Assassins Creed

For the uninitiated, this is based on a game series with the premise of people in the modern day using a simulation to relive the memories of their ancestors. And in every day, the modern day is the frame story that sucks and the real, cool story is the simulation.

So of course they made the crappy frame story like 90% of the movie and it sucked. Obviously it’s hard to capture the entire feel of a game on film, but what they could have done is had the entire movie in the past and actually focused on telling a good story, and then revealed it was a simulation right before the credits. Heck, they could have just stolen the ending from Assassins Creed 2 and then cut to modern day Callum with a setup for a sequel.

Instead we got an entirely forgettable film.

TL;DR: If you don’t like a show by episode 6, you’re probably not going to like it. If a show you like has had 6 or more bad episodes in a row, it’s probably past its prime and safe to quit.

Should they go back to adapting books, plays, short stories, poems, tv shows, board games, tabletop games, songs, toy lines, children’s games, other movies, or an older version of the same movie instead?

This zero-cost licensing model translates to significant savings

You don’t say?

Why respond to a question if you’re just going to go off on a tangent without answering it?

Yeah, if they can’t get at least two out of Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Eliza Dushku, James Marsters, or maybe Alexis Denisof I’m not interested.

Charisma especially would be great as she got the shit end of the stick in Angel. I wouldn’t mind a better ending for Fred/Illyria as well.

Which raises the question of exactly where they’ll be picking up continuity: The end of Buffy? The end of Angel? The comics?

Tale of Two Wastelands for Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

One day later:

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You don’t know if the world is better with trans kids in it? Are you saying you think the world would be better if trans kids were all killed? Or that they’re not worth fighting for?

You still in that coma and your fantasies are getting darker.

First, no one cares about the MCU at this point, let alone the B-grade youth squad.

Second, this looks like AI generated nonsense with a few human edits.

Third, the superior Kate is obviously Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.

I would not seek for one to exist by virtue of me wanting it to exist, but would rather have it exist if it does and not if it doesn’t.

Yes. That’s not shocking for a 7 year old film series.

A Quiet Place: Day One. Actually really good: big step up from the second movie.

Donnie Darko - makes it look like a horror movie

Godzilla (2014) - made it look like Bryan Cranston was the star (right off the heels of Breaking Bad)

Downsizing - made it look good

Invasion of the Astro-Monster (1965)

It was decent, but definitely not as strong as the first few Godzilla movies. Godzilla certainly fell a long way from unstoppable killing machine to dancing a jig after punching Ghidorah. The Planet X plot was pretty good and the aliens were cool at the start, but became pretty predictable by mid-film. Otherwise, the monster battle was just a retread of the last film, but without Mothra.

Speaking to Variety‘s Angelique Jackson on the Marvel press line at Comic-Con last year year, Ford wisecracked about the motion capture process required to turn him into the Red Hulk by saying: “What did it take? It took not caring. It took being an idiot for money, which I’ve done before.”

I always love Ford interviews. The guy doesn’t mince words.

As someone who subs to Disney, they really only have franchise content. If you’re not into Marvel or Star Wars then you’re basically just subbing for their backlog.

Whereas Netflix and HBO are actually putting out standalone originals. Stranger Things, Squid Game, Money Heist, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Grace and Frankie are/were all their own things without just being some movie franchise’s licensed tv spinoffs. Even HBO gives a mix of DC content with their original shows.

There really isn’t much in the way of series created for TV for Disney itself. Even after buying FOX, there’s not any real original new content to compete with Netflix.

You linked Breitbart? Seriously? At least click through to the Reuters link they posted.

The bots are there to sell things to humans, collect data on humans, or persuade humans to do things. You want money, power, or to manipulate people into voting against their own self-interests? That’s what bots are for.