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Posting as I listen through. While Tykwer hasn't done much lately that US viewers would know, he did direct one of my favorite gun-fights of the last decade.
Unfortunately it was in an otherwise completely forgettable movie, but goddamn that set-piece is classic Mctiernan/John Woo awesomeness.
Between The Division, WatchDogs, and Destiny, seems like inter-connected Day-Z style coop games will be the future of next-gen gaming
Its been gaining a ton of steam on Twitter, I wouldn't be surprised if this blows up the way Downton Abbey did a year or two ago. Watch season 2 open to big numbers.
Also, I desperately want a spin-off about Felix and Alison hanging out and going on adventures.
Now that I've finished the season, on Teague and Trey's suggestion, I can safely say this is the best, funniest sci-fi show I've seen in ages. I implore people to check it out, and figure it more than deserves a thread on here. More than anything, I think this show absolutely nails pacing and tone. There is almost no filler on this thing, and it just keeps getting weirder and crazier at a pretty nutso pace. And then it strikes this perfect sorta-serious but borderline darkly comedic tone that just completely works with the goofier stuff in the story. This thing kinda came out of nowhere and it rules.
For the uninitiated:
Still though I gotta feel a bit of sympathy for the guy. Like, now not only does he have millions of book-readers on his ass to finish these books, but millions of show-watchers, and corporate interests at HBO. Living under that kind of constant pressure would be awful.
Ya, but unfortunately they really botched the execution of the Mhysa scene, which they banked on to be their big closer. The way it was staged/shot it came off silly and laughable, and left people on a disappointed note despite the rest of the episode being a quite-good epilogue. Probably the first time I think they've dropped the ball on anything execution-wise in this series.
Ya, I think they dropped the ball by stopping short of multiple potential moments that would've made good cliff-hangers (none of which will be discussed here). Its a good episode except for how limply it ends. That worries me because I think they really needed to leave some hooks for viewers who are still on the fence after last weeks ep. I suspect tonight's ep was the most-viewed of the series history, and I worry we'll see a significant drop in viewers for start of next season (but maybe I'm just crazy).
Regardless, TV viewers should be excited, because there's a metric fuck-ton of stuff that's been left for Season 4.
Ya, this is why I much prefer to read Shakespeare than to watch it performed or adapted. When you're reading it, you can take it slow and make sure you understand the meaning, and it also lets you appreciate the poetry of the language. If I'm watching it at movie-speed, I'm usually gonna spend the whole time just struggling to understand what everyone is saying instead of enjoying the story and the writing.
I'm also not generally a fan of these modernized adaptations with original text, it always feels like a lazy thing to try to modernize for today's audiences, all it does is pull you out of the story more because the dialogue doesn't fit. A proper adaptation set in the original time-period works better because it uses the language to it's benefit, it makes it feel more authentic.
I'd rather no more blade forever than a PG-13 blade. Just....NO. Blade swears, he bleeds, he cuts vampires to pieces, you do not mess with that.
But ya, Demolition Man...
Even if he isn't a shit writer, he's an AWFUL AWFUL director. Blade 3 is a piece of shit, so is The Unborn or whatever the name of that dumb horror movie he directed.
I personally blame him for killing the blade franchise, Wesley may have been a bastard on set, but he was acting that way because he could tell Goyer didn't understand wtf he was doing and was ruining the character.
He kills off Westler in the lamest way possible, then replaces him with 20-year old vampire hunters who listen to shitty-techno music from their i-pods mid-fight? What the fuck is that shit doing in a blade movie.
A positive review from Harry Knowles means fuck all, he might be the least credible person on the internet.
Drew I trust though, so expect it to suck.
This has 12 hours left to get funded and its gonna be real close. If any DIF folks haven't jumped in yet and want to, now would be the time...
Mance's army approaching the wall, giants and all?
Honestly Dany's ending might be strong enough on its own, I don't think they necessarily need a "shocking" ending, the shocker was ep 9. I do think they'll do Stoneheart though, just to get the really mad Red Wedding people a reason to come back next season.
That's the worst part about it, instead of understanding and emphasizing the things that make Star Trek good and likable, they almost completely throw it out, do the opposite (which makes it just another generic blockbuster), but then sprinkle in all this fan-wank throughout to try to win Trek fans back over. Instead of trying to make a movie that lives up to the legacy of the series, they say fuck the series, but think we're stupid enough that a couple references will win us over.
Doesn't make her any less boring to read. I don't disagree with any of the above, her behavior is completely justified by her circumstances, but reading the POV of a mostly passive character who's in a perpetual state of being screwed and traumatized is really dull. I think she works much better on the show actually, because they only include her when they really need to, and Sophie Turner plays the role extremely well.
Arya sailing away as she looks back at Westeros feels like it would be a solid closer for her, although they will need quite a bit of screen-time to get to that point (at least 10-15 min).
I'm curious if they'll get another scene with John and Ygritte before they're split up for good, it felt a little weird when he ditched her the way they played the scene last episode. His plot ends with him reaching Castle-black, and perhaps seeing Mance's army approaching on the other side.
I'm almost certain no Purple Wedding, just needs too much time, I'd put money on that being episode 4 next season (they've setup a bit of a pattern now of big events in eps 4 and 9). Jaime sees his father, re-instates Brienne into the Kingsguard maybe to get some closure on that plot. Dunno what they do with Tyrion, probably nothing meaningful as he hasn't had much of an arc this season.
Ends either on Dany or Lady Stoneheart
books 4 and 5 are a big drop-off in quality because they make 2 rather strange choices that just KILL the pacing. Book 4 and 5 happen concurrently, but focus on different characters. Book 4 follows mostly side-characters you don't give a shit about who do very little that's important. Book 5 follows the characters you care about, and starts out strong, but its like 1500 pages of buildup towards 2 major events that it then LEAVES OFF for book 6. That might end up being less of a problem in the overall story assuming the next 2 books deliver, but judged on its own it's a massive case of blue-balls.
It doesn't help that they follow up Storm of Swords, which is the best in the series (so far) and chock full of huge, important story events (so much so that they had to split it into 2 tv seasons).
This is where I feel the showrunners will really be able to improve on the books by cutting to the chase much faster and getting rid of a lot of narrative dead-weight. I wouldn't be surprised if they found a way to condense most of books 4 and 5 into a single season, or chose to go off the map entirely.
Or GRR Martin is just trolling us....hence Jon being stabbed to death in the last book
That always seemed like an overly reaching fan theory to me, I liked the idea of Ned having fucked up at one point and had a kid, it humanized him a bit. That being said, I hadn't heard that interview with Benioff and Weiss, that does seem to make a convincing case.
FYI, I think we need to have a separate thread for book-readers, because Spoilers become weird and nebulous at this point. Don't read any of like the last 6 spoiler posts if you are only a show-watcher
EDIT: WARNING TV PEOPLE, NEXT PAGE OF SPOILERS, STARTING WITH THIS POST, has FUTURE SEASON SPOILERS, JUST SKIP A PAGE AHEAD (bottom of next page).
It was sorta brought up in the show, but the real name of the main character in the Halo games is also John Spartan, which I find amusing. Given how much that series cribs from the last 2 decades of movies, I would not be surprised if this was 100% intentional.
I'm kinda between Trey and everyone else with Demolition Man. Its fun, there's lots of good stuff throughout, but it does kinda fizzle out, and for a big action movie, its pretty light on memorable action set-pieces. I agree with Trey that the end feels kinda half-baked and anti-climactic.
Teague, you should really watch Blade 2 (and Blade 1, but if you only watch one make it this one),
Wesley Snipes is awesome.
^^ Spoilers FYI
Someone please explain this to me, what the fuck happened on this TV show last night that has the entire internet crying.
Yep, I don't think its bad in theory. This should be The Grey meets Pitch Black, the issue is instead of shooting for real in an interesting location they caked the thing in generic looking CG, Will Smith forced Jayden into the role (who has been unlikable and annoying as fuck in everthing I've seen him in), and then Shyamalan came in and directed the actors in his normal personality-sucking way (those line deliveries...what did you do to Will Smith... WHAT DID YOU DO).
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