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not a bot posted:I didn't expect it to look this awful to be honest. I was expecting bad but I had apparently failed to imagine how bad.
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There's some clips too, if you've not seen. They are also terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFNjSemoCW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_WnDEA-ieA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6cleiHDmKo
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Oct 10, 2020 20:33
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Who is this for? If you didn't want to be beholden to the Discworld, which is very well-known and beloved, why base it (LOOSELY) on the books at all? If you DID want Discworld fans to watch, why would you completely gently caress up these beloved characters? All these years of development hell to come up with this? Oy.
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Oct 10, 2020 21:17
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feetnotes posted:Who is this for? Remember the story of the Mort adaption, where they wanted to get rid "of the death angle" to make it more marketable? This is the same, Discworld by the way of focus groups and marketing.
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Oct 10, 2020 21:41
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The_Doctor posted:There's some clips too, if you've not seen. They are also terrible. So, it's quality as an adaptation of a specific work aside... it's not very funny. There are jokes there, but the timing on them is terrible and manically mugging at the camera isn't actually funny on its own.
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Oct 10, 2020 21:47
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:So, it's quality as an adaptation of a specific work aside... it's not very funny. There are jokes there, but the timing on them is terrible and manically mugging at the camera isn't actually funny on its own. I just realized what Vimes's antics remind me of: Legion, where (what I assume to be the) main character just makes faces all the time instead of, you know, acting. Well, at least in the trailers and advertisements, I've never watched the show because of what was in the trailers and advertisements. e: Still time to recast Jim Carrey as Vimes, and Vetinari.
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Oct 10, 2020 21:50
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I would unironically watch any adaptation of Discworld in which Jim Carrey played every character.
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all the acting in those clips is just absolutely terrible, with the possible exception of Angua and Death (Wendell Pierce is awesome although both the appearance and dialogue are incredibly un-Deathy) everyone's jumping on Vimes as cut-price Jack Sparrow, and for good reason, but Cheery in particular comes across like someone's given Noel Fielding a heavy dose of horse tranquilisers
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Oct 10, 2020 22:25
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Julio Cruz posted:Cheery in particular comes across like someone's given Noel Fielding a heavy dose of horse tranquilisers  yeah they should've just hired Noel Fielding. He'd bring his own tranquilisers.e: Sandy Toksvig as Vimes.
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Oct 10, 2020 22:30
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feetnotes posted:Who is this for? quote:If you didn't want to be beholden to the Discworld, which is very well-known and beloved, why base it (LOOSELY) on the books at all? quote:If you DID want Discworld fans to watch, why would you completely gently caress up these beloved characters? quote:All these years of development hell to come up with this? Oy.
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Oct 10, 2020 22:43
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mind the walrus posted:Discworld fans are nowhere near how big a demographic as you think. Sold more than Game of Thrones books. Probably because there just are more of them, though.
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Oct 10, 2020 22:55
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I take back what I said before, I don't know how I could even hate watch this when I couldn't make it all the way through a single one of those clips, that acting was something else. I guess Angua seemed decent and I don't mind the deadpan Cheery, but that Vimes is unbearable.
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Oct 11, 2020 00:40
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Bingo Bango posted:I take back what I said before, I don't know how I could even hate watch this when I couldn't make it all the way through a single one of those clips, that acting was something else. I guess Angua seemed decent and I don't mind the deadpan Cheery, but that Vimes is unbearable. Unfortunately the adaptations came 30 years too late to cast the two men who should have been Vimes - Pete Postlethwaite and Paul Darrow. I saw Darrow play Vimes in the stage adaptation of Guards! Guards! and he was perfect.
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Oct 11, 2020 01:25
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3D Megadoodoo posted:e: Sandy Toksvig as Vimes. If they can't get Dawn French for when they make a Discworld tv show, you''ve given me my second choice.
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Oct 11, 2020 01:29
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3D Megadoodoo posted:
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Oct 11, 2020 01:32
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Jedit posted:Unfortunately the adaptations came 30 years too late to cast the two men who should have been Vimes - Pete Postlethwaite and Paul Darrow. I saw Darrow play Vimes in the stage adaptation of Guards! Guards! and he was perfect. Are there any recordings out there of the stage production?
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Oct 11, 2020 01:53
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You're in luck, Peter Benedict (the director) recorded a matinee performance back in 1999 and uploaded all it on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_LueUJ05XU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CyvNy0mnwQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLL2iCtnGD8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so_HqibkcXw
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Oct 11, 2020 02:08
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The stage production with Darrow was a lot of fun, but it was basically panto. Darrow was having way too much fun, so his Vimes came across more like Lovejoy.
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Oct 11, 2020 02:31
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YggiDee posted:You're in luck, Peter Benedict (the director) recorded a matinee performance back in 1999 and uploaded all it on his YouTube channel 
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Oct 11, 2020 02:48
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Sold more than Game of Thrones books. There was a joke that no train in England was allowed to leave the station until at least one of it's passengers was reading a Discworld book.
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Oct 11, 2020 07:50
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Alhazred posted:There was a joke that no train in England was allowed to leave the station until at least one of it's passengers was reading a Discworld book. I think they recycled the joke about Edgar Wallace.
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Oct 11, 2020 08:05
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feetnotes posted:Who is this for?
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The_Doctor posted:The stage production with Darrow was a lot of fun, but it was basically panto. In many ways, yes. And you have no idea how much fun it was for us to see the faces of the blue-haired season ticket holders in the row in front of us when they realised it.
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Oct 11, 2020 08:42
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Jedit posted:Unfortunately the adaptations came 30 years too late to cast the two men who should have been Vimes - Pete Postlethwaite and Paul Darrow. I saw Darrow play Vimes in the stage adaptation of Guards! Guards! and he was perfect. Actually, I really liked the look of Vimes in the still photos that came out a while ago, he was one of the ones I thought they'd gotten right. I would have never expected him to act like the crazy Jack Sparrow we saw in the trailer, if he'd just been a drunken gruff, blunt sergeant-type (with maybe a little less eyeliner) he might have been perfect. As is, he's the absolute worst thing they've shown. The_Doctor posted:There's some clips too, if you've not seen. They are also terrible. Argh, this is a perfect example of why I hate this so much. That's the Klatchian Coffee scene from Men at Arms! Except they've completely loving ruined it.
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Oct 11, 2020 18:05
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Why would you cast Darrow as Vimes when you could cast him as Ventenari and just get him to play "Avon but with Serevelan's job"
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Oct 11, 2020 18:41
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Phenotype posted:Well, the trailer's out. lmao what utter poo poo
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Oct 11, 2020 18:57
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ChubbyChecker posted:lmao what utter poo poo It's not even endearing poo poo like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gzWA4Euzck
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Oct 11, 2020 19:00
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The_Doctor posted:There's some clips too, if you've not seen. They are also terrible. What the gently caress
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Oct 13, 2020 16:21
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The eyeliner budget for this show must have been incredible.
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Fighting Trousers posted:The eyeliner budget for this show must have been incredible. They just keep getting punched by random Pratchett fans.
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Oct 13, 2020 18:52
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Oct 13, 2020 21:46
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Alhazred posted:It looks like Tank Girl. Bit of an insult to Tank Girl there. Why is Vimes wearing eyeliner, acting like a discount Jack Sparrow, and playing in a high school garage punk band?
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Oct 13, 2020 22:34
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I'm guessing they're adapting elements of Soul Music? And more directly involving it with the watch characters?? For some reason??? Wondering if they're doing anything with the idea city ruler with the title Patrician being a woman Wasn't there also something in early casting news about switching Dibbler's gender?
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Oct 13, 2020 22:49
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Having now watched the other clips, what the gently caress is that Death supposed to be? Both terrible costuming and terrible characterization in one.
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Oct 13, 2020 22:54
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Yeah why the gently caress is Vimes playing Music with Rocks in??
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Gnome de plume posted:Wasn't there also something in early casting news about switching Dibbler's gender? CMOT Dibbler is now a woman (which is fine) named "Throat" who is a backalley influence peddler (which is not.)
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I'm going to ask it again, why does Sybil have slaves chained up in a basement?
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