Thanks for the in-depth reviews, Patali! I will respond to those soon. Sent links to everyone else.
Thanks! The reviews I posted above are probably a little more focused on critiques… but thats only because I actually REALLY enjoyed them, I binged the movies over a weekend. It’s easier for me to nitpick something I really like in an effort to make it “perfect”. Overall, I loved the experience.
And I watched Book 4, awesome job. Truly felt like the “event film” I was anticipating it would be. I will say, similar to books 1 and 3, it has that “episodic” feel that I guess at this point can’t be excised, but even then it felt awesome. (I think your Book 2 did the best job at feeling like a single cohesive film). I hadn’t watched “the rescue” since it came out in 2020, and I felt myself starting to get emotional at that ending.
I will say, one sequence that I thought suffered just a little was Mayfeld and his old comander or whatever, during their infiltration. It felt like it didn’t have as much room to breathe, and didn’t get to develop Mayfeld getting to that point of shooting the commander guy. Now, I know this is likely a result of your clever editing to keep Din covered, so I don’t know if this can be really fixed, but if there’s anything else that can be readded to the scene, as far as lines between Mayfeld and his commander to flesh that conversation out, I think it would help.
Otherwise awesome awesome job.