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Posted: 12/23/2017 9:32:50 AM EST
[#1]
It was OK though I would have liked a lot more back-story.
So Lord of the Rings was real? 
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Posted: 12/23/2017 9:43:37 AM EST
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Social commentary. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 9:52:53 AM EST
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It was OK though I would have liked a lot more back-story. I also really wanted to see more on a back story. They might have been better off doing this as a series rather than a movie format. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:07:29 AM EST
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So was it basically saying that it will take the existence of orcs for black people to no longer be the bottom rung? Is that it? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Social commentary. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:09:41 AM EST
[#5]
Since when are Orcs considered aliens?
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:23:05 AM EST
[#6]
I was entertained by it. Wasn't great but wasn't that horrible either.
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:29:16 AM EST
[#7]
Will Smith is a cunt.
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:59:00 AM EST
[#8]
I liked it, could have done without Will Smith.
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:59:55 AM EST
[#9]
It was good. IDK what the critics are on about.
IMO it might have had TOO much of a good thing (action). I could've had a little more delving into the setting/ characters but more than likely having 13 episodes would've turned it into a snooze fest. Probably better, and for good reason it leaves you wanting to know/see more. Anyone triggered by "SJW rhetoric" is only seeing what they want to. Some of the white cops were bad, the Indian and Korean IA guys were pieces of shit right along with the female/ Asian/ Sarg and Will Smith himself didn't even like the Orcs. O yeah, and Mexicans too. And even the Orcs understood why it was that way because they fucking deserved it for what they did and who they (most of the time) were. IMO they were not analogous for any one race of people in our real world. This was just a gangster/fantasy/ cop story that was at least different from everything else out there right now. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:02:09 AM EST
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Wasnt this already done? Remember Alien Nation? |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:02:41 AM EST
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"Everything's fine... Just crypwalk your asses back over there..."  Still haven't finished it. Made it to the part where the bad chick kills the swat team exiting the strip club |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:03:16 AM EST
[#12]
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I thought it was good entertainment. I also really wanted to see more on a back story. They might have been better off doing this as a series rather than a movie format. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It was OK though I would have liked a lot more back-story. I also really wanted to see more on a back story. They might have been better off doing this as a series rather than a movie format. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:03:54 AM EST
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"BRIGHT, new alien show on Netflix featuring Will Smith"
Screw that commie icehole.  Between that icehole Smith and the previous Netflix crap/BS Fake News documentary that was trying to get the murderer off the hook for murdering the news reporter and burning her body to get rid of the evidence, Netflix sucks!
Anyway, hasn't this been done before? 
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:58:43 AM EST
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I thought the weapons room in the wand house was interesting. barrett .50, pile of 80% lowers, explosives, claymores, etc...
my thoughts.... I'm sick of the SJW shit.. this was basically, lets have a green guy, and make everyone racist against him..... except for the black cop... the black cop doesn't like him because he thought he betrayed him.... all the white cops hated the green guy cause he was green... then we had orc BLM shit..... I would have liked it a LOT more if they didn't try to make the orcs be like hoodrats... id have enjoyed it more had the races been a little more separate.. humans, vs elves, orcs etc... vs making orcs hoodrats/Mexican thug types. it was ok to watch.... I just have a hardtime not getting pissed off at all the SJW crap that's smeared into everything today. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 12:00:54 PM EST
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Hmm.. Finally saw it and didn't think it was as bad as I heard. Some of the concepts and back stories with the world building is interesting. But, I think they need a new director since the way the plot is laid out is really messy. It very much reminded me of suicide squad.
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Posted: 12/23/2017 12:12:50 PM EST
[#16]
The show sounds stupid to me
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Posted: 12/23/2017 2:18:57 PM EST
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It was good. IDK what the critics are on about. IMO it might have had TOO much of a good thing (action). I could've had a little more delving into the setting/ characters but more than likely having 13 episodes would've turned it into a snooze fest. Probably better, and for good reason it leaves you wanting to know/see more. Anyone triggered by "SJW rhetoric" is only seeing what they want to. Some of the white cops were bad, the Indian and Korean IA guys were pieces of shit right along with the female/ Asian/ Sarg and Will Smith himself didn't even like the Orcs. O yeah, and Mexicans too. And even the Orcs understood why it was that way because they fucking deserved it for what they did and who they (most of the time) were. IMO they were not analogous for any one race of people in our real world. This was just a gangster/fantasy/ cop story that was at least different from everything else out there right now. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 2:21:03 PM EST
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Hmm.. Finally saw it and didn't think it was as bad as I heard. Some of the concepts and back stories with the world building is interesting. But, I think they need a new director since the way the plot is laid out is really messy. It very much reminded me of suicide squad. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 6:46:28 PM EST
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I saw it and liked it.
For people who don't know the same people who did end of watch and suicide squad were involved in this. In that way it has the same feel. I liked that will smith didn't feel like the character he always plays but in a way it was the same. He's obviously a jackass but deep down a decent person but also much more flawed than similar stuff (bad boys, and suicide squad). The orc dynamic was interesting because even though you felt they were going for the whole orc = black it doesn't translate that way. The orcs are obviously stronger than humans but not insanely so. They have a culture that revolves around violence but not in the incomprehensible fashion real human cultures do. They feel more like eastern Europeans who were Muslims and Nazi's in WWII. The wand and bright parts also felt more real than in normal stories like this. People understand the power of Magic and react in a way that they understand how life changing it is. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 6:50:23 PM EST
[#20]
I thought it was decent.
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Posted: 12/23/2017 6:52:19 PM EST
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The 5-second teaser looked interesting. I watched the trailers, and decided I'm OK not having SJW shoved down my throat at every opportunity, especially given that the plot looked awful and acting weak. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 6:53:07 PM EST
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Just finished it .
It was ok, worth watching. Some funny lines... "We are not in a prophecy...." Click To View Spoiler |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 6:54:29 PM EST
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Alien Nation reboot.
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Posted: 12/23/2017 6:58:58 PM EST
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Loved that line Still haven't finished it. it to the part where the bad chick kills the swat team exiting the strip clubMade that have ranges measured in hundreds of meters. Let's just all run into melee range against the little white haired ninja chick, so she can kill us all in the cliched martial arts>guns B.S. scene". Other than that, I thought it was pretty good. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 8:13:13 PM EST
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That scene was actually probably my only real gripe. "Hey, we have weapons that have ranges measured in hundreds of meters. Let's just all run into melee range against the little white haired ninja chick, so she can kill us all in the cliched martial arts>guns B.S. scene". Other than that, I thought it was pretty good. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Loved that line Still haven't finished it. it to the part where the bad chick kills the swat team exiting the strip clubMade that have ranges measured in hundreds of meters. Let's just all run into melee range against the little white haired ninja chick, so she can kill us all in the cliched martial arts>guns B.S. scene". Other than that, I thought it was pretty good. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 9:04:44 PM EST
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Man that sucked. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 9:23:08 PM EST
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Rap music still alive and well in the future. I am disappoint. Not into anything Will Smith related anymore since him and his family have shown us how full tilt nuts they are but I'll probably check out an episode or two. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 9:28:29 PM EST
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That scene was actually probably my only real gripe. "Hey, we have weapons that have ranges measured in hundreds of meters. Let's just all run into melee range against the little white haired ninja chick, so she can kill us all in the cliched martial arts>guns B.S. scene". Other than that, I thought it was pretty good. Just not explosives. 
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Posted: 12/23/2017 9:40:53 PM EST
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Shadowrun. It’s based on Shadowrun Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Wasnt this already done? Remember Alien Nation? It had some Training Day scenes in there also....not to mention one of the actors from training day. Cle Sloan: 
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Posted: 12/23/2017 9:43:42 PM EST
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Technically; the evil elves (Inferni--or whatever) had bullet resistance to a point. Just not explosives. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That scene was actually probably my only real gripe. "Hey, we have weapons that have ranges measured in hundreds of meters. Let's just all run into melee range against the little white haired ninja chick, so she can kill us all in the cliched martial arts>guns B.S. scene". Other than that, I thought it was pretty good. Just not explosives. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 9:57:47 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Shadowrun. It’s based on Shadowrun |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:10:03 PM EST
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Wasnt this already done? Remember Alien Nation?
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:11:53 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I don’t remember Mick Jagger being in that. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:16:18 PM EST
[#34]
Watching it now. Almost done. It’s pretty legit.
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:16:46 PM EST
[#35]
I thought it was good, and a great example of soft sci-fi.
The comments here are not surprising, a lot of people missed that while it's a social commentary, it's doing it in a way that is the antithesis of social justice, it's using humor and projecting racial bias onto discussable "races" in a way that can be laughed at and criticized. Remember how Blazzing Saddles is racist as FUCK, but it keeps people laughing for decades? "Social justice" warriors can't let shit like that be laughed at because it brings people together instead of wedging them apart. It's sad that a somewhat mundane movie like this is almost "edgy" today. Besides all that if nothing else it was a pretty rad buddy cop movie. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:17:44 PM EST
[#36]
Really good movie.
Wish it was a series... |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:21:25 PM EST
[#37]
Just finished it. Thought it was going to be stupid actually really fucking enjoyed it!
Reminded me of Hellboy I would love if they made follow ups/series |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:26:41 PM EST
[#38]
Goddamit I'm going to have to watch this.
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:33:46 PM EST
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James Caan and Mandy Patinkin Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: I don’t remember Mick Jagger being in that. 
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:37:25 PM EST
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I thought it was good, and a great example of soft sci-fi. The comments here are not surprising, a lot of people missed that while it's a social commentary, it's doing it in a way that is the antithesis of social justice, it's using humor and projecting racial bias onto discussable "races" in a way that can be laughed at and criticized. Remember how Blazzing Saddles is racist as FUCK, but it keeps people laughing for decades? "Social justice" warriors can't let shit like that be laughed at because it brings people together instead of wedging them apart. It's sad that a somewhat mundane movie like this is almost "edgy" today. Besides all that if nothing else it was a pretty rad buddy cop movie. When both complain about the politics of the show going against their sense of PC, I figure the writers just might be on to something worth watching. Seems to be the case with this one. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 10:46:30 PM EST
[#41]
Just finished watching it, I liked it.
Anyone else catch the raw 80% lowers on the table? |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:07:46 PM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: For me, it’s gotten to the point that I look for reviews from both extremes of the domestic political internet, the right wing outrage generation sites that feed much of GD, and the left wing SJW crap. When both complain about the politics of the show going against their sense of PC, I figure the writers just might be on to something worth watching. Seems to be the case with this one. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:43:05 PM EST
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I enjoyed it until the end where the Lord of the Rings shit took it to another level...good flick. It had some Training Day scenes in there also....not to mention one of the actors from training day. Cle Sloan: http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/wpgo/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cle-sloan-pic-4.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Wasnt this already done? Remember Alien Nation? It had some Training Day scenes in there also....not to mention one of the actors from training day. Cle Sloan: http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/wpgo/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cle-sloan-pic-4.jpg As well as Street Kings, Harsh Times, The Fast and the Furious, Sabotage. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:46:52 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Except Shadowrun is interesting, and can make social commentary without sounding self important or smug. This looks, disappointing. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:48:53 PM EST
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It's written by the son of John Landis (Blues Bros, Animal House, AWWIL, Spies Like Us)
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:52:40 PM EST
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Instead of wasting time with all of that, why not just try watching something and seeing if you like it? Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: For me, it's gotten to the point that I look for reviews from both extremes of the domestic political internet, the right wing outrage generation sites that feed much of GD, and the left wing SJW crap. When both complain about the politics of the show going against their sense of PC, I figure the writers just might be on to something worth watching. Seems to be the case with this one. Same reason to not go see movies where screaming libtard anti-gun/ anti-2a hollywood stars make money off violent gun use. |
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Posted: 12/23/2017 11:59:38 PM EST
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Am I the only one that didn't automatically equate color to races, but cultural concepts, and in a way tons of them are interchangeable an overlap?
I.E. The Orcs are easily stand ins for ghetto blacks... Especially with the hoddies and Rodney king style beating* but they are also looked down upon for "making the wrong choice 2000 years ago" when it came supporting a powerful being. So you could stand them in with basically any persecuted religion. People instantly equate the Elves with white people... yet, it's stated they're the rich power players in LA with all the money. First trope I thought of was "the jews that run Hollywood"... not "white people". *The Centaur cop had me cracking the fuck up. |
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Posted: 12/24/2017 12:03:52 AM EST
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Guess Ill give it a try...
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Posted: 12/24/2017 12:04:04 AM EST
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Also... kind a a spoiler alert, but a key element of the show and is evidence it's not just some SJW BS;
The movie depicts events that begin to close the gap between race relations, and close the gap between minority and police relations in the world the story takes place in. |
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Posted: 12/24/2017 12:20:01 AM EST
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Also... kind a a spoiler alert, but a key element of the show and is evidence it's not just some SJW BS;
The movie depicts events that begin to close the gap between race relations, and close the gap between minority and police relations in the world the story takes place in. |
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