Streaming for movies and TV series. The idea was great on paper but there is hardly anything worth watching and the execution is so awful. I did multiple trials for different services and they all sucked. Music streaming however is great, it’s not even 2 Eur for one month and the execution is amazing.
Happy Gilmore 2. I absolutely adore the first one, and I thought “Well, the second one can’t be bad. it’s such a great first movie!” Ugh. I was wrong. So very wrong.
Worst. Movie. Ever.
The excessive flashbacks were what got to me. If any movie could expect that fans would’ve watched the first movie 50+ times and be able to quote most of it, I think Happy Gilmore would be on that list.
You’re gonna die, clown!
Yea I haven’t seen it yet but a lot of my dumb coworkers were explaining it to me and just from there explaining I was like nah no thanks. I say dumb coworkers because all of them are extremely conservative and all on the anti woke bs.
Save yourself the time. Dont bother with it
I thought it was a really good sequel with a nice twist and redemption arc. Considering the first one was almost 30 years ago, it was a test to see if they could capture the humor of the time while updating it.
Now, the most recent Bill and Ted? That did NOT work, and I turned it off after 30 minutes despite wanting so incredibly badly to want to like it.
As a Guild Wars 1 player, I was very excited and really followed the hype for GW2. Only to be disappointed to how different it was from the one. Can’t blame them for innovating, but it was not the continuation of what me and my friends wanted. The shift to being more of an actual MMO made me feel completely insignificant in PvE, using just the basic automatic attack or doing my best to combine my skills didn’t make a difference, the mob would kill the monster anyways. In GW1, all of PvE is instantiated just for your small group, so in general, everyone’s action is important. The PvP felt very generic and didn’t have the uniqueness of the 8v8 of the 1 anymore. I really appreciated the constant gameplay innovation from Mike O’Brien and the art direction, but it was just too different of a game.
You can definitely still get that thrill of highly impactful combat, just not at any of the major meta events. The world at this point is so big that if you’re anywhere that’s not on the event timer you’ll probably be roaming by yourself. If you find a small event chain and it’s just you pushing it, it can be exciting and suspenseful. Knowing that if you get downed, all of your progress will reset, it’s a great moment when someone else runs up and starts reviving you and helps you succeed.
There are also instanced scenarios like dungeons, fractals and raids where you and a team have to be strategic with your classes and builds and how they synergize, and then there’s the added dimension of much more demanding movement and maneuvering than in the first game. I loved both games, they’re different but both great in their own ways IMO. If you only ever played in some of the starting maps I highly recommend giving it another go.
I don’t usually watch series. But I had so much hope after a friend made me watch Westworld. Then when Westworld 2 came out your title describes how I feel about it.
Mass Effect Andromeda. I loved the original trilogy, even the third one, and I was hopeful that they’d live up to what they were promising. Instead, we got a garbage game that completely tossed the idea of exploring a new galaxy. I tried to play it 3 different times, just to give it a chance, and I couldn’t go through with it.
I was mostly disappointed by the story, acting, and stiff characters. The environments? Top notch. The gameplay? Pretty solid, although the gunplay left some to be desired. The return of Mass Effect 1 style tooling around in the Mako? Everything I’d hoped for.
Too bad the game being so poorly received pretty much killed any forward momentum on similar games in that vein.
Spore (video game) The original demo was amazing, what actually hit retail just was trash in comparison
Hostel! It was mega hyped for a year and Tarantino wouldn’t fucking shut up about it, but then it was shit and ushered in that period where no horror movies were made except torture porn :(
I always thought that was Saw’s doing
You’re actually right saw released 1 year earlier I must have missed it at the time
That’s so weird… I swear I heard about hostel way before saw. Like early teens compared to late teens difference. I wonder if the cultural wave was just weird where I lived.
I had the same memory, maybe it’s just because the first Saw didn’t get such a huge hype cycle so we didn’t notice it as much ?
Phantom Menace
Rogue One
Last JediThe last Jedi was so bad I wanted to leave the theater after the fight with Rey and the red troopers but I had my 10 year old niece with me and she was into it so I didn’t lol.
I walked out of Rogue One when it hit “Yer a
wizardrebel now!”
Waaaah…
Menace and Jedi sure, absolutely trash. But Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie.
Unless you’re looking for characters and a plot that makes sense…
You do you, we’re all entitled to our opinions but super duper hard disagree there.
On characters alone it shows up the originals, Jyn and Andor have much more nuanced reasons to be in the rebellion than than either Han or Leia which leads to stronger story arcs.
I’ll give you an example of something that straight pissed me off as well as an explanation for how it happened.
Cassian is introduced by straight up murdering an innocent informant. Clearly they were going for a “Han shot first” moment, but picking an innocent target is something the Empire would do, not a Rebel. So bad characterization from the jump.
Roll forward, Cassian is assigned to assassinate a legitimate military target, the designer of the Death Star, but when he’s in position and sighted in, suddenly he’s all sweaty, conflicted, and OH - JUST - CAN - NOT - PULL - THE TRIGGER!
To be clear, there’s no character development between the two scenes. In one, he’s a cold blooded murderer. In the other, a conflicted assassin unable to do his job.
So why the difference?
Well… Gareth Edwards, the original writer director, was fired from the job and replaced with Tony Gilroy who claimed his super power was he never liked Star Wars.
Edwards burned time and money every day shooting footage off script that looked great, but had no purpose:
https://www.polygon.com/2017/1/6/14195898/rogue-one-star-wars-trailer-jyn-erson/
So Gilroy came in and found the film as it existed was an incomprehensible mess and had to write new material to try and salvage… something… out of it.
https://collider.com/tony-gilroy-saved-star-wars-rogue-one/
“I don’t like Star Wars—not that I don’t like it, but I’ve never been interested in Star Wars ever, so I had no reverence for it whatsoever, I was unafraid about that and they were in such a swamp… they were in so much, terrible, terrible trouble that all you could do was improve their position.”
So you get material like Cassian murdering an innocent person, or Vader force grabbing everyone and everything in the hallway EXCEPT the one thing he’s there to get (because the Death Star Plans have plot armor), or Vader watching the plans fly away with his own eyes, counter to the iconic opening of Star Wars.
Rogue One is a disaster of a film, not even as a Star Wars film, it’s a disaster of a film in general.
R2-D2 was a bisexual opportunist.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. Gawdawful, glad that Douglas Adams didn’t have to see it.
It’s a good tripping acid movie
He wrote a significant part of the script before he died. Personally I think he would have approved.
The weirdest part was they included the setups for the jokes, then skipped the punchlines.
I really liked how they had Mr. Prosser (the guy with the bulldozer), wearing a fur lined Mongol hat, but if you hadn’t read the book, you’d have no idea why that was funny.
“Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn’t know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.”
The two that come to mind are Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Farcry 6.
They might have been ok games if the previous ones hadn’t been so damned good.
At least with Breakpoint they tried to make it right with a new mode, but still don’t enjoy it as much as Wildlands.
Leveled enemies and weapons are just not something I’m going to play.
What went wrong with Far Cry 6? I’ve heard it’s pretty mid and I haven’t heard much about it since which leads me to assume it’s not even memorably bad or good
the Dragonball movie. fucking RUINED my birthday it was so bad.
Agreed it wasn’t even in the so bad it’s good category. It was just bad.
No Man’s Sky. So much of what was promised was missing, the world just felt empty. It’s a much better game now.
Yes I fell for that game too. I was so hyped for it, I bought the soundtrack (which slapped actually) but yea it was bad.
I feel like I saw through the hype on that one. I like space games, but you can’t make what they promised interesting without some incredible things that the game didn’t have. It’s just going to be nearly infinite boring generic planets. Without systems to make them unique then there’s no reason to care about any of them.
I did follow it up to launch, and I pirated it when it launched because I wanted to see it. Yeah, it sucked. I tried it again a few years ago because they supposedly made it actually good, but I still don’t get it. It’s still got the issue where no planet is interesting because there are infinite like it. Yeah, you can build a base now, but I couldn’t get into it. Some people seem to love it now though, so good for them.
I ADORED the first Inside Out, so naturally I was super excited when I heard the news that a sequel was in the works.
Then the marketing started to roll out, until the release, then the critics.
Quickly realized in was a really bad sequel, that suffered because of Disney’s anti-LGBT problems, and generally lacks a soul.
Never bothered to watch it. Don’t want to ruin the first movie.
FWIW, I really enjoyed both of them. The first is better, but the second is worth a watch IMO.
Most recently, it was probably Rebel Moon. I didn’t have high expectations and thought it was going to be schlocky, but it was not the fun kind of shlock in the end.
Game of Thrones
WHY HAVE THEY NOT MADE ONE GOOD GAME OF THRONES GAME???
Probably because the base material sucks (any “everyone is an arsehole” story sucks)
Plus, all the projects are cash grabs by capitalists with zero sense of taste or style.
You’ve never played the board game or LCG? Those are analog gaming masterpieces.
That would require friends and disposable income. If I had all that, I would just buy the Dark Souls modular board game 🤤
