I know I'm about to take some heat for this but I have never seen Blade Runn
I know I'm about to take some heat for this but I have never seen Blade Runn
I am gonna wield the unpopular opinion (once again) and tell you you aer not missing much by skipping Blade Runner.
The movie itself is not bad, but I think it is not as good as people
claims it to be.
I know I'm about to take some heat for this but I have never seen Blade
Runn
Yeah, we all know theres *something* not quite right about you, and here
it is.
Yeah, we all know theres *something* not quite right about you, and here
it is.
And you think that *something* is the fact I have never watched Blade Runner, lol.
I know I'm about to take some heat for this but I have never seen Blade Runner.
Seeing all of this chat about the new Cyberpunk 2077 game, I have
finally decided to sit down and watch it. Gonna start as soon as I am done this message.
I agree, the movie itself wasn't bad but it was now Gibson or Stephenson story, that's for sure.
All the evidence we can find will slowly pile up... I'll bet you
returned rental-tapes to the store without rewinding them.
Tell me you've at least read Neuromancer, which was definitely a much bigger inspiration for the pen and paper RPG that the game is based on.
Yes, of course. I've read everything by the greats Gibson and Stephenson. I even slogged through Anathem.
I might still have a blockbuster tape or two that was never returned period.
LOVE Anathem. I don't know why, it was just such a crazy world. I loved
Did you like Seveneves? I liked all the orbital science stuff and the fact that it spanned such a crazy amount of time.
I haven't finished The Fall yet. I kinda got stuck halfway thru...
I know that Blade Runner is a cult classic, I even enjoyed the new one, but Cyberpunk movies. and to a lesser extend, TV shows just don't
compare. I don't know if it's the lack of budgets to bring these worlds
to life or what it is.
I haven't finished The Fall yet. I kinda got stuck halfway thru...
Started off pretty good and had some interesting parts, but spent way too much time in imaginary simulation land without it paying off. I wouldn't bother finishing it unless you want a fairly disappointing reveal about the nature of Enoch Root.
Did you like Seveneves? I liked all the orbital science stuff and the fact that it spanned such a crazy amount of time.
I spent a small fortune in acquiring a vast collection of
scifi/horror/80's cheesy B-movie gems... before likewise ditching all of
it in favour of DVD.
Started off pretty good and had some interesting parts, but spent way
too much time in imaginary simulation land without it paying off. I wouldn't bother finishing it unless you want a fairly disappointing
reveal about the nature of Enoch Root.
I agree about cyberpunk films/TV. There's not many that go hard into it that manage to do a decent job at it. It's frustrating. I'd love a
great version adaption of the Sprawl Trilogy (or at least Neuromancer)
to finally come out, but it's hard to imagine anyone doing it justice
Did you ever read The Baroque Cycle? Those are the only major releases from him that I have not read.
There have been some "mild" cyberpunk TV shows that worked well. Orphan Black was a decent series, at least the first 3 season were.
Did you like Seveneves? I liked all the orbital science stuff and
the fact that it spanned such a crazy amount of time.
I actually enjoyed Seveneves, but much like echicken, got a tad bit turned off after the time jump.
I agree about cyberpunk films/TV. There's not many that go hard into
it that manage to do a decent job at it. It's frustrating. I'd love
a great version adaption of the Sprawl Trilogy (or at least
Neuromancer) to finally come out, but it's hard to imagine anyone
doing it justice
There have been some "mild" cyberpunk TV shows that worked well. Orphan Black was a decent series, at least the first 3 season were.
There have been some "mild" cyberpunk TV shows that worked well. Orphan
Black was a decent series, at least the first 3 season were.
There have been some "mild" cyberpunk TV shows that worked well.
Orphan Black was a decent series, at least the first 3 season were.
I thought the Netflix's Altered Carbon (first season) aligned pretty
well with what I had imagined from the descriptions in the book, though there were some other issues with the pacing and some big, seemingly random changes that soured me on the adaption slightly.
I'm suprised they haven't made a movie or series for Snow Crash. Seems like it would be popular.
I'm really looking forward to Foundation on Apple+. The Trailer makes
it look killer.
Yes, that was a good one for the first few seasons.
Just look at how the Wheel of Time TV series that Amazon is producing is under a microscope from die hard fans. They are already afraid of it failing
and they only started filming it a month or so ago.
I'm most afraid of a repeat of what happened with Game of Thones. GOT startedout so strong, then took a hard nose-dive in the last 2 seasons.*
I hope WoTcan both a) stay faithful to the source material, and b) edit the sourcematerial's bullshit out, without ruining it.
*Mostly caused by those asshat showrunners thinking they were good
enough tofinish it on their own, without GRRM's writing. Can we call
this "The LucasEffect"? Or maybe just "Pulling a JarJar".
I started to loose interest half way through the 4th season and didn't make it to the end.
Another example of them trying to squeeze more out of it than was possible. It started to feel like Lost, to many different crazy angles that they could never close up.
*Mostly caused by those asshat showrunners thinking they were good enough to fi
ish it on their own, without GRRM's writing. Can we call this "The Lucas Effec
"? Or maybe just "Pulling a JarJar".
The authors of the Expanse series have already made it clean that when they ar
done catching up to the books, that's it. No more TV show. It's been great so r, I hope they don't get bought out with bags and bags of Bezo's money and all
them to run in into the ground.
*Mostly caused by those asshat showrunners thinking they were good
enough to fi ish it on their own, without GRRM's writing. Can we call
this "The Lucas Effec "? Or maybe just "Pulling a JarJar".
Wasn't part of the issue that GRRM was not on any schedule to finish it, and the TV show fans were getting restless?
I read somewhere, maybe not a good source, that the upcoming season is going to be the last. I have not watched it since it moved to Prime because I don't have Prime. I am thinking of taking advantage of one of their 30 day trials so I can get caught up, but I need to find a 30-day period where I will have time to watch. :)
Agreed. I *think* I made it to the end, but cannot tell you how it
ended.
:)
I read somewhere, maybe not a good source, that the upcoming season is going to be the last. I have not watched it since it moved to Prime because I don't have Prime. I am thinking of taking advantage of one
of their 30 day trials so I can get caught up, but I need to find a
30-day period where I will have time to watch. :)
The other part of the GOT problem was the showrunners got a big deal from Disne
to produce some Star Wars movie. They were too eager to ditch GOT for that new
deal. HBO was ready and willing to give them all the seasons they wanted to wr
ap it up, but they decided to do it in 1 shitty season, the last of which took >0% of the plot lines and ignored them... instead creating some visual spectacul
r that satisfied no one. The fan blowback was so bad that Disney pulled their >tar Wars deal. haha.
Agreed. I *think* I made it to the end, but cannot tell you how it ended.
:)
It started strong and then reminded me of Alias, crazy centuries old cabal that have been following some mad man with some crazy supernatural abilities which have been brought on by pseudoscience.
I heard about the horrible fan blowback, but not about the Disney deal (and now lack thereof). I guess karma does sometimes still come back
on people.
I heard about the horrible fan blowback, but not about the Disney
deal (and now lack thereof). I guess karma does sometimes still
come back on people.
Greed is an ugly thing. I'm sure they were already compinsated really well for GOT, but I guess that just wasn't enough for them.
I'm not sure if it's the booze, drugs or age, but I completely forgot about Altered Carbon. The first season was fantastic and then they went and ruined it with the second season.
It started strong and then reminded me of Alias, crazy centuries old
cabal that have been following some mad man with some crazy supernatural abilities which have been brought on by pseudoscience.
Did you ever read The Baroque Cycle? Those are the only major releases from him that I have not read.
The authors of the Expanse series have already made it clean that when they are done catching up to the books, that's it. No more TV show. It's been great so far, I hope they don't get bought out with bags and bags of Bezo's money and allow them to run in into the ground.
I haven't gotten around to watching it yet - kind of wanted to read the book first, and since it's a bit of a departure from the first one (apparently almost an entire different subgenre) I haven't been super inspired to dig into it yet. What did they "ruin" with the second
season?
Wait, is THAT how Alias ended? I watched it when it was new but bailed after the first 2ish seasons. :P
I believe it's been settled that season 6 will be the last one (season 5
is currently being released on Prime Video, once episode per week I
think).
Where do I start. The acting was terrible, the plot line was poor,
special effects were bad.
The whole tone of it changed. They went from a dark and mysterious storyline to a high velocity almost campy story line.
Yeah. All the while they were after some secret from some supernatual da vinci code style historical figure.
Like I mentioned, that was somewhat excepted, as the three books that
make up the series apparently all have very different tones, with the later two being much more on the hard scifi side of things. When I was first researching the series it seemed like a lot of people had similar comments about the books - so many reviewers liked one (or two) but not all three. That said, from what I've (just) read, season 2 only barrows elements here and there from the sequels, and mostly the third book, so
I guess it's not really based on either. *shrug* Ah well, at least
season 1 was decent, and a self-contained storyline at that.
Yep, I remember that stuff - Rambaldi. I didn't hate that stuff by any means, but it was fairly grounded up to what I watched but even back
then it felt like it had the potential to go way off the rails.
I have only read the first book and will now read the rest just to
improve the expierence I had watching the 2nd season.
Ah, I didn't realize you'd read the book. What did you think of it
versus the series? Some of the odd changes that made in the show had me facepalming, and really made me wonder how they could possibly work
those changes into adaptions of the sequels. I guess that's not really going to be an issue though...
It was a while ago, at least 10 years or so (I should check good reads).
I do remember a lot of the TV story line from the book but I also do remember their being a lot of things that were not in the book. I have committed to reading the first book and then reading Broken Angels and Woken Furies during the holidays, so let me refresh my memory and get
back to you.
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