I used A-List so it was free and I still felt ripped off.
My feelings toward the movie started strong and only dropped from there. My wife wanted to leave halfway but I hoped it would stick the landing. It only got worse from there and by the end I was rolling my eyes and laughing (not loudly) at how terrible it all became. It just kept going and it thought so highly of itself the whole time. The title cards felt so ridiculous in retrospect.
My wife and I saw the early screening last night in IMAX. The visuals live up to the hype, but honestly we were both very disappointed with... everything else. The story was as generic as it seemed in the trailers, and it goes on way longer than it should. The acting was fine, I guess. The actors put in work, they just didn't have anything good to work with.
Everything that happens simply happens to serve the plot, not the characters. No one ever acts like a normal person, they are all just rote movie characters like it's paint-by-numbers. And the editing is atrocious. There's a lot of off-screen exposition, like they had to fill in story gaps. Similarly, scenes will just kinda end. Characters get into a predicament that seems impossible to escape? Cut away! Explain what happened? Nah, just keep moving cause we've got plot points we have to hit, and fast cause the audience certainly already knows where this is all heading anyway.
I love supporting original sci-fi in theaters, but this is just an unoriginal, bad movie imo.
If you watch the behind the scenes stuff it honestly is pretty impressive how competent the movies ended up being. Yes, they are terrible, but they could have been a lot worse. Peter Jackson made them watchable, at least.
As someone who can never remember anyone's name this is hilarious and somewhat triggering lol. That clip from the end felt like what I was doing last night at a bar with my wife's coworkers. Just gotta deflect and dodge until somebody else says their name first.
Thanks for sharing.
Have some respect for those of us waiting for Xbox π₯²
I was a patient reader and just finished the last Expanse book last weekend (it was fantastic). Now I'm having to work very hard to remain patient for this game. I may buy it just to support the franchise and play it on my own time later.
"When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you're busy."
I've lived by this advice my whole career and it's never failed me.
The acquisition of upvotes is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better Lemmy and the rest of the internet.
It really did make my day to see it pop up here. Thanks for sharing, and glad you liked it.
Btw, meetings are work. If you spend a lot of time in meetings that does count as actual work.
This is so important. I know so many people that complain about people being "in meetings all day instead of working" or manager expectations are to be doing a bunch of stuff, but your calendar is absolutely packed with dumb meetings. Meetings are work, so if other work needs to be done then I need to be allowed to take that time.
And no, multitasking isn't real. If I'm doing other stuff during the meeting then I'm not actually paying full attention to either the meeting or the other work.
Been in IT for over 15 years and this was exactly what I was thinking too. But the top is how I felt 10-15 years ago. Now, after years of dealing with the dumbest users and the craziest decisions from tech companies, I'm more Shaw than Picard.
Oh wow, I made this meme! So happy to see it shared on Lemmy, my new home π₯Ή
Hangouts was so close to perfect before they blew it all up.
Now I'm using a mix of Chat and Voice and it's terrible for everyone. Voice doesn't even support RCS from what I can tell, and all my messages with iPhone users are full of reactions. It's so annoying. I've had the same Google Voice number for over a decade, why is this so frustrating?