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SleepCousinDeath posted:Glad they finally worked NBD into it. It's like watching my first born walk
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Even with the leak, they stuck to their convictions. It really is NBD.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 02:32 |
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Guy Mann posted:
Nah, pacing isn't the problem. I liked the book well enough and would be happy with it visiting every little side plot. The problem is the awful unedited mammoth chunks of dialogue that land like fresh turds. McShane is the only one that kind of makes it work with sheer charisma. Yet bizarrely the show will also have ten minute visual set pieces at the expense of any actual character work. It sucks at both showing and telling. Oh and the music! It's either bland or awful song choices (compare it to True Detective or even Preacher to a lesser extent) or the abstract bings and bangs Reitzell began to lean on way too much in Hannibal. American Gods feels like it has started in full blown Hannibal Season 3 self indulgence rather than committing to the slow burn.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 02:36 |
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Lizard Combatant posted:Nah, pacing isn't the problem. I liked the book well enough and would be happy with it visiting every little side plot. The problem is the awful unedited mammoth chunks of dialogue that land like fresh turds. McShane is the only one that kind of makes it work with sheer charisma. Yet bizarrely the show will also have ten minute visual set pieces at the expense of any actual character work. It sucks at both showing and telling. Oh and the music! It's either bland or awful song choices (compare it to True Detective or even Preacher to a lesser extent) or the abstract bings and bangs Reitzell began to lean on way too much in Hannibal. American Gods feels like it has started in full blown Hannibal Season 3 self indulgence rather than committing to the slow burn. It's better than the book.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 04:25 |
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Nihonniboku posted:It's better than the book. I don't really care enough about the book to debate whether it's a good adaptation, but as a series it's a tonal mess.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 04:45 |
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Nihonniboku posted:It's better than the book. Well that's damning with faint praise.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 04:47 |
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Star Trek TNG and Voyager were kind of crippled by the insistence on not having any kind of continuing story, I think Discovery could be stronger for it.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 06:37 |
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flosofl posted:Well that's damning with faint praise. I mean, I had similar feelings about the Fincher version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (though I actually like both the American Gods book and show). Everyone involved tried their best, but they were ultimately just tied down by the source material being one big pile of poo poo.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 06:56 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:You know, I don't think he's actually suspended between those two buildings.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 07:14 |
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Lizard Combatant posted:American Gods feels like it has started in full blown Hannibal Season 3 self indulgence rather than committing to the slow burn. Yeah, that's why it's so good.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 18:04 |
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If using 50s doowoop as the soundtrack for a story about colonial life and embodying the internet as a vaping Polygon editor is pretentious then consider me gravid with pretense.
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Guy Mann posted:If using 50s doowoop as the soundtrack for a story about colonial life and embodying the internet as a vaping Polygon editor is pretentious then consider me gravid with pretense. Don't forget to mention the leprechaun getting hit in the nuts.
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# ? Jul 1, 2017 19:44 |
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I can't find the posters......but there was a brilliant show on Comedy Central a couple years back about two (terrible) amateur filmmakers who were brothers called Big Time in Hollywood, FL. Not that they were real, but they had some posters for some of their movies hung on the walls that could be seen in the background of certain scenes. Always made me laugh. Specifically the posters for 'Blind For Life' and 'Good Cop, Worse Cop 2'.
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 01:12 |
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I can't find the posters......but there was a brilliant show on Comedy Central a couple years back about two (terrible) amateur filmmakers who were brothers called Big Time in Hollywood, FL. Not that they were real, but they had some posters for some of their movies hung on the walls that could be seen in the background of certain scenes. Always made me laugh. Specifically the posters for 'Blind For Life' and 'Good Cop, Worse Cop 2'. That was an incredible series, short as it was. Cuba Gooding Jr. as himself as a drug dealer? Jason Alexander as himself as a sociopath? Ben Stiller as "Jimmy Staats"? Loved that drat show. It was absurd. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GK1ihFbMJU
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 10:39 |
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Gonz posted:That was an incredible series, short as it was. Rico!
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 14:41 |
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Matrix tinting holding strong in 2005.
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 17:21 |
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Started watching Hannibal with my wife because of you guys, and holy poo poo, it is really good.
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 20:24 |
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Darthemed posted:Matrix tinting holding strong in 2005. This movie is good by the way. I really like it. Also the score is great. It felt like a precursor into the more non-traditional "indie" style scores. It's done by Asche & Spencer who I felt were the proto-Ross & Reznor. It's on Spotify - check it out. Speaking of Ross and Reznor... I just discovered they're scoring Ken Burns' Vietnam War doc. Goddamn I can't wait.
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# ? Jul 2, 2017 21:30 |
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BonoMan posted:Speaking of Ross and Reznor... I just discovered they're scoring Ken Burns' Vietnam War doc. Goddamn I can't wait.
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# ? Jul 3, 2017 00:42 |
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Both from Mondo Went on sale today, the vinyl version is still available with cool art inside Is Spider Man Homecoming incapable of a good poster?
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 01:21 |
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The early ones were awesome, though! (Scale aside). I suspect they came from Marvel and everything else is Sony.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 02:37 |
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Maybe it's the result of two studios trying to negotiate their ideas of what the poster should be and the poor bastards actually putting it together are just like "whatever, throw it all in"
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 03:01 |
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This one's nice, conveys the film's tension build-up perfectly.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 07:29 |
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That jaws poster would be great if the original weren't so iconic as to render any other jaws poster feel extraneous.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 07:32 |
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Leavemywife posted:Started watching Hannibal with my wife because of you guys, and holy poo poo, it is really good. Man... Don't expect a lot from S3 ...
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 07:41 |
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MikeJF posted:That jaws poster would be great if the original weren't so iconic as to render any other jaws poster feel extraneous.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 07:47 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Sorry old chap, between the global non-Brit audience and the immense age gap here I think you're stretching it too far I got the reference.
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Ammanas posted:Man... Don't expect a lot from S3 ... The first two are amazingly fun though.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 17:36 |
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Ammanas posted:Man... Don't expect a lot from S3 ... I never finished season 3, but I know it was a big "gently caress IT DO WHATEVER" as they already knew the show was going to be cancelled. here some old posters from my country: For a famous movie, DVD covers por Pepe el Tore are terrible,just a photo of the lead with some lazy texture photoshopped in the back. it's a shame they didn't use something similar to the poster art:
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 17:59 |
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I felt like Hannibal S3 flounders for like the first ~3 episodes then gets amazing and maybe the best the show ever gets, so ymmv I guess.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 18:27 |
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Palpek posted:There's also the marvelous Polish poster for Jaws 2: The Jaws sequels would've been a hell of a lot more interesting if every time the shark came back it had more mouths
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 18:29 |
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Davros1 posted:The Jaws sequels would've been a hell of a lot more interesting if every time the shark came back it had more mouths
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 18:51 |
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Davros1 posted:The Jaws sequels would've been a hell of a lot more interesting if every time the shark came back it had more mouths they skipped 4 heads
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 19:56 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
Well yeah. For the first sequel you add another head, and what are you going to do for the second? Add another head? People have seen another head, what they haven't seen is two additional heads. It only makes sense that for the fourth one you add three heads.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 20:14 |
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Well yeah. For the first sequel you add another head, and what are you going to do for the second? Add another head? People have seen another head, what they haven't seen is two additional heads. It only makes sense that for the fourth one you add three heads. What's the point in holding back after five heads. It's not like you're gonna wow anybody with a few more heads after that. Just double it. Make it 10. And after that: 101.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 20:27 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:
Fibonacci's Shark Heads
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 20:29 |
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I really fail to see how adding more heads to a man-eating shark makes it any scarier or more dangerous. It's not any harder to escape/avoid/kill, and it can't eat me any additional times. But then I guess I'm not the target audience for these films.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 20:30 |
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I fail to see why anyone thinks these completely heartless "so bad it's good" movies are good, but there's like 6 new ones every year.
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# ? Jul 4, 2017 20:32 |
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Some of us just really love CGI sharks okay? Admittedly I havent' seen that series but I've seen most others.
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Paper Kaiju posted:I really fail to see how adding more heads to a man-eating shark makes it any scarier or more dangerous. It's not any harder to escape/avoid/kill, and it can't eat me any additional times. But then I guess I'm not the target audience for these films. The other heads can eat your friends.
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