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Wheat Loaf posted:I watch that action stuff and I think, the worst thing about being a successful actor must be all the exercise you have to do. There was a really good article last year about the toll it takes on actors quote:Stuntmen talk about drugs as a calculated risk that's worth the advantage, so long as they get regular colonoscopies and screenings for prostate cancer. It's easy to see how an actor – especially one who relies on his brawn or his ability to throw a convincing punch – might seek that same edge.
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That seems like a pretty extreme example. I've read about how Jennifer Garner claimed never to have thown a punch when she was cast in Alias so she spent a month practicing tae kwon do before they filmed the first episode, or how Tom Hiddleston studied capoeira and went on an all boiled rice and roast chicken diet whe he was in Thor, which come off as fairly low end of the scale stuff by comparison. Of course, since I've never exercised in my entire life, maybe it's all less onerous than I suppose. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Jul 24, 2015 09:39
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It's an extreme example but it's becoming more rather than less common.
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Jul 24, 2015 10:14
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Wheat Loaf posted:I watch that action stuff and I think, the worst thing about being a successful actor must be all the exercise you have to do. I actually think the opposite. Not only would you have proper motivation to stay/get fit, you'd basically be getting paid for it.
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Jul 24, 2015 10:17
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Wheat Loaf posted:That seems like a pretty extreme example. I've read about how Jennifer Garner claimed never to have thown a punch when she was cast in Alias so she spent a month practicing tae kwon do before they filmed the first episode, or how Tom Hiddleston studied capoeira and went on an all boiled rice and roast chicken diet whe he was in Thor, which come off as fairly low end of the scale stuff by comparison. The craziest body transformation has to be Christian Bale in The Machinist
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Jul 24, 2015 10:37
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Christian Bale in The Machinist and then afterwards Batman Begins. Apparently he put on 100 pounds in 6 months to bulk up properly.
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Jul 24, 2015 10:51
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richardfun posted:I actually think the opposite. Not only would you have proper motivation to stay/get fit, you'd basically be getting paid for it. That's a good point. After all, I'm starting from the premise that exercise is a dreadful bore which I would much rather avoid thinking about, much less doing, and that's just me being a prat, really. Anyway, most big name actors have personal trainers who'll whip them into shape and keep them at it, don't they?
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Jul 24, 2015 10:58
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Wheat Loaf posted:Anyway, most big name actors have personal trainers who'll whip them into shape and keep them at it, don't they? Or the studio will pay for the trainer. I believe Jennifer Lawrence had a trainer hired by the studio when she was prepping for the first Hunger Games movie, not to mention all that archery training.
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Jul 24, 2015 11:25
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Wheat Loaf posted:That's a good point. After all, I'm starting from the premise that exercise is a dreadful bore which I would much rather avoid thinking about, much less doing, and that's just me being a prat, really. Well yeah, obviously. If a studio is going to sink money into a project, I can understand them wanting to be sure that you will be in the desired shape once shooting starts. Better be safe than sorry by sending one of those screaming fitness nazi's to your door at 6am every day. At least I imagine that's what it's like, based on snippets of those 'help me I'm fat' weight loss shows on MTV. E: With Spartacus, they made it a group thing and started off before each season with Gladiator Boot Camp. Click here (Youtube link) for a little taste of their version of hell.
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Dave Angel posted:Christian Bale in The Machinist and then afterwards Batman Begins. Apparently he put on 100 pounds in 6 months to bulk up properly. Wheat Loaf posted:Anyway, most big name actors have personal trainers who'll whip them into shape and keep them at it, don't they? That, plus studio-provided professionals. The article goes into a lot of detail. Part of the reason Manu Bennett did what he did was that he was trying to break into the scene, and didn't have access to those resources.
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Jul 24, 2015 11:46
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I'm rewatching Chuck and it's delightful, Zach Levi is a charming dude. Yvonne Strahovski is the finest woman the world has ever known, for the record.
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Rocksicles posted:I'm rewatching Chuck and it's delightful, Zach Levi is a charming dude. No arguments here. Supposedly they had to get such an unreasonably sexy lady to make Zach Levi look like a convincing turbodork by comparison.
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Jul 24, 2015 20:02
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Rocksicles posted:I'm rewatching Chuck and it's delightful, Zach Levi is a charming dude.  This is objectively incorrect as long as the world is graced with Kristen Bell.
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Klaus88 posted:This is objectively incorrect as long as the world is graced with Kristen Bell. http://www.eonline.com/news/679861/...ain-tumor-watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUd2V4c9-YA 
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Jul 24, 2015 23:29
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Rushing through Mr. Robot. It's been a very enjoyable ride.
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Rocksicles posted:I'm rewatching Chuck and it's delightful, Zach Levi is a charming dude. Hey cool, I'm rewatching Chuck too. By all accounts I should hate this show for how pandering it can be, but it's just too drat fun and the cast is phenomenal.
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richardfun posted:E: With Spartacus, they made it a group thing and started off before each season with Gladiator Boot Camp. Click here (Youtube link) for a little taste of their version of hell. drat, that looks cool. No wonder their extras were in it heart and soul, that kind of commitment and enthusiasm must be contagious. On the binging front: Mr Robot is indeed a fun watch, even though I don't yet trust it to go the promised amount of seasons without becoming cliche. Seems to be amalgamation of fun and good story elements and tropes of other series and films. They have yet to prove they can hold their own with original ideas. One part that shines through is Dexter and while I was a fan of the show and even watched until the bitter end, I sure hope they learned from that trainwreck and don't follow it all the way. Sqeetschy fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Jul 25, 2015 |
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I've been watching the 100. It's pretty entertaining but it's remarkable how virtually every character is an absolute total poo poo. I hate almost all of them so I just laugh when they constantly get themselves into stupid easily avoided disasters. But for some reason this is fun for me so I like it.
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Agree. But I do like how it completely ignores the CW code of "Killing should never EVER be done." Someone always dies for the good of the many in The 100.
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Pan Dulce posted:Someone always dies for the good of the many in The 100. For the good of Clarke Griffin's subconscious bloodlust.
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Pan Dulce posted:Agree. But I do like how it completely ignores the CW code of "Killing should never EVER be done." There isn't a show where someone volunteers to die for the good of the many. I think it happens literally every episode and that is not a joke. And they always make it awesome anyway.
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Pan Dulce posted:Agree. But I do like how it completely ignores the CW code of "Killing should never EVER be done." If that's the CW code, that ship sailed away long ago. The brothers on Supernatural kill people all the time. Any time they kill a demon, they also kill whoever the demon was possessing, and most of the possessed aren't guilty of much more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. You could maybe argue that killing the host body is a mercy, but the Winchesters have still killed a bunch of people.
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thrakkorzog posted:If that's the CW code, that ship sailed away long ago. The brothers on Supernatural kill people all the time. Any time they kill a demon, they also kill whoever the demon was possessing, and most of the possessed aren't guilty of much more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. You could maybe argue that killing the host body is a mercy, but the Winchesters have still killed a bunch of people. It's a recent thing on their line of shows. The Flash, The Arrow, iZombie, and even crazy rear end killing shows like Vampire Diaries have terrible angst about killing, even if it is someone/something terrible. So they have reams of episodes or an entire season dedicated to will they/won't they change their ways.
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Pan Dulce posted:Someone always dies for the good of the many in The 100. Or in many cases, tries to NOBLY SACRIFICE themselves only to fail. My favorite so far is (I'm at the start of Season 2) Jaha's huge dramatic moment staying behind while the rest of the Ark crashes to earth. Now in Season 2 he finally cracks open the bottle he'd been saving, then dramatically gives a speech and turns off all the power ready to die....... except then it turns out some jackass forgot a baby somehow OOPS NOW HE MUST SAVE THIS BABY. It's so great.
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I've got through to the end of season 7 of HIMYM, and I decided to start reading along the archived TVIV threads. I think there's something wrong with me, because I've been consistently enjoying it the whole way through so far. Am I just bad at watching TV? Ted Moseby Architect's posts make it worthwhile, though.
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The 100 season 2 episode 8: It's amazing how my feelings on Finn transformed between last season and this one. In Season one he and Octavia were the two main characters I genuinely liked and was rooting for. Then over the course of the first half of this season Finn just becomes the absolute goddamn worst and by episode 8 I was actively cheering for his death. No one dying on this show has been so satisfying yet. gently caress Finn I'm glad he's dead.
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Watching some interviews for The 100 and it surprises me how many of the actors are British or Australian. I mean why bother with making them do American accents on the show.
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I blew through The 100 really quickly after I got over the hump of the first couple of episodes. I loved every minute of it from there on and I was one of the very few that was sad to see Finn go. Ghenghis Clarke is a loving monster and I hope she obliterates an entire continent or timeline or something next season. And I can't wait to see what's in store for Jaha and the other craziness revealed in the S2 finale. I'm so glad that season 3 will supposedly have the originally intended ending. The show is way better than it should be.
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Mu Zeta posted:Watching some interviews for The 100 and it surprises me how many of the actors are British or Australian. I mean why bother with making them do American accents on the show. I assume CW execs pushed for everyone to use American accents, because a multi-national cast would actually fit the setting perfectly.
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Currently re-watching The Shield. I watched it religiously during its original run and concluded it was the best tv series of all time. It's more refreshing to watch this time around because my morals have changed in the last 10 years(I'm not 22 anymore) and the main characters really are scumbags. I knew they were "bad" during the first run but I was totally rooting for them. Anyway, it still holds up. It was definitely the bridge between network cop shows and the dark, gritty stuff that led to shows like Breaking Bad. I encourage all to watch the first episode and try to say they don't want to start binging through it. 10/10 Chromatic fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jul 31, 2015 |
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Just finished seasons 1 & 2 of The Newsroom. If this is how Sorkin writes when he's on coke, then I will back a loving dump truck of it up to his house and tell him to bring back West Wing.
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It's OK for a while, but eventually I get really tired of his schtick.
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I always intended to watch West Wing, but I think watching (and quitting) the Newsroom first has ruined any chance I'd have had to enjoy it now. Also, this.
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I will say that Manu Bennett being on roids prior to Spartacus and then going off them totally explains his dick seemingly growing several inches between seasons.
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Chromatic posted:Currently re-watching The Shield. 10/10 I can't give it a 10/10 for a few reasons, one being how ridiculous the filler plots were where every bad guy eventually admits to the crime. CSI is bad cause the defense attorney just stays quiet. In the Shield defense attorneys don't even exist.
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Chromatic posted:Currently re-watching The Shield. I watched it religiously during its original run and concluded it was the best tv series of all time. Yeah it has a lot in common thematically with Breaking Bad, and living in LA I really appreciated what they did with the setting and references to actual history and events (look up the Rampart scandal). It's not as cerebral as The Wire and much more action-oriented, but I think it absolutely belongs in the same tier of awesome television as those other two shows.
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Watched the first episode of Spartacus last night and was pretty unimpressed. I can see from the AV Club reviews that it apparently gets better after a few episodes, but do they cut out the Zack Snyder every-battle-is-a-video-game-cutscene bullshit? That gets old really fast. Immediately, in fact.
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Mu Zeta posted:Watching some interviews for The 100 and it surprises me how many of the actors are British or Australian. I mean why bother with making them do American accents on the show. American audiences hate foreigners 
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Spartacus- The first episode is the worst episode of the entire show, it only gets better
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Trig Discipline posted:Watched the first episode of Spartacus last night and was pretty unimpressed. I can see from the AV Club reviews that it apparently gets better after a few episodes, but do they cut out the Zack Snyder every-battle-is-a-video-game-cutscene bullshit? That gets old really fast. Immediately, in fact. Spartacus has an incredibly rough first few episodes. They scale down on the hyperstylisation quite a bit later on. If you don't want to force yourself through all the initial episodes, jump straight to "The thing in the pit" (should be the fourth). That one is pretty good and more indicative of how the rest of the show will look.
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