"Bright" on NetFlix (Spoilers)

[JacktheRabbit]

This stuck me as one of the more stupid aspects of the plot. Even if say 90% of Elves were brights, would you risk it? The elves seem to be onto a pretty good thing in general. It seems to me that, even if a wand gave you ultimate power you would have to be in a pretty desperate situation to want to grab one, if there is even a small chance you would explode.

Except that grabbing a wand is not the only way to know if a Human was a bright. Didnt the drunk guy with the sword say that Will Smith's character was a Bright? Either they have some other way of knowing or the story is that this guy talked out of his butt AND Will Smith happened to be a Bright, which would be absolutely horrible writing.

Not that there is any real good writing in this story. Why was the guy drunk and swinging a sword in public? He was a member of an ancient "Anti-Dark One" order. How did he know his domestic disturbance would result in Will Smith showing up and not some other cop?

 

[Ovinomancer]

Except that grabbing a wand is not the only way to know if a Human was a bright. Didnt the drunk guy with the sword say that Will Smith's character was a Bright? Either they have some other way of knowing or the story is that this guy talked out of his butt AND Will Smith happened to be a Bright, which would be absolutely horrible writing.

Not that there is any real good writing in this story. Why was the guy drunk and swinging a sword in public? He was a member of an ancient "Anti-Dark One" order. How did he know his domestic disturbance would result in Will Smith showing up and not some other cop?

Magic?

 

[JacktheRabbit]

Magic?

Actually I think the answer if ever given will be "Magic's" far more annoying half brother of convenience "Prophecy".

 

[Bagpuss]

Didnt the drunk guy with the sword say that Will Smith's character was a Bright?

Pretty sure the drunk guy swinging a sword, was basically just your crazy prophet trope from various stories, hence he knew things normal people didn't.

 

[Scott DeWar]

I do remember the word prophecy being mentioned.

 

[MarkB]

I think that I've said it on this board before: My biggest issue with the cinematic treatment of "Johnny Mnemonic" is the same as the one that I have with 1995 "Judge Dredd", in that rather than being true to at least the concept of the source material, they simply made it a vehicle for a big name. In "Johnny Mnemonic", however, they took it one step further by taking a strong female protagonist (in the book) and morphing her into a virtual sidekick. Molly Millions is one of my favourite literary characters and they gutted her, turning her into someone who didn't even warrant a last name in the credits. Perhaps the biggest waste was that Dina Meyer would have made one hell of a good Molly.

The thing that really annoys me about Stallone's Judge Dredd is Demolition Man. That movie came out shortly beforehand, it features a parodic near-future which perfectly captures the humour of the Dredd comics, and has Stallone turning in a good performance in terms of action, character and comedy. It wasn't that they mis-cast Dredd, they simply did a lousy job of it.

 

[Ovinomancer]

The thing that really annoys me about Stallone's Judge Dredd is Demolition Man. That movie came out shortly beforehand, it features a parodic near-future which perfectly captures the humour of the Dredd comics, and has Stallone turning in a good performance in terms of action, character and comedy. It wasn't that they mis-cast Dredd, they simply did a lousy job of it.

Which is interestingly ironic, because Demolition Man was a very bad retelling of Brave New World. Not that you'd recognize it.

 

[Warmaster Horus]

Which is interestingly ironic, because Demolition Man was a very bad retelling of Brave New World. Not that you'd recognize it.

A very bad adaptation of Brave New World, yes. A very bad movie, no.

 

[Ovinomancer]

A very bad adaptation of Brave New World, yes. A very bad movie, no.

Well, it's not a good movie. It is, however, a fun movie. It was last weekend's "Indoctrinate my teenaged son into my childhood/young adult nostalgia" movie. This weekend, thanks to Netflix adding it to their lineup this week, will be both a good movie AND a good adaptation in The Shawshank Redemption.

 

[Warmaster Horus]

Well, it's not a good movie. It is, however, a fun movie. It was last weekend's "Indoctrinate my teenaged son into my childhood/young adult nostalgia" movie. This weekend, thanks to Netflix adding it to their lineup this week, will be both a good movie AND a good adaptation in The Shawshank Redemption.

Agreed. Definitely a guilty pleasure.