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  1. A_K
    The apathy comes precisely from TLJ. That film generated precisely no excitement in what could come next. It lay the way for this complete damp squib of an ending. The originals evoked love; the prequels generally loathing. In 10, 15 years time the legacy of this trilogy will be complete apathy.
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    MR. ROBOT

    A_K replied to _MJ_'s topic in MOVIES & TV

    TV masterpiece
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    There's a certain twisted irony that a book series where writing began almost 3 decades ago with absolutely no end in sight will be given a hamfisted resolution constructed over a few hours of television. Akin to a Swiss watch finely tuned over many years, only for the final finish to be delivered with a hammer.
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    That would have been cool. In hindsight Arya had lots of tools in her box to be the heroine in this circumstance - they just executed it in a really sloppy way. I was really hoping/expecting that one of the final episodes would be flashback based giving the NK and that whole historical period a big twist. Shame that didn't happen. For all the graphics of the iron throne being positioned in winters thrall during previous seasons, that never happened either. Winter never even reached the capital: it's still tropical there! The real characters to have died a death during the transition from book to TV are the clever complex ones like Tyrion & Varys. These TV writers can't deal in shades of subtlety; if they could, they'd be writers devoted to award winning long form too. It sounds like filming for this was really arduous (I read Something about 60 days filming in sub 0 temperatures). Without the books to film to, somewhere along the way they just fucked it up
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    1: Who will be sitting the Iron Throne at the end of the final episode? No-one. Throne destroyed/obsolete 2: Five (or fewer) name characters who will still be alive* at the end of the final episode. Tyrion, Arya, Gendry, Sansa, Sam Tarly 3: Who will be the first major character to die this season? Grey Worm 4: Who will be the final major on screen death in the last episode? Jon Snow
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    TLJ absolutely sucked. Run with it, JJ.
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    Sad to see Cain exposed like that. When half of a 6 man PPV main event consists of middle aged men and a TNA X Division roster of almost a decade ago however, I think anything other than his warmed up corpse would probably be useful to WWE.
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    Well, they've done an awful job with the second film and a mediocre/mildly good job with the first, so it's no surprise audiences are non-plussed for the conclusion. Likely to be the most forgettable of the 3 trilogies -- 0 standout "cinema legacy" moments to date.
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    Fair play to Paulie.
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    The judge who had the card weighted to Wilder — that’s corruption pure and simple. There is no earthly explanation for that card.
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    What an absolute sham.
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    Really hope Fury wins this. Think he will. He’s only 30, and has never taken much damage, so the idea he is past it should not come to bear. He’s 3 years the younger man. Whether the drugs & alcohol have a lasting effect is a different question ... but he looks in good shape, and is a more talented boxer than Wilder with — I think — more pedigree. Surprised that Wilder took this fight. Should be a good contest.
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    I took too long to start the game, so he quit on me. Your approach sounds more productive. RE: bayou comments from earlier — the random interaction activity with the homeless hick whose property you have to reclaim from True Detective style, machete wielding “night folk” is a pretty damn spooky one. Don’t do it in the dark.
  14. A_K
    Maniac is awful past the first few episodes: save yourself.
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    There we go. Good to hear thoughts put on the line as to how it goes. RE: discounting pre-fight shenanigans, true to a degree, but Aldo/Alvarez seemed clearly affected by what went on before their bouts with Conor, so it isn’t outrageous to think some of the rush of blood to the head can carry over.
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    Who’ve people got for Conor / Khabib? I try not to be swayed by intangibles, but Conor’s confidence and Khabibs seeming lack of it is infectious. Will go Conor in 2.
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    Having the crowd present and bouncing to his words is the difference between McGregor being the class-clown whose buy-in from the rest of the students let's them mentally take over the classroom, to being the sort of ostracised class clown who is stuck out of the room sticking his nose up against the window. He came across as really rattled and stupid here; the irony being that while he criticised Khabib as being one to move in crowds, Conor's whole bravado and schtick rests upon having big crowds creating that crest of a wave for him to ride on.
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    Weird that the betting lines were so close between Till & Woodley (Till fave. with some). This iteration of Woodley just loves fighting southpaws, and anyone who ran through Lawler in the way Woodley did has the power to put away anyone that wants to strike with him. Hopefully get to watch him run through Colby next.
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    It'll go full circle. Either Hamlin or Kim (or both) will be defending Saul's ex-employee, by the time the flashforwards have concluded.
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    About time they had a bomb, for all the dull, derivative plots they've been churning out (Rogue One and elements of Force Awakens aside). Speaking personally, my antipathy for this one was rooted wholly in The Last Jedi. which was the first real turn-off experience I've had towards the series. Even the sequels, while largely poor, at least had some intrigue. The Last Jedi was wholly alienating. This just looked like a continuation of that watered down, Disneyfied vision.
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    Perhaps only an adult on a wrestling forum could draw such a highfalutin impression from what is every inch a tweenager film — with accompanying humour, action and narrative force — Disney film as it is.
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    Rather odd way of looking at it. The film begins from the premise that Luke has hidden himself on an island, but went to great lengths to leave a map to his location, to be found at the right moment. There were any number of ways the story could have been guided from there. Of all the directions available, the way they chose: he was growing corpulent on green cow milk. The map element was completely disregarded; the narrative choice that he would consider murdering in cold blood his child nephew is at complete odds with his characterisation in previous material. Even his end is -- to a large extent -- a cop out, and just another example of the constant bait-and-switch that blighted the film. Its just very, very mediocre story-telling, and a poor way of getting him out of the way for the new characters to come to the fore. A reverison to critiscing people who did not like the film as being "mad that a CGI cartoon character didn't have his background sufficiently explored and other pedantic shit" reflects more on you than others.
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    Because it is highly derivative (in terms of design, narrative, musical scoring) to such an extent that the lead new characters are mere shades of the originals, while at the same time betraying the source material, which comes across as more of a burden to the director than a trove to delve into. It works at the level of a whimiscal comic book movie: it does not evoke the intrigue or mystery of the original story. They've kept the facade of star wars (space ships fly around to the original music score), but the spirit isn't there. What a pity.
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    We’ll see. If you think that character is who he says he says despite the clear & obvious highlight that he was not the codebreaker they were after, and the intrigue around his character off screen, then ...
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    So ‘DJ’ is clearly the real big bad / man behind the curtain, right? Same ring as Snoke; mentioned shared history; was not the code breaker they were looking for, but had an answer to everything. Wonder if the twist comes when he dispenses with the stuttering trope and takes on more authoritative Del Toro tongue ... Fine enough space action movie but didn’t advance the deep mythology enough — which I find the central charm. And the Luke element was akin to something from a tv show than a movie. No insight into how powerful he really was — which I’m sure is what fanboys were really waiting for don’t think he used the legacy elements of the series all too well — and Ridley / Driver were both pretty flat.
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