JoeWras
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Against the advice of Q's Laptop (in this post: Last movie you saw and what you thought...), I decided to watch Section 31.
What a piece of garbage. Q's Laptop is spot on. QL also has the guts to criticize Michelle Yeoh, with which I agree. She wasn't any good either. Seems like nobody wants to criticize her these days. Well, she isn't perfect, and it shows here. Aside: she's almost exactly my age so I feel connected, and it is great to see women actors our age getting gigs. But this didn't fit, and it probably wasn't her fault. She did her best with the given script and direction. Instead, watch her work in other contemporary movies or ST: Discovery.
Osunsanmi needs to stop directing Star Trek. Take it somewhere else.
His direction resulted in a bunch of shaky cam and wooden dialog, on what was probably a crap script to start. The story actually starts out pretty good for the first minute or two, and then just goes to crap, starting with the awkward voice over. It is as if he was trying capture every trick in The Matrix or any of the JJ Abrams movies.
The story needed to breathe. There was no time to digest anything in this dark rotten universe. The funny thing is there is a bunch of explanatory dialog that tries to fix this, yet it instead sticks out and is just awkward and wooden. ("Oh, maybe you'll be a captain some day." - said to a character from an episode of TNG that was a captain.) Maybe I've watched too much of the Original Series lately. It runs at a pace that is literally 100 times slower. I know the word is that "the kids" want fast, but this was ridiculous. Read the reviews, it doesn't matter the generation.
Nobody is happy about this dreck, and Paramount has managed to effectively kill the idea of a Section 31 franchise, despite an obvious ending that opened to sequels. I doubt they'll happen. This is nothing like I'd image Section 31 to be. I would have expected kind of a dark James Bond. Instead, we got something beyond dark, like a black hole. Nothing should ever come out and be seen again.
What a piece of garbage. Q's Laptop is spot on. QL also has the guts to criticize Michelle Yeoh, with which I agree. She wasn't any good either. Seems like nobody wants to criticize her these days. Well, she isn't perfect, and it shows here. Aside: she's almost exactly my age so I feel connected, and it is great to see women actors our age getting gigs. But this didn't fit, and it probably wasn't her fault. She did her best with the given script and direction. Instead, watch her work in other contemporary movies or ST: Discovery.
Osunsanmi needs to stop directing Star Trek. Take it somewhere else.
His direction resulted in a bunch of shaky cam and wooden dialog, on what was probably a crap script to start. The story actually starts out pretty good for the first minute or two, and then just goes to crap, starting with the awkward voice over. It is as if he was trying capture every trick in The Matrix or any of the JJ Abrams movies.
The story needed to breathe. There was no time to digest anything in this dark rotten universe. The funny thing is there is a bunch of explanatory dialog that tries to fix this, yet it instead sticks out and is just awkward and wooden. ("Oh, maybe you'll be a captain some day." - said to a character from an episode of TNG that was a captain.) Maybe I've watched too much of the Original Series lately. It runs at a pace that is literally 100 times slower. I know the word is that "the kids" want fast, but this was ridiculous. Read the reviews, it doesn't matter the generation.
Nobody is happy about this dreck, and Paramount has managed to effectively kill the idea of a Section 31 franchise, despite an obvious ending that opened to sequels. I doubt they'll happen. This is nothing like I'd image Section 31 to be. I would have expected kind of a dark James Bond. Instead, we got something beyond dark, like a black hole. Nothing should ever come out and be seen again.
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