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Author: Tyler Peterson

· by Tyler Peterson · May 16, 2019

Your Game of Thrones takes are bad

Apparently some people have some feelings about what’s happening on Game of Thrones this season. Every Monday these days is Bitch About The Show That We Won’t Just Stop Watching Day on social media. I haven’t seen so many fans…

· by Tyler Peterson · Jan 8, 2019

Warcraft (2016): a recap (part 7 of 7)

Previously on Warcraft: The hell, guy? You just started reading here? What gives? The demon’s death causes an explosion of Fel magic that radiates from the top of Medivh’s penthouse and expands, denuding trees for miles around. Khadgar and…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 31, 2018

Warcraft (2016): a recap (part 6 of 7)

Last time on Warcraft: The relentlessly plot-driven narrative continues to toss our hapless characters around like mice in a dryer. Durotan’s tenure as a clan leader has come to a dramatic end, Draka’s on the run with their baby,…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 20, 2018

Holiday Movie Duel: Home Alone vs. Dial Code Santa Claus

I usually try to keep a pretty level playing field here on Movie Duels. If I tried to compare Transformers to Transmorphers, it probably wouldn’t be very interesting, at least not in the way I intended it. My…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 17, 2018

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 5 of 7)

Previously on Warcraft: The orcs were almost done with Gul’dan’s dimensional gate, which if successful, will doom Azeroth to a full-scale orc invasion. Token Good Orc Durotan met with the humans to hammer out a little somethin’-or-other to their…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 10, 2018

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 4 of 7)

Our story begins in the mid-1960s, when a musician from South London named David Jones decided to change his last name to avoid confusion with the then-famous Monkee Davy Jones. Taking the mispronounced surname of an American frontiersman as his…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Dec 4, 2018

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 3 of 7)

We’re watching Warcraft… …where everything’s made up, the points don’t matter, and nothing settles the hell down down long enough to cohere or resonate with the viewer in any way. In our previous segment, the orc advance guard have…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Nov 26, 2018

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 2 of 7)

Last time on Warcraft: The peoples of the orc dimension, beset by environmental catastrophe, are seeking asylum in the wealthy lands of Azeroth. But be warned: when the orc dimension sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Nov 19, 2018

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 1 of 7)

Why are so many video game movies so bad? According to Rotten Tomatoes, the best-reviewed video game adaptation in history was this year’s Tomb Raider reboot, favored by a crushing 51% of critics. We’ve been at this for twenty-five years…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 15, 2018

Solo was good; here's how it could've been great

Solo: A Star Wars Story was good. It was really good, you guys. You should see it if you haven’t yet. I’d imagine a fair bit of you haven’t, given that Solo was the second lowest-grossing Star Wars movie to…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 8, 2018

The Official Drinking Game of the New Picard Series

In an unprecedented step for the Star Trek franchise, it’s been announced that Sir Patrick Stewart will trek through the stars once again in a new series about the further adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Picard was a natural choice…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 17, 2018

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Luc Besson is not a man who inspires a lot of moderate opinions. He is not a moderate man. He’s been referred to as the most American French filmmaker, a title he earned through a characteristically French kind of pigheadedness.…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 6, 2018

Ready Player One (2018)

When Ready Player One came out back in April, I went on a bit of a rant in that month’s box office predictions about how much I hated the novel. I admit this might make me a less than ideal…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Aug 23, 2018

Movie Duel: The Thirteenth Floor vs. eXistenZ

Welcome back to Movie Duels, in which we watch two dueling movies and offer our eminently qualified opinion of which film, if any, has a reason for existing, and which one should have been left back at the pitch …

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 30, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 9 of 9)

Well, we got through Suicide Squad. If you just started reading this recap here, I’ll let Superman sum the movie up for you: But despite Suicide Squad’s banal ugliness, its addled editing, its incoherent characterizations, its risible villain, and its…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 16, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 8 of 9)

A while ago on Suicide Squad: The most useful member of the team found his cojones, only to sacrifice them (and everything else) to kill Enchantress’s brother “Chester”, whose real name I never heard even once. But Enchantress’s machine…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 9, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 7 of 9)

Antecedently on Suicide Squad: The chips are down for our plucky band of felons. Waller’s been kidnapped and mind-probed. Joker’s escape attempt went awry; he got in a helicopter crash *snicker* and he’s *snort* totally…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jul 3, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 6 of 9)

Heretofore on Suicide Squad: Our titular Squad began their first big assignment: to travel to Gotham Central Star National Fawcett Coast Keystone Gorilla Midway City and rescue an unidentified person from a brother/sister duo of omnipotent wizards who are wrecking…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 25, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 5 of 9)

Erstwhile on Suicide Squad: Amanda Waller’s cunning plan to engineer a romance between an ultra-powerful witch and the single person guarding her somehow ran into problems. Enchantress slipped her leash and went rogue, releasing her brother from his Pier…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 18, 2018

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 4 of 9)

Precedingly on Suicide Squad: Waller’s getting the band together. Harley Quinn’s pimp is coming to her rescue. Enchantress is off the leash and up to no good. Enchantress teleports by wrapping her cloud of bodily funk around her. Her…

Author: Tyler Peterson

Your Game of Thrones takes are bad

Warcraft (2016): a recap (part 7 of 7)

Warcraft (2016): a recap (part 6 of 7)

Holiday Movie Duel: Home Alone vs. Dial Code Santa Claus

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 5 of 7)

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 4 of 7)

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 3 of 7)

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 2 of 7)

Warcraft (2016), a recap (part 1 of 7)

Solo was good; here's how it could've been great

The Official Drinking Game of the New Picard Series

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

Ready Player One (2018)

Movie Duel: The Thirteenth Floor vs. eXistenZ

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 9 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 8 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 7 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 6 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 5 of 9)

Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 4 of 9)

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