"Bright" on NetFlix (Spoilers)

[jimtillman]

my wife and i enjoyed bright

 

[smbakeresq]

I thought it was fine. The set up is fine also. It’s also very relevant today, it seems the whiter you are the higher your station.


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[cmad1977]

I was expecting a blend of Bad Boys, Training Day and Shadowrun. I think It hit the target.
It staggers through the third act but I enjoyed it.


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[The_Silversword]

Justed watched it with the wife, she really enjoyed, it just left me confused. I would have liked a little back story. I felt like I was thrown in the middle of a story, like I was missing something. Did the 9 races always coexist on earth or did the fantasy races recently join humanity? It seems like if they been there awhile that things would evolve differently, but it pretty much seemed like modern day LA. Seems to me that if you have Elves and what not that the setting should be more fantastical, there should be more wizard towers or something not just skyscrapers! Givin the mundane look of the setting it seems to me that the Elves and Orcs and everything are a recent addition to our world, but then they make comments about all races joining together to defeat the Dark Lord or whatever thousands of years ago. I dunno, it just left me more confused than entertained.

 

[MarkB]

Justed watched it with the wife, she really enjoyed, it just left me confused. I would have liked a little back story. I felt like I was thrown in the middle of a story, like I was missing something. Did the 9 races always coexist on earth or did the fantasy races recently join humanity? It seems like if they been there awhile that things would evolve differently, but it pretty much seemed like modern day LA. Seems to me that if you have Elves and what not that the setting should be more fantastical, there should be more wizard towers or something not just skyscrapers! Givin the mundane look of the setting it seems to me that the Elves and Orcs and everything are a recent addition to our world, but then they make comments about all races joining together to defeat the Dark Lord or whatever thousands of years ago. I dunno, it just left me more confused than entertained.

I think it was deliberately light on backstory, but one thing that was made pretty clear is that actual magic is both extremely rare and immensely powerful in the modern world - and there's a stigma to it, because the Dark Lord was trying to build a world based on magic. Plus only a handful of people can wield it, and the test to see if you're one of them is to pick up a wand and see if you explode.

Check out some of the long shots of the city skyline and you'll see some unusual and fancy architecture in the town centre, which is the Elven district.

 

[Tonguez]

Check out some of the long shots of the city skyline and you'll see some unusual and fancy architecture in the town centre, which is the Elven district.

theres also the shot of a dragon flying in the distance, which was a nice touch

I think though, that those flourishes while nice only served to highlight the mundaneness of it all.
I think I'm on the same page as Silversword in that regard, a modern world with fairies in the bird feeder and dragons flying across the city should be different, not just Training Day with Orc ganstas, it needed that little bit more spark of something or an expanation about Orcs have only just being allowed in to the city as 'Newcomers" (see 'Alien Nation' vibe)

 

[MarkB]

theres also the shot of a dragon flying in the distance, which was a nice touch

I think though, that those flourishes while nice only served to highlight the mundaneness of it all.
I think I'm on the same page as Silversword in that regard, a modern world with fairies in the bird feeder and dragons flying across the city should be different, not just Training Day with Orc ganstas, it needed that little bit more spark of something or an expanation about Orcs have only just being allowed in to the city as 'Newcomers" (see 'Alien Nation' vibe)

I think that's missing the point of the setting. Yes, these people are orcs and elves and dwarves, but they're also Americans. Wondering why there's no orcish architecture in the ghettos is the equivalent of wondering at the lack of African architecture in real-world L.A.

 

[Ryujin]

I think it was deliberately light on backstory, but one thing that was made pretty clear is that actual magic is both extremely rare and immensely powerful in the modern world - and there's a stigma to it, because the Dark Lord was trying to build a world based on magic. Plus only a handful of people can wield it, and the test to see if you're one of them is to pick up a wand and see if you explode.

Check out some of the long shots of the city skyline and you'll see some unusual and fancy architecture in the town centre, which is the Elven district.

It seemed that they had a whole specialist Federal enforcement division devoted to "Brights", putting magic likely on par with nuclear weapons or terrorism. If they do end up developing this into a series, or just a series of movies, then Will Smith's character has the potential for a rather interesting arc.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Also enjoyed Bright. Naturally, I kept wondering where the dwarves were, and what those nine races were. We only saw elves, humans, orcs, and centaurs, excluding the faeries and lone dragon.

 

[Istbor]

I liked it quite a bit. Part of me was really hoping we would see Will Smith swinging around a magic sword, but ah well. One Super powerful magic wand is enough. Hopefully more comes of this world.