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Post by mylungswereaching on May 15, 2022 21:45:49 GMT -5
^^^^ I found it boring. But all Star Trek iterations are boring to me now. Farscape ruined me for all the others. I get that. I don't expect people to like everything I like. Same thing happens here. How many people's favorite MST3k eps are at the bottom of other peoples lists. I watched Farscape years ago and frankly, I don't remember much of it. I remember I liked it but it was like one of those movies I watch, enjoy and then two years later start watching again and didn't realize I'd seen it before until 10 minutes into it. If you didn't like SNW don't bother with Picard or Discovery. I like Discovery but its one of those shows where the parts are greater than the whole. It has a lot of good moments for a Star Trek fan that just don't stick together well. And I came to the conclusion after the second year of Picard that it was a vanity project for Patrick Stewart. I don't have any proof but it felt like the script was rewritten over and over again into a total mess to keep Stewart happy. Maybe I'm weird but I like Paramount+ a lot more than Netflix. I go months without using Netflix. I watch Paramount+ when I'm eating most days. I just can't seem to find much I like on Netflix and whenever I do find a show I really like it gets canceled. I'm really only keeping it because my kids watch it sometimes. When they start charging for extra viewers I'm just going to cancel it.
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Post by crowschmo on May 16, 2022 10:49:50 GMT -5
I'm watching HBO's "Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers", or whatever the whole title is. About, of course, the Los Angeles Lakers during their rise to prominence from '79 through the eighties.
Quincy Isaiah stars as Magic Johnson and John C. Reilly stars as Dr. Buss, the owner. I like it. Of course, it's a highly fictionalized account of the goings-on behind the scenes (as Jerry West's lawsuit against HBO can attest, heh, and Magic Johnson's assertion that it's "not even close" to what really happened).
I like hearing familiar names, like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dr. J, Michael Cooper, Jerry West, Paul Westhead, Pat Riley, etc. I'm like - hey, yeah, I've heard of them.
John C. Reilly is good in stuff, so I like him in everything I've seen him in.
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Post by crowschmo on May 21, 2022 21:06:12 GMT -5
I just watched HBO's two part special documentary on George Carlin. He could get a bit manic late in his career, but I liked him overall.
Liked when he noticed certain plays on words, like the bit he did of a woman saying over a loudspeaker at the airport for everyone to get "on the plane" and he said, "F*ck you, lady! I'm getting IN the plane!" I still remember that bit from his first HBO special (or one of them). And his bit about how everything is just about where to put our "stuff".
As for his more serious bits, so much of what he pointed out is still so relevant today.
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 17, 2022 12:00:37 GMT -5
They are doing a series on Interview With the Vampire coming in fall of this year on AMC. They made Louis and Claudia black and they changed the time era a bit to a few decades later. I wish they would stop fiddling with stories like that. If they want to do a series of the books, just follow the damn books. They could do a different story if they want to change every damn thing and call it something else and just say it is inspired by a particular story or something. (Edit: I do think Ann(e?) Rice had something to do with the script, so I guess they were her changes).
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 23, 2022 22:43:43 GMT -5
I watched the first episode of House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones prequel. Nothing to write home about yet, but I'll watch to see what happens. I see they are going to keep up the soft core porn and the gore and violence of it's predecessor, heh. I watched one of those coming-this-season trailers and one of the characters said (paraphrasing), "From my blood will come the Prince That Was Promised." Yeah. They already messed up that story on the other show, so I don't know why they bothered bringing it up. Or the prophecy about the dreaded (not so dreaded after all) White Walkers that had everyone in the Seven Kingdoms (actually just Winterfell) fighting for their lives for --- one long night. (Winter was NOT coming, apparently).
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Post by crowschmo on Sept 1, 2022 16:45:32 GMT -5
There's supposed to be a sequel to Game of Thrones titled "Snow" (don't know if that will be the title or if that's a working title). About - you guessed it, Jon Snow. His doings after the events of GoT.
Will his heritage actually MEAN something finally, or...?
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Post by crowschmo on Nov 6, 2022 9:48:59 GMT -5
Too many damn Aegons in House of the Dragon. I know it's based off GRR Martin's books and he's the one who named everyone, but, sheesh. Everyone has too similar (or the SAME) names, they don't let us get used to the characters, they just age up everyone and do a time jump and have different actors playing someone. The kid playing the one that just got crowned king - Aegon? Was it? *wink* - looks SHORTER than the one they had playing him at a younger age, and now the "younger" brother is taller and looks older. I know younger siblings can out pace their older siblings in the height department in real life, but in a show, when you're trying to figure out who's who, it just gets even more confusing. (Of course the eye patch helps to identify Aemon). It's just a big ol' hot mess.
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Post by crowschmo on Nov 14, 2022 12:11:29 GMT -5
They are doing a series on Interview With the Vampire coming in fall of this year on AMC. They made Louis and Claudia black and they changed the time era a bit to a few decades later. I wish they would stop fiddling with stories like that. If they want to do a series of the books, just follow the damn books. They could do a different story if they want to change every damn thing and call it something else and just say it is inspired by a particular story or something. Really don't like the direction they went (after having watched the whole 1st season). It's just not the story.
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Post by crowschmo on Jan 15, 2023 22:45:32 GMT -5
I watched the first episode of The Last of Us on HBO. I'm spoiled by the versions of the characters from the game, so I really don't like what the actors they got are bringing to the table so far and don't like the changes they made. I realize it's a different medium and of course that they were going to make some changes, but that doesn't mean I have to like them, heh.
I'll still watch it to see if it gets better, but I think the actors who did the motion capture for the game did better acting jobs than the ones on the show. Even the actress who plays Marlene (who is the same who did the character in the game) did a better job in her first go 'round than she's doing here. Everything feels rushed and phoned in so far.
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Post by crowschmo on Jan 19, 2023 21:15:37 GMT -5
I heard they are going to revive Night Court with John Larroquette reprising his Dan Fielding character. I liked Night Court back in the day, but I don't know what they could do now with it. I watched the first episode and a few minutes of the second before turning it off. Couldn't bother with the rest of the second. It looks like it's just going to be crappy.
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Post by crowschmo on Jan 23, 2023 12:53:30 GMT -5
{Spoilers, just as a heads up}
Watched the second ep of The Last of Us. That DEFINITELY wasn't Tess. I know, as I said, it's a different medium and changes of course would be made. A TV show is not a video game, and video games are pretty much shoot-em-ups and they can't really do that for a TV show.
But, I think the story part in TLoU in the games was done pretty well for what it was. So, so far they've made Joel a bit more sympathetic. He WAS a smuggler, but smuggling drugs and the thing they were after from Robert was a car battery and not guns. And Robert was killed in a battle with the Fireflies instead of by Tess. And Tess and Joel were going to go after a missing Tommy instead of just running guns.
As I said in my opinion of the first ep, I think the mo-cap actors for the game did a better job so far as far as acting goes. Pedro does okay as Joel, but a lot of times it seems like everyone's just reading their lines. I didn't like the way they handled the reveal that Ellie was immune, for example. I liked the game version better. Of course, that could be because that's what I'm used to. If someone watches the TV show first and then watches or plays the game, they might think the opposite of what I'm thinking.
We'll see how the rest goes.
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Post by crowschmo on Feb 2, 2023 15:46:07 GMT -5
Re: The Last of Us
I guess the "Bill's Town" part in the game just wasn't doable in the show, though I would have preferred some semblance of that instead of what we got. That WAS NOT Bill, sorry. It was an okay story if it were some stand alone thing attached to some other apocalyptic type show and the actors playing Bill and Frank did okay in the scenes, but, c'mon.
If you're going to make a couple of background characters we get in one stinking episode (unless there are flashbacks) more interesting than the so-called main characters, I think you're in trouble. Joel and Ellie just don't click for me. (Click - see what I did there).
There's no way, first of all, that they would have such a perfect existence like that for two stinking decades in a world overrun by Infected and Hunters and other rotten people. All the food they needed, all the wine, no one breaching that sorry excuse for a fence? The booby traps Bill set up weren't THAT good. Ridiculous. Where the hell are they getting cancer meds 20 years after the start of this thing?
Complete ruination of Bill's character. And no Bill and Ellie interactions WHATSOEVER. Their back-and-forth was a fun part of the game.
Ellie they just made too abrasive in the show. She just spits dialog at Joel that she wasn't responsible for Tess' death? Joel in the game would have knocked her sideways. Pedro's version just sits there. He's way too blah and passive of a Joel and Ellie shouldn't be the one that's tougher. She has ZERO experience with this stuff. I get she's masking pain and all but Bella doesn't do a good job with that. They just make Ellie too gruff. May not be Bella's fault - love her as Lady Mormont in Game of Thrones - it might be just the direction and the way they wrote her.
I know I should just accept it as an Alternate Universe version of the game characters, but, I'm not liking all of what they're doing here.
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Post by crowschmo on Feb 11, 2023 0:18:13 GMT -5
So, they introduce a whole other character in The Last of Us that's not in the game. She doesn't seem interesting. All I see is Rose from Two and a Half Men. (I guess that's not really fair to the actress, heh).
Are we going to get another "Virginia" type dealio ala Fear the Walking Dead? I certainly hope not.
Wasn't crazy about the line delivery in this ep, either. The whole scene in the car was done better in the game.
Enter Henry and Sam.
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Post by crowschmo on Feb 16, 2023 0:01:44 GMT -5
Re: The Last of Us Horrible episode. The Bloaters just don't translate well in live action (don't really like the other Infected, either). They made Sam much younger and deaf. The poignant conversation Sam had with Ellie in the game was reduced to a few words scribbled down in the show. Didn't carry as much weight as it was rushed and Sam didn't articulate it as much. I know, he has to write it down and he's young, but it just wasn't doing it for me. The characters were in one episode, and I didn't care about them really. In the game you're with them for a while and go through more stuff together. In the show - HERE'S SOME SYMPATHETIC CHARACTERS! BAM - THEY'RE GONE! Sad, right? Meh. And the sniper scene? Holy crap. Are you telling me Joel saw what was going on with Ellie and was able to take down that Infected that was after her amidst all that confusion (and at night!) from the stinking window? From however far away he was? That's like an MST3K episode where the movie they're watching has someone notice something going on in the sky from a building window and watching (somehow) whoever's flying all over the city. Was it Gamera I'm thinking of? Kathleen was a completely unnecessary character. Ooh -- menacing -- for one ep. I know. I'm hypercritical. Can't help it. There's this show I watch that taught me that. That scene with Ellie pressing her blood to Sam's wound: Even though it wouldn't have worked anyway, I'm wondering if that is a foreshadowing of her immunity not being able to produce a vaccine. Even in the very first episode that scientist that was being interviewed in the 60's said a cure for that sort of thing wasn't even possible. I wonder if that's their way of trying to make Joel's ultimate decision in the end more sympathetic and less selfish on his part. Anyway, I'll still watch of course, but I'm still not enjoying the rushed feel and the line delivery.
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Post by crowschmo on Feb 19, 2023 23:45:53 GMT -5
Another horrible episode of The Last of Us. (I know, I'm very hard to please, ain't I?) Line delivery, again too wooden and rushed. Ugh. That's not Ellie, and that's DEFINITELY NOT JOEL. Jeez. They made him into a wishy-washy character. And the choice to take Ellie after all instead of pawning her off on Tommy - that had been JOEL making up his mind and thinking, f*ck it, I'll just take her because of her imploring speech at the ranch - well, in the game it was a ranch after she took off, feeling panicked and betrayed. On the show, it was just - 15 minutes later in the room she was staying in in Jackson. Errgg. More rushing of scenes. It wasn't, Joel to Ellie: I'll let you choose. Ellie: Let's go. They're not giving Joel any decisive characteristics. He realized he was going to stick it out with her because of how he feels about her now. I know in the show he made the same decision, but in the game it was just: Come on, let's go, don't make me repeat myself. In the show: Derp, whatever you think is best, kiddo. They just plow through everything. I think even the actors themselves were critical of the show not being long enough and in depth enough. Then they introduce some Native American characters for two seconds (hey, I remember her from Northern Exposure ) for no reason whatsoever, just cuz. Then, that's it. Nothing of import for them to do, they're just window dressing. And they make Maria black like they made Sarah half-black, just cuz. If they were going that route, why not make Henry and Sam Asian-American or something? I know the whole white to non-white ratio was very lopsided in the past in media and I get that, but they just change everyone for no reason now, but usually just making formerly white characters not white, it's usually not the other way around anymore. And it's usually just so they look good and inclusive. Instead of, you know, creating characters that have depth that aren't white to start. I'm going on a tangent, here, I know. But it just seems insincere. But, anyway. Not liking this series as a whole.
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