Not perfect by any means wtf (I wasn't fully gripped until the forest episode where he has to escape law enforcement)? It's not 40% tier.
Why was this so le bad to the critics?
Not perfect by any means wtf (I wasn't fully gripped until the forest episode where he has to escape law enforcement)? It's not 40% tier.
Haven't watched it.
I'm guessing the white male protagonist isn't incompetent, and there is no black female who does everything he does except better. Which makes everyone involved a nazi.
More or less, but at the same time we see Reacher getting a positive critical reception.
he's a charismatic, good looking, white conservative Christian male who is also a huge movie star, he's perfectly positioned to piss off people of all stripes - gays, commies, minorities, liberals, contrarians. Reacher is good but he does have hyper capable female sidekicks, with multiple in S2 including a black one. that makes it acceptable for the aforementioned groups who are offended by chris pratt.
>good looking
He's always looked very average to me. I fine with him as an actor, but seems like a carry carried by his personality and height rather than face that's to die for
could be, straightgay here so i go by that period when he got ripped for guardians of the galaxy and every woman was openly lusting after him
I wish you morons would sincerely frick off with the victim complex
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_terminal_list/s01/reviews?intcmp=rt-what-to-know_read-critics-reviews
Most of the critics just hate it for being cliche or thought it was too pro military and anti government
buzzwords
It's more pro-servicemen/veterans than it is for the military, which it shows as institutionally corrupt in the show. Cliche is one of the flaws it has (i.e. the constant family flashbacks) but not enough to be 40 percent - and, again, it becomes odd when you consider Reacher having a good reception
>pro military and anti government
Servicemen swear an oath to the constitution, not the government
chud, we have a living constitution. it is what the government decides it, mayonnaise maggot republic**t
Military is traditionally seen as a conservative institution in the US which is why Biden and democrats have been trying to gay it up which is causing a record disinterest in enlistment considering 90% of combat arms is white conservative men.
The show presents it as the service being carried by the spec ops guys cause of the Secretary scaling things back, but doesn't this reflect the real situation that started under Obama? That the 'average' stuff has been infected with politics and mandates for diversity which has eroded quality but it forces are still carried by a core of professional top-tier special forces
Spec Ops has been carrying the load since the 80s because direct conflict is a rarity now and it's a lot easier to do a surgical strike yoy can deny if it goes wrong than conducting a large scale invasion.
>pro military and anti government
is this the state of the left?
Pretty much, but he gets assistance from an asian female investigative journalist who is a good guy.
The series was panned because the story appeals to conservative sensibilities and thats it. Its one of the best action series I've seen in a while for the way it handles violence. I really liked how quick and brutal it was, and how it all had stakes. I much prefer this to goofy shit like John Wick which is praised endlessly.
John Wick is only praised because heckin wholesome Keanu and his poor dog. They’re perfectly fine action movies, but some consider them to be the best action movies ever made, which is completely ridiculous.
They're the best action movies of the 2010s, though there's not much real competition.
>asian female investigative journalist who is a good guy.
Asians aren't proper minorities, bro.
Get taste. The show sucked.
>'the critics were strangely harsh on this one' means I think it's a flawless 10/10 masterpiece
homosexual
>le bot thread
It's a boomer thread by low IQ 40 year Olds that still browse here for some odd reason
>le plebbit newbie
It didn't pander to the woke mafia.
This. Its really not politically correct, not in that it panders to conservatives in a cheap way, but that it explores ideas that are probably uncomfortable in polite liberal company.
The whole framing of a pharmaceutical company and the government working together as the bad guys, especially around covid, probably freaked a bunch of people out. The main character is also a realistic sort of depiction of a navy seal, in that its all alpha male bro white men who dip and whatnot, and seeing people like this on screen not depicted as cardboard idiots or badguys that get humiliated by smarmy nerds or women probably set a lot of people off.
I don't like Chris pratts looks or his acting. He's the new Ryan Reynolds they put him in everything and now you hate him
>"Every day 400 veterans with PTSD commit suicide in America"
Would there be any veterans with PTSD left? Gotta include those who die every day from other and natural causes.
The good guy is a white Chad traditional American and all of the villains are wormy, striving corporate nerds with the exception of the rich guy LARPing as a SEAL whos a fake tough guy (a not so subtle dig at people like Dan Bilzarian)
>wormy, striving corporate nerds
I actually wondered for a sec if Sean Gunn's body after he was stripped down was real. So repulsive. It look like it was tailor made to make you hate his character even more for being so physically disgusting/frail compared to the hero
>rich guy lapping as a SEAL
SEALS are a joke unless they're SEAL team 6 but a lot of SEALS do come from upper muddle class or wealthy backgrounds. Poor gays who enlist typically want the easy jobs
Lol what a pile of horse shit. Pick any random seal out of a line up and they could put you in the ground without you landing a single blow you fat frick
>upper muddle class
One of the main villains of the show is a super rich owner of a private military company. Hes this alpha male, on gear, has military tats, tacticool guy but the character was never in the military and once shit goes down he immediately caves and starts pissing his pants. The book the show was based on was written by a real Seal veteran, so Im guess that this character was a specific dig at rich guy LARPers, Not to say Seals dont do well for themselves or what not.
Dan Bilzerian washed out of Seal training, but spent a good amount of time pretending he was one, even paying to play one in Zero Dark Thirty iirc.
Name ONE mission seals really fricked up other than operation red wing
I recall a team of Seals needing to be saved by one fricking airmen who they abandoned to die.
> No! Terminal Johnny please, don't kill me! I sold the company, I'm a billionaire now, I can't die!!
Best kill, but the Admiral came close.
RIP, Varro
I liked the synchronized kill at the narco warehouse.
The same people that hated this show are the same ones that want people like Chris Pratts character to go fight in die in Ukraine because Putler is transphobic, and I think thats kind of the point of this show.
I forced myself to watch like 3 episodes and was bored out of my mind. I wanted some good conspirakino but this didn't do it for me.
It's predictable, but I liked it. The action scenes are really good, specially the attack against the CEO.
>Why was this so le bad to the critics?
because
>movie released during a Democrat Presidency featuring an evil government
critics only like
>movie released during a Republican Presidency featuring an evil government
It's /misc/itical
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chris-pratt-terminal-list-deranged-084514379.html
does it have good action scenes tho
The action scenes are very technical, there's no John Wick gun fu. it looks like training shooting drills, probably because they had a real military advisor on set.
As others have said, its failure to bow to current moral fashions is a likely reason for the exaggeratedly-low 40% Tomatometer.
But the average audience score is 95%, which seems much too high. It was watchable, had good action scenes, and portrayed violence well (sometimes horror-movie gory, sometimes sudden and impersonal). But it was also trite, formulaic, and forgettable. It didn't make me want to watch it again nor read the book.
>It didn't make me want to watch it again nor read the book.
Same. I enjoyed it and I'll watch season 2, but it's not a masterpiece.
Also, season 2 when?