Breaking Bad’s second season. Fuck that bullshit about airplane crash. Especially the black and white teases throughout the episode.
Recently this was Hazbin Hotel for me. Thought I would give it a shot but it’s written like a kid’s show instead of an edgy adult comedy about demons.
How is it compared to Helluva Boss?
Much less clever and subtle. I would call that a pretty low bar, honestly. Helluva Boss also has a lot of poorly-written content IMO, but in Hazbin it’s nonstop bad writing until there’s a small glimpse of something competent. I would recommend Helluva Boss to anyone who likes shitposts and sitcoms, but I wouldn’t recommend Hazbin to anyone right now.
Damn, had high hopes, too bad.
I liked the hazbin hotel pilot, but very much felt how you do about the helluva boss pilot. I thought hazbin was fun and quirky and I liked it a fair bit, helluva boss cranked up the edginess and immaturity but didn’t bring anything else that made up for it. Maybe the actual series is better Idk
Aw man, I was hoping it’d be better. I will still see and hope for the best.
know to man
Maybe proof-read your writing. Maybe once.
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If you like the concept of Upside Down, you might be interested in the anime movie Patema Inverted. It has the same premise and came out around the same time.
There’s this show called Stranger Things that also deals in the Upside Down.
It’s a little different. The Upside Down in Stranger Things is a kind of alternate dimension, whereas in the movies Upside Down and Patema Inverted it’s that gravity is reversed for some people.
Yeah in time showed great promise but the execution was crap Maybe they’ll do it as a series
Me when they say the name of the movie in the movie:
[Ding] Roll Credits!
Superman: The only way for me to solve this crisis is to be Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.
Peter: Oh, that’s why they called it that.
“And the world will always remember the Backdoor Sluts 7: Anal Apocalypse.”
“After all, there’s a reason we call ourselves Backdoor Sluts 7: Anal Apocalypse”
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They said the thing!!
Lumberjack Larry: “Darlin’, I’ve carved the grandest totem, but it’s too tall for the town square!”
Lucy, the Lumberjill: “And here I am, trying to fit this massive log through our cabin door. It’s a tight squeeze!”
Lumberjack Larry: “Looks like we’re both in a pickle with ‘My Big Stick Doesn’t Fit: The Log Jam Love Story.’”
Lucy, the Lumberjill: “Time to put our heads together and chop this problem down to size, honey!”
“Ah boy, I’m just so tired of all these star wars.”
I haven’t watched all of them but the animated Suicide Squad movies have been pretty good.
DC’s direct to video animation department consistently puts out absolute bangers, so that’s not surprising. It’s the live action stuff where they continuously drop the ball.
So Snyder?
While usually true, I can’t help but look at War World and wonder what the hell they were trying to do with that
This first Suicide Squad was hot garbage, the second was awesome.
The Extended Cut version of the first movie is actually an okay time. It boggles the mind anyone would think it’s a good idea to pull every bit of backstory and subplot and give us the mess of a theatrical version we got.
I didn’t know there was an extended cut. I’m so intrigued now, given that a huge issue with the theatrical version was its editing
There’s always a Snyder cut…
The second one should have just been called something else.
Every DC fan I knew had such a bad taste in their mouth for that Will Smith Suicide Squad.
That’s the beauty of the Suicide Squad, they die or escape or there are other teams, so they can wipe out the whole cast without hesitation because it fits into the plot constraints.
Will Smith’s compulsive need to never be the bad guy didn’t help.
He did make an exception at the Oscars.
The dude definitely hits his wife and children.
I mean he is…
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Dad bless you
I’m willing to bet that his battered husband brain thought it was being gallant by defending the honor of his abuser.
This gets me every time!
Preacher, the series adaption. Could have used the comic, but no, Seth Rogen had to butcher it.
Seth Rogen has proved he is the reverse Midas
Mierdas, everything touched turns to shit
What are your opinions on The Magicians?
Never watched enough to get a feel. I could not stand the whiney main character kid. He was like nails on a chalk board annoying…
Haha, have you read the books? It is a million times worse / more pretentious. The show was camp, which was at least kinda fun. Definitely an improvement anyway
The show where they have to sex each other in super sexy horny sex to cast some spell. Yeah sex magic wooo!! And what does the spell do? It just creates a column of light that some guy can use as a beacon to navigate.
My eyes rolled so hard I saw the back of my own skull.
Cheesey as hell but still loveable.
I did not like the constant tonal shifts between silly magic frat boys and depressing magical apocalypse.
The Dark Tower movie adaptation, I am a huge fan of the books and I was so looking forward to a 3 movie arc. Turned out 🤮
I like shows like Andor which have a mildly interesting premise but rely on phenomenal writing and execution to really shine.
Why do Star Wars fans always forget the / in And/or?
You get my upvote, but it’s an angry Andor unwillingly one.
Funnily enough, I have a playlist with the Andor score and some nice medley / covers which I have called “And/or”
Yeah I hesitantly tried out Andor as somebody who isnt the biggest Star Wars junkie, and it quickly flew to being my favourite Star Wars content by a mile. Really excellent writing imo
Welcome to America.
That leaves for an interesting question: why is most writing these days so god awful? There are great writers out there. Hollywood isn’t stupid (is it?) and wants money. Why do they put shit writers on so many projects that then flop like the shit that it is?
Most of everything is shit, you just remember the few good ones, you don’t remember the no name awful series that were airing together with Lost.
And even then Lost was also written with shit crayons. Especially the later stuff
With streaming, it’s become about volume not quality. Before there were only so many movie screens and straight to video made next to nothing.
Now straight to streaming can make a LOT of money. Plus streaming services are trying to pump their selection and in-house productions cost nothing once produced. So even average or just good enough content can be profitable.
Because it’s targeting the lowest common denominator.
It’s generalizing the writing so that it generally appeals to generally everyone to increase engagement. This means that the show loses its specific attractions and it just becomes another generic TV show based in a different world.
Executives chasing profits with data they don’t understand, or the show just sticks around too long.
Hollywood is stupid and they didn’t want to pay writers after the first draft is written. It may not be so much the writer is shit (they came up with some good ideas after all) it’s that they don’t have time to make additional drafts to fix plotholes, improve the dialog, etc.
Writing isn’t just banging out something on a typewriter and it’s pure genius the moment is written. It’s a process that usually involves multiple drafts.
You gotta admit a lot of things feel like a first draft, and it’s probably because it is. Hopefully these issues were sorted out with the writer’s strike.
it’s not a simple answer but due to technology and environment, it’s just the way things are. basically less care is taken to get each minute of output simply because it’s possible. so many things. you don’t have to log heavy reels around, you don’t have to use a typewriter. each step is so much easier. before, there was a lot more care taken per step.
Witcher :(
And I’m not talking about the casting or other stuff. Just the general writing and conversion from books to screen sucked ass
From what I’ve heard it would have been multitudes worse if Cavill wasn’t so passionate about the source, too.
Yeah I never read the books or played the games. So when I watched it I thought it was kinda janky because they were trying a little to hard trying to stay true to the books.
Then I later found out it wasn’t true to the books. Sure sometimes you need to change things to make a story work better for a new medium. But why is it so jank then?
If they made changes but it worked really well as a TV show because of those changes I can understand. And if the show is janky because they tried to stay too close to the books, I can understand. But they made a janky show that’s not true to the books. I don’t understand!
I’ve heard even that books aren’t that good, basically being medieval James Bond, but somehow even more misogynistic.
Some of the jank is because of the first book for sure. Doing three different converging timelines isn’t easy.
It was like a teenager wrote the dialogue.
