The headline reminds me, I just started watching the new Avatar the Last Airbender Netflix live-action and boy does it over explain things. It ruins the writing in a lot of places. I'm not sure if script writing is a lost art, or producers interfere because they don't trust the audiences or what. It's bizarre.
It is very common in kids shows and movies (and annoyed me even as a kid) I think it's producers and execs going for what they think the lowest common denominator's intelligence is. And they just assume kids are too stupid to pick up context without explanation. It also helps them extend the showtime for cheap.
Another annoying part is that it's supposed to be a more adult version of the original cartoon, and yet it's the Nickelodeon cartoon that has more faith in their audience (which they're assuming is literal children) and their ability to understand subtext or gather context over time instead of needing everything up front.
I'll keep watching since the show is supposed to get better after they get past exposition episodes, but you should be able to split that over time. Then again, they also kind of did that with the first season of the Witcher and that apparently annoyed a lot of people, so maybe the execs are right lol.
Just because I realised my partner has never seen it, and it's a banger, and about AI, and has a strong female character, it seemed interesting to revisit some 30 odd years later
A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
I like what they're doing - the previous films went big with sprawling high stakes adventures, whereas this gets back to the feel of a lot of the comics where Hellboy rocks up somewhere to combat some evil menace. If this approach works (smaller budget quicker turnaround - shooting started in March 2023) they could make a more sustainable franchise building up to something big. The team also looks solid - the director of Crank with Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden co-writing. So I feel pretty optimistic.
I know we're all tired of reboots but I think this one could be something good. I'm a fan of reboots of things that turned out kinda bad, or weren't that bad but didn't really live up to their interesting premise. With better effects and sword fight choreography, this could be a good movie. I just hope they don't over explain things in the writing like a lot of movies are doing nowadays.
There were a lot of attempts to cash in on Star Wars, most were far more blatant than BG - I remember watching The Black Hole in the cinema as a kid and being struck by how much it drew "inspiration" from Star Wars (which was OK with me as I was desperate for more). My favourite is still Battle Beyond the Stars.
And Silent Running? I do love that film and can definitely see the DNA of Huey, Dewey, and Louie in R2. However, Lucas drew elements from all over the place, like Flash Gordon and Kurosawa, it's the way he managed to weave all those threads together that was the impressive feat and the cash-ins just took their inspiration from Star Wars (and a bit of the Magnificent Seven).
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