I just watched Bright on Netflix and it is out-fucking-standing.
It’s like a combination of End of Watch (which was the best cop movie I’ve seen in years) meets Lord of the Rings, with a sprinkling of Harry Potter thrown in for good measure.
I know that sounds bad the way I describe it, but it’s really not. It was great.
Of course the Social Justice Warriors hated it because the “lazy portrayal of racism.”
The official Tomatometer ranks it at 28% but 89% of people enjoyed it.
If you have two hours of your life that you want to spend watching a thoroughly enjoyable action flick with a unique twist, I highly recommend it.
I love how they keep calling it a “Genre Mashup.” These provincial douchebags don’t even know that there are more role playing games than Dungeons and Dragons, and they certainly don’t know that there’s a RPG called Shadowrun. This movie was so Shadowrun that, in the words of a friend of mine, “Shadowrun’s game designer should be getting royalties!”
This is what insular provincialism gets you. They just sound like the dipshit who mocked a Harley Quinn cosplay as a mashup because he’d never heard of Harley Quinn.
Hah! I knew I couldn’t be the only person who thought of Shadowrun!
I remember when Shadowrun hit the shelves and every one of my players was like, “It’s your world from a couple years ago with cyberpunk added on!”
“The official Tomatometer ranks it at 28% but 89% of people enjoyed it.”
So, it’s like the anti-Last Jedi?
The fix is in at Rotten Tomatoes, it’s owned by Comcast and Time Warner and entertainment producers have their tentacles all over it. I saw a movie last year that had a rating of over 90%, and it was horrible. Everyone in the theater was upset at the 90 minutes they had wasted.
It’s Shadowrun meets Alien Nation.
I guess it’s rather a shame that with all these ideas, film makers still can only bring themselves to tell one story, and it has to be a lecture.
I tracked it down on your recommendation.
Marv and I both liked it!
The sequel is already paid for and was part of the deal Netflix made to get the rights.
The similarities to one of many game worlds I GM’d and played in is eerie. But given the givens for a fantasy trope, it will be small things that made the difference.
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