That was totally not surprising since we have witnessed that in new Seasons as well, let alone an all-new expansion. However, they were greeted with a queue, which prevented them from playing the game.
MORE: Why is Destiny 2 At Capacity? Downtime Explained (Today, February 22)Īfter the release of the Witch Queen DLC, players were quite eager to get into the game.Just don't look for coherent plot and a sensible story line.Destiny 2 fans were waiting for this moment for a long time now, and we have finally the Witch Queen expansion making its way into the game. It has some great moments, compelling subject matter and Osment puts in a truly great performance. I bet this was done in response to test screening. The second ending, as I like to call it, attempts to fulfill the demand for emotional conclusion that the odyssey portion of the film has built up yet fails to do so. Really, who cares? It's just an awkward plot device and you roll your eyes and ask "Wha-?" all at the same time. More face time for the FX folks and some really trite, contrived and irrelevant dialog from robots about the space-time continuum. Epilog, coda, call it what you want, the ending was tacked on and was just horrible. It was sad, pitiful and left us with the core moral issue of how we tend to implement an idea without thinking of the consequences.īut, no, here comes the fourth act - and the other major problem with this movie.
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The end of the third act is really where the movie should have stopped. I never quite got over the abandonment of the original story and didn't really feel like getting involved in the second one - both because it wasn't as interesting and because I didn't want to be cheated twice in two hours. The two have their place - but not in the same movie! Where the first act compels us to consider the matter, the second act throws us against the wall, puts a gun to our head and screams, "listen to me!"īy the third act, I had really lost interest. The second act is pretty much Back to the Future meets Thunderdome. For example, the staging in the first act is dominated by polished wood floors, furniture that is both kitsch and futuristic and smoky corporate offices. Following the sublime Chardonnay of Kubrick with the super-charged Frappucino of Spielburg is unsettling and frustrating. This is a huge contrast to the beginning of the story and is so different that it really feels like a whole different movie. Fanciful staging, lots of effects, the obligatory allusion to the holocaust and gut-wrenching turmoil for our little hero and his friend. From this point on, the movie is all Spielburg. I spent most of the second act wondering what was going to happen in the plot that was being developed in the first act. Then, the story that is being constructed is completely abandoned in the second act as the main character (boy robot) is taken completely out of the setting that's been developed to this point and we embark on an odyssey of sorts. (I really miss his work.) The characters are drawn clearly if not archetypically and draw us unabashedly into the ring of moral discourse which we achingly yet eagerly embrace. If this was Kubrick's work, wel l, it was right on target. If this was Spielburg's homage to Kubrick, well done. It also is very much in the style of Kubrick: sets, lots of master shots, slow moving and ponderous "photography in motion." The ambience is there to serve the story in every detail. The pit is deep, dark, poignantly adorned with characters against a somber stage that compels us to engage the material. We are immediately immersed in a moral conundrum. The first act of the film, which to me feels entirely Kubrickian, is great. This film tries to do both and it just doesn't work. Kubrick is a master at disciplined contemplation of a moral issue while Spielburg is a master at spinning a wonderfully entertaining yarn. Both have a unique style that do not mix well. I don't know to what extent each actually worked on filming, but it sure does feel like two different directors worked on this movie - which is problem # 1. I've read that Kubrick originally worked on this project before Spielburg picked it up. It tries real hard, but gets confused and lost. Being a fan of both Kubrick and Spielburg, this movie was a surprising miss.
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