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In Topic: Ye Big TV Thread
08 September 2024 - 10:12 AM
Sure. But I'm generally annoyed with gods shown in movies or films. Unless they're outright disguising themselves, like a Loke og Odin in a bird costume, they should have a presence and power about them that sets them a part from mere mortals. Be that in the performance of the actor or via special effects. Gods should be godlike damnit! -
In Topic: Ye Big TV Thread
08 September 2024 - 08:56 AM
Tsundoku, on 31 August 2024 - 01:23 PM, said:Tsundoku, on 06 August 2024 - 10:13 AM, said:Yes please!
So I binged this today. An interesting reimagination of some of the mythology literally "up-dated".
By and large, I liked it. I thought the direction, acting (mostly), the characterisation and plotting were pretty good. Jeff Goldblum Jeff Goldblum'd really well and had a few moments where you were reminded that no matter how almost human and like a 6 year old having a tantrum he can seem, Zeus can still be a scary fucker when he wants to.
It says something in and of itself that I was able to binge the whole 8 x 45 min episodes straight pretty much without a break. It was very engaging.
Some online comments have been that it's a bit too slow at places but I did not find that to be the case. It may be that I have always had a fascination with Greek mythology but I think it was more than that.
A couple of quibbles:
They miss out on a lot of the other big hitters in the pantheon, but explaining it away as noone taking or returning Dad's call was quite droll.
I guess they already had a pretty stuffed cast and everyone needed time to shine. Probably to be seen in a second season.
While the setup of the "plot" was well-beforehand and 99% off-screen, some of it seemed a little too pat. I know I know, with who was involved you can explain it away quite literally as deus ex machina but ...
There's a not-so-subtle second layer of messaging here and while I was able to switch off my irritation mostly while enjoying the story, it did tend to beat you over the head after about episode 3-4.
All-in-all definitely binge-worthy as previously stated, and I hope it gets a second season. Eight promiscuous and flawed deities out of ten.
Binge watched it last weekend as well. Very enjoyable and keeps you hooked for each subsequent episode.
It sort of reminded me of Bas Lurmans take on Romeo and Juliet, doing a modern setting with President Minos as a dictator of Greek city state was a fun idea. Perhaps not as packed with creative reinterpretations as I'd had liked.
The ending definitely has you wanting for the second season.
As for Jeff Goldblum, like everything he does, you can't help but be charmed or enthralled but at the same time he's sort of become a caricature of himself. His portrait of Zeus is more like a spoiled manchild than that of a warrior god. -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
21 July 2024 - 06:28 PM
Breaking news: Biden dropping out:
https://www.theguard...-latest-updates
Thank fuck for that. Now we get to see if the majority of Americans will pick a brown woman over a wounded orange. -
In Topic: Ye Big Movie thread
31 March 2024 - 06:31 PM
Aptorian, on 04 February 2024 - 12:41 PM, said:Why hasn't anyone posted the new Road House trailer yet?
This looks way better than it has any right to be. Gyllenhaal doesn't have the coolness of Swayze but this looks damn fun. McGreggor is a perfect movie villain.
(Also I liked Rebel Moon)
Just watched this.
There's a lot of little bits I like in Roadhouse 2024, but overall this a terrible movie. Not B-movie material. Just bad. Bad script, bad dialogue, so many missed opportunities.
Gyllenhaals version of Dalton is funny and charming in places, but it's with the hint that there's a violent sociopath hidden behind the smile and dead eyes. Second half of this film nothing he does is laudable from the audiences perspective. He's just bad at his job and apparently a terrible person.
Also I've not seen post-production dubbing this bad in a modern movie. Both Connor McGregor and the Sheriff dude sound like they're Italian actors from a Bud Spencer movie. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
31 March 2024 - 10:21 AM
I just read the first Vorkosigan Saga book, Shards of Honor by Louise McMaster Bujold. Heard a lot of good things about Bujold and wanted to read some Space Opera.
This was a trap! This is a love story masquerading as a War focused Space Opera! I was looking for space battles and political treachery, I got the treachery but the real trick was making me enthralled with the protagonists relationship.
I almost dropped the book during the first chapters but damn if the writing didn't keep me hooked. Pretty untraditional story arc too. The book ends just as it's getting complicated.
I bough the sequel right away but I'm jumping to book 7 "Barrayer", as it picks up the day after the first book ended. I think this book ends in tears.
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Tsundoku
15 Jul 2024 - 21:57Tsundoku
04 Feb 2024 - 22:20And marmite is anal vomit.
Please report to your nearest re-education camp.
Aptorian
04 Feb 2024 - 12:30Tsundoku
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