bahnhoff
Lifetime Total
1+
IMDb Member
7 years
Reviews
Preacher (2016)
Catastrophic failure
[*Possible Spoilers Ahead*]
The current 9 average IMDb rating has got to be from comic book fanbois. I haven't read the comic, so I'm not a fan of the underlying material. (To be clear, I didn't read The Walking Dead comics either - but the TV version proved itself in the pilot and in many episodes since as worthy of my time. I'm not anti-comics.)
The tone is glaringly uneven. Pacing is odd to say the least. Quintin pulls off gore humor in his sleep, so did Kickass and many others; this however just isn't doing it for me. Maybe the Preacher makers are just too late to the over-the-top-gore party. Nah, strike that. Their implementation is to blame. Have some consistency. Have a vision. Have a clue. Something. Anything.
Filled with clichés, one dimensional characters, and true, Sunday-funnies-worthy hamfisted cartoonish behavior. (Example: [*Spoiler*] Tulip kills some dude(s) while two very small kids watch/see the aftermath, and they react with grins and say, "Awesome!" Sorry, just NO. There isn't a kid on planet earth who could watch an adult get violently killed without ending up in pee pee pants city. Dumb dumb dumb. I get what they're going for: "Lookie here, she's such a bad*** even kids dig her!" But the "awesome!" punchline faceplants, leaving us puzzled. This is a universe where death is meaningless even to little kids. Inconceivable, yet that's what they're telling us. Okaaaaay...so if death is meaningless, how are you going to get me to care about any of these characters? Dying here is as blasé as seeing a pray & spray in CounterStrike, so who gives a rat's?)
Not a single character has an ounce of charisma save the Irish guy on the plane. Otherwise the whole mess watches like a machina vid with very good graphics: robotic computer generated figures aping human behavior - BADLY! Truly seems nobody knows why they are on set.
Honestly I couldn't get through the first half of it. If I get around to watching more and change my mind, I'll update my review.
The current 9 average IMDb rating has got to be from comic book fanbois. I haven't read the comic, so I'm not a fan of the underlying material. (To be clear, I didn't read The Walking Dead comics either - but the TV version proved itself in the pilot and in many episodes since as worthy of my time. I'm not anti-comics.)
The tone is glaringly uneven. Pacing is odd to say the least. Quintin pulls off gore humor in his sleep, so did Kickass and many others; this however just isn't doing it for me. Maybe the Preacher makers are just too late to the over-the-top-gore party. Nah, strike that. Their implementation is to blame. Have some consistency. Have a vision. Have a clue. Something. Anything.
Filled with clichés, one dimensional characters, and true, Sunday-funnies-worthy hamfisted cartoonish behavior. (Example: [*Spoiler*] Tulip kills some dude(s) while two very small kids watch/see the aftermath, and they react with grins and say, "Awesome!" Sorry, just NO. There isn't a kid on planet earth who could watch an adult get violently killed without ending up in pee pee pants city. Dumb dumb dumb. I get what they're going for: "Lookie here, she's such a bad*** even kids dig her!" But the "awesome!" punchline faceplants, leaving us puzzled. This is a universe where death is meaningless even to little kids. Inconceivable, yet that's what they're telling us. Okaaaaay...so if death is meaningless, how are you going to get me to care about any of these characters? Dying here is as blasé as seeing a pray & spray in CounterStrike, so who gives a rat's?)
Not a single character has an ounce of charisma save the Irish guy on the plane. Otherwise the whole mess watches like a machina vid with very good graphics: robotic computer generated figures aping human behavior - BADLY! Truly seems nobody knows why they are on set.
Honestly I couldn't get through the first half of it. If I get around to watching more and change my mind, I'll update my review.