Jacob Krause

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I find it incredibly ironic how the prequels were universally hated, and now after 20 years they’ve come to be more appreciated. And now that they’re continuing with the same actors (Ewan and Hayden) and making something that’s technically a prequel, it’s getting a lot of hate again. The show is good. People have a hard time grasping that they’re trying to like build up to a climax, and that you’re gonna have to wait until every episode is released to get the full context of the show. (At the time of writing only the first 3 episodes have been released) people are acting like what’s been released so far is the entire series, and yeah the first couple episodes are a bit of a slow burn, and kenobi is clumsy and throughout the first half of the show you kinda just want to see him return to the obi wan we knew from revenge of the sith. The thing is HE WILL. This is obviously all building up to a climax at the end, I’m certain he’ll have a second fight with Vader. Just like in Empire, when Luke fails his first fight with Vader, Obi wan fails with his first fight here and only narrowly escapes, but it is PAINFULLY obvious to me that won’t be his last encounter with Vader, just like how empire wasn’t Luke’s last encounter. And I can’t understand why it’s so hard to see. It’s a character arc and honestly a pretty predictable one, it’s been done before: protagonist starts off shut off from the world and unwilling to help anyone or do anything a hero would, throughout the course of the story he learns or in this case relearns how to become the hero and do what’s right, and also grow stronger in the process. It’s pretty straight forward and even tho only 3 episodes have been released as of now, I can pretty much guarantee that’ll be the basic arc for kenobi. It’s just so frustrating it’s getting this hate without people even waiting for the whole thing to come out. With all that being said is the show perfect? No there are flaws. The third sister is a bit of a weak antagonist, but there’s more positive aspects than negative ones and it’s still very enjoyable. Star Wars fans are once again proving how intolerable they can be.

While I can appreciate its depiction of Alzheimer’s and how scary the disease can be in real life, as a movie it fails on pretty much every other level. The story and acting are pretty mediocre (except for the actress who played Deborah, she had some pretty good moments) I found it very predictable and many of the “scares” I could see coming from a mile away. Pretty much all the characters are barely developed and unlikeable, honestly I was hoping they’d die cuz for most of the movie they’re incredibly insufferable. There are a few creepy scenes in the movie but that’s about the highest praise I can give it, most of the horror and scary elements fail, and in general feels very derivative of other horror movies especially in the same vein. TL;DR version, basically a movie that feels like it really wants to be Paranormal Activity but knows it can’t so instead we got this

I’m white, I don’t care that he made a bunch of jokes about white people, I honestly just wish it was funnier. I guess this is pretty subjective since some people find this hilarious but idk I understood all the jokes but barely cracked a smile for most of it. It feels like edgy memes you see on twitter but just converted to standup, like you might chuckle here and there, but nothing makes you rlly laugh or holds any real weight. I don’t mind dark/offensive humor, I don’t think Chris is racist for anything he said about white people, he’s a comedian anyone who takes what he’s saying THAT seriously is probably missing the point. I honestly just wish the jokes had been funnier.

I wrote so much about this game originally that I hit the limit on what you could write for a review, so here’s the short and sweet instead Pros: Very immersive, feel like a real Viking Big world with lots to do, although the world might be a little too big Good graphics for the environment, stuff like character hair doesn’t look as good tho Cons: Story too long and almost non existent, 70% of the story is basically material that would be used for side quests. There’s 15 main missions you have to do before the end and by about the 8th one i was skipping cut scenes so I could make it to end quicker (also there’s different endings but it rlly doesn’t matter, you can make every dishonorable choice in the game and end up in the same place as the “good” ending. Only Sigurd gets a different fate, and there’s even a line of dialogue at the end you can say that changes it back to the good ending if you’ve chosen the dishonorable one) Buggy as hell, anything you’ve heard about bugs is true, there’s so many I can’t even list them Characters have barely any arcs or no arcs at all. The Eivor you are in the beginning is basically the same Eivor you are at the end There’s a “nudity on” option but there’s barely any nudity, I only recall one scene with it so if you’re expecting any of that sorry Why can’t we kill civilians, you know Vikings did that right Ubisoft? There’s enough here quantity wise to make it worth $60 but the story is so disappointing by the end that I’m glad I was able to get this on sale

Doesn’t capture the many of the elements that made the first movie great. I love Stephen Lang as an actor and think his portrayal of the blind man is good, besides that and some creative/brutal death scenes the story is lacking everything that made the first one great, there’s no duality in the characters, the blind guy is now good and everyone he kills is bad, whereas in the first movie you could empathize with all the characters and they really all had their own demons that you learned as the movie went on. There’s also practically no connection to the first even tho they left everything off on a cliff hanger, you could watch this movie without ever seeing the first one and understand everything that goes on, maybe that’s a plus idk. I probably wouldn’t have been so harsh about this if I hadn’t seen the first one and enjoyed what that movie did so much, cuz a lot of the problems I have with this sequel is that it’s such a disappointment from its predecessor. So not the worst way to spend an hour and a half, and I will say I was never bored or anything, but it falls so short of the first movie that if you’re expecting anything like that, it won’t deliver unfortunately. Edit: I was unaware that the actress in the first movie had such a rough time during filming that they weren’t gonna bring her back for this one, I still don’t really think that absolves this movie from any of my criticisms, I understand more now why it’s not a direct sequel but that doesn’t make the movie better or elevate what I saw, even if they were gonna go this route by making it more of a stand alone movie the story and the characters I think should have been done better

As it’s been said before this doesn’t hold up to the original, but I don’t think there’s anything that can at this point. On its own however I think it’s a really solid movie that delivers on what you’d want from a Halloween movie made in 2018. I remember when this came out and all I could think was “wow another unnecessary sequel nobody asked for” but I’m pleasantly surprised at how competent the movie is. It’s obvious everyone involved was giving it their all and I think it does pay off in the end. Lastly the soundtrack elevates this movie to something it couldn’t be without it, getting John carpenter to come back was the best decision that was made for this film and I think it’s worth watching just to enjoy that if nothing else