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Read some pre-review Borderlands impressions on Twitter. Movie appears to be as awful as everyone predicted.

ReasonablySober wrote:Read some pre-review Borderlands impressions on Twitter. Movie appears to be as awful as everyone predicted.

Welp.

Still laughing about the Tár -> Borderlands move.

Good SPOILER filled conversation here. It really puts in plain text how ridiculously jam packed the last two seasons are going to be, even if you go by a conservative and condensed version of the story. Just banger after banger in terms of events.

ReasonablySober wrote:

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Good SPOILER filled conversation here. It really puts in plain text how ridiculously jam packed the last two seasons are going to be, even if you go by a conservative and condensed version of the story. Just banger after banger in terms of events.

Didn't you just have a post about how the whole show should've been fit into one season?

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ReasonablySober wrote:

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Good SPOILER filled conversation here. It really puts in plain text how ridiculously jam packed the last two seasons are going to be, even if you go by a conservative and condensed version of the story. Just banger after banger in terms of events.

Didn't you just post somewhere about how the whole thing should've been fit into one season?

Guilty. In my defense, I think the first two seasons could have been half as long.

But yea, I'd forgotten about half of the bigger events yet to come.

ReasonablySober wrote:

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Good SPOILER filled conversation here. It really puts in plain text how ridiculously jam packed the last two seasons are going to be, even if you go by a conservative and condensed version of the story. Just banger after banger in terms of events.

I have not read the books and am avoiding book spoilers. However, the way HBO condensed a bunch of events towards the end of GOT (in part to save money) does not give me confidence that they'll handle that much content well here.

It occurred to me when reading this review (and many others like it) that we already got a good version of Borderlands (sort of) on the screen. Twisted Metal did everything Borderlands was attempting, but did it reasonably well. It had the setting, violence, language, juvenile humor, wacky characters, questing, macguffin, and Big Bad.

It was a proof of concept too. How can you take this video game with minimal plot and build a feature out of it? A bunch of reviewers are pointing to that initial question as where the whole Borderlands thing went wrong; the idea of making a Borderlands movie was misguided from the start. And yet, Twisted Metal exists and works. I think there's a universe where better creatives take control of the project and make something good.

Went to see Deadpool & Wolverine last night. Don't know how anyone that enjoyed the first two Deadpool movies could have possibly not liked this. It was a lot of fun; some cameos I unfortunately knew about but some cool ones in there that I did not know about. It was a fun send off and I look forward to seeing how they incorporate Deadpool into the larger MCU.

I was pretty meh on the first Deadpool movie, skipped the second, and enjoyed the one much more than the first, personally. It's been a long time since I saw that one but this latest just felt more fun and less serious. It still drags anytime it stops to explain whatever the hell is going on with the MCU.

Deadpool and Wolverine just made me sad more than anything. It's bad.

That said, I've never been a huge fan of the character. Just not for me.

ReasonablySober wrote:

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It occurred to me when reading this review (and many others like it) that we already got a good version of Borderlands (sort of) on the screen. Twisted Metal did everything Borderlands was attempting, but did it reasonably well. It had the setting, violence, language, juvenile humor, wacky characters, questing, macguffin, and Big Bad.

It was a proof of concept too. How can you take this video game with minimal plot and build a feature out of it? A bunch of reviewers are pointing to that initial question as where the whole Borderlands thing went wrong; the idea of making a Borderlands movie was misguided from the start. And yet, Twisted Metal exists and works. I think there's a universe where better creatives take control of the project and make something good.

I'm not sure if the game writers were involved, but if not, that's pretty inexcusable, as I'm sure those people have been thinking about what to do with a movie version for more than a decade.

I know I'm late to the party, but just started Succession. Good show so far but I'm only 4 episodes in.

jschligs wrote:I know I'm late to the party, but just started Succession. Good show so far but I'm only 4 episodes in.

Boy you're in for a treat.

Deadpool was probably the most entertaining thing to come out of this current "Intellectual Property Gruel" era of film-making (that, or Barbie), but I can definitely understand why it can be an exhausting experience for some. I didn't get half the easter eggs/meta references but still found it funny.

I liked Watchmen Chapter 1. Not sure why it exists, though.

Ron Swanson wrote:Deadpool was probably the most entertaining thing to come out of this current "Intellectual Property Gruel" era of film-making (that, or Barbie), but I can definitely understand why it can be an exhausting experience for some. I didn't get half the easter eggs/meta references but still found it funny.

I am a mild fan of Deadpool 1 and 2. But I found this last one as the most enjoyable. Not sure if it is because I hadn’t seen the previous ones in years, or it was fun to see this version of Wolverine or what, but it was a fun watch

Reminded me a bit of the humor in Fall Guy but further out there.

jschligs wrote:I know I'm late to the party, but just started Succession. Good show so far but I'm only 4 episodes in.

Eh. Really overrated in my opinion.

Some great writing in parts and certainly well-done, but the story is just ok for me.

Hope you like it as much as a lot of people did!

jschligs wrote:I know I'm late to the party, but just started Succession. Good show so far but I'm only 4 episodes in.

Great show