The first one was all over the place. It felt both rushed and lacking in content at the same time, and the characterisation was some of the worst I can remember seeing in a ‘mainstream’ movie. By the time the credits rolled my partner and I just kinda sat there like WTF the did we just watch?
I don’t mind Synder’s stuff - he’s the very definition of style over substance for the most part, and that’s fine if you go into things expecting that, but this was a straight up mess. It almost felt like it got absolutely butchered by the editor or something. Zero interest in seeing the rest of the ‘trilogy’. How Netflix can be so apparently invested in this bollocknaise is a mystery. All I can imagine is that they’ve invested so much money in it, expecting it to be the next big thing that they’re now desperate to try and hype it up.
And the pacing was just bad even for a brain dead action flick. Like the first act was okay but then the second act was just a series of boring fetch quests and unnecessary flashbacks which they should’ve saved for the second movie, imagine that George Lucas revealed who Luke’s father was in the first Star Wars movie that’s basically what Snyder did. And it took way too long while at the same time it pushed the story barely forward. And introducing every new character in the second act with a long action sequence didn’t make any sense, like at that point I wasn’t invested at all in the new characters, I couldn’t care less if they died.
And then the 3rd act was super short and just slapped at the end. It went immediately from betrayal to the final act battle.
They can’t even write a basic three act story for a simple action movie.
Netflix should be pumping out dramas, thrillers, comedies and maybe even horrors. Blockbusters dont work on their, as seen with rebel moon. We need the 1990s/2000s Matt Damon/Tom Hanks/Adam Sandler type movies
Yeah… Steven King wrote it. 5th book in the Dark Tower series… “Wolves of the Calla”. If they get a film or tv show adaptation off the ground they really need to merge 5 and 6 together and remove like 1/2 the content.
Probably the least memorable part of that whole series. It came after a really long wait, for me at least, and I was happy just to re-encounter the characters. I suspect that made it acceptable.
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