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WestWorld episode 2 last night:

 

man.  What is this show doing?

 

10-12 minutes of anything coming close to good acting or dialogue. 

 

if I wasn't away from home this series would not justify any kind of priority viewing from what I've seen so far from it.

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4 hours ago, riffraff said:

WestWorld episode 2 last night:

 

man.  What is this show doing?

 

10-12 minutes of anything coming close to good acting or dialogue. 

 

if I wasn't away from home this series would not justify any kind of priority viewing from what I've seen so far from it.

 

Thanks for the heads up. Episode 1 was enough for me. Not going to waste my time.

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5 hours ago, riffraff said:

WestWorld episode 2 last night:

 

man.  What is this show doing?

 

10-12 minutes of anything coming close to good acting or dialogue. 

 

if I wasn't away from home this series would not justify any kind of priority viewing from what I've seen so far from it.

 

So much $ invested in this show. Apparently they had planned five seasons already. I think they were too focused on drawing out the story over five seasons and didn't spend time getting people hooked right off the bat.

 

There was almost no continuity between last episode and the premiere, other than the fact that Ed Harris is still a dick, humans are awful, and robots are not operating as expected. 

 

And I know that this is based on Michael Crichton's work, but the last scene in last night's episode where Anthony Hopkins:

reveals that he has built some structure with a cross atop of it was sooooooo "welcome to Jurassic Park" plagairism

 

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@Hugor Hill

 

A while back you asked me what I meant about retrospective/prospective story lines...

 

There are two ways we can look at human behavior. Interview someone today, ask them what they are like now, ask them what types of behavior they have engaged in in the past, and then use their current 'personality' to infer what caused this past behavior.

 

Another way is to begin with a person before they have engaged in any particular behavior, measure their personality, and then look at whether or not they engage in certain behavior in the future.

 

The latter is the best way to study crime, for example. If you looked at all adult criminals in federal custody in Canada and asked them if they had ever engaged in antisocial behavior as a child/youth, virtually all would say 'yes'. So, someone might conclude that all kids with antisocial behavior become criminal adults.

 

However, if we find a group of antisocial kids and prospectively follow them into adulthood, we would find that very few of these people actually become criminal adults.

 

This is why I liked the movie Boyhood soooo much. It got the temporal ordering correct. Other films would use 'flashbacks', which I personally think is lazier.

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1 hour ago, Down by the River said:

 

So much $ invested in this show. Apparently they had planned five seasons already. I think they were too focused on drawing out the story over five seasons and didn't spend time getting people hooked right off the bat.

 

There was almost no continuity between last episode and the premiere, other than the fact that Ed Harris is still a dick, humans are awful, and robots are not operating as expected. 

 

And I know that this is based on Michael Crichton's work, but the last scene in last night's episode where Anthony Hopkins:

 

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reveals that he has built some structure with a cross atop of it was sooooooo "welcome to Jurassic Park" plagairism

 

 

 

Re Hopkins:. You nailed it.  His scene was terrible.  In the first episode he bright me in with his first scene.  Last night he put me off.

 

ed Harris character is cheesy too. His script is over done and clichéd - too many weak one line quips for every action.  Borderline Arnould Schwarzenegger.

 

and your absolutely right about not hooking the viewer early enough.  When the scenes go to the Westworld now I start to cringe.

 

i think I'll stick to quarry and watch this at a later date if I run out of options.

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7 minutes ago, riffraff said:

 

Re Hopkins:. You nailed it.  His scene was terrible.  In the first episode he bright me in with his first scene.  Last night he put me off.

 

ed Harris character is cheesy too. His script is over done and clichéd - too many weak one line quips for every action.  Borderline Arnould Schwarzenegger.

 

and your absolutely right about not hooking the viewer early enough.  When the scenes go to the Westworld now I start to cringe.

 

i think I'll stick to quarry and watch this at a later date if I run out of options.

 

They're using some pretty cheap tactics to try to paint the picture that humans are bad. Every return to Westworld seems to be opened by a human doing something depraved. No explanation of who this person is, why they are doing these things, just a 'shock' scene.

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2 minutes ago, Down by the River said:

 

They're using some pretty cheap tactics to try to paint the picture that humans are bad. Every return to Westworld seems to be opened by a human doing something depraved. No explanation of who this person is, why they are doing these things, just a 'shock' scene.

 

The western scenes are cheap in general imo.

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Went to see Sully the other day which was a bit of a let down.  

 

I think they should have left it to the show Mayday (Aircrash Investigation) to tell the story.  Even Tom Hanks couldn't stop it being a bit naff.  

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Amanda Knox  8/10

 

I didn't follow this case at all when it was in the news (mostly tabloids, apparently) - the American exchange student in Italy who was accused of murdering her British roommate in some kind of drug/sex party gone wrong. I'm always hesitant to form an opinion on something after just seeing one side of it, but in this case more or less all the parties involved are present to tell their side of the story, and it comes off as a pretty shameful abomination of justice. In particular the Italian prosecutor, who seems to develop all of his theories and conclusions from dreamy moral scenarios, and the British Daily Mail journalist who first rushed the sex game theory into the public imagination, hang themselves a little more every time they're on screen.

 

As a doc, well made, not flashy, tight editing. Really liked how they would overlay one person speaking with a shot of the person they're talking about quietly staring at the camera.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/movies/review-amanda-knox-documentary.html

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6 hours ago, GLASSJAW said:

the wolfman (2010): very bad/10

 

rarely turn off movies, but after watching 40 minutes of this, i couldn't go on. the 40 mins i did see felt like a lifetime - what in the world could go on for 70 more? 

 

I watched it about a year ago, but remember nothing.

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10 hours ago, GLASSJAW said:

the wolfman (2010): very bad/10

 

rarely turn off movies, but after watching 40 minutes of this, i couldn't go on. the 40 mins i did see felt like a lifetime - what in the world could go on for 70 more? 

 

8 hours ago, The Bookie said:

^should've gone for WolfCop!

 

 

 

Broad City s3  8.5/10

 

Didn't quite rise anywhere above season 2 but stayed perfectly consistent with it. To me they're the freshest comedic duo since Key & Peele.

 

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On October 11, 2016 at 2:29 AM, The Bookie said:

Amanda Knox  8/10

 

I didn't follow this case at all when it was in the news (mostly tabloids, apparently) - the American exchange student in Italy who was accused of murdering her British roommate in some kind of drug/sex party gone wrong. I'm always hesitant to form an opinion on something after just seeing one side of it, but in this case more or less all the parties involved are present to tell their side of the story, and it comes off as a pretty shameful abomination of justice. In particular the Italian prosecutor, who seems to develop all of his theories and conclusions from dreamy moral scenarios, and the British Daily Mail journalist who first rushed the sex game theory into the public imagination, hang themselves a little more every time they're on screen.

 

As a doc, well made, not flashy, tight editing. Really liked how they would overlay one person speaking with a shot of the person they're talking about quietly staring at the camera.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/30/movies/review-amanda-knox-documentary.html

So did she do it?

 

 

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13 hours ago, GLASSJAW said:

the wolfman (2010): very bad/10

 

rarely turn off movies, but after watching 40 minutes of this, i couldn't go on. the 40 mins i did see felt like a lifetime - what in the world could go on for 70 more? 

 

It's pretty horrendous. But to answer your question, nothing. Nothing happens in those 70 minutes. Same as the first 40. It is one of the most nothing movies I've seen. I think. Can remember nothing about it.

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