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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 110 points 9 months ago (3 children)

"Somehow, Palpatine return." -Poe-

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Palpatine coming back wasn't even an interesting premise though.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

and that fucker got his lightening reversed on him AGAIN!

Stop using that spell you stupid fuck it always gets turned on you.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If I had a nickel for every time Palps got his lightning reversed...

I could afford to hire better writers than what we got.

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[–] FatTony@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

It really did fail on all ends.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The look on Oscar Isaac's face as he delivers that line is something else.

It's the face of a man who has been back and forth with the scriptwriter and director all day, and is resigned to the fact that this is the best they can come up with.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it makes sense for poe to say, how would he know how palpy came back?

the problem was the movie didnt really expand on that in any capacity

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Even the writers didn't seem to know. It was like they'd been handed some weird madlibs type shit and had to work Palpatine back in, even though the previous two movies hadn't alluded to that in the slightest.

Even the groans from the rebels sound like "Jesus, three movies for this shit?"

If you look at Alan Rickman saying "By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings" and Oscar saying this, it's the same pained expression, but only Rickman was acting.

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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 68 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm still salty about League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Literary Avengers is such an awesome concept, but what we got was so fucking bad Connery walked away from acting forever.

But it did give us one of the most beautiful movie cars ever which, you know, is nice.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Read the comic. It does so much better with the concept. Goddammit, can we get at least one good Alan Moore adaptation?! Look at the mans run of Swamp Thing! It'd do well as an animated movie, at the very least!

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[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know it's bad but for some reason as a kid I loved that movie lol.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You, personally, are the reason Connery quit acting.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago (2 children)

TV show with really interesting premise that is well written, well acted, with great sets:

Streaming service cancels it after the first season and doesn't renew it.

[–] Fleamo@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

RIP 'Night Sky' with JK Simmons. What could have been.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 52 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Me when they say the name of the movie in the movie:

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 45 points 9 months ago

Superman: The only way for me to solve this crisis is to be Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.

Peter: Oh, that's why they called it that.

[–] page@discuss.online 14 points 9 months ago

"Ah boy, I'm just so tired of all these star wars."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWxiTPQv0ME

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"And the world will always remember the Backdoor Sluts 7: Anal Apocalypse."

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[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Lumberjack Larry: "Darlin', I've carved the grandest totem, but it's too tall for the town square!"

Lucy, the Lumberjill: "And here I am, trying to fit this massive log through our cabin door. It's a tight squeeze!"

Lumberjack Larry: "Looks like we're both in a pickle with 'My Big Stick Doesn't Fit: The Log Jam Love Story.'"

Lucy, the Lumberjill: "Time to put our heads together and chop this problem down to size, honey!"

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

They said the thing!!

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[–] PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I like shows like Andor which have a mildly interesting premise but rely on phenomenal writing and execution to really shine.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why do Star Wars fans always forget the / in And/or?

[–] neo@feddit.de 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You get my upvote, but it's an angry Andor unwillingly one.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 42 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Foundation. Such awesome design, great acting... but such awful writing.

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Maybe its because i'm not a fan of the books, but I really like Foundation, it has weak points, but overall I'm enjoying it.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 10 points 9 months ago

I went into it expecting it to have nothing to do with the books. I found all the characters' behaviors irrational and frustrating, with the exception of the emperor.

And I'm getting really sick of incompetent protagonists and impossibly flawless antagonists. I think that's just a reflection of the zeitgeist of the world's masses, but that's another discussion. Suffice to say I'm tired of it being the only trope used in SciFi TV anymore.

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[–] rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Somehow Palpatine returned

[–] leo@lemmy.l0l.city 48 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Alternate ending:

A small, innocuous looking bat takes the form of DRACULA behind CHARACTER 1 and CHARACTER 2

DRACULA: Why the fuck would I need a jetpack? How did you morons forget about the bat thing? It's been part of my image for like, a hundred years.

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 months ago

I feel like this is personally attacking Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and that movie deserves nothing but accolades.

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[–] theedqueen@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago (4 children)

This was Once Upon A Time on ABC. Could’ve been a really good show, but it was basically fanfiction written by a middle schooler.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

How many times can you use amnesia in a show with seven seasons? How many times can you reveal that Character A is secretly related to Character B? How many times can someone get killed but then miraculously get better? How many times can you introduce absolutely world-breaking plot devices, only to forget about them immediately?

The answer for all of the above, for Once Upon a Time, is THERE'S NO FUCKING UPPER LIMIT.

It did have this absolutely fantastic exchange though...

Grumpy: We're all going to go hang out with Happy.

Snow White: Didn't he get turned into a tree?

Grumpy: Yeah, but we fixed that months ago! We do things when you're not around!

...for which I'll almost forgive all the rest.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

'Fables' was a comic book that was the first to use the idea of characters from fairy tales living in the modern era. When people realized that everything was already public domaine we got two shows, neither as good as the comic.

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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago (6 children)

This first Suicide Squad was hot garbage, the second was awesome.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 37 points 9 months ago

Will Smith's compulsive need to never be the bad guy didn't help.

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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Witcher :(

And I'm not talking about the casting or other stuff. Just the general writing and conversion from books to screen sucked ass

[–] saintshenanigans@programming.dev 28 points 9 months ago

From what I've heard it would have been multitudes worse if Cavill wasn't so passionate about the source, too.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I never read the books or played the games. So when I watched it I thought it was kinda janky because they were trying a little to hard trying to stay true to the books.

Then I later found out it wasn't true to the books. Sure sometimes you need to change things to make a story work better for a new medium. But why is it so jank then?

If they made changes but it worked really well as a TV show because of those changes I can understand. And if the show is janky because they tried to stay too close to the books, I can understand. But they made a janky show that's not true to the books. I don't understand!

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[–] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Recently this was Hazbin Hotel for me. Thought I would give it a shot but it's written like a kid's show instead of an edgy adult comedy about demons.

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[–] YaksDC@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

The Dark Tower movie adaptation, I am a huge fan of the books and I was so looking forward to a 3 movie arc. Turned out 🤮

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 9 months ago

They have to have bad writing because otherwise it will be canceled 2 seasons in to a 3 season story arc

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Spelling error in a meme poking fun at bad writing. Hilarious.

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The movie "In Time" and the movie "Upside Down (2012)" are both great examples

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)

That leaves for an interesting question: why is most writing these days so god awful? There are great writers out there. Hollywood isn't stupid (is it?) and wants money. Why do they put shit writers on so many projects that then flop like the shit that it is?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 19 points 9 months ago

Hollywood is stupid and they didn't want to pay writers after the first draft is written. It may not be so much the writer is shit (they came up with some good ideas after all) it's that they don't have time to make additional drafts to fix plotholes, improve the dialog, etc.

Writing isn't just banging out something on a typewriter and it's pure genius the moment is written. It's a process that usually involves multiple drafts.

You gotta admit a lot of things feel like a first draft, and it's probably because it is. Hopefully these issues were sorted out with the writer's strike.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Because it's targeting the lowest common denominator.

It's generalizing the writing so that it generally appeals to generally everyone to increase engagement. This means that the show loses its specific attractions and it just becomes another generic TV show based in a different world.

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[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What are your opinions on The Magicians?

[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

The show where they have to sex each other in super sexy horny sex to cast some spell. Yeah sex magic wooo!! And what does the spell do? It just creates a column of light that some guy can use as a beacon to navigate.

My eyes rolled so hard I saw the back of my own skull.

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

But I've heard the follow-up to Suicide Squad, "Birds of Prey (and some clown woman)" had great writing, so... does that even out?

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