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I haven't really dug in completely on any reviews yet, but so far I'm seeing two consistent takeaways... This works hard to pull off a 180 from TLJ, and....is somehow just as bad, or worse. Of course some of these same people were effusive in their praise of TLJ, so, grains of salt, etc...

I just assumed that LGJ was being fed some sort of advanced longevity drugs while under Trieu's "care". Anyway, impressive show. They could have royally fucked it up at a variety of points, but it managed to be satisfyingly unpredictable, compelling throughout, and the ending didn't suck...

He was clearly in his comfort zone for kicking peoples' shit in this time.

That was great. More like that one, please. I legit lol'd at "That's not saying much".

I pay almost no attention to YouTube and Twitter movie reviewers, but if that list resembles anyone's genuine opinion, it's the most bizarre example I've ever seen. You could throw each of those movies into an RNG for a full day and you might not get anything that jumbled.

Hanks is both a great and a bad choice. Out of the current crop of actors, I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone as close to Fred in terms of the right combination of warmth, genuineness, likability, etc as Hanks. The problem is he's a super-recognizable actor playing a super-recognizable...

Why should the existence of a documentary preclude a drama? I'm all for anything that gets today's kids interested in Mr. Rogers. It seems like the vast majority of children's programming is produced under the assumption that 100% of its audience has ADD.

The entire episode should have been Tyrion continuing to slowly make his way around the smoldering ruins of King's Landing, the crunch of each footstep becoming continually more intolerable as they work to avoid the charred corpses of children, mothers, fathers... It would have been far less...

Sometimes I get my vowels confused. They are saying Bronn, right?

Is this where Martin says "JUST KIDDING!" and suddenly belts out the last two books? That would be quite the marketing campaign.

If anything, "Best Buy" settings would help bring out low-light detail as they are way overcooked with Contrast / Brightness cranked to stupid levels. In this case it's definitely more of a combination of shitty quality source and director intent. As you said, which is more of a factor will...

You're getting old. Just wait until slowly spinning in your desk chair to retrieve something out of a drawer requires a full minute of recovery to settle your stomach.

Lighting? Sure. Settings? Fuck that. I have a calibrated dark room and light room mode, and that's as much as I'm willing to mess with settings on a show by show basis. Both the streams and the broadcast are shit for quality. I watched a bit of the Battle on the Blackwater on Blu-Ray...

Four and five would have been pretty good if they were trimmed and combined. He added so many new characters and weird, meandering plotlines. It was his way of stalling for time because he clearly had little clue where to take this thing after the insanity of A Storm of Swords

I know this is just a shitpost, but she's very much the anti-Mary Sue given the 4 million episodes where we are treated to Arya regularly getting beaten to shit, kidnapped, blinded, brutally trained by the Faceless Men so she can be counted among the most elite association of murderers on the...

OLEDs generally can do well with near black, but it usually requires an experienced hand to properly tweak without messing up other things. Out of the box they tend to crush out a lot of dark detail. The stream I watched was pretty hopeless regardless. Issues with the plot aside, I do look...

The difference is that when GRRM did it, it (usually) resulted in an improvement.

Probably related to how you watched it. I streamed it over Amazon Prime and it was clearly compressed into oblivion and whenever there was a lot of action on screen it devolved into a blurry mess. Throw minimal lighting on top of that and it was a challenge to watch to say the least. GoT has...

Yeah, that was distracting the shit out of me the entire time. The 4K HDR Blu-Ray will be something to see I’m sure, but the broadcast quality was awful. So, all that backstory with Bran and the Night King, and his entire purpose there was to cast that fucking bee spell from Bioshock?

Ed. :(

I don't know when I'm going to have the time to see this fucking thing so I just want one thing spoiled: Did they finally replace occasionally-smashes when he's not sad Hulk-lite with actual Hulk who doesn't finish the job until he's wearing the asshole linings of his enemies as a skinsuit?

That’s completely unsurprising. They are fiercely protective of Tolkien’s work and skewer anything they’re not involved with, Jackson’s movies included.

So did Pod just hit puberty at 25 or what?

Oh, good. More physics bitching about a God damn Star Wars movie. Please let's fill up more pages with fretting about the gravimetric properties of laser space bombs. Teaser is definitely more compelling than anything that came out of TLJ, but then so are parts of the Holiday Special. Star Wars...

She was a different actress.

wat Is she being held in your neighor's basement and getting force-fed buckets of Cold Stone?

There’s almost never a reason to buy a cross-platform game on Switch unless you plan to play often in portable mode.

I'm surprised it's mostly dead in here this soon after the new Smash Bros release. This is definitely the most fun I've had playing a Smash game. On the surface it might seem like little more than a refreshed Wii U port, but there are ton of small to moderate improvements that add up to a much...

It's odd to me how so many people here evidently never played a GTA or the original RDR... Anyway, this game pushed me into buying my very first Xbox ever. I've been dragging my feet on buying a UHD Blu-Ray player for a while, and I managed to score a new One X w/ NBA 2K '19 and RDR2 for around...

I take it you didn't actually read the article. The title is just bullshit clickbait. Anyway, maybe this one will okay, good, or even great, but the sad thing is, I don't care. My excitement level for Star Wars is at an historic low. I see TLJ pop up on Netflix every time I log in, and I still...

I caught this at a matinee today while on a family shore trip. It was fine. I mean, it should have been released in 1985 as an ABC Sunday night special, but it was fine. Han was completely miscast, but the dude did all he could to make it work. I was expecting much worse out of him. Also, are...

Han's casting killed it. Even if the film turned out to be fantastic, too large of a segment was immediately turned off by the actor. Some of those people might have been reeled back in with universally positive word of mouth, but too many potential viewers took a look at that guy and relegated...

Lucas isn't a hack exactly. He just needs to be seriously diluted. Concentrated Lucas is unhealthy. I'd welcome him back to the fold as long as he came included with a good director, editor, cinematographer, and a producer that didn't spend all of his/her time sucking George's balls.

It's not even really a right-leaning show. Roseanne herself is the only vocal Trump supporter on the show, and even then it's barely mentioned and the other characters argue the opposition viewpoint when it is. It's like calling Star Wars pro-murder because Darth Vader is the most memorable...

I don't care where you land on politics, shes's a moron. I was enjoying the show. John Goodman should be allowed to roll out of a third story window and land on her face.

They aren't getting nearly the money they used to from me. I contributed one movie ticket to TLJ, which remains the only Star Wars movie I haven't bothered to watch multiple times. I haven't even bought the Blu Ray, and I own the fucking Phantom Menace on VHS, DVD and Blu Ray. Star Wars as I...

FWIW, that Canadian ET reviewer who got famous for ripping TLJ to shreds liked this. The overall sense I'm getting is that it's an above average heist movie containing Star Wars things...there's very little that's blatantly garbage, very little that's truly great. Maybe it'll be one of those...

You made the decision to go to a giant nerd fest years in the making on opening night. What did you expect?

He definitely wasn't just an evil Spiderman. He was one of the more layered villains in the comics, particularly when considering the background of Brock and the symbiote and their relationship with Parker/Spiderman. This just looks like a very vanilla take on the character.