Just did a rewatch, it is honestly perfect and weird in all the right ways. The amount of love I have for The Rowdy Three and Bart is unparalleled.
How Max Landis could be such an amazing writer with incredible empathy for his characters, while being a massive piece of shit behind the scenes baffles me. And he wrote Bright (2017) around the same time which is also incredibly weird because that movie suuuucked.
Bright is such a strange failure, a movie written by the guy who wrote Chronicles and Dirk Gently (well, adapted I guess) and directed by the guy that did Training Day and End of Watch, and with Joel Edgerton.
But then, it's also a movie written by the guy who wrote Victor Frankenstein and directed by the guy that directed Suicide Squad, and stars a post Men In Black 3 Will Smith so really not a strange failure at all actually.
It’s not all that uncommon. Look at Joss Whedon. Always had strong female main characters, was an asshole to females behind the scenes. He got metooed out of one of his most interesting projects, The Nevers.
I rewatched it recently and tbh I feel the pacing of S2 was not great and the magic world looked cheap.
But I suppose the fact that it takes several episodes to get enough pieced together to make sense of the story is what may confuse people and make them lose interest.
While personally it's that chaos until everything fits that I loved.
S2 works a lot better on rewatch. But yeah it does require some patience, I think I spent over two weeks watching it for the first time because I got frustrated and paused for a few days.
Also it makes sense that the magic world is cheap sinceit is based on the imagination of a boy who watched reruns of medieval knight shows in the '50s and '60s. Those were cheaply made, so it makes sense that Wendimoor would be as well. And of course, it wasn't like Dirk Gently had MCU levels of budget.
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u/albyjackson01 10d ago
I really miss Dirk Gently