding actors who can keep their pie hole shut.
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