Post by sturgeon on Nov 17, 2021 12:03:05 GMT
Most capital that gets to the Terminal is pretty good (a testament to the quality of sifting on the Floor), and whether it gets greenlit is a whim of editorial subjectivity. Heck, I only stand by my own calls about 80% of the time. Yet sometimes capital comes long that's an easy choice - a triple-A investment, or a bearishly bad buy.
This is one of those times. Aaaand... it's a big no from me.
This feels a bit like the product of a VC who was brought up on the Marvel Cinematic Universe - it's kind of a cross between Shang-Chi and Guardians of the Galaxy. (Although maybe closer to Independence Day than Guardians of the Galaxy.) There's a quote that betrays the VC's wannabe cinematic ambitions: "Exactly like the police car sirens that would arrive after the climax in Hollywood movies, the teams’ cars raced to a roaring halt."
But the thing that makes the MCU so relentlessly compelling is the focus on character, which is largely missing here, or at best glib. Worse, the writing was clumsy and littered with errors. There were plot holes (why did the aliens communicate in a mixture of ancient human languages?); shoehorned explanations of technical jargon; fantastic logical leaps ("By now, I can imagine that you eat gravitational waves for food, don’t you?"); hokey cut-scenes; thoughtless cliché (why were all the countries united in believing the aliens were such a threat?); measly stakes (they were stealing air? By the shipping container full? So what?).
I feel compelled to include some words of encouragement, along the lines of keep trying, get your stuff workshopped and you'll do better, but that'll do.
The monkey is unmoved.
This is one of those times. Aaaand... it's a big no from me.
This feels a bit like the product of a VC who was brought up on the Marvel Cinematic Universe - it's kind of a cross between Shang-Chi and Guardians of the Galaxy. (Although maybe closer to Independence Day than Guardians of the Galaxy.) There's a quote that betrays the VC's wannabe cinematic ambitions: "Exactly like the police car sirens that would arrive after the climax in Hollywood movies, the teams’ cars raced to a roaring halt."
But the thing that makes the MCU so relentlessly compelling is the focus on character, which is largely missing here, or at best glib. Worse, the writing was clumsy and littered with errors. There were plot holes (why did the aliens communicate in a mixture of ancient human languages?); shoehorned explanations of technical jargon; fantastic logical leaps ("By now, I can imagine that you eat gravitational waves for food, don’t you?"); hokey cut-scenes; thoughtless cliché (why were all the countries united in believing the aliens were such a threat?); measly stakes (they were stealing air? By the shipping container full? So what?).
I feel compelled to include some words of encouragement, along the lines of keep trying, get your stuff workshopped and you'll do better, but that'll do.
The monkey is unmoved.
