@Mithoron hmm. Presumably because the bar is pretty low?

No Time to Die is just a cash grab. I mean, well, all Bond movies have more or less been decadent cash grabs full of product placements, a celebration of debauchery. But they all at least do it with style, so you can just turn off all the ethical switches and suspend disbelief and enjoy what you're watching.

This didn't have a style, unless by that you mean playing Bond's theme at several scenes.

It suffered greatly from spinosaurus syndrome, for more than a pair of characters

In Jurassic Park, 3, I think, you have at the beginning of the second act, a spinosaurus fighting a T-rex. T-rex is a fan-favorite, appears in previous movies, everyone is obviously rooting for him. So what do you do so the spinosaurus sounds cool? You have him kill the T-rex. Like, "NOW you're supposed to like spinosaurus instead, because it just killed T-rex!". Well, not gonna happen.

So, when in every franchise you have a new pup talking trash to the old fan-favorite or defeating him/her, and we're suddenly now supposed to like the newbie or think he/she is a badass solely for that reason, I call it the spinosaurus syndrome.

The new black female 007 could have been a new character introduced to the franchise, whose interactions with different characters would have made her personality clearer and made us root for her or at least like her. Instead the movie is so insecure it has to spinosaurus syndrome her every damn time, I remember a single scene when she wasn't either shooting people or talking trash to Bond.

No lady, constantly saying you'll put a bullet in Bond's good knee or telling Bond to get out of your face won't make us like you, at best it'd make you feel like you have some anger management issues. Not very spy-y.

Moving on to other problems. The dialogue was okay, and by that I think I mostly mean there was no dialogue so cringe I had to wince.

Near the end, the mad scientist says racist shit like "we're gonna eliminate your race off the planet of the Earth" to the black female 007, and she punches him and he falls into gooey shit and burns and dies horribly. Except 1) I can make a homemade skit of me punching a racist, a mult-million dollar movie should fill its time better than that, and 2) they were clearly targeting Europeans and Americans, and not the African-Americans, because Africa wasn't targeted, so I dunno.

Which brings me to the villain, who also suffers from spinosaurus syndrome. He's really darn boring, dabbles in philosophy and says some cool-ish lines, all of which I have heard 100 times in movies that did the whole philosophical motive better. No memorable lines, the stereotypical Russian villain accent is there, and he's looking for revenge against spectre for half the movie and then suddenly decides to kill millions the other half, because he was bored or something I guess.

The spinosaurus syndrome is he kills all of Spectre, and Christoph Waltz too, so now you're supposed to think he's badass.

@M.A.R. spoiler!

You like this ranting ;)

@M.A.R. It's pretty nice and funny, that makes up for a lot.

@Mithoron hey, I wanna see you rant your heart out too man!

About Polish politics, your favorite show to hate, anything

That Waititi didn't seem to be Free Guy's strong point is probably he isn't well suited for a villain role

@M.A.R. I prefer to know as little as possible about Polish politics

@Mithoron Great, you can rant about that!

The possibilities are endless, the final result ascension of the soul

Why should I think about stuff I don't like when I can about things I do?

I'm gonna watch My Octopus Teacher - pretty sure to like it :)

I guess one thing movies like that make me hate is they make me rant, become more cynical

@Mithoron well I wish it was that simple

I mean, the process of finding out why you didn't like something can itself be enjoyable

I guess...

@M.A.R. I was getting angry about Wikipedia latly

I guess it would be a rantable topic.

For example (at least on PL version) there seems to be like total lack of cooperation. OK, guys talk and talk and usually it tends to yield like nothing at all.

What about it?

@Mithoron Oh, I absolutely cannot use Persian Wikipedia

Priorities are skewered terribly. "Article" (as in tiny stub) about a little Swedish village Hulu was made earlier then about the streaming TV

It is at best a cheap, incomplete copy of the English version of Wikipedia. Like, you have articles about Iranian officials or landmarks that are originally composed in English and translated in bits and pieces to Persian, which is shameful.

EN wiki also has it's drawbacks. For example this Draft policy is kinda dumb.

It's pretty much hiding something that's already on the site.

Because it may be too early or something. It got to PL wiki too, but it was used mostly to hide some stuff made by a few users or some noob crap

@Mithoron I guess that always happens in a mature enough community. Rituals that don't make much sense.

Yeah

@M.A.R. Smaller wikipedias have simply not enough users. to be different then that

Extreme examples are things like "Cebuano" where a bot just made millions of little stubs without much worth

BTW deletion policy irked me lately. Like a tinly village in far country is automatically encyclopedic, but mountains in Middle-earth that like a billion people read about are crap.

@Mithoron I dunno about that deletion policy. What's it say?

I mean, last I checked, Middle Earth mountains did have Wikipedia pages, or were at least there somewhere

@M.A.R. Well, in yea olde days there was a tiny art. about like every know mountain

I don't say it was good. It's kinda better to have a big article then lots of small

But they tend to "clean-up" the stuff about fictional worlds quite a bit too rashly

A lot of stuff gets lost because no one bothered to improve it.

Or maybe it's been so normalized I don't remember doing it.

@Mithoron Hmm, I honestly haven't used Wikipedia at all recently

I always do the important reading with books now

No time to go hunting newer subjects to read elementary texts about

@M.A.R. There's Green Book on TV, indeed pretty good so far