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Bright: Netflix exclusive Will Smith urban fantasy movie

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It looks like an urban fantasy version of that episode of Rick and Morty with the Rick and Morty cops only with Will Smith and a goblin.
 
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Malbutorius said:
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Sorry, race just isn't a factor in these kinds of debates, their skin color is honestly incidental to me but if you want to compare them to Aryan's go right ahead and knock yourself out.

Besides, a Drow would look like blackface if done with actual makeup, and honestly I'd rather have Dark Elves just not show up then for a special effects failure making people even more insulted happening.
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You don't see the problem here, with you assuming a Drow would need to be a white person in dark makeup. This says things about how you think about the world, and none of those things are good.
 
I just saw it and I really liked it. Some of the background stuff was poorly explained, like the fact that the Dark Lord had an army of Orks, but later it is said that the leader of the 9 armies that defeated the Dark Lord was an Ork farmer while the servants in modern day were all elves. The whole system of magic and how it relates to the world is unexplained and poorly defined. Still it was fun movie if not a smart movie and if it does well enough to get more Urban Fantasy I can live with it.
 
Watched the movie. I liked it, even though it had a ton of flaws in dialogue, pacing, and the racial commentary.

I do think this would have been better suited as a TV series rather than a movie, as the film is constantly trying to worldbuild (which is good) but that usually means the plot suffers since things are padded (which isn't good).
 
Soverihn said:
Watched the movie. I liked it, even though it had a ton of flaws in dialogue, pacing, and the racial commentary.

I do think this would have been better suited as a TV series rather than a movie, as the film is constantly trying to worldbuild (which is good) but that usually means the plot suffers since things are padded (which isn't good).
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I look at it... and I kind think it's a pilot for either a series of 'tv movies' or as the start of a full tv series. Kinda just... testing the waters in a way.
 
cB557 said:
The thing about the Isekai wars is that there are no winners.
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This is especially true considering the ones who 'won' the Isekai wars are stuck in a cycle of brutal deaths, the same but everyone of his friends is an idiot, or the trenches of the first slash second world war.
 
Okay, finished the film. On one hand there's a racist Shriek joke. On the other there's a centaur cop. Why we got the former instead of lots of the latter I know not.

But yeah, it was just as terrible as the first thirty minutes implied.

Max Landis is a fucking hack
 
Mutton said:
Okay, finished the film. On one hand there's a racist Shriek joke. On the other there's a centaur cop. Why we got the former instead of lots of the latter I know not.

But yeah, it was just as terrible as the first thirty minutes implied.

Max Landis is a fucking hack
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Landis disowned the final product, which Ayers rewrote heavily.
 
First there's this...

Ayer personally did a rewrite on Landis' initial script for the film, which goes a long way towards explaining the odd mix of blunt boorishness and nerdy snark in the dialogue.
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And then there's this...

For his part, Landis has largely disowned the final product, which buries some glimmers of interesting ideas under a thick layer of adolescent tough-guy posturing.
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Literally, using the word 'disown'.
 
I honestly am shocked at the criticism people are giving this film. It's not high art, but it's not exactly aspiring to be anything other than what it is.
 
I was pleasantly surprised. Basic plot, and despite the Fresh Prince being a grumpier older Fresh Prince once again, I liked the characters, especially the Orc. The lack of complexity and relying on common tropes and cliches of both a gritty cop drama and a Fantasy tale worked since the freshness is the two genres being blended together. Wish they had more time for exposition. Hopefully they'll get to it with any sequels.
 
Mutton said:
Okay, finished the film. On one hand there's a racist Shriek joke. On the other there's a centaur cop. Why we got the former instead of lots of the latter I know not.
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Extremely minor point of order there are three centaur cops, I counted.

I'm pretty sure one of them was a girl because she had long hair flowing out under her helmet.

Sadly none of them got speaking roles or even verbal acknowledgment by any other characters and this is another thing that miffed me about this bad movie that I watched
 
shinaobi said:
Sadly none of them got speaking roles or even verbal acknowledgment by any other characters and this is another thing that miffed me about this bad movie that I watched
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Why would they need verbal acknowledgement? If they're a long-established part of the force, that would be kind of fucking ultra-super-racist to be going 'oh, and then there's X, who is a centaur who's been a part of the force for the past ten years. We like X'. It shouldn't be something special, it should be just something that is.
 
shinaobi said:
Extremely minor point of order there are three centaur cops, I counted.

I'm pretty sure one of them was a girl because she had long hair flowing out under her helmet.

Sadly none of them got speaking roles or even verbal acknowledgment by any other characters and this is another thing that miffed me about this bad movie that I watched
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Wait I only saw one when they were driving, where are the other two
 
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