Netflix Retrospective - Dragons: Race to the Edge Season 3 episodes 10-13

Alright, let’s finish this series, shall we?

Netflix Retrospective - Dragons: Race to the Edge Season 3 episodes 7-9

Much like the first half of the second season of Race to the Edge, very little in terms of plot progression happens, I understand the need to do one-and-done type episodes for syndicated television but with Neflix sharing the budget, you’d figure they could try for some more long term stuff too.

Netflix Retrospective: Dragons: Race to the Edge Season 2 Episodes 10-13

Netflix Retrospective - Dragons: Race to the Edge Season 2 Episodes 7-9

 

Netflix Retrospective - Dragons: Race to the Edge - Season 1 Episodes 10-13

#35 - Samuel L Jackson Month - Barely Lethal

It’s Samuel L Jackson Month

And time for the one and only rage review of the month – and the last one until August. This is Barely Lethal

This one’s a tough one folks, it took me 2 viewings and much rambling on twitter (I’ll save it because spoilers) (follow me @rageformedia for more ramblings) to get through this, not to mention copious amounts of alcohol.

We’re back with another lower budget film with this one. Why I keep coming across these action/sci-fi movies with low budget (although this isn’t sci-fi) is baffling. If you’ve not got the budget for grand effects and stunt-work, what’s the point? I mean of course, it could be on a zero budget with no effort (looking at you, Incredible Bulk) but it still baffles me I keep coming across them in this genre.

Before we jump into the review, I want to discuss the rating. According to Wikipedia this movie was originally given an R rating, but they fought to have it rated PG-13 without making substantial cuts and that’s all well and good, except my DVD of the movie is the UK equivalent of R-Rated. Film Brain (@FB_BMB) suggested this is because of an R-rated trailer. And it likely was, there’s a trailer for Rise of the Krays here that really looks like it’s R-rated.

Are you f*cking kidding me with this sh*t? They appeal to the MPAA to get the movie changed to a PG-13 but ruin it by including an R-rated trailer. Sure, they’re not a massive company and want to promote their movies but why not make a PG-13 edited trailer. You are limiting a massive portion of your potential audience with this decision, especially given the subject of the movie but we’ll get to that.

The movie has a mere 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although the audience approval is higher at 39% but even that is not very good.

Let’s dive in and prepare for pain. Lots and lots of pain