Late to this video but got to say, I think Vangelis made a great *album* (probably his most sophisticated album of all) but an absolutely terrible *film score*. It doesn't match what's on screen at all and actively hinders the action, and if you pay attention you can hear where the makers have had to substitute someone else's music or awkwardly shoe in cues originally intended for somewhere else. It's hard to tell whether this is all because of the rush to release (and I think it's this one where Vangelis delivered the score extremely late), but it's problematic.

It feels like the tone randomly shifts after act 2. As if the story had to be changed due to a sudden cutting of the budget or episode numbers. It was still good but there were so many plot points that seem to just end. they never figure out what to do about the "wild runes" they just find more ways to break physics with no more catch, it was implied Viktor wasnt actually healing people but killing them and replacing their bodies with empty husks but then it turns out it was all real? then of course there was warwick becoming another drone instead of full wolf and viktor's final form low key coming out of nowhere (when did he get his old laser arm from season 1 back?). Then Ambessa who up until act 3 had a pretty solid plan and path to said plan to weaponize hextech suddenly fighting a war so that her soldiers will become part of Viktor's cult?

Great movie

I would rather watch prometheus, than alien romulus.

I feel all the pay offs never hit or actions happened with no purpose. A bunch of small nitpicks that compound into a big issue for me. Caitlyn is setup to be a dictator and then one musical montage later, she isn't. Vi and Jinx just tried to kill each other violently and then one musical montage later, they team up. Warwick is built up for 4 end of show teasers and he really only gets 2 scenes of being the animal and his arc is basically over after 3 episodes. What was Singed plan to not get mauled by Warwick in prison since he didn't know beforehand Jinx would be there when Warwick arrived? Isha blew herself up but it didn't do anything because Warwick didn't die or even look hurt. Ambessa gets restrained by Vi but then still shows up moments later at the camp ready to fight. We spend all this time showing Viktor healing Warwick but then that gets undone, essentially "wasting" run time during the healing process since it's for nothing. The happy family reunion falls flat bc it is immediately undone and not even really that sad as it was already a gut punch the first time Vander died. Why did Ambessa even need to invade/do a diversion for Viktor when his robots swarm everybody and end the fight in about 30 seconds? Warwick/Vander died like 4 times in the show and I really only felt the impact the 1st time. Jinx's "death" felt like it was bolted on to the end of the show after the climax. Where did Jayce and Viktor go at the end? It didn't seem like they died. I did enjoy this season and it is still better than most shows. Arcane is still probably my favorite show ever. The visuals and music are still untouchable and are the embodiment of shows being an artform. But the writing just had enough holes that I can't just gloss over them. Which for a show as amazing as S1, is disappointing. It suffered from the same thing as GOT and Cyberpunk. I see the story beats and like them, but it needs more room to breathe.

Agree it was ok but it didn't stick the landing.

There were a lot of baseless assumptions, perhaps made in terms of the previously-made movies although the characters in Prometheus would not have seen the movies so where would they get the ideas from? But anyway, the main flaw I thought was assuming that the tall humanoids were The Engineers. Far more likely they were some kind of servants/minions of the real Engineers. I don't think the real Engineers would be sacrificing themselves to kick-start life/intelligence on other planets. They would make servants for that.

After waiting so long for a prequel. I enjoyed and liked it alot.

I really don't care for the new ones.

I would say that for me, the antagonist was not Viktor, the antagonist was Ambessa. She manipulated Viktor to get a weapon to deal with the Black Rose and was the driving force behind all the events on season 2. I feel like a lot of the things that make the moments more impactful in the series are heavily steeped in League Lore. The Black Rose, the raven at the end, the whole story with Ekko (whose nickname is The Boy who shattered time and Boy Saviour), Warwick, Singed, Orianna, and so on. For people who don't have at least a passing idea about the lore, it might seem scattered. In fact, one of Ekko's voice lines in the game is specifically calling out that he used to have a crush on Jinx. And Arcane has ended, but they have announced work on series about at least 3 other regions: Noxus (where Ambessa, The Black Rose and the Raven are from), Demacia (A place where magic is banned) and Ionia (Asian inspired region that went to war with Noxus)

As for top ten movies, I have to nominate THE REVENANT (2015) !!!

I enjoyed that movie. It's the better of Wolverine stand alones. Ever think of doing a video solely on all your special/limited edition movies/shows? See how they all compare and what should or shouldn't be included in a special edition.

Its better, if you never played league, because you cant witness the violation of viktors lore. They took away all his archivements and said "um actually. Magic did it"

I also recommended TALK TO ME... and a bunch of other great movies!!

The Goonies is a great movie!!!

Wish I didn't pretty much agree with most of your scatterbrained thoughts on this, but I do. Style was still as strong as S1, but characterizations and story not to much.

Link to buy?

I only now realized this is only 1080 on Netflix. I had no idea. Running it on my 83 inch G4 OLED i was blown away. Going to run out and grab the 4k UHD now. Warming up the Oppo 203

Back when 3D flat panels had become all the rage, a good friend told me he was going to buy a Sony 3D TV to which i asked him "why you wanna waste money on a fad?" He was SO certain it was going to be the future as it he had waited a full year to buy one to be sure it was going to be a legit future tech. I laughed and said in 10 years NOBODY would be talking about them let alone selling them because wearing glasses every time you want 3D was cumbersome AND lame. As a good friend, I make sure to rub this in his face any time I can remember to do so. He still has the TV but he put it in his basement (and it sits behind a larger 4K TV). Now if you will excuse me, i must text my friend Ed and ask him how that 3D TV is doing. LOL

Nope, won't be paying money to see a remake. This movie was not wanted or needed.

This is a weird review - you're criticizing the film for the very emotions it's intentionally trying to stir in you.... The characters are SUPPOSED to feel 'flat' and disinterested, and you're SUPPOSED to realise that Kit is a psychopath. You state that you felt this, well that's not bad writing sir, that's the point! It's like criticizing ROCKY because you couldn't help rooting for him - its what the film is trying to do! You felt everything Malick wanted you to feel. It just might not be to your taste and that's fine

Love that movie, too! It’s definitely in my top 10, I dressed up as the witch from it for Halloween :) sort of an obscure costume choice, but one person got the reference so that made me happy !

Love that movie, too! It’s definitely in my top 10, I dressed up as the witch from it for Halloween :) sort of an obscure costume choice, but one person got the reference so that made me happy !

**Some Spoilers in this comment** I overall did like and enjoy it. It was fun, had a lot of cool moments, and I enjoyed a lot of the Characters. Specifically Lucius, Macrinus, the doctor and Emperor Geta were so good! My biggest issue though was immersion. Immersion was so bad and constantly took me out of it. I felt so many times I'm watching a marvel movie. Started out with the first battle. It was a fun and cool battle but way over the top. Some of it was me being a history buff but could look past it. Such as Trebuchets being used in the 2nd Century. But that battle was just pure action. I don't always want historical accuracy but I do want historical authenticity. This had neither. Which again I can look past a bit, the first battle in the first movie which is top 20 or top 10 movie for me. Isn't that historical either, but is authentic. I felt like a lot of fights in this one were like watching borderline super heroes fight. The sharks in the Colosseum? How did they get them there lol. The secret block opening a secret room... This this a Indiana Jones movie. The guy fighting off the back of a Rhino. If it was authentic and kept immersion strong it could of been up there with the first. It's still a great movie but fails to reach potential it had. Instead of being another historical epic it is just a historical action movie. A good one but with quite a few weaknesses.

I remember watching the first one in theaters. Still one of the best films of the 90s. Also John Williams music so iconic.

Gladiator II? I barely know her II!

I'm 59 so I grew up going to see all these fantastic thrillers in the 80's and 90's and in rewatching this movie they obviously played down Lorraine Bracco looks in this movie because she is just as atractive as Mimi Rogers.

Such a good cast

!fart

Did you hear about Ridley wanting to do a new extended version of 1492?

Soundtrack was so lame!!

'reserving surprises' little bit of a spoiler! Don't you think? 🤔

Glad to hear you thought it was solid. I cant wait to check it out myself!

Digital masterz best fan edits I've ever seen, I'm just sayin'!

Read SWAMP THING, by Alan Moore!!!

Highly enjoyable watching you review stuff. Keep up the great work! M4 keeps updating his edit, so it's worth it to revisit it if that's your favorite and you ever decide to want a rewatch. Not sure if you also watch TV shows, but Kingdom on Netflix is a highly underrated TV show. Korean Zombie stuff, but it's extremely well done.

I also knew the perception of people from Europe continent ( except few countries e.g. Italy) and american continent about Indian movies and many people makes fun of Indian movies but believe this is not perception of hollywood director or European director because they know the popularity of Indian movies and Indian movies actor in African continent and asian continent , because of popularity of Shaharukh khan Dubai (UAE) hired him as brand ambassador of Dubai tourism When Hollywood director's go to the international film festival then they know the popularity of Indian movies and actors E.g.James Cameron said about Shaharukh khan because of Berlin film festival you can watch in this link kzbin.infokzLr9FEjEv0?si=gG3QgRcxOZFt2kqz

This, Walking Tall & Faster are all good action movies from The Rock

Better then star wars

Netflix true crime docs have always been hit and miss and this documentary is a huge miss. True crime hucksters (e.g., Robert Graysmith) are overjoyed with this somewhat interesting, but ultimately worthless waste of television space. The FACTS of this case demonstrate that Allen was not the Zodiac Killer and that luck played a major role in this unnamed/unknown psychopath not being apprehended and incarcerated for the rest of his miserable life. Speaking of facts...a partial DNA profile was obtained from the back of a stamp from one of the Zodiac letters and that DNA profile did NOT match Allen's DNA profile. Three bloody fingerprints were found on Zodiac victim Paul Stine's taxicab and the prints did NOT match Allen's fingerprint exemplars. A palmprint was found on one of the Zodiac letters and the palmprint did NOT match Allen's palmprint exemplars. Handwritten letters by the Zodiac did NOT match Allen's handwriting exemplars from his right AND left hand. The physical descriptions of Zodiac after he murdered Paul Stine do NOT match the physical descriptions of Allen circa 1969.

This is one of many classics my late father introduced me to. It was also one of his favorites and seeing it always makes me happy and sad at the same time. Good memories. 👍

Ohhhh! These look like some CHEEZY ASS fun!

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Gladiator. What a freaking amazing movie. I absolutely love both Alien and Blade Runner. But I think Gladiator takes the cake as my favorite Ridley Scott movie. As far as I'm concerned pretty much everything in this movie is perfect. It came out when I was relatively young and I loved it then and still love it to this day. The music still gives me goosebumps and the story is as moving as ever. Gladiator is masterpiece and is definitely one of my all time favorites. I don't know how G2 could possibly live up to this one but I'm still excited to check it out.

There is one scene in the extended edition I really like. Even though Ridley might prefer the theatrical, this one scene adds gravitas to the characters in a sentimental way. Maximus and Juba are talking on a roof about their families. Juba talks about dying before he can see his wife and daughter. Maximus says his wife and son are already dead. Juba eventually says "You will meet them again. But not yet. Not yet" The last line in the movie where Juba is placing his hand on the sand covering the figurines is "Now we are free. I will see you again. But not yet, not yet..." is a callback to that scene on the rooftop. It lends emotional importance to something that is only in the extended version when they have that exchange on the rooftop.

man Crowe is such a great actor, he was floating along the grass !!!

I remember gladiator being all the rage with my friends back in middle school and then hearing about it again some years later from friends who love it. I’ve just never taken the time to sit down and watch it. I might have to rent it this weekend to see what all the fuss is about.

GI Jane has aged like red wine..

Gladiator? I don't even know her!

I remember seeing this in the theater in 2000 with a few good friends. All of us were blown away after the viewing. It completely exceeded our expectations and challenged our assumptions.