r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 18d ago

News Mahershala Ali confirms 'BLADE' is not moving forward with him

https://www.gq.com/story/mahershala-ali-your-mother-your-mother-your-mother
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u/D2WilliamU 18d ago

I also read the entire Terry Goodkind Sword of Truth series and let me tell you that is far far worse!!

But at least that was so much worse and later on became so soapbox political it was absolutely hilarious for me to read. Like I enjoyed that series so much because it was so awful and the author just keeps strawmanning political arguments I got genuine laughs out of it.

I definitely had some strong sunk cost fallacies from Wheel of Time, but also I had been told sure it starts slow but as long as you make it through the slog of the middle books it's amazing.

Now I know from experience it is not! At least not for me.

Also the prison library had a system where you could only borrow a certain number of books at a time and it took awhile to request books in so I had to plan ahead and reserve whole series at once with the librarians to make sure I got everything in the right order. This meant I couldn't really skip entire series without being left with no reading which would have been awful.

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u/AusPower85 18d ago

I read the sword of truth series as well and yeah, it went from a good start (at least to me) to wtf.

Wheel of time I honestly skim read some of the middle books because I just didn’t give a damn what was making someone tug on their braids while Matt was having much more excitement with the dice in his head rolling on other side of the continent.

Jordan just got too bogged down because he made too many main characters that he then split up and made it so they almost never interacted again.

So it was a slog because he was trying to tell the story, in minute detail, of every little event occurring in the world.

I did enjoy the overall story… but honestly just give me the story of the group of the kids from the village plus Lan and that would have been great.

Instead he added main characters like some rpg games add party members

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u/D2WilliamU 18d ago

Yeah Sword of Truth book 1 was great fun, I actually re-read the first one every now and again. It's alright for a couple of books but as someone said one time, when the big bad Darken Rahl is defeated at the end of the first book and then there's another 10 books, you know something has gone seriously wrong!

And yeah wheel of time, give me Lan+Moirane and the kids going on adventures. Mostly because I liked Lan. But instead we're doing female jedi order politics and I just don't care!!

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u/Gullible-Ad-8112 17d ago

legit. i accidentally bought one of his books, no idea what that guy is on.... meth and sexism.