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Not that bad

posted 5 years ago by howgamer (3642)
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I didn't think this was that bad. Kind of an average sci-fi/fantasy film, maybe slightly above average. I thought the effects were really well done, story was meh with a hollow villain, but the steampunk world they created was quite interesting. The soundtrack was probably the best part of the film. It might be worth picking up the book.

I get that the premise is absolutely ludicrous, but I think you would need to accept that going in. I think if you are going to apply this to any type of realism or physics you will hate this film, but it's sci-fi/fantasy so I'm not sure why people would have that expectation or why it's one of the main complaints about the film. It's like going to watch a superhero movie and then complaining that the protagonist has superpowers which isn't realistic.

Anyway, I would give it a 6/10.

[–] Ace_Spade (9334) 3 years ago

Yeah, that's reasonable.

The premise is ludicrous, and you're right, you either buy it or you don't, but some of the pushback on the film might be because of presentation; it's not presented as a wacky film, but as a standard action-fantasy movie, so we apply standard logic to it. If it felt a little crazier (Mad Max, for instance) we might question it less.