3.9/10
龙之信条 (2020) 豆瓣 TMDB
ドラゴンズドグマ Season 1 所属 电视剧集: 龙之信条
导演: 須貝真也 演员: 中村悠一 / 水树奈奈
伊森的家园被一隻龙给摧毁,他于是展开旅程,企图彻底歼灭龙族。一名随从出现在他身边,矢言保护他的性命,然而等在伊森前方的危险却远远超过两人想像。当你对抗怪兽……兽性恐怕也会直扑上身。
2023年1月17日 看过
2023年1月17日 评论 a review of 龙之信条 - Riding high on the success of their critically acclaimed and very popular Castlevania series, which had just wrapped up its third season when this released, Netflix naturally tried its hand at seeing if they could make lightning strike twice by taking another video game property and turning it into an anime. On paper Dragon's Dogma sounded like the perfect choice as it would allow them to capture a similar dark fantasy style and monster slaying vibe as the aforementioned hit, and the promising Game of Thrones -esque intro you're greeted with gives you the (false) hope that they maybe pulled it off. Unfortunately, once the first episode starts and you're bombarded by the bad voice actors spouting embarrassing generic anime dialogue you'll realize something went terribly, terribly wrong, and it's only downhill from there. I'd say the biggest problem is that the show tries way too hard to be mature using the most juvenile of tactics. Gratuitous nudity and grim endings plague every step of the main character's quest to kill the dragon that stole his heart (literally, like his actual heart that it ripped straight out of his chest), because nothing says complex adult storytelling like titties and making everything oppressively bleak apparently. There's a single episode that almost concludes on a somewhat positive note, but of course they spoil it by having the two protagonists berate the girl who chose to finally escape a bad situation behind her back and call her an idiot for doing exactly what they spent the entire runtime telling her to do. What the heck?! The writing in general is uniformly awful. The whole thing is centered around a seven deadly sins motif for reasons that go as unexplained as the actual lore itself, the leading man turns into a total unlikable jerk in the last three episodes out of nowhere making it even harder to care about his journey, and with each episode introducing a new monster for him to get beaten up by you can't help but feel as if there's no way at all he'll be able to accomplish his goal of conquering his almighty fire-breathing foe considering he barely survives the far lesser beasts he encounters along the way. Bafflingly enough though, he ultimately does so with relative ease by inexplicably becoming good at fighting right there on the spot all of the sudden. Unbelievable... That last complaint isn't solely the fault of the script however, but the ugly 3D/CG animation as well (the titular antagonist vaguely resembles a chewed up piece of pink Hubba Bubba bubblegum most of the time). It's not hard to see why the weeb community is so divided on this style. I imagine it saves the animators plenty of time by allowing them to craft scenes faster with premade models rather than having to draw everything by hand, but if not done correctly or with the appropriate amount of care the actual movement of the assets onscreen can suffer as a result such as they do here. The stiff, awkward motions of combatants during the action sequences made it so all they really could do is have the hero thrown around into stuff a bunch as sword swipes look too unnatural, which not only strips those moments of any excitement, but inadvertently robs the various creatures of the personality needed to make their appearances noteworthy. Overall, Dragon's Dogma clearly aims to imitate the types of shows you can find on HBO or Starz, like Game of Thrones or Black Sails . It certainly manages to capture the naughtier aspects of their premium cable nature, but none of the deeper merits that made them worth watching. When it comes to video game adaptations there are honestly Uwe Boll works I would rank above this as their lack of quality is far less offensive to me. Partially because at least I'd expect it from them. This meanwhile takes all the flaws from the absolute worst of those movies and stretches them out into a roughly three hour long miniseries. Plus, it may have legitimately hurt my interest in its source material...
3.9/10
怪物猎人 (2020) IMDb 豆瓣 TMDB 维基数据
Monster Hunter
4.0 (33 个评分) 导演: 保罗·安德森 演员: 米拉·乔沃维奇 / 托尼·贾
其它标题: Monster Hunter / 魔物猎人(港/台)
阿尔忒弥斯中尉(米拉·乔沃维奇 饰)和她的精英小队在沙漠执行任务时,意外进入到一个陌生凶残的异世界。这里有喷火的巨龙,有巨大的蜘蛛,有各种致命的怪物,中尉和队员们拼命寻找归途,却惨遭怪物追杀屠戮……最绝望的时候,阿尔忒弥斯遇到了一位猎人(托尼·贾 饰),他掌握着怪物世界里独特的生存技能、和可以击杀怪物的武器。面对越来越多来势汹汹的怪物,勇士们决定携手杀出一条血路!影片改编自全球现象级同名电子游戏《怪物猎人》(暂译),将在2020年全球上映。
2020年12月27日 看过
2020年12月27日 评论 a review of 怪物猎人 - This is less a movie, and more one of those cinematic E3 trailers stretched out to feature length. The plot is literally no deeper than the simple synopsis you can read online. So little thought went into the writing that there isn't even a conclusion. The credits just start rolling in the middle of a big battle. You might think there's some kind of issue going on at your theater when they first pop up, but then the stinger hidden a few seconds in makes it clear that's actually where they decided to leave things. So don't expect any sort of resolution or explanation behind anything. It also couldn't have gotten off on more wrong of a foot with me if it tried, as it quickly throws us in with a group of generic, cringe worthy tough guys and gals that embody the worst of military/soldier stereotypes. None of whom can act. Mercifully, the majority of them are killed off early on, leaving us with Milla Jovovich in the protagonist role as Cpt. Artemis and her costar Tony Jaa to carry the action forward. Unfortunately, both of them are portraying individuals so bland they might as well be actual avatars in a video game. There are no real characters to be found here. At least their chemistry is somewhat cute. About the only thing I can praise in this whole mess outside of some silly humor and the adorable "Meowscular Chef" are the visuals. The film is legitimately stunning to look at. Particularly whenever it breaks away from the sterile desert environment. The monster CGI is so good that it even blows the latest Godzilla and Kong movies out of the water. It's clear the budget went here rather than the script. This being a Paul W. S. Anderson film and given my enjoyment of his other works, I expected to have some nice things to say about the action as well. However, I ultimately found all of it to be a bunch of visual noise where each sequence and setpiece was designed to replace a plot, rather than serve one. As evident by the section where Jaa and Jovovich spend what feels like an eternity beating the crap out of each other rather than going ahead and teaming up to escape their predicament like we all know they're going to do anyways. Without a plot to follow or heroes to invest in, Monster Hunter has been left with nothing but its good looks to fill that void and an 1h 45m running time. As pretty as it's sights are they prove not enough to get the job done. There actually needed to be something of substance here to back them up. The lack of any real, meaningful, or even entertaining content to be found left me with a genuine and inexplicable sense of embarrassment to have been in attendance despite being the only person other than the family member I brought with me in the theater at the time. If that's not good enough a reason to stay home and play one of the video games this is based on instead, I don't know what is.
3.9/10