I’d advice an intervention instead of alcohol.
Had to turn it off after 25min because I was getting way too angry.
Go play Shadowrun. Fuck Bright.
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My wife went with straight whiskey, I did one part black sambuca to two parts heavy cream because I was out in the cold most of the day and mixing those together produces a creamy anise drink that also gets a flat blue-ish color exactly like Star Wars milk.
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I can’t understand this opinion without numbers and scales. Might even need some weighting.
I haven’t seen it but I give it 4 out of 5 fairy lives which don’t matter
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Someone actually thought this was good:
I think you mean the hero of our time
The Academy should change its qualification rules so that Bright can be Ayer’s second Oscar Award Winning Film™ after Suicide Squad.
OOkay I watched it. I tweeted this…
“Here is my Bright review: 30 minutes of irresponsible racial politics followed by an hour and a half of a trash-tier Shadowrun campaign.”
It’s a bad movie. I don’t think cutting the first thirty out would fix it. I did find the middle sections of the movie to be mostly passable. Not good in any sense of the word but just kinda… inoffensive b-tier action movie stuff?
Hopefully the sequel gets a much better writer.
I’m… going to go finish Recovery of an MMO Junkie to cleanse myself now
But…how many seasonal ales?
I watched it sober 
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Epic self-own imo.
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I am hopped up on DayQuil because I’ve got a bad cold so I thought beer might be a bad idea.
But also, yeah, I def owned myself by watching this movie. >.>
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Kind of wondering if the sequel will still have the same screenwriter now that Max Landis has been outed as a sexual harasser.
Also this is fascist and bad and I never want to play Shadowrun with Max Landis ever
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“We should have been firemen” is a line that is true and actually made me chuckle. Also the film should have ended there and not dragged on another 15(?) minutes.
Thank you, because I was wondering what I would have to do to make something close to that horrifying concoction.
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I never want to play Shadowrun with Max Landis Ever
Incredibly good take
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Weirdly upon further research it seems almost all of Landis’ script was thrown out before they filmed anything, it got a quick rewrite by David Ayer, and a lot of the dialogue was improvised by Will Smith/etc.
I’m just, even as someone that enjoyed the movie I hope Landis is finally really for real done now. Though given how his dad is super rich and literally got away with murdering three people I’m not optimistic. 
I got the opposite impression of the movie and I think the ways in which it is anti-fascist are the only things about the movie I’d go above “fun” and say are actually done in a smart way because it does get a bit meta with the themes of white supremacy and fascism and racism that are so often (in some cases unintentionally) pervasive in fantasy gaming and fantasy as a genre.
The initial world building gives us one of these very by the numbers social orders, and also drops a lot of very ham-fisted parallels not to real life, but to how bigoted assholes regard various folks in real life. Then throughout the film each of these specific outlooks and structures about each race in the movie are explicitly shown to be a load of shit. And even just on the surface, this is a movie where a cop murders four textbook fascist cops and is 100% justified and right to do so in the context of the movie, and is troubled that the city is honoring them at the end of the movie next to the one fallen cop who actually trusted them and was a good guy.
So it’s cool to see a story like this that, while a typical buddy cop story at its heart, does work a little bit on another level of eviscerating a lot of the criticisms people have about fantasy setting design in games.
So they switched out the spoiled dolt harasser with a man who probably pleasures himself while watching CBS cop dramas. That’s not exactly an improvement.
Very stunned you would doubt the caliber of the man who directed the Oscar Award Winning Film™ Suicide Squad.
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Eh, the critics I trust say it’s a dud and I’ve never found Max Landis the kind of person who’s work I’d want to support so I think I’ll give it a hard pass.
