traddroberts

I really had high hopes for this series. I wanted more story and I just assumed there would be a weekly smorgasbord of Titans roaming the earth and getting some lengthy screen time.

But a funny thing happened during the production. The director, producers and studio executives at Apple must have sat down in a boardroom in Cupertino and said this show doesn't need any monsters. In fact, let's double down and put some of the most boring and lifeless actors in Hollywood into our most valuable Godzilla franchise. This is just bad TV folks. Really bad.

I don't know what Apple paid for the rights to this, but they should be on the phone right now with the director of Godzilla Minus One begging him to come over and fix the mess of a show. You don't need 100 million dollars. You need a good script and a director with vision.

I certainly enjoyed 300 and Army of the Dead, but I wasn't much of a fan of any of Zack's DC movies. I find his work hit or miss. But I came into this with high expectations. I heard about his Seven Samurai meets Star Wars pitch to Disney, but that he had been turned away. With so much Star Wars garbage being cranked out right now, I felt like this was a R rated masterpiece waiting to happen.

Boy was I wrong. Snyder has taken so many ideas from other films and directors and just mashed them into this nothing of a movie. It's boring, the fight scenes seemed horribly staged, the villains were cliche and I just couldn't care less about the village or its people.

So I stopped watching about 30 minutes in. Now I don't have to watch the extended cut or the sequel. How does this guy keep getting hundreds of millions of dollars to keep turning out this kind of crap?

I was in Fort Lauderdale for their 2023 film festival and was able to see this at a Saturday night screening.

It was a story about juggling your work and family life along with your artistic dreams. In this movie, the protagonist was an aspiring writer, joined by a musician and a painter. They were all juggling with their primary responsibilities, and the harsh reality that their desired avocation was fading into obscurity. The bottom line question was can you have both?

The acting was solid, the story really started falling into place when the writer and the painter meet up at the same hotel, but in two separate but similar clandestine operations, and the crowd seemed to like film. There some Q&A after the screening and everyone seemed very nice.

Hopefully this will hit the streaming services soon. I'd definitely watch it again.