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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour among Thieves was done by fans of D&D, and it really shows.

I am personally convinced that Hollywood is trapped under the thumb of executives that "know better." They force terrible decisions and limit the creative vision of everyone else involved. When it works, they think it was only themselves that made it work. When it fails, it was the directors, actors, other crew, or even the fans that were at fault. I firmly believe that was the biggest change with the mcu. Once the original chapter was over, they couldn't stay back anymore and started taking control again. I saw the new Deadpool, and I thought it was great. I firmly believe that's because Ryan Reynolds is a big part and makes most of the calls, because he's a creative. When you get a creative, they have passions that help the vision form, the executives should only be tasked with finding people with a passion for the current project. While sometimes that doesn't work, it's almost always because the creative teams passions didn't line up with the project.

OK, thank you.

It honestly baffles me how, after decades of experience, Hollywood still doesn't understand what's necessary to properly execute a successful franchise with a large fan base. When they're spending millions of dollars in a film, you'd think they'd be smarter about choosing producers, directors, and writers. I saw the criticism of some of the casting choices, but rarely are the actors the problem.

I'm not a Halo fan, and while I thought the series had some weak areas, I didn't think it was horrible. And it seemed to be getting better.

It had almost nothing to do with the original game that I played, but I can live with that.

There's "bad" when the story diverges from the original so much, it's only irritating that they're trying to capitalize on a title; I'd put Halo in this category. I thought the writing and acting was pretty good, and the FX were decent.

Then there's "bad" where the characters are unlikeable with poorly written dialogue, like Foundation. In the latter case, it's especially depressing because the design was gorgeous, there were some outstanding actors, and the source material had such potential to be a great series.

It sounds as if Borderlands was just an all-around shit-show, without even the few redeeming qualities Foundation had.

I'll never forgive Apple for what they did to Foundation. I literally canceled Apple TV because of it.

Hmm, do I want to watch a quippy violent action comedy with Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds in some of their most iconic roles or Kevin Hart being atrociously miscast.

Decisions decisions

I don’t know this material at all but enjoy the genre, so figured I would go see it. But after all the bad press it’s been getting I figure I’ll wait until I can download it.