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Westworld was pretty good. I can't tell if I didn't like the "twist" because it was kind of stupid, or because the entire time the show airing you couldn't go on the internet without finding a horde of nerds alternating between saying how they totally called it, and jerking themselves off for being so smart for totally calling it.
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Westworld is a show made by people who watched Game of Thrones and took every wrong lesson away from it. Everyone is scheming and the show is purely propelled forward by "you won't believe what happens in the last five minutes" water cooler bullshit. Instead of writing interesting relationships between the characters, essentially everyone is constantly fighting over nothing or trying to get each other fired, which means there's no one on the planet to give a poo poo when they either die or turn out to be a robot. Possibly interesting axes like the ones between White Hat and Black Hat and the two mooks in charge of cleaning the accumulated jizz out of the robots are thrown out in favor of having everyone either dislike or actively hate each other right off the jump. gently caress Westworld
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you can't build a Cynical, Realistic show with such an absurd premise as Theme Park Full of Rapebots
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all the technical components of westworld were good or great, acting, directing, cinematography, the premise was the problem. yeah humanity is so bad, by the way, the CIA didn't immediately blackbag Ford the second it got out that he could develop programmable androids indistinguishable from people
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Gillian gets props for being the only one in a HitB skit who's acting wasn't horribly awkward and bad. She's not going to win an Academy award but her charisma in that HitB skit was leaps and bounds above the rest. Still not a fan of those skits.
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Mar 23, 2017 04:22
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Captain Lavender posted:Rich: We are in an editing glut. Rich you freeloading slacker. Learn to edit and get to work. Nobody cares about your stupid wheels and plinketto boards.
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Mar 23, 2017 04:24
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I like the wheel and plinketto board though  The plinketto board is better, because Jack will never get to use it.
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Rich has a high crafting skill.
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Space Taxi posted:Gillian gets props for being the only one in a HitB skit who's acting wasn't horribly awkward and bad. She's not going to win an Academy award but her charisma in that HitB skit was leaps and bounds above the rest. I think she was a little bit insulted by Mike and his opinion of people who go to the movies to see campy predictable date movies.
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Space Taxi posted:Rich you freeloading slacker. Learn to edit and get to work. Nobody cares about your stupid wheels and plinketto boards. But then who would play video games?
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PostNouveau posted:But then who would play video games? The bald one??
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Squashing Machine posted:Westworld is a show made by people who watched Game of Thrones and took every wrong lesson away from it. Everyone is scheming and the show is purely propelled forward by "you won't believe what happens in the last five minutes" water cooler bullshit. Instead of writing interesting relationships between the characters, essentially everyone is constantly fighting over nothing or trying to get each other fired, which means there's no one on the planet to give a poo poo when they either die or turn out to be a robot. Possibly interesting axes like the ones between White Hat and Black Hat and the two mooks in charge of cleaning the accumulated jizz out of the robots are thrown out in favor of having everyone either dislike or actively hate each other right off the jump. gently caress Westworld I don't watch Game of Thrones. I was bored and I knew it wasn't for me after the first episode, so as far as I am concerned GoT sucks. I am not sure what show you watched but what you described is not the show I watched.
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The Happening was loving hilarious
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Shinjobi posted:The Happening was loving hilarious I recently watched that other newish m night movie the visit. they reviewed it on half in the bag and were basically right in that it's got some great moments of accidental comedy separated by way too many way too long boring rear end scenes. but as an rlm fan I'm a sucker for old people and diaper jokes.
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Space Taxi posted:Rich you freeloading slacker. Learn to edit and get to work. Nobody cares about your stupid wheels and plinketto boards. Rich contributes. Too soon, I see, we've forgotten about 'Christmas or Crocodile'.
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Baronjutter posted:The bald one?? Alone??? No man can handle that kind of load by himself!
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Just finished previewing Power Rangers. Y'know, it wasn't a complete disaster, and there were even some parts that I genuinely enjoyed. The pacing/editing of the back half was a friggin mess though. On the other hand, mega zord German suplex, so.... 
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I honestly can't think of a worse choice for the 'take a campy 80/90s show and turn it into a gritty takes-itself-too-seriously remake' trend than Power Rangers.
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One of the only PR episode I remember involved an invincible pig monster that can't eat spicy food. They beat his rear end by tricking him to eat spicy stuff 
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I dunno if they'll review it but I saw Life yesterday and it was insanely generic sci-fi stuff. Imagine the plot of Alien but with the cinematography of Gravity and that's pretty much all there is to it. It's better than Gravity (which forgot you need to have a good movie to back up your show off cinematography) but obviously not even close to Alien.
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Mar 23, 2017 10:39
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Quantum of Phallus posted:but obviously not even close to Alien. Few things are gonna be. I'm curious which is gonna be better though, Alien Covenant or Life.
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Life for sure. Covenant looks like another step in the wrong direction that Prometheus headed in. Trying to squeeze out EVERY single bit of lore from Alien one is a tragic mistake. Also nothing screams Alien like a wide open wheat field during the day... Maybe it'll be a reverse-Prometheus situation where Covenants trailers are awful but the movie is really good 
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Beethoven as it was meant to be heard.
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counterfeitsaint posted:I honestly can't think of a worse choice for the 'take a campy 80/90s show and turn it into a gritty takes-itself-too-seriously remake' trend than Power Rangers. They've already done Power Rangers for adults. It was called Akiba Rangers, and it was great
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Tezzora posted:all the technical components of westworld were good or great, acting, directing, cinematography, the premise was the problem. yeah humanity is so bad, by the way, the CIA didn't immediately blackbag Ford the second it got out that he could develop programmable androids indistinguishable from people Ford is from a world without sickness or war, no one would bother to blackbag him.
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Squashing Machine posted:Westworld is a show made by people who watched Game of Thrones and took every wrong lesson away from it. Everyone is scheming and the show is purely propelled forward by "you won't believe what happens in the last five minutes" water cooler bullshit. Instead of writing interesting relationships between the characters, essentially everyone is constantly fighting over nothing or trying to get each other fired, which means there's no one on the planet to give a poo poo when they either die or turn out to be a robot. Possibly interesting axes like the ones between White Hat and Black Hat and the two mooks in charge of cleaning the accumulated jizz out of the robots are thrown out in favor of having everyone either dislike or actively hate each other right off the jump. gently caress Westworld
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Life for sure. Covenant looks like another step in the wrong direction that Prometheus headed in. But Prometheus was really good?
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Space Taxi posted:Gillian gets props for being the only one in a HitB skit who's acting wasn't horribly awkward and bad. She's not going to win an Academy award but her charisma in that HitB skit was leaps and bounds above the rest. Space Taxi posted:Rich you freeloading slacker. Learn to edit and get to work. Nobody cares about your stupid wheels and plinketto boards. But plenty of people like the wheel and the plinketto board? And the bad acting in the skits is part of what makes it funny? You know they're not actually trying real hard to act well and failing, right? They're bad actors and they know it and they play it up further for humor's sake. I feel like you don't really get RLM.
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Nutsngum posted:But Prometheus was really good? lol goddammit
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Zmej posted:yea, this is what killed the show for me at the halfway point. like angry-black-sexbot-lady and mooks was the closest thing to "relationship conflict" after dolores got lost in the maze mystery but maive went full edgelord and became nothing but a breakout plot that pushed out the interesting mooks. I lol'd when she just levels up like a videogame and upped all her stats. so boringgggg Whats your favorite TV show? Downtown Abbey?
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Zmej posted:yea, this is what killed the show for me at the halfway point. like angry-black-sexbot-lady and mooks was the closest thing to "relationship conflict" after dolores got lost in the maze mystery but maive went full edgelord and became nothing but a breakout plot that pushed out the interesting mooks. I lol'd when she just levels up like a videogame and upped all her stats. so boringgggg Seriously, Maeve felt really garishly positioned in the show as this huge badass that is supposed to solicit a lot of "yas kween gettit girl" from sympathetic viewers, but her entire plot is so boring that it doesn't matter. They really missed opportunities to make literally anyone care about anyone else in this show. Interesting conflict arises when someone's personal ties are strained or tested by exterior forces or the characters' mismatched wants. They should've had White Hat and Black Hat be two good friends who come undone by their differing philosophies toward the park (everyone's been in a position where they've slowly realized that a friend of theirs is actually a huge prick, and so that would be a relatable arc). Instead, because everyone on this show has the rage virus, they pretty much hate each other's guts from the moment they arrive in the facility, so when they argue or fight there's really no tension there at all. They might as well just have spent the first half hour of each episode repeatedly shooting each other with the magic no-kill revolvers
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Squashing Machine posted:Seriously, Maeve felt really garishly positioned in the show as this huge badass that is supposed to solicit a lot of "yas kween gettit girl" from sympathetic viewers, but her entire plot is so boring that it doesn't matter. They really missed opportunities to make literally anyone care about anyone else in this show. Interesting conflict arises when someone's personal ties are strained or tested by exterior forces or the characters' mismatched wants. They should've had White Hat and Black Hat be two good friends who come undone by their differing philosophies toward the park (everyone's been in a position where they've slowly realized that a friend of theirs is actually a huge prick, and so that would be a relatable arc). Instead, because everyone on this show has the rage virus, they pretty much hate each other's guts from the moment they arrive in the facility, so when they argue or fight there's really no tension there at all. They might as well just have spent the first half hour of each episode repeatedly shooting each other with the magic no-kill revolvers Seriously, what show did you watch? quote:Interesting conflict arises when someone's personal ties are strained or tested by exterior forces or the characters' mismatched wants. This is a hard and fast rule for you? Because those are not the only sources of "interesting conflict."
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*Watches two dogs fight over an old piece of meat* Yes. This is an interesting conflict
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WampaLord posted:Seriously, what show did you watch? The same one you did, so go ahead and tell me how your view on it differs from mine? Or do you just get weirdly upset when someone doesn't like something you like?
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Westworld was intensely boring and the only things remotely interesting were the mystery and the twist, both of which were so uninspired they were successfully predicted by thousands of online dullards
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