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Post by Count de Stockport on Jun 11, 2024 13:04:36 GMT
What makes it crap? Not seen it, just curious. It looked like a rerun of the hunger games/battle Royale to me Plotless and characterless. No depth. Basically, lots of people go into different kinds of quirky death games. Some die. And in the next episode people go into different kinds of quirky death games. Some die. And in the next episode... So it’s also Saw?
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Post by The Real Exile on Jun 11, 2024 14:40:50 GMT
Plotless and characterless. No depth. Basically, lots of people go into different kinds of quirky death games. Some die. And in the next episode people go into different kinds of quirky death games. Some die. And in the next episode... So it’s also Saw? All depends what you are in the mood for, a bit of mindless gore can be enjoyable at times. Then you get stuff like Dead Snow which I found quite funny (not sure that was the intention)
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Post by scfc73 on Jun 11, 2024 16:43:31 GMT
Plotless and characterless. No depth. Basically, lots of people go into different kinds of quirky death games. Some die. And in the next episode people go into different kinds of quirky death games. Some die. And in the next episode... It's not exactly like that, there is a fair bit of flashback to how some of the contestants ended up in the game which works quite well. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it too but I thought squid game the gameshow(with real contestants was even better) Obviously no-one died in that one but it was really interesting watching the contestants plot & scheme their way through it.
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Post by The Real Exile on Jun 11, 2024 17:27:27 GMT
It's not exactly like that, there is a fair bit of flashback to how some of the contestants ended up in the game which works quite well. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it too but I thought squid game the gameshow(with real contestants was even better) Obviously no-one died in that one but it was really interesting watching the contestants plot & scheme their way through it. Ah switched that off soon as I saw it was real and not a continuation, worth a watch afterall perhaps.
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Post by scfc73 on Jun 12, 2024 8:49:12 GMT
I enjoyed it too but I thought squid game the gameshow(with real contestants was even better) Obviously no-one died in that one but it was really interesting watching the contestants plot & scheme their way through it. Ah switched that off soon as I saw it was real and not a continuation, worth a watch afterall perhaps. Definitely worth a watch if you enjoyed the original squid game. Same set & largely the same games but then there were often little mini tasks added inbetween that were quite devious. There were some right dicks in there though that at times you wished would suffer the fate of the fictional series!🤣
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Post by Count de Stockport on Jun 15, 2024 21:29:16 GMT
Six episodes in, and to be honest, I wouldn’t recommend Fallout. Which is sad because the Fallout games are (mostly) great
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Post by David Schofield on Jun 16, 2024 10:03:16 GMT
Six episodes in, and to be honest, I wouldn’t recommend Fallout. Which is sad because the Fallout games are (mostly) great Very surprised at that Count, for me, Fallout is the right up there with Kin as the best thing I’ve watched so far this year
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Post by bigmartin on Jun 16, 2024 12:45:00 GMT
Six episodes in, and to be honest, I wouldn’t recommend Fallout. Which is sad because the Fallout games are (mostly) great Very surprised at that Count, for me, Fallout is the right up there with Kin as the best thing I’ve watched so far this year I've only heard good (up until now) about Fallout. Just shows though doesn't it how everyone can like different things?
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Post by Count de Stockport on Jun 17, 2024 11:14:52 GMT
Very surprised at that Count, for me, Fallout is the right up there with Kin as the best thing I’ve watched so far this year I've only heard good (up until now) about Fallout. Just shows though doesn't it how everyone can like different things? Yeh I too heard nothing but good things, and not just from diehard Fallout fans - even people who weren't interested in videogames or even nerd culture in general were telling me it was great. So I went in feeling pretty excited. [Nerd essay incoming] The worldbuilding is second to none. I don't think I've seen so much fan service in a tv show, and the artistic style is absolutely spot on, every time. Having said that, it's good at reproducing Bethesda Fallout, which isn't the same as the original Interplay Fallout (and that of Obsidian, who developed Fallout New Vegas (the last good Fallout game), and who included lots of former Interplay staff who worked on Fallout 1). That's just my personal preference, though. That said, the plot keeps going off on tangents, which I suspect is meant to be like how the games play - side quests, missions within missions, etc - but when translated to tv it just comes across as lacking direction, cohesion, and purpose. Meanwhile, none of the characters seem particulary likeable or deep. The Ghoul is the most rounded given his backstory, but in the present day, he's just a reskin (joke absolutely intended) of the Man in Black from Westworld. Again, I've seen people online compare this lack of character depth to how most characters in the games aren't all that deep due to obvious memory and processing limitations. Still, it doesn't translate very well to tv for me. In fact, I've seen people point out all sorts of things in the show that are meant to resemble the games - characters who never leave their location; flat, awkward dialogue; the Ghoul being a high-level character; medicines that work instantaneously. Some of these are played for jokes but again, I'm not convinced they all work for tv. Funnily enough, I think Westworld's depiction of the immersive theme park does a far, far better job of recreating the experience of playing an RPG videogame without sacrificing the kind of plot smoothness that tv needs. On the topic of humour: Fallout has always had a quirky streak, but I feel the show goes way overboard with it, at the expense of what the (earlier) games did so well - portraying people barely surviving in an incredibly hostile world, which pushes them to make some horrendous choices and do unspeakable things to each other. The quirky humour came from the contrast between the crushingly bleak, hostile present and the horribly twee, chirpy, childish 50s techno-optimism of the past. You wander through the radioactive wasteland wondering how the people of 2077 could have so wilfully ignored the painfully obvious signs of impending nuclear armageddon, as well as of the truly horrendous things a few people in government were up to (cf. the Enclave, Vault-Tec). Very little in the present is funny - it's mostly bleak and bitter, and people do bad stuff to survive, not because they're just dicks. In the show (and in the Bethesda games), it feels to me like people do bad stuff because they're dicks, nothing more. And finally, I read spoilers, and the new canon for what triggered the Great War of 2077 - in which the whole world was reduced to a radioactive wasteland and humanity to basically the stone age, within the space of two hours - is absolutely batshit crazy. Like, it somehow surpasses the stupidity of how Star Trek Discovery explained the fall of the Federation (all dilithium in the universe explodes because a psychic baby starts crying) [EDIT:] I've just been told that my understanding of the new canon is wildly off the mark lol
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Post by des on Jun 17, 2024 23:09:39 GMT
New episode of Football Cops on Channel 4 is all about the play-off semi finals between us and Salford, and Carlisle and Bradford.
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Post by The Real Exile on Jun 18, 2024 10:27:01 GMT
New episode of Football Cops on Channel 4 is all about the play-off semi finals between us and Salford, and Carlisle and Bradford. Watched the first few of these, I shall take a look.
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Post by desmond on Jul 7, 2024 22:28:23 GMT
Quite an interesting and intriguing documentary on Ch5 tonight about J Lloyd Samuel’s “double life”. Well worth a watch.
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Post by Bilby on Jul 8, 2024 9:13:11 GMT
Quite an interesting and intriguing documentary on Ch5 tonight about J Lloyd Samuel’s “double life”. Well worth a watch. Ripley on Netflix-a TV remake, with extra bits, of The Talented Mr Ripley
Masterpiece of direction, script and how to film in black and white. Andrew Scott a wonderful Psychopathic Tom Ripley.
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Post by David Schofield on Jul 24, 2024 20:28:03 GMT
Has anyone watched “Suspect” ..?
Holy f*cking shit!!!
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Post by herbiedumplings on Jul 24, 2024 22:12:02 GMT
Has anyone watched “Suspect” ..? Holy f*cking shit!!! I agree. Apart from the ‘holy’ bit…
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