Brundlefly93

John Cho is quite probably the last actor on earth I'd cast as Spike.

Spike is tall, lanky and young, he is effortlessly cool but also very obviously kind of a loser. John Cho can't do any of those things right.

There's two young actors today that'd be perfect for the role, Lakeith Stanfield and Bill Skarsgard.

But if the reason is "you have to cast an Asian guy as Spike" then at least choose a Japanese actor, not a Korean one.

Jet was good, both the actor and character.

The change in Faye and Julia's characters feels like anything that's wrong with adaptations. Apparently there's only one way to write female characters nowadays.

Wish Watanabe was as hands on on this as Oda's been on One Piece.

And I especially wish only people who loved the source material AS IT IS could adapt it.

I think this is more of a 6 honestly, but I can tell they tried and that alone makes it deserve an extra point.

Im not a fan of when videogame adaptations choose to basically ignore the plot of the game (looking at you Netflix's Resident Evil) especially when at the end of the season there's a desperate teaser about a potential second season where stuff that's actually in the game is teased (looking at you Netflix's Resident Evil) and its even a bigger sin to create a new character from scratch when the source material has a lot of great characters to pick from (looking at you Netflix's Resident Evil), but at least here, unlike stuff like Netflix's The Witcher, I can tell the creators have at least a small amount of respect towards the IP.

The sense of humor is there. The car action scenes are good even if the cgi ranges from mediocre to laughable, but I kind of think that gives this some sort of B movie charm that the games definitely had.

The characters are mostly good enough and I especially liked what they did with Agent Stone. Some, like Sweet Tooth, aren't as good, I usually like Will Arnett but he was terrible in this and I hope they just let Samoa Joe do the voice if there's a second season.

I also recommend this because there aren't many of its kind. A 30mins action comedy show full of crass humor, violence and car chases deserves at least a chance in my opinion.

If there's a season 2 where the actual Twisted Metal tournament is the main plot point, I just hope they use characters from the game and I really, really hope they find a way to include Calypso's twisted sense of humor with his wish granting. Especially if Mackie ends up winning the tournament which I guess he will.

I have a lot of things to say about this, having just finished the show. I'll start what some thoughts I had before watching it.

I usually don't mind race swaps unless it's obvious baiting, Wesker would certainly be the last character I'd race swap in this franchise due to the connotations he's had since RE1R and 0, but I wasnt too bothered by it, and Reddick is a nice actor. So that was ok by me. Making him a "loving" father and having him be alive was a bit surprising (I do think Wesker is somehow alive in the games but thats another story). Having teenagers as main characters was a huge concern for me, and I was pretty sure I'd like the future timeline more since apocalyptic RE is something I always wanted to see.

So it was a huge surprise to me when I actually watched it, because I really liked the 2022 timeline while I found the future storyline to be bland and boring. At least in the later episodes.

A huge reason I didn't like those last few episodes is due to Ella Balinska, I have nothing against her and I certainly think she has the physique to be an action star, but she was wooden and had 0 chemistry with both her husband and her daughter. I do not know if its her fault or the directors/writers fault, probably hers honestly since I liked the character as written, I liked how she was unlikable at times, made some really bad choices and wasn't annoyingly unstoppable like Jovovich in her films.

The character had a lot of weight and she just wasn't good enough in my opinion. She's more of an Arnie than a Sly is what I'm trying to say. She would be a good fit for Fast and Furious (I dont say this trying to be mean, I love those movies).

The 2022 timeline however had me hooked, the teen versions of Billie (young Billie is my favorite character in the show) and Jade, Reddick, Nuñez, the Mexican reporter trying to uncover the truth only to meet his unavoidable demise, all of that was good and I always wanted to see more only to have the temptation to look at my phone whenever we went back to the future.

I also liked the explanation given to the Wesker mistery, I thought it was something that could absolutely happen in the games, and the not-very-smart version of Wesker, Bert, was fantastic.

But, while I enjoyed the 2022 storyline and I think there's potential here for a good show, it really wasn't great, and I don't know if I would've finished the show if it wasn't called Resident Evil. Even at its best, Resident Evil isn't great, and it's a damn shame, because clearly the show had a good budget and some very talented people attached, and the franchise has a lot of potential in both the stories that we already know and the ones we don't. Which brings me to my final thoughts.

Who did they make this for? People that know nothing about the games might be lost and there's not enough exposition. People that love the games are mostly sick and tired of having RE movies that feel nothing like RE, with the WS Anderson movies being the stupidest thing I've ever watched, full of laughable action, terrible acting and insulting use of the game characters, and WTRC deciding, for some reason I'll never understand, to mix the plots of the first two games into one 100 minutes movie, all of that while changing very important traits of both Leon and Wesker.

Resident Evil is not a franchise that has been fully explored on film, so why keep making things that are so different from what everyone likes about the game? We've had three live action Spider-Men, a very popular cartoon and a lot of comics, so of course it makes sense to make an animated movie about a different person being Spider-Man, aided by some whacky and silly alternate Spider-People.

But we still haven't had a true Resident Evil adaptation, and they MUST have known fans would react to this negatively. They run focus groups all the time, they know what we watch, what we like and what both the twitter liberal audience and the edgy 4chan audience like. And I just can't think who they wanted to be the target audience for this.

Still, if you go in with an open mind, I think there might be something you'll enjoy here if you're an RE fan. But for 8 hours, you won't stop thinking "when will they get it right?".

Maybe in season 2, if they're lucky enough to get one and smart enough to know their audience.

First of all dont be fooled by IMDBs score, thats just the magic they do whenever they dont want the people to express how they feel.

This season had good moments I'll say that, but it has quickly gone downhill in the last few episodes.

I don't want to spoil anything, I'll just say that when bad writers KNOW they're about to do something that everyone will hate, they resort to the lamest, absolute worst and out of character thing to justify their stupid ideas.

Its not about "what", it's about "how", that's whats been laughable and disappointing about these last few episodes.

While watching this, I didnt have a bad time, but the more I thought about it and compared it to 1 and 2 (didnt see the third VHS flick), the more I dont like.

The first one was really solid and it had in my opinion two great segments (emily and amateur night), two good ones (98 and tuesday) and a really terrible one, the honeymoon thing. The frame narrative was good enough, scary and tense, with a nice paranormal touch and the criminals getting their comeuppance.

The second one was a bit worse imo, the detective in the frame narrative was cool, safe haven is the best segment in the entire franchise, but the rest of them were just mediocre, no stinkers but nothing that good. Frame narrative ended with a nice twist, some cool action and a messed up but kinda funny bad ending.

But this one is just hard to understand. First of all, the frame narrative fails, it just doesnt any make sense, it feels like they're trying to make the two members behind that place look cool, but they sell snuff films that put people in a trance. Also, in the first one, they were some lowlife criminals, and in the second one, it was just a shady detective and his assistant. Now its a swat team but I guess that no one from the police force will realize that the whole team is dead except the two girls? Really, really stupid.

The tapes themselves.aren't that great either. Subject is really cool with Timo being once again the best part of the film, I also liked Storm Drain, mainly because I find sewers super creepy and the main actress was just fantastic, but Empty Wake sucked which is disappointing since I like Simon Barrett, and Terror wasnt really a horror thing until the last minute and a half, it took way too long to get going and then it just ends. Shame, because the monster design was cool.

If each segment is worth 2 points, Subject gets 2, Storm Drain gets 1.5 and Terror gets 0.5 because of the teeth guy. Maybe just watch Subject and then go watch something else.

Look I don't care that much about terrible people like ursula, alma or the chemist getting away, sure it would've been pleasant to see the ridiculously underused new cop discover the whole thing and throw those terrible people into prison, but this is supposed to be a "horror" show and sometimes the bad guys win, thats fine.

What it isn't fine though is having the finale be a 30 minutes episode who leaves us with more questions that we had before, like surely they have cameras in that music building? Surely they knew that kid was alone with alma and someone would've asked or taken dna samples? Surely the police can know that ursula was going to appear in that screenwriting course? Like I said I don't mind bad guys winning and if its a supernatural creature I can excuse almost everything, of course mr jeepers creepers can just kill justin long and nothing happens because he's a demon or something, but ursula and the chemist and alma are regular humans and their plot armor (pales dont attack ursula all of a sudden? Come on now) was just disappointing.

The only thing thats been strong all trough out the season has been the acting, with very solid performances by wittrock, rabe, peters and conroy, and o'hare and grossman stealing the show as usual. Angelica Ross however could take a couple of pills.

I didnt quite enjoy him the first few seasons I watched him on SNL, thought he didn't have great delivery, but he grew on me, I now consider him top 3 WU anchors next to Norm and Seth.

This show was funny, it has exactly my kind of humor, and while I consider it to be funny, I think what really defines it is clever. I love everything about this, from Che's performance and how he shows us his thoughts on topical stuff to the great supporting cast (Kevin was hilarious as were the cameos from SNL alumni like Cecily Strong, Heidi Gardner and specially Colin Quinn, who I hope can become a semi regular if this gets more seasons).

I rarely review stuff on here but I just want to say this in case someone at FX is reading. THANK YOU for making Finn the lead, I like Finn but in general its just refreshing to see someone thats not one of the usual suspects lead a season. Lily is also great and so have been the newcomers like the little girl and Macaulay. Even seeing some of the not-THAT-typical AHS actors in the supporting roles is refreshing. Great to see Denis too, hope he can lead a season someday, he's my favorite of the AHS crew. Just keep Sarah and Evan and the others for little roles.

I love 80s comedies and Ive always liked Chevy Chase in particular, but I honestly thought his glory days were over. His appearance in Norm Macdonald has a show was great tho, he was really funny there, so I went to IMDB to check his new films, and I came across this, which is now released.

It is a light comedy, where Chevy plays the straight man to Richard Dreyfuss' retired stand up comedian. There's of course the theme of being old, I didnt really connect with that since Im 25, but still they treat it in a very nice way.

The supporting cast is really good, from Kate Micucci and Chris Parnell to Richard Kind. Perhaps the worst part was Andie MacDowell, she wasnt very natural here.

If you like any of the two leads and you enjoy light hearted comedies, you wont be disappointed.

I haven't really seen many episodes of SNL since its kinda complicated when you live in Spain, but I do love actors like Aykroyd, Chase, Murray, Belushi, Ferrell, Carrey, Sandler... So I've always guessed that I'd like this show.

I've been watching seasons 37-40 (the ones who are airing in Spanish TV) and also a few of the classic episodes and well I really liked it, and although I like Vanessa Bayer, Bill Hader, Colin Jost, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis or Seth Meyers I've always wanted to see my comedy heroes doing SNL stuff, and this was just what I needed, a nice reunion where they pay homage to the legends.