Huh, I haven't actually seen anything else by Neil Marshall...

...except apparently the 2 episodes of Game of Thrones he did, that are both epic battle episodes and okay, yeah, that totally makes sense. I'm gonna have to check out more of his stuff, The Descent has been on my radar for a while, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Not typically a fan of Kimmel's stuff, but this was brilliant.

Does anyone know of a good <$100 general purpose handheld camcorder with decent audio quality? I've been looking at getting something small and dedicated for vlogging purposes that I can use when I can't use my main camera.

Ideally I'd love to find something basically like a cell phone with just the camera part...and without the dynamic framerate...that's bad.

Fair enough, I can agree with that, like I said I'm curious to see what they do with it, since the pitch itself doesn't really seem to be all that interesting in and of itself. But I have enough faith in Roosterteeth do to do something cool with it.

And call it a misunderstanding of "shot in the arm".

Other way around I think. Using practical is becoming cheaper, so it's starting to make a comeback.

Anything'll help

Thanks dude!

My brain cannot even...

I just watched the fight again. And while that might be the case for some of it, there are clearly a lot of takes where Pedro Pascal can clearly do the move, but the camera still cuts about 5 times in the middle.

Look at his entrance. I actually counted, cause I was curious. For his opening series of spins, there are 15 cuts in 12 seconds. That's more than a cut a second. I'll grant you it's possible that Pedro Pascal couldn't do that entire series himself, but look at the shots, there are only 2 or 3 where we can clearly see his face, the rest are wide to very wide shots. So unless there was some SERIOUS issues with the stuntman they're using there shouldn't be any excuse for having to cut that wildly, even cutting the number of cuts in half. There's also a lot of unnecessary cuts in the middle of moves, where even if it is a stuntman it doesn't matter because we couldn't tell on either side of the cut, it's just a cut to seem stylish but totally breaks the flow of the move. There's also some cuts that are very clearly Pedro doing it, just after The Mountain says "some dead man" and swings, Oberyn does a swing over his head to block, and that single move has 3 cuts, and in all of them we can very clearly see his face, and the move itself is only maybe a second or 2 long. So it's not like Pedro couldn't do that move in one take. (Unless this fight scene has some wicked face replacement and deserves a cinefx edition all to itself).

Actually the more I'm rewatching this, it just feels like the creators didn't trust the tension of the fight and the stakes to be enough, so they needed to just put the audience on edge with the editing, make it feel faster than it is.

I really want to see an unedited version of this fight, even just cutting the number of cuts down by half I think would be a marked improvement.

Well. Holy. Shit.

First. Gotta admit, I haven't been that viscerally effected by gore in a very long time. But then I do kind of have a thing about high velocity damage type stuff (as in, fall and go squish style looks, not really sure why, it just effects me on a whole different level than most gore -shrug-) ... either way, damn good job on that front GoT.

Second. I gotta admit, I was expecting a lot more from the fight itself, with the way the fight, specifically Oberyn's fighting style, was portrayed in the trailers... and the fact that the show and fandom have been screaming down my throat how FUCKING AWESOME THIS FIGHT WILL BE AND HOW TOTALLY COOL OBERYNS FIGHTING STYLE IS GOING TO BE GUYYZZZ. And then it just kinda happened, and continued to happen, and then ended. Obviously I get all the thematic stuff they're doing with fight and the kill, but I just expected more from the fight itself.

I think I was expecting maybe something that looked a little more like some sort of Capoeira with a spear, where the Viper is moving around a lot, and jumping all over the place and being very fluid, versus...well...The Mountain... the name kinda sums it up really. Maybe there's some sort of really subtle badassery going on that only fight guys understand, but compared to all the build up, I was kinda disappointed.

Third. Maisie's laugh may be the best thing I've ever heard.

Fourth. Sansa at the end, hot damn girl, work that shiz. (Also... Sansa as badass Sith assassin... I think yes.)

Otherwise, Game of Thrones remains a stallwart. Lookin forward to all this crazy shit everyone who's read the books keeps quietly whispering to each other about.

Thanks man

Although, I would have thought the exact opposite of trimming from the middle, that's the thinnest part of the entire thing I feel (Unless you meant taking the reveals at putting them at the end as trimming?).

Personally, if I had the free reign to, I would have rewritten the opening to be at least half the length, as it is, I already editted out 4-5 lines of dialouge in post. That entire section just feels bloated.

And that's an interesting idea of putting all the reveals at the end, definitely gives it a different feel. But to defend what Riley had written/what I was trying to do, the joke as written was leaning way more heavily on the punch-line of the pun, than the actual reveals of the acts themselves (as written we'd see the joke/reveal in one shot). Which I'll grant you is a feeble excuse at best, and only really works when you don't know the title beforehand.

Ultimately, I think, it stills just comes down to the whole adapting things written for the stage to film, in most cases being hemmed in by the script verbatim. As well as all of the actors being stage actors where the flow and timing is completely different, namely slower. It's something I'm trying to get the cast adapted too, but it's a work in progress.

And it played... alright. Not as well as I hoped. There was some good laughs, but the problem with the space they perform in, is that the acoustics suuuuuuck, so you get any decent amount of laughter and that's all you can hear. So most of the verbal jokes/reveals get paved over by laughter and get missed. -shrug- ah well, way it goes.

Aural you got my files?

Yeah, it has a threaded mount on the underside to attach to a mic stand.

<Also uses a Yeti. Mainly for Let's Play recording, plus a bit of narration/VO stuff, haven't had an issue yet.