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tino posted:We already know its impossible if you just look at the generic DNA variation between humans. You probably need the 10k line space just to record mitochondrial or Y chromesome variants. This isn't Assassin's Creed, we're talking about personality here, not genetic memories or even passing a DNA test (hosts obviously can't do that. The "human or not" tests are looking for the neck bomb, not scanning DNA.
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Apparently the church is the only thing that still stands. I say make the best of a bad situation and ASAP get some shots of the devastation. Maybe they can use it for some of the scenes based in the far future they intend on showing.
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I think they will probably wait for the fire to be contained before worrying about what shots to get.
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However the main town of Sweetwater, which is apparently also where they are currently filming the new Deadwood, is well to the south and A-O-loving-K. Huzzah.
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Astroman posted:However the main town of Sweetwater, which is apparently also where they are currently filming the new Deadwood, is well to the south and A-O-loving-K. Wait, what?!
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Professor Shark posted:Wait, what?! A movie is being filmed right now.
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Professor Shark posted:Wait, what?! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3873489 
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gently caress the Westworld correlation, it's a travesy the Paramount Ranch is gone in general. It was historic!!
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esperterra posted:gently caress the Westworld correlation, it's a travesy the Paramount Ranch is gone in general. It was historic!! hey let’s try and keep the thread about something that actually matter like gently caress robots
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The wife and I watched the 1973 Westworld movie and holy poo poo that was maybe the worst film we have both ever seen. In love with the TV show though.
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Really? Didn't seem to terrible to me. Gotta keep in in perspective of when it was made a bit I spose
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I think people in the 60s and 70s had nothing else to do, so movies could be 3 hours long with long stretches of nothing happening.
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Absolutely my interpretation of the past too
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I actually like the 1973 film but by indulging in its campiness and also with a proper filter of what seeing it in 1973 would have been like. If anything, Yul Brynner's performance as the gunslinger is memorable and creepy. It's also noteworthy for being first the film to use any form of CGI, and the very first anything to discuss the concept of a computer virus and refer to it as such.
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It was fine until the last act which was just 20 minutes of the most boring chase scene ever filmed.
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It’s was a great and memorable TBS afternoon film for a lazy Saturday or sick day home from school. Much like The Omega Man or any of the Planet of the Apes sequels.
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Cojawfee posted:I think people in the 60s and 70s had nothing else to do, so movies could be 3 hours long with long stretches of nothing happening. To be fair its 1 hour and 27 minutes long, but the pacing is so bad that it feels like it's longer then watching all 20 episodes of the TV show back to back.
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I said come in! posted:The wife and I watched the 1973 Westworld movie and holy poo poo that was maybe the worst film we have both ever seen. In love with the TV show though. That is really loving stupid. It was actually a really entertaining, pioneer of the genre. The whole time the Gunslinger walked around I went 'Wow, this is like a proto-Terminator.' Then I read that Arnold based his performance for Terminator on the Gunslinger, which Cameron showed him many times. OctaviusBeaver posted:It was fine until the last act which was just 20 minutes of the most boring chase scene ever filmed. Kids today don't understand atmosphere. Not enough big bangy explosions for ya?
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Astroman posted:However the main town of Sweetwater, which is apparently also where they are currently filming the new Deadwood, is well to the south and A-O-loving-K. I hope they work it into the story somehow and used the ruined sets. Just like have Delos decide to 'reset' the project and bomb the town or something.
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Blazing Ownager posted:That is really loving stupid. It was actually a really entertaining, pioneer of the genre. Source your quotes?
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The movie was fine. It was consistent and didn't pull a plot twist out of Yul Brynner's rear end in the last act.
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I said come in! posted:Source your quotes? Vulture posted:7. Westworld Inspired The Terminator Franchise https://www.goliath.com/tv/10-things-you-should-know-about-westworld/
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We were the robots all along. Second season totally ditched this theme so the original movies is better except it doesn't have tigers or does it?
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I think people here are just being ironic when they say the movie is good, and I say this as someone who enjoyed the Sean Connery film, Zardoz.
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I said come in! posted:I think people here are just being ironic when they say the movie is good, and I say this as someone who enjoyed the Sean Connery film, Zardoz. Zardoz rules
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Zardoz is a legitimately good movie that's let down by its reputation for silliness, and while yes, there is a giant flying stone head that says "THE GUN IS GOOD, THE PENIS IS EVIL", and yes, Sean Connery's erection is a key plot point, it's a well-made movie that's weird on purpose and the weirdness is actually quite well done.
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Finally got around to watching S2 of this and man that was...not great. There were actually lots of individually cool moments that just get completely let down by the bizarre insistence on running multiple crisscrossing timelines for absolutely no reason except to cater to annoying shitheads that get mad if they can "solve" the plot or whatever. The dialogue seemed a lot worse too, though maybe I'm just not remembering S1's that well. The Ghost Nation episode was definitely the best, and really puts into stark contrast how bad the characterization is throughout the rest of the series (it's insane how much time this show spends with William across 2 seasons for him to end up with a literally non-existent character arc). Also lol at that epilogue obviously taking place years and years in the future, completely deflating the ending's buildup about whether or not the hosts' battle for survival would be successful or if they'd go extinct. Unless I am completely misreading that scene. They've got a great cast and a big enough budget to do some very cool visual storytelling, but the writing / framing is just rear end and the only reason it doesn't come across as downright comical most of the time is because the actors are selling the hell out of bad lines. Grizzled Patriarch fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:They've got a great cast and a big enough budget to do some very cool visual storytelling, but the writing / framing is just rear end and the only reason it doesn't come across as downright comical most of the time is because the actors are selling the hell out of bad lines.
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FilthyImp posted:Imo the biggest screwup was turning Dolores into Murderbot 6000 because i never quite got rid of the feeling that Ford's Killbot.exe just overwrote her 30 years of personal progress. Such a waste of ERW, too. They either needed to drop the monotone-rear end Wyatt personality and make Wyatt more of a charismatic cult leader type, or play more with the idea that Dolores is still in there struggling to either get out, or balance the two personalities in her robo brain. They did it a couple of times and they were probably the most interesting moments Dolores had during the season, but they didn't play with that concept nearly enough.
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I dunno, I wouldn't have minded if they went all Game of Thrones and had Delores wage an epic war. If they can't write half a good story they can at least put those HBO production values to good use.
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You mean lots of gratuitous nudity that is incidental to the plot?
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Welp, I've run out of content to adapt to TV, from these great books I wrote that got famous for harshly subverting and mocking fantasy tropes! We have 100m dollars left to spend in our contract! What should we fill the rest of our season with, HBO? HBO: Fantasy tropes
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Episodes 4 and 8 of S2 showed how great this should could have continued to be. The rest of S2 was pure shlock that was entertaining at times but rendered completely awful in the atrocious finale. It's incredible how through all of 2017 I was obsessed with this show and pumped for it's return, and ever since S2 finished I never even think about it. I still defend S1 as one of the best pieces of television ever, and I would put the mess that was S2 as one of the biggest and fastest derailings in the current television renaissance. I will still watch season 3 because there's a chance they could turn this around and that season 2 had to be the awkward transitional season, but I'm not holding my breath for it. As it stands, I believe season 1 should have remained as a self-contained mini series. Grizzled Patriarch posted:Also lol at that epilogue obviously taking place years and years in the future, completely deflating the ending's buildup about whether or not the hosts' battle for survival would be successful or if they'd go extinct. Unless I am completely misreading that scene.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Episodes 4 and 8 of S2 showed how great this should could have continued to be. The rest of S2 was pure shlock that was entertaining at times but rendered completely awful in the atrocious finale. It's incredible how through all of 2017 I was obsessed with this show and pumped for it's return, and ever since S2 finished I never even think about it. I still defend S1 as one of the best pieces of television ever, and I would put the mess that was S2 as one of the biggest and fastest derailings in the current television renaissance. I guess it's confusing to me because that pretty strongly implies that at whatever point in the future that is meant to be, the hosts are building / testing new hosts on their own, right? Like his "daughter" in the epilogue is almost certainly a host, and the place has very clearly been left to rot for years. But then that means either the humans decided to recover some of the hosts and they revolted again, or Delores / Bernard decided to create a William host for some reason? I dunno, I mostly just thought it was funny that the ending dumped all of this exposition about whether or not the last remaining hosts would be able to preserve their species or whether the humans in the real world would ruthlessly drive them to extinction, and then the epilogue is just like "oh yeah it's the future and there's still hosts." Or it's all another fakeout of some kind, which is reasonably likely.
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Season 2 was just a glitch in Delores dads processor from the upload of all that data and we are starting at the end of season one again for season 3.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Episodes 4 and 8 of S2 showed how great this should could have continued to be. The rest of S2 was pure shlock that was entertaining at times but rendered completely awful in the atrocious finale. It's incredible how through all of 2017 I was obsessed with this show and pumped for it's return, and ever since S2 finished I never even think about it. I still defend S1 as one of the best pieces of television ever, and I would put the mess that was S2 as one of the biggest and fastest derailings in the current television renaissance. This but True Detective. Also Heroes after the second season but before the third.
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i was so let down by the explanation for the lake full of bodies. that was such a great set up.
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FilthyImp posted:Imo the biggest screwup was turning Dolores into Murderbot 6000 because i never quite got rid of the feeling that Ford's Killbot.exe just overwrote her 30 years of personal progress. On Twitter as S2 aired ERW seemed to suggest a few times that she saw it as Delores still being in there, but she was just sick of everyones poo poo and genuinely out for revenge.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i was so let down by the explanation for the lake full of bodies. that was such a great set up. Yeah I thought for sure they were going to pull them all up and the brain balls were going to be missing out of each one, in a satchel Dolores rode off with to the killbot printing factory
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