Mercury33

5 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I've seen people say the same thing bout another Danny Boyle movie that I love SUNSHINE. Movie is amazing and I didn't mind the third act personally, but I can see why the tonal shift bothered a lot of folks. 

Agreed. I LOVE Sunshine and I also don’t hate the 3rd act. But it’s def a major drop off. The first 2/3’s of the movie are an atmospheric master piece. Then it turns into some shitty horror-esque finale that doesn’t pull off the Event Horizon vibe it was going for. 

I like that topic. 
 

28 Days Later comes to mind. That movie is incredible till the soldiers show up. 

I don’t know how i forgot to include the first Ori. That game is utterly flawless 

52 minutes ago, johnny said:

i feel like she had to kill dawn to protect whatever she is trying to accomplish. like dawn was going to tear the other two apart and she thought it would cause some kind of big issue that doesn’t work for her agenda so she had to kill him. 

that’s how I took it. Above all she has to protect the dynasty and him staying alive would have caused too big a rift or whatever. 

Empire is def up there with Tyrion Lannister for favorite TV characters for me. The fact that he could be that cold in his revenge and then be merciful(but really that was disgusting selfishness). Amazing. 

2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

@Mercury33 - ARE YOU GODDAMNED HAPPY NOW?!?!?

No, I’m still empty on the inside 😔

Jesus can we put these massive article drops inside spoilers going forward so you don’t have scroll for 3 years to get to new messages haha

Yeah agreed. Those parts were flawlessly done as well. Episode 3 deviates a bunch but it was def my favorite of the 3 episodes so far. Curious to here what you think. 

What a fucking finale. Holy shit. I legit have not been this excited about or invested in a show probably since Game of Thrones. From where it started with “well this world is at least pretty I won’t mind spending some time in it” to “omg wtf is going on this is amazing what’s happening next” 😂😂 

amazing show and I literally can’t wait for season 2. 
 

And yeah, that’s gotta be the most savage punishment in the history of media. 

1 hour ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

Okay yeah I'm only halfway through episode 2 and I'm loving this.

When Moraine tells the story of Monetherane(no idea how to spell that)…yeah they had me all in after that. 

Portal 2

Hades

Mario Odyssey

Rocket League 

8 hours ago, Massdriver said:

It’s not Shannara, thankfully. It’s also too early to judge the show completely, but I want to keep going which is a good sign. 
 

The budget seems well spent, so I disagree with the people complaining about the CG or effects. The costumes do seem too clean in many scenes. 
My 3 ep summary:

 

Acting- 7/10, nothing terrible, but nothing outstanding. There’s not a lot to work with right now so let’s see how it progresses. 
 

Effects- 8.5/10 I like

 

Writing- 7.5/10- Sometimes it feels too generic but remember this is a book from the 90s. Most of the humor hasn’t worked that well aside from a couple of scenes. However, the writing is carefully balanced to not give too much exposition all at once, but to gradually feed the audience info. Well done there. 
 

Characters- too early to judge, but the casting seems pretty good. 
 

Pacing- 7/10- It’s not nearly as bad as some people made it out to be, but it could use a bit more breathing room, but not much. 
 

World building and matching the book- Honestly they’ve done well. 9/10. It feels like Wheel of Time to me. It feels like fantasy. 
 

Music- 6/10- Very generic, but not terrible. It feels par for the show. I’m hoping we get some better stuff soon. 
 

Sets and Scenery- 9/10- Aside from certain things being too clean, I think they did well here. 
 

 

 

 

I would agree with this almost exactly. Personally im enjoying the music more than most it seems haha. I also really enjoyed Thom’s song. That’s something I was really really hoping they’d so since in the book such a big deal is made of songs for entertainment but you only ever get the names of them(for the most part). 
 

Agreed about the humor, the few attempts at it made me chuckle a bit. That’s got to a be a tough balancing act for them. For a TV show you want to have some kind of levity but there really isn’t much from the books for them to go off since no one is really written to be funny. Sorta Mat but not really. 
 

Also agree about the CGI, I completely do not understand anyone complaining about it. Looks good to me 🤷🏻‍♂️ The effect they’re using to represent the One Power is outstanding IMO. 
 

Like you said, overall I’m most excited that so far this FEELS right. It’s such a balancing act to not make people think oh this is just a LoTR, Game of Thrones, hell even Witcher rip off. But this feels unique from them so far. 
 

The one thing I’m still worried about is pacing and the season only being 8 episodes. It feels like they’re teetering on the edge of moving too fast but haven’t yet. 

Keep going. The kids don’t have much to do for the first episode and a half. But the latter half of episode two and all of episode 3 they’re isolated with each other a bit more. So you get less of them just running and more time for them to actually talk and play off each other. 
 

Personally I’m very much enjoying the music. Nothing particularly of note to describe other than I do enjoy it. And these stories are filled with soooo many different cultural influences that honestly no style of music really will feel out of place. 
 

Each episode I’ve enjoyed more than the previous so far with 3 being head and shoulders the best IMO. Every change I think had made sense, I almost trust the show enough to stop worrying about what might be different haha. 

Cheesy Gordita Crunch is the goat Taco Bell item IF it’s made properly. But you’ve got about the same odds of getting one made fresh as you do getting fresh salted fries from McDonalds. 
 

Also the spicy potato soft taco off the dollar menu is not to be overlooked. 

31 minutes ago, DPCyric said:

I need a high quality image of that tapestry getting that shit tattoo'd 

From the opening? Yeah that whole thing was awesome. 

First episode was good. I didn’t feel that particular episode was rushed. There’s def a good number of changes and for the most part I think they make sense. 
 

Overall I enjoyed the first episode, excited to see the next two

First 3 episodes are LIVE!!!!

7 hours ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

One of the things I like is on the score card showing everyone, ball holding time is the first, and therefore most important stat. Not overall kills, but the objective. Second is ball carrier kills. 

I continually try to explain the importance of long ball holding times to my wife but she just doesn’t seem to be getting it

Covenant, now there’s an utter piece of trash no one asked for. How do you do a sequel to Prometheus and it’s NOT about Shaw and David’s journey or what happens when they get there. F U Ridley. 
 

That being said, once more for the people in the back…Prometheus is fucking fantastic!

6 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

 

It fucking blows lol

 
Oh yeah, well you fucking blow!! So how bout that 

I watched Prometheus again this morning. IDGAF what anyone says. That movie is great. 

Yeah you move slow as hell with the ball so it should be one hit kill if you’re dumb enough to get too close. 
 

it’s been awhile since I played a Halo but didn’t they add in execution animations when you melee’d someone from behind at one point? I miss that 

6 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

Regarding all the reviews and write-ups I've gone through over the past month or so in anticipation of this show: You know what's going to make Wheel of Time (or any fantasy show) a true successor to Game of Thrones? When people stop saying 'the next/successor to Game of Thrones' about whatever show it is they're wanting to be that. I get the comparisons now before we've seen it. Surely when the show version of Game of Thrones was starting there were plenty of "Lord of the Rings" comparisons. But once the show came out and did its own thing virtually nobody compared it to that anymore in any meaningful way. But if we get two seasons into this and people are still comparing it to GoT then... this show ain't the next GoT.

Exactly. Although it will be super interesting to see how it plays out since the first book is very much like Fellowship on purpose. And then later you’ll get to the literal inspiration for Game of Thrones. So I’m curious how they handle those two parts. 

11 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Everything I have read suggests that Season/Book 6 is a natural stopping point (I haven't read any story spoilers).

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A friend told me there is a 30-year time gap between book 6 and 7, so they, in theory at least, could be made into a TV show at a later date.

 

That sounds similar to how they’re ending The Last Kingdom. There’s a similar natural stopping point. Although that show is getting a movie which I presume will take care of the later books that the show is skipping. 

We need some kind of special holiday to just sit back and appreciate DiCaprio at this point.