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Bear in mind half of that is real-money charges inside "free" games. An abusive business model that should be illegal.

Very interesting, would you like to post this picture as its own post?

I'm just annoyed at how all of a sudden people are Wicked fans. It's been a massive hit broadway show for over 2 decades. It toured in pretty much every American city. I saw it in Des Moines, Iowa for 40 dollars back then. It is not some crazy new franchise people, it was just marketed like crazy because they wanted their own barbie movie.

But Americans think going to see a live show is pretentions and musicals are stupid. Unless advertisers shove pink and green in their faces for hours on end, then all of a sudden Wicked is the best thing everrrrr

After reading the wikipedia summary of Wicked the musical, it seems like the movie followed the plot pretty much exactly - which is where all of its problems come from, IMO. The singing was great. Ariana Grande absolutely killed it. Great performances by Elpheba and the hot dude. Set design and costuming, great. But the story is absolute trash. The glowing reviews from critics don't seem to take this into account...

I see how they wanted to stay faithful to the original - they'd have gotten major blowback from fans. But so much of the plot is completely uninspired, thin, or even nonsensical. The 1st and 2nd acts were pretty solid, but no spoilers, the plotline with the animals, basically the entire 3rd and 4th acts, all of the stuff with Jeff Glodblum and all of Elpheba's interractions with him and the lady from EEAAO were rushed and wafer-thin plotwise. I feel like they try to cover that fact up by bombarding the viewer with visuals, racing to major plot points, and leaning on the strength of the performances - sort of gish galloping their way past the plot holes. It felt like the macro pacing was pretty much bang-on with major events happening at a satisfying cadence, but pacing between each plot point - getting from a to b within an act - was often rushed without adequate character development to support their actions/interractions with other characters.

And _ jeeeezus_ was it about 90 min too long.

For an average moviegoer its a below-average action comedy with bad action scenes and weird shit.

For a Borderlands fans its a steaming pile of shit, with the worst casting choices, ignoring the source material, the lore. They just used the name and the idea if the BL world to create some nonsense story with an expensive soundtrack.

They were laser-focused to create a cast made out of big names and recreate the Guardians of the Galaxy formula. Even this didn't work, there is little to no chemistry between the main characters and the whole plot is just stupid and makes no sense.

They didn't even fuck it up in a fun way. Super Mario Bros (the first one) was batshit crazy, but still invoked a shocking variety of details from the games, back when there really was not much to those games. All of the Uwe Boll dreck is at least camp as hell. Resident Evil knows it's stupid, and refuses to break eye contact.

Borderlands arrives years late, pleases nobody, and takes no risks. It is of low quality. It's not even fun to talk about.

Well, I never played the game so I went in knowing nothing. I got it for free.

From that stand point, I'd give it a 7.5/10. It was no worse than Guardians/Galaxy 3. It had some funny moments and some good action. I watched it to the end, which puts it ahead of a lot of other movies that got way less hate.

That doesn’t make sense anymore. Streaming is the post-theater “second life” for movies now.

That's a good point I haven't seen pointed out elsewhere. I suspect this really solidified the trend of playing it safe.

When the original came out I was a teenager who wore all black listened to NIN and was into comic books. In other words the perfect demographic for that movie. And I absolutely loved it. My friends and I would watch it all the time. I've continued to watch it and enjoy it throughout the years.

After seeing the first preview for the new one, I had zero interest in seeing. So much so, that I had completely forgotten about it again until reading your comment.

It sounds like I need to add this to my never watch list. Along with every single terminator movie after T2.

Did it have the story telling depth of a legendary movie? Gods no....but it was fun. Felt exactly like the old Beetlejuice cartoons when I was a kid. I think people need to lower their expectations and just have a bit of fun sometimes. Not every movie should be a life-altering experience.

im going to get hate for this.. but i kinda liked it. if you consider it a stand-alone piece of art (not a sequel), its not terrible.

the 'musical' aspect wasnt as pronounced as i feared, and i had very much expected to hate it. definitely better than megalopolis

I walked away to do something else for 30 minutes in the middle and I don’t think I missed anything. It was very much like a Hallmark movie. Doesn’t help that Dakota Johnson can’t act her way out of a paper bag, and the rest of the cast just phoned it in.

I watched Megalopolis yesterday while my wife did a puzzle. After the movie was done she asked me what I was watching. I told her, I have no clue as in I don't know what that movie was about.

Mostly Coppola's money tho

I’m surprised the evangelical churches didn’t give out free tickets to this one.

red one is not aweful if you are 8, or otherwise set it on a bar of Christmas movies.

Cain, he was that fountain guy in Diablo who would identify items for you right

Red one was cracking fun.

It kept almost starting, right up till it ended. And it went on forever.