Watched the first episode of The Witcher on Netflix last, and was completely underwhelmed.
I am not alone in this - I see that it only got 53% on Metacritic - but isn't Netflix saying it has huge ratings? (Yes, it is.)
I guess people just can't get enough of their bloodthirsty, gratuitous boob, fantasies since Game of Thrones finished. But what is the appeal of this genre? It's always eluded me - even if it's family friendly fantasy such as Tolkien's. If anything, the adult version offends me more for what has always struck me (since the first Conan the Barbarian and its imitators started appearing in the early 80's) as a too obvious attempt to broaden the market for an outdated genre by ramping up the soft porn and violence to appeal to young men. But now, with the internet, the "let's give young guys access to soft porn" aspect is completely redundant, making it more gratuitous than ever. So what are we left with - magic, the occasional monster and (let's face it) stuff that would have formerly been considered gratuitous ultra violence, but is now watched by women as well as men. (And by the way, I don't think the fighting scenes were even well directed in that first episode.)
I don't understand the appeal at all...
The Witcher was a popular computer game, there is a tendency to go from game to movie these days because the story line, graphics etc are very much done in the game.
ReplyDeleteI don't get the fantasy stuff either Steve.
They would have been popular a long time ago. But the special effects were too crude and expensive in the old days.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a big fan of fantasy but the Witcher does get better.
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