Tag: Louis Gossett Jr.
REVIEW: IF (2024)
When I first started seeing posters and trailers for IF, I thought it looked atrocious. The animated characters looked cheesy and poorly integrated with the live-action characters and backgrounds. But worse than that, it seemed thoroughly unoriginal; all I could think of was Monsters, Inc. crossed ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 6 “This Extraordinary Being”
“This Extraordinary Being” is a tough nut to crack. It has what could have been a fascinating story if it existed in a vacuum. Unfortunately, it’s a Watchmen story, and it retcons parts of the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons comic book that Damon Lindelof claims he so reveres to fit its narrative. Sti...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 4 “If You Don’t Like My Story Write Your Own”
This week’s episode of Watchmen is called “If You Don’t Like My Story Write Your Own” because of course it is. It’s smug, condescending, obnoxious, self-aware to a fault, and both an acknowledgment and dismissal of the audience dissatisfaction Damon Lindelof knew was coming. In other words...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 3 “She Was Killed by Space Junk”
Three episodes in, Watchmen still isn’t very good – and, in some places, astonishingly, how-the-hell-did-they-think-this-was-a-good-idea bad – but “She Was Killed by Space Junk” introduces a potential life raft in the form of a major character from the graphic novel. It’s littered with t...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 2 “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship”
In a strange way, I’ve been looking forward to the next episode of Watchmen all week. After last week’s debacle, I was morbidly curious to see if Damon Lindelof and co. made any course corrections between the pilot and episode 2, “Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship.” Perhaps it�...
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