Chris Allison

Maybe my expectations were really low but this is the first movie I really got a kick out of in a long time.

I hated Oppenheimer with every cell in my body. It’s a love story to bosses everywhere, and is so thematically contradictory at every step that it had to bend over backwards to insist on its thesis. I mean, “American Prometheus” my ass. Prometheus stole the fire, he didn’t turn it into weapons. So that title would belong to the team that originally split the atom, Cockcroft and Walton at the Cambridge laboratory. The movie had to continually struggle with the facts of history, that the creation of the atom bomb was a community effort, so that it could feebly attempt to prop up its patently ridiculous “Great Man” myth. And of course Nolan loves the idea of the Great Man. His movies are “Christopher Nolan” movies after all, despite being built by literally hundreds of people. Plus the third act is just a meandering, boring mess. And he can’t write dialogue. Or women who are anything other than simps who stand in the background and admire their male counterparts for the “brilliant and amazing geniuses” that they are. I wonder why he likes to do that in all his movies so much. His movies are a real batch of “emperor’s new clothes” situations. Marketed as smart movies for smart people, I’m convinced nobody is willing to point out how awful they are because they don’t want to appear not smart. But they are bad, needlessly complicated, overly budgeted wastes of time that exist only to present one or two interesting set pieces and of course stroke Nolan’s own ego. Hate is a strong word, but not strong enough to express my distaste for Nolan’s work. -100/10

I don’t know who is out here giving this thing anything less than perfect score. No-nothings, that’s who!

“You see, I have a very shallow understanding of several basic principles of physics. And understanding these simplistic ideas gives me the power to control the universe with my mind. It’s all perfectly sensible.”

The New Mutants is supposed to be “X-Men meets Breakfast Club” sort of deal. This movie tries to make its story about recovering from self-inflicted trauma, as opposed to being a group of youths who don’t fit in with established norms and expectations that are prescribed by a previous generation. I’m no comic book purist but this is a deviation from the source material on par with making a Jurassic Park movie with only the veggie eating dinos. It’s a half a “New Mutants” story. The movie really suffers because it doesn’t quite land almost any of its emotional beats. It’s been through so many edits that the pacing feels completely off. Certain characters don’t really do anything to establish themselves beyond rolling their eyes. Narration feels tacked on as an after thought. The themes are so blended and bogged down by boring scene work that you feel like you’re waiting for the movie to start for the entire movie. It could be worse! But it’s kind of boring over all.

Brutally over monetized, boring gameplay. I keep coming back to this every couple years and hoping it was all a nightmare. It wasn’t. It’s a real game and I need you to stay away.

I’m writing this here because I suspect my posts are being deleted and I’m testing that theory

It's as good as a movie like this can be.

I hate to say it, but this was a remarkable "meh" for me. From the paint-by-numbers action, to the clumsy and abrupt attempts at comedy that are completely out of sync with the tone of the rest of the film, this movie falls just short of greatness in every regard.

Does the game have bugs that need to be ironed out? Yes. Is it weird that there are certain features missing? Yes. Will I be playing this game for the rest of my life to just explore Night City and use the photo mode? Also yes.