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movie review - The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2021.08.27

This is an animated movie based on the excellent TV series "The Witcher". It lacks the charisma of the TV series and is as self-serious as it is unpleasant. I'll take it further: by tacking on a very thin origin story that - like "Solo, a Star Wars Story" is completely unnecessary - they do the TV series a dis-service and weakens the story and even the world-building.

Not recommended. Strongly. Avoid this unpleasant and unnecessary mess.

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It's weird, man. People can watch a movie where thousands of people die in a war and not a tear. Yet one collie dies .. and the entire nation collapses with grief.

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