Happy Thanksgiving. Let’s start here..
Man I can’t believe TDK isn’t constantly watching game films and working out. Is he not taking the offseason seriously?
My yearly reminder that the Thanksgiving Day Parade is wonderful and you should attend some year and that is is NOTHING AT ALL LIKE WHAT NBC SHOWS YOU. The NBC version is some sort of Broadway Show montage interrupted by bad narration and the occasional shot of a balloon.
The CBS coverage is usually a bit better but with worse angles. Anyway it’s a great parade.
SLACKISH REACTION: The Mets signed Zack Borenstein! Now what’s cute here is everyone has this in their Adam Rubin Morning Briefing Ripoffs even though this news was around midday yesterday. Lazy guys. At least mine has lazy in the title. Anyway, I didn’t care about it then and I don’t care now because NONE OF US KNOW WHO THIS IS. He is some sort of OF depth something something. Who cares.
Ronnie, Mookie, Edgardo and Tim (if you need last names find a new blog to read) have been tasked with showing up in Syracuse to wow the new people December 8.
But let’s talk about Wonder Woman. It’s not like the Mets signed any free agents and it’s a holiday so let’s talk about Wonder Woman.
The Wonder Woman Mafia must have gotten to everyone. I finally got around to watching this last night after hearing nothing but great things about it and….it’s pretty bad.
Yeah yeah women empowerment (Mrs. Mets Police said the same thing this morning, she was interested in it because it had a strong woman character, but her review is the same as mine…)
Problems:
- The first 40 minutes is exposition. You really could have done a chyron that said “Steve Trevor, Allied Spy” and saved me a ten minute scene. You could have told Diana’s backstory in about 30 seconds.
- The ensemble guys (Steve’s friends). Why do they exist other than to make me think about the first Captain America movie? I assumed that they were some sort of legacy comic book characters, but I looked that up this morning and they don’t seem to have existed before this film. They add nothing to the plot.
- The second act is too long, the third act is too short. I kept waiting and waiting for the “things go badly” moment that traditionally signifies the end of the second act and it really never quite came (I guess this is when the town gets gassed) and then there’s not much payoff in our heroes journey.
Anyway I could go on and on but THIS IS NOT A GOOD FILM. I get that we want it to be and the reasons why, but it’s not. And now I hear you guys are saying Justice League is bad, so if you’re admitting that then it must be really atrocious.
In other Chill & Netflix news I played some Destiny 2 (first scene, looks like Just More Destiny so far, but that’s OK) and both story mode and “get destroyed by teenage snipers” online mode of Call of Duty. And a game of NBA2K. Also finished yet another rewatch of The Caine Mutiny, one of the greatest films of them all. Nice Chill & Netflix night.
Happy Thanksgiving Mets fans.
