How would you change this?
The biggest problem was the world building. This should have been used to launch a series.
Smith isn't the Bright, the orc is.
I wouldn't
movie was 9/10
based, now thats subversion. take notes Rian
Take out the magic and fantasy stuff. Maybe keep one orc for novelty.
I would hire a team of theoretical physicists and genetic engineers to work in tandem to go back in time and make max landis not fucking retarded
Make it much more gritty and less comical. The Orc calls will smith a nigger
>watch lindsay ellis' video where she shits on the movie
>refuses to even acknowledge landis, keeps saying the movie "didn't have a writer"
>still, there's a ton of times where she says the movie fucked up X thing, but "in the script it made sense because they did Y, so i don't know why they changed it"
This
I don't care about the wand, I care about the relations of these groups
>The Orc calls will smith a nigger
Based
>watch lindsay ellis' video
that's not a good thing to do.
It is.
well i mean if you want just a torrent of shit you can get that in any Yea Forums thread
>tfw not a police procedural buddy cop show that deals with fantasy race of the week
I love this movie. I know it has a lot of issues, but it was unique. We don't have any movies or shows with this setting. I want news on Bright 2, I hope it hasn't been secretly cancelled.
Her video shitting on the live action beauty and the beast is good
I’d say world building, but the world of the movie was never going to be believeable because a magic-heavy Earth would not develop like it has now, it would have a completely different history. They took the fantasy-meets-modern thing from the Shadowrun universe but forgot that Shadowrun’s setting has an explanation for this. If I had to change anything I’d change that, but at that point you might as well just make an actual Shadworun movie.
Reminded me of training day.
>Take the magic and fantasy off a story about humans, elves, orcs and warlocks
Make it more like Shadowrun.
>Magic-heavy Earth
The plot was about magic being extremely rare, wands were considered almost wmd's, it was plausible since they lost it for some reason related to the war where orcs took the losing side
This. I would have watched a fantasy COPS miniseries
So COPS?
>lets remove everything unique about the movie
I hope you're being ironic
ma nigga. I honestly thought it was going to be a shadowrun movie. I was thoroughly dissapointed
It should’ve gone middle of those...
I wouldn't. It was a breast of fresh air and not too SJWy.
I thought the same thing, the world itself was kinda cool seeing all this fantasy shit in the modern age and how they all interact, but we only saw a small taste of it outside of orcs and humans.
recast all the elves
fpbp
Shadowrun would be a much better setting if it ditched the Tolkein races that have no reason to be there and replaced them with something original. Bright is so barebones in its worldbuilding that it depends on its urban Tolkein gimmick, but Shadowrun has enough going on that it shouldn't have to.
Nothing, it was entertaining enough
This. I was more interested in the background dragons and centaurs than the actual plot of the movie.
That's the opinion of someone who clearly isn't familiar with what he's talking about, without the fantasy elements, Shadowrun would just be another cyberpunk setting, like CP2020, also its Elves and other assorted fantasy elements, although inspired by Tolkien, are far from generic and they are integral to the feeling of the game, Shadowrun would never be what it is without rat shamans, toxic spirits and Dragons.
>I love this movie. I know it has a lot of issues, but it was unique.
I kinda agree with this. It had a fucking boring and forgettable plot but at least they were bringing something new to the table.
The fantasy stuff is fine. The playable races being 1:1 copies from Tolkien is what's the problem. It's so stupid and contrived that it takes away from the fantasy elements that actually work for the setting.
Ggd
>The playable races being 1:1 copies from Tolkien is what's the problem.
It really isn’t, you autist. There’s explicit construction of the lore in Shadowrun around how the fantasy races that suddenly appear in the world are ones that people knew existed in stories and fairy tales prior to magic actually existing. If the elves were instead bipedal lava slugs and the dwarves were sapient fucking beach balls, you would lose a lot of what Shadowrun is built around. It NEEDS the blatant Tolkien themes, because it helps the in-universe populace establish their prejudices and expectations of what used to be Jim in accounting and is now a hulking orc like in the movies.
This, the story was pretty cookie cutter and unremarkable. It was the setting that was unique af.
I know all that, and it's still contrived and dumb to the point of ruining the experience. You seem like one of those nerds who'll accept anything no matter how bad as long as there is a semi-coherent explanation for it in the lore.
Riot Gear Centaur is the sickest
More fantasy. It was essentially just a street cop action flick but with orcs taking the place of blacks, and the elves didn't even feel like or seem like elves. The world in general had little to no influence by the fantasy aspect of it all, which just made it feel even more pointless.
plot should have been an orc faking a hate crime and escaping 16 felony charges through corruption
the people you trust are abusing you
replace will smith with a non nigger
You just think that because you're scitzofrenic.
Made magic actually strong, not have the elves die like trash. Place more importance in the orcs.
The world needs to be explained a bit more so change the plot from chasing a macguffin to a simpler cop story. If they're in LA, and these creatures have existed along side humankind, how does that work with US history. Obviously it has to be similar enough to have an LA but different because there were mythical creatures during Westward expansion and manifest destiny. Same with the Civil War and The South. Were Orcs slaves or were black people still slaves? This is the kinda stuff you have to hint at. Otherwise why are we on Jacobi's side? For all we are told the orcs are actually violent and much stronger than humans. Maybe they have good reason to hate orcs. You can't just show Orcs filling a role similar to black people and then have them have superhuman strength, endurance, and only in gangs.
I say make the story about Will Smith and Jacobi involved in an on-the-job shooting. There's an ongoing trial during the movie. Between which you see bits of the world and their partnership and what happened. Have some orc teen accused of the robbery. elf lawyers on both sides. make it a crime/courtroom dama. then you drop hints about this bigger social situation of human/elf politics. the governments in their pocket, they're buying favors.
The cop shooting stuff plays on BLM and the mistrust of cops. The trial is about the law and the media. Put the high-politics stuff in for garnish. No need to overthink it and introduce some fantastical plot. No need for a wand.
More scenes with the Elves.
God damn they were hot.
Yeah, movie would have been pretty good if it were about an orc and a human.
Launch a tabletop game with extra lore and a cops mini-series
In Shadowrun the fantasy races only showed up in the modern era, iirc some children started to be born as elves and dwarves after a magical event, and other people started to turn into orcs and trolls. IIRC the President of the Dominican Republic turned into an orc and declared his country a refuge for his kind.
I've never seen a more overrated franchise than Shadowrun. All the books and games are fucking awful, the only exception being maybe the turn based RPG on PC.
This. It would have been fucking kino if it was more like Training Day and just followed them around on various calls, building the world through their various interactions/encounters.
More cute, bedraggled elf-girl.
>entire film Smith feels bad for the treatment of orcs
>final act they are pinned in, elves have them cornered
>Smith looks to orc and says "I'm sorry for the treatment of orcs, you deserve reperations"
>orc gives a wry smile and looks back "at least I'm not a bigger"
>pulls out two deagles and does that spin move, you know the one I'm talking about
>Smith gets caught in the cross fire and gets hit by a magic bolt
>see him turn into blue smoke before finding refuge in a lamp ((genie lamp))
>not too SJWy
This is clearly why the critic score on RT is 25% and the audience score is 85%.
I think this is the new measure of whether a movie is worth seeing. (Audience score - critic score) > 50 = I will like it.
I'd make it more obvious Elves are Jews. I'd also have Will Smith fuck an alien in an explicit scene while they're on the run.
I would have done this aswell.
The full house of truth.
yeah this has TV show written all over it , you could do the world justice and hell it may even be worth a watch.
It wasn't a particularly compelling world and there wasn't nearly enough 'detective' work, the fantasy elements should have been more insidious and hidden behind modern culture but instead it just looked cheesy and at odds. Also the chick was totally unecessary.
>film and plot are exactly the same
>orc refuses to work with a black
>Orc Privilege
More joe rogan
same movie but make the main lead white so that the story can be more heavy handed in the race baiting bullshit the jews love to push out
the elves in the film were jews
yeah and the jews love to tell the story of the goys trying to change evil in the world but fail leaving you feel hopeless like no matter what you do you can't change the jews control things and will control things
it's all so tiresome and overdone now
Would've been 10/10 if Will's wife was black
>watch Lindsay Ellis
Hahaha XD
Smith gets fed up with all the fantastical trash in his world and starts killing every non-human.
Enter an evil band of white guys doing the same, but they're killing blacks as well.
Smith then has to turn to the help of the Orc to stop said band, but the Orc fucks up and gets Smith killed.
Final shot is of the Orc making a stand as the last non-human in the world with countless white guys closing in.
Close-up of his hand as he pulls a detonator out of his pocket.
*click*
The entire army of white guys goes up in flames. Bright flames.
Cut to black.
B R I G H T
THIS.
I really hoped they would just jew each other and rip of Weisman´s Shadowrun to make another Alien Nation type TV show.
>make an actual Shadworun movie
Then you would have to start out-jew Weisman.
Good luck with that.
I would have named the jew even more obviously
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>The biggest problem was the world building
Yes, however, most of the critics of the world-building are getting it wrong. The problem with Bright is that so much of the setting was relatively generic back alleys and city slums type environments that could have been more interesting. A bit more effort could have been put into the backstory about the great war and such. The church was kind of cool though.
But the critics that want to see a full-on "what if Middle Earth had the industrial revolution and advanced into the modern age" really miss the point of Bright's setting. It's clear that Bright specifically wants to blend of familiar names and places with fantasy elements (Los Angeles, etc.). You can't do a rigorous Tolkein-style world building and still have that effect. There's going to be hand-waving and inconsistency bullshit and you're going to have to avoid shining a spotlight too brightly on those seams in the world building.
It doesn't mean the world-building couldn't have been improved, but it's never going to be modern-day LOTR.
>How would you change this?
Biggest issue for me was that some of the action scenes just really stopped being believable. The gas station scene in particular was terrible.
I'm 90% sure that was originally the plan, but Smith wanted to be the hero.
One of the good parts of Bright is the simple, traditional message of individual dignity and overcoming prejudice. The woke crowd hates it for not being sufficiently race-baiting and anti-white. And that's even before they realize that Orcs aren't analogous to Blacks.
I kind of get it. What's the point of Smith if he's not the Bright?
(Not disagreeing that it could have been great, but would have been more difficult to write imo)