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Midway Review
From Independence Day to The Patriot to White House Down, Roland Emmerich relishes making action-packed spectacles that celebrate American bravery in the face of jaw-dropping odds. Whether those odds are terrorists, the British, or ruthless extraterrestrials is of little matter to the German-born director, as long as their force is mighty, intimidating, and can make for a David-versus-Goliath final showdown.
In that sense, the Battle of Midway seems perfectly suited to an Emmerich adaptation. It features a wide array of American heroes, the daunting opposition of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and one of the most decisive naval battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Yet for all its moxie, action, and heroics, Midway falls far short of greatness.
Razer Huntsman Tournament Edition Gaming Keyboard Review
Few companies are as synonymous with PC gaming as Razer. Its Blackwidow is probably the best known keyboard on the market, finding its home in department store displays for most of the last decade. Last year, the company surprised us with a brand new addition to its line-up, with the Razer Huntsman, a new brand of gaming keyboard powered by infrared-light through their Opto-Mechanical switches. Recently the company unveiled the new Razer Huntsman TE (See it at Amazon), a streamlined version of the original with a tenkeyless keyboard design and brand new linear Opto-Mechanical switches. I’ve spent the last several weeks with it as my daily driver and am ready to answer the big question: should this be your next gaming keyboard, or is it all just an optical illusion?
Here’s Where You Can Still Preorder the Zacian and Zamazenta Nintendo Switch Lite
Back from the brink of obscurity and just days ahead of its official November 8 release date, the Zacian and Zamazenta Special Edition Nintendo Switch Lite has once again appeared at retailers, letting you grab your own and possibly get it in time for release day.
Preorder Zacian and Zamazenta Edition Nintendo Switch Lite
Even if you don’t qualify for launch-day arrival, you can still get it ahead of the release of Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield. Both games come out November 15, which is next week. If you’ve been looking to get your hands on the Zacian and Zamazenta Switch Lite as a Christmas gift, my advice is to stop waiting around and order one right now before Christmas is ruined forever.
Stephen King Claims Doctor Sleep Redeems Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
Novelist Stephen King has packed on the praise for Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep, claiming the movie “redeems” what he didn’t like about Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of The Shining.
In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, King, who is known to dislike the Kubrick film, explained how the recent big-screen adaptation of his sequel novel helped to alleviate some of the issues that he originally had with its predecessor.
“I read the script to this one very, very carefully,” the writer revealed. “Because obviously I wanted to do a good job with the sequel, because people knew that book The Shining, and I thought, I don’t want to screw this up.
Hearthstone’s New Battlegrounds Mode Is Available to Early Access Players
After whipping the cloak off its eight-player autobattler mode last week at BlizzCon, Hearthstone has now made Battlegrounds available to select fans for a week of early access.
The mode is currently only available to those who attended BlizzCon in California, those who nabbed a BlizzCon virtual ticket, or players who own a Descent of Dragons pre-purchase bundle. Battlegrounds will eventually open up to all players as an open beta on Tuesday November 12, when the early access period finishes.
Battlegrounds takes place on an “ever evolving board” where players are pitted against randomly selected opponents in turn-based combat. Players choose from 24 heroes, then recruit minions in Bob’s Tavern that can be strategically deployed across the board between rounds until one challenger is left standing.
Netflix Is ‘Taking The Fantasy Out’ Of The Witcher And Leaning Into Horror
With a couple of months to go before The Witcher drops on Netflix, the show’s visual effects supervisor has promised it will be more frightening than fantastical.
Julian Parry told SFX Magazine (via GamesRadar), “I definitely think it leans more towards horror. We’re definitely taking the fantasy out. I can honestly say we’re not fantastical. I mean, it’s fantastical but in a grounded horror sense.”
He used the example of Striga monsters – women who are cursed to turn into beasts – as the embodiment of “gnarly-looking” body horror rather than fantasy escapism. The new trailer also includes its fair share of creepy monsters, like what appears to be a necrophage of some kind (perhaps a ghoul or foglet).
Independence Day: Resurgence Director Regrets Making Film After Will Smith Dropped Out
2016’s Independence Day: Resurgence was a critical failure and a commercial flop, pulling in $103,144,286 domestically from a $165 million budget (not including marketing). The film brought back Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman from the original Independence Day, but not Will Smith, who opted out in favor of filming Suicide Squad.
Now, in an interview with Yahoo UK about director Roland Emmerich’s upcoming new film, Midway, the director has opened up about Resurgence’s troubled production, and admitted that he regrets making the film the way that he did. The original script for the sequel included Will Smith’s character from the first film, Captain Steven Hiller, but when he dropped out a hasty rewrite had to happen.
“I just wanted to make a movie exactly like the first, but then in the middle of production Will opted out,” Emmerich said. “I should have stopped making the movie because we had a much better script. After I had to, really fast, cobble another script together. And I should have just said ‘no,’ because all of a sudden I was making something I criticized myself, a sequel.” Will Smith played Deadshot in 2016’s Suicide Squad instead, but he will not be returning for the sequel.
Elsewhere in the interview, Emmerich talks about his earlier films (“now everybody thinks The Day After Tomorrow was a genius thing but at that time, they didn’t think it was that genius”) and movies he has enjoyed lately, including Call Me By Your Name and Logan.
Emmerich’s next movie, Midway, is about US soldiers and pilots who were instrumental in the Battle of Midway during World War II. It will release in cinemas on November 8.
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