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| Thanks, Devs was great (SPOILERS) by blackwater 06/28/2020, 7:23pm PDT | ||||
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| I love the cinematography in this. It's good to know at least someone in Hollywood hasn't forgotten how to frame shots. It's also one of the first things I've watched in months, or maybe even years, where it feels like the pacing is right. The slow buildup of tension is perfect. So many things on TV just make me feel like I'm watching someone play Halo now. This actually makes me feel like I'm watching a movie by a real director like Tarkovsky or Kubrick.
The casting is generally pretty good, too. You're right that Nick Offerman is perfect in the role. 
Of course, I have complaints. I always have complaints. I feel like the MacGuffin was too many things. It lets you see the past! It lets you see the future! It's a simulation you can live in! They should have picked one thing and gone with it. Any of those things is already enough to tell a great story with. The other thing is that they explicitly state that the many-worlds hypothesis is true, but they also state that you can see the future with this thing. But that doesn't really make sense, since if the many-world hypothesis is true, there are many futures, right? Maybe I missed something, but this seems contradictory. In general Many Worlds has the "Rick and Morty problem." If there are many worlds, then whatever we see is only one. So if the good guy wins in this timeline, why should we care? There are a zillion other timelines where the bad guy wins, or the good guy spontaneously combusts, or whatever. Spoony had a great rant on this before he lost his mind. On a related note, there's a general problem with time-travel stories that have a single preordained timeline. Inevitably someone sees themselves doing something dumb in the future. They obviously don't want to do the dumb thing. But then the writer has to come up with some implausible way to railroad them into doing it. Time Lapse had this problem too, for example. It kind of stretches the bounds of credibility, I feel. Still. This is worth seeing just for the visuals and the casting alone. I also like the fact that every character has a believable motivation-- nobody is a Disney villain. |
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Devs (crossposted from JC) by 03/10/2020, 5:33am PDT  Oh, one thing I forgot to add... by 03/10/2020, 5:35am PDT I'll check this out based on the track record of the writer by 03/10/2020, 11:26am PDT Thanks, Devs was great (SPOILERS) by 06/28/2020, 7:23pm PDT Re: Thanks, Devs was great (SPOILERS) by 06/28/2020, 8:08pm PDT |
