nnnoooiiissseee
Joined Sep 2008
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Yes, like everyone else; I loved "Breaking Bad". Truly one of the (if not "the") greatest series ever made and Saul was one of my favorite characters. Naturally I was more than excited when I heard news of the "Better Call Saul" spin-off.
Now we all know about horrifying spin-offs like "AfterMASH", "Baywatch Nights" or (everyone's favorite), "Joani Loves Chachi"... so as how most spin-offs go, I wasn't expecting much.
Well sometimes not expecting "much" is still a little too much to expect...
This series is painfully slow. It just is. Any half observant person can tell right away, they are simply stalling for time and dragging out every single scene in order to put together a "series". Every episode so far has just been a painful exercise in bringing in old characters from Breaking Bad and burning up the clock with them in hopes they'll finally do something, ANYTHING entertaining... at all. In other words:
Their milking the Breaking Bad cash cow for everything it's worth.
I really wanted to like this. I stuck with it for multiple episodes hoping it would go somewhere... it never did. Months have passed and I remember asking my wife "Weren't we watching "Better Call Saul" at some point? Is that show still even on?"
To my surprise it is. But then lets face it, most people will watching anything these days -- no matter how slow moving, empty and painfully boring. "Better Call Saul" reminds me of watching a crappy opening band for half an hour before just wandering away to do something more interesting -- like go out to the car and clip your toenails. I just really don't care about anything going on in it anymore -- it's just too slow moving, stale and empty. Without Walter, Jesse or anything interesting happening -- who cares? I'll just skip the pseudo opening act/prequel/spin-off and fast forward to the good part:
Breaking Bad: Season 1, Episode 1.
Now we all know about horrifying spin-offs like "AfterMASH", "Baywatch Nights" or (everyone's favorite), "Joani Loves Chachi"... so as how most spin-offs go, I wasn't expecting much.
Well sometimes not expecting "much" is still a little too much to expect...
This series is painfully slow. It just is. Any half observant person can tell right away, they are simply stalling for time and dragging out every single scene in order to put together a "series". Every episode so far has just been a painful exercise in bringing in old characters from Breaking Bad and burning up the clock with them in hopes they'll finally do something, ANYTHING entertaining... at all. In other words:
Their milking the Breaking Bad cash cow for everything it's worth.
I really wanted to like this. I stuck with it for multiple episodes hoping it would go somewhere... it never did. Months have passed and I remember asking my wife "Weren't we watching "Better Call Saul" at some point? Is that show still even on?"
To my surprise it is. But then lets face it, most people will watching anything these days -- no matter how slow moving, empty and painfully boring. "Better Call Saul" reminds me of watching a crappy opening band for half an hour before just wandering away to do something more interesting -- like go out to the car and clip your toenails. I just really don't care about anything going on in it anymore -- it's just too slow moving, stale and empty. Without Walter, Jesse or anything interesting happening -- who cares? I'll just skip the pseudo opening act/prequel/spin-off and fast forward to the good part:
Breaking Bad: Season 1, Episode 1.
We were looking forward to this one and even kicked out the few extra bucks to see it in 3D... what a waste. The 3D wasn't really utilized in any way, shape or form. It was just a shameless up-sell for something that wasn't there. That was just the beginning...
As far as the actual movie... I went in psyched to see it and ended up trying to stay awake through it for an hour, I finally gave up and did a 10 min. nap. Wifey woke me up (I thought she was asleep too!). So I actually did stay awake for the big "finale". Not because it was good, more like because at that point, I was enraged that anyone could make a movie so badly. This was the biggest waste of 2 hours of my life.
Zero character development. "Mad Max" kept reminding me of Robin following around batman, ie the real protagonist of the film "Mad Maxine" (that's not the character's real name but nobody really cares anyway) was no doubt the protagonist. "Max" was her loyal sidekick. God it was lame.
The plot was... not even present. I didn't really follow the whole blood transfusion, woman milking, bullet farming... wtf? It's not like they really invested any time explaining anything... they had too many cars to blow up and that's way more important than telling a story.
I tried and tried to find something... anything likable about this movie. "Why should I give it a "2" over a "1"... where is that extra digit coming from? Well... there isn't an extra digit... because I couldn't find ONE redeeming quality about Mad Maxine...
It was just a full blown rip off. A miserable failure on every level. There wasn't one scene, character, piece of dialogue, stunt or anything that sticks out in my mind as being memorable.
Worst movie of the year by far.
Another reheated turd to lump on the pile of other reheated turd remakes.
As far as the actual movie... I went in psyched to see it and ended up trying to stay awake through it for an hour, I finally gave up and did a 10 min. nap. Wifey woke me up (I thought she was asleep too!). So I actually did stay awake for the big "finale". Not because it was good, more like because at that point, I was enraged that anyone could make a movie so badly. This was the biggest waste of 2 hours of my life.
Zero character development. "Mad Max" kept reminding me of Robin following around batman, ie the real protagonist of the film "Mad Maxine" (that's not the character's real name but nobody really cares anyway) was no doubt the protagonist. "Max" was her loyal sidekick. God it was lame.
The plot was... not even present. I didn't really follow the whole blood transfusion, woman milking, bullet farming... wtf? It's not like they really invested any time explaining anything... they had too many cars to blow up and that's way more important than telling a story.
I tried and tried to find something... anything likable about this movie. "Why should I give it a "2" over a "1"... where is that extra digit coming from? Well... there isn't an extra digit... because I couldn't find ONE redeeming quality about Mad Maxine...
It was just a full blown rip off. A miserable failure on every level. There wasn't one scene, character, piece of dialogue, stunt or anything that sticks out in my mind as being memorable.
Worst movie of the year by far.
Another reheated turd to lump on the pile of other reheated turd remakes.