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To be fair to The Walking Dead, the show had more ups than downs beyond just season 1. While the season on the farm was a bit of a snooze, the season after in the prison with the governor was great. Then when everyone was traveling north, there was great stuff like with the hot hipster cannibals, or the episode where Carol killed the little girl because she realized the girl was a sociopath. I think it didn't get legitimately bad until they got to Alexandria and subsequently met Negan. By that point the show had become actively manipulative and really loving with the viewers, bringing in known actors and setting them up to be big new players, and then killing them off unceremoniously after only like 2 or 3 episodes. Or one character in particular, making it seemed like they died, and even putting them on a press tour to talk about how they were no longer on the show, only for them to show up again alive and well just a few episodes later, only for them to kill them off for good just a couple of episodes after that. I'm told that it regained some quality in the last couple of seasons, but they really burned a lot of good will with the viewers, and once I'm done with a show, I'm done.
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Nuts and Gum posted:lol this was great. Should I start with the older stuff before hitting the new show? watch Cunk on Shakespeare at least, still the best one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YeCpHoy9EQ
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CelticPredator posted:The last of us actually is good unlike the walking dead which is very bad I agree but I felt the 4th episode was predicable and reminded me of Walking Dead when the "bad things" started and someone entered a cheat code for headshots I hope it gets back to more like ep 3 it was great
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A MIRACLE posted:Cunk reminds me more of Alan partridge than Ali g Chris Morris & co were also responsible for Partridge (Iannucci I think is credited along with Coogan), so that also tracks
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I was surprised that the thing at the end of TLOU Ep. 5 wasn't CGI (at least not completely). Saw a picture and it's a really big really expensive costume.
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Feb 13, 2023 14:11
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It's definitely cg in some parts. You can always tell by the floaty animation when it's doing something really active. I always love when they build out the suits though. That's gotta be fun.
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Feb 13, 2023 14:19
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BonoMan posted:It's definitely cg in some parts. You can always tell by the floaty animation when it's doing something really active. Yea I did notice it in some parts, was just impressed they built anything at all.
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Feb 13, 2023 14:29
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I also watched TWD to the cdc episode when it first came out, and then bailed. Series just sucked too hard and I'm pretty sure it just got worse. I was only in cuz of the name of Darabont really. The comic is pretty ok tho, I enjoyed the city-state era.
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Feb 13, 2023 15:12
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The sniper in the latest episode of the last of us was https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0131550/mediaviewer/rm4068293377/?ref_=tt_md_1
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Watching TLOU just bums me out when it comes to Pedro Pascal, I want fun flamboyant Pedro, has he had opportunities for that after Oberyn? It's just like I'M GRUFF. I'M SILENT. I LIKE TRUCKS. IM A MANDALORIAN. ETC. Just so much wasting Pedro
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Feb 13, 2023 16:25
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Watching TLOU just bums me out when it comes to Pedro Pascal, I want fun flamboyant Pedro, has he had opportunities for that after Oberyn? It's just like I'M GRUFF. I'M SILENT. I LIKE TRUCKS. IM A MANDALORIAN. ETC. We should just reboot Guardians with Pascal as Starlord
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Watching TLOU just bums me out when it comes to Pedro Pascal, I want fun flamboyant Pedro, has he had opportunities for that after Oberyn? It's just like I'M GRUFF. I'M SILENT. I LIKE TRUCKS. IM A MANDALORIAN. ETC. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was a pretty fun time with a straight-up goofball Pedro.
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Feb 13, 2023 16:51
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Famethrowa posted:The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was a pretty fun time with a straight-up goofball Pedro. Yeah, I thought this was gonna go too far with the whole "It's Nic Cage!" thing but they have Pedro be the sillier character and I think that was a smart choice
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Goth Pedro rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifPVQOFyZI&t=232s
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Wolfsheim posted:Haven't seen (or played) TLOU but I kind of wondered what the general reaction would be since I assume the kind of people interested in it would be all post-apocalypse miseryporned out after a decade of The Walking Dead TWD had it's moments.
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I'm finding TLOU kinda boring and the writing is blah but i found TWD basically unwatchable
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I'm finding TLOU kinda boring and the writing is blah but i found TWD basically unwatchable It's Walking Dead with better actors. The best example of the genre in recent years was Z Nation. The zombie apocalypse premise is just so ridiculous on its face that unless you completely lean into the insanity you're just retreading what has been done a thousand times before.
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I finally got some energy with the nick Offerman episode. Wow real emotions and characters that don't just feel like a numb cinematic videogame with Gruff Man and Quip Girl "I don't wanna talk, I'm traumatized." "Well that happened." Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Feb 14, 2023 |
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Upsidads posted:The sniper in the latest episode of the last of us was Aint no way edit no fuckin way
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Watching TLOU just bums me out when it comes to Pedro Pascal, I want fun flamboyant Pedro, has he had opportunities for that after Oberyn? It's just like I'M GRUFF. I'M SILENT. I LIKE TRUCKS. IM A MANDALORIAN. ETC. He was the only bright spot in wonder woman 2
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Feb 14, 2023 14:21
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Narcos Pedro is somewhere in between Oberyn and Gruff solemn pedro. I guess he's mostly just normal in that show. Tbh I never thought about it, but it is kind of weird that this dude who caught the public's eye via this wild, flamboyant character has been typecast into mostly only playing gruff characters that barely talk.
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Feb 14, 2023 20:17
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He has a great voice. He talks plenty on Mando, but he's not a chatterbox for sure.
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Sounds like he does a lot of different stuff though?
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Pedro Pascal and Oscar Isaac have both gotten almost entirely swallowed up in franchise work, and it kinda sucks. Jon Boyega too, but I'm not as sold on him as an actor (though he's had star quality going back to Attack the Block).
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Feb 14, 2023 21:21
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Pedro greatly improves anything he's in
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Pascal is pretty versatile, I think that's part of why he's in demand this much. Like he has a distinct personality but he can adapt to broader or more subdued roles.
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He was good in that Community table read in 2020, stepping in for Walton Goggins
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Pedro does improve everything he's in but I find Joel such a blah character so far. Not his fault.
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Bayham Badger posted:He was good in that Community table read in 2020, stepping in for Walton Goggins Wait what, goggins was on community!?
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Yeah, he gave polygraph tests to everyone after Chevy Chase died.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Pedro does improve everything he's in but I find Joel such a blah character so far. Not his fault. Joel is somebody who would do loving anything for his daughter and if they do the rest of the season right you’ll believe it I think the show just hasn’t yet built up to what makes Joel so beloved Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Feb 15, 2023 |
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The Modern Leper posted:Pedro Pascal and Oscar Isaac have both gotten almost entirely swallowed up in franchise work, and it kinda sucks. On that note I rewatched Ridley Scott's Robin Hood recently and Oscar Isaac actually kills it as Prince John. I had no memory of him being it. 
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Wow I forgot Ridley Scott did a Robin Hood movie. Was it any good?
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Famethrowa posted:The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent was a pretty fun time with a straight-up goofball Pedro.
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veni veni veni posted:Wow I forgot Ridley Scott did a Robin Hood movie. Was it any good? I loved it, but it was pretty universally panned at the time IIRC. Ironically the big criticisms were that it mixed fantasy and history too much and was too dark and gritty, basically the two ingredients that made Game of Thrones such a success shortly after. It's hard to say that it was ahead of its time when GoT came out like a year later though. If you liked Kingdom of Heaven and the Last Duel I would give it a shot.
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Starks posted:I loved it, but it was pretty universally panned at the time IIRC. Ironically the big criticisms were that it mixed fantasy and history too much and was too dark and gritty, basically the two ingredients that made Game of Thrones such a success shortly after. It's hard to say that it was ahead of its time when GoT came out like a year later though. I never gave Robin Hood a fair shake when I saw it only because I remembered that it was originally going to be "Nottingham" with the sheriff as the protagonist; would've like to have seen that
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Exodus: Gods and Kings is another dark and--to be honest--objectively bad Ridley Scott historical epic for which I have a soft spot . They just really go for it with the ten plagues.
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Ridley's Robin Hood is a great film with a miscast lead, much like Kingdom of Heaven. Crowe is a decent actor but he's pretty one dimensional and there is no depth to his portrayal of Robin. The supporting cast is really strong though. Cate Blanchett, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac, Danny Huston, Max Von Sydow, William Hurt, Mark Addy. Just stacked.
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Pedro is the latin Ryan Gosling?
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I've been meaning to watch Black Death since it came out *checks watch* 13 years ago, and finally got around to it. I thought it was really good but good god that is one of the bleakest things I have ever watched. That loving ending. Also kind of crazy how it came out a year before Game of Thrones and pretty much looks just like an early GOT episode and also shares a non insignificant amount of the cast. Makes me wonder how that all came out since I imagine BD and GOT ssn1 had to be in production about the same time.
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