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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jun 19, 2024 12:35:16 GMT
It should have been a TV movie. That should just be the tagline of Disney Plus.
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Post by Saul1138 on Jun 19, 2024 12:41:52 GMT
I remember walking out of TPM, saw another showing was starting forty minutes later. Got a ticket and loved it, despite its faults. It is still the best of the prequels. I had to read that a few times. I thought you meant you walked out disgusted and then quickly thought - nah, I better try again. I remember being quite excited after coming out of a midnight screening for TPM. The first shot of a lightsaber penetrating metal was enough to carry me through the boring bits at the time. The podracing, and duel of fates were all fantastic to see on the big screen. Nope, just enjoyed it that much, and thought I can see that again. It was great being an adult with money and free time.
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Post by Binky on Jun 19, 2024 13:04:51 GMT
If anyone hasn't started watching The Acolyte yet I would urge just waiting for it all to be available to binge, the pacing of the show is fucking awful and today's episode is less than 30 minutes (once you ignore the titles and credits) but feels so much longer with most of it being meandering tedium and then things actually happen in the last few minutes and ends just as it gets interesting . It should have been a TV movie. Sounds like last week's episode ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) They really are stretching these episodic series too thin aren't they.
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 19, 2024 13:14:17 GMT
I'm largely watching now in case Qimir says anything about the Jacksonville Jaguars, it's certainly a step down from the excellently written The Good Place for Manny.
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Post by JuniorFE on Jun 19, 2024 13:24:47 GMT
It should have been a TV movie. That should just be the tagline of Disney Plus. "Disney Plus: This meeting show could have been a n email movie"
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Post by Tuffty on Jun 27, 2024 11:28:57 GMT
I don't watch the Acolyte but supposedly the most recent episode is being hailed as a turning point. Also has some of the best lightsaber choreography there's been in quite some time from the clips I've seen
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Post by Binky on Jun 27, 2024 12:05:13 GMT
We watched it last night. It was a turning point in so much as we got some action but that's about it. The cutting between battles/scenes is so quick that it kills the flow. I really hope this isn't a theme we'll be seeing across other shows to bring in the ADHD/TikTok/Reels crowd!
I think if it wasn't for the kids and watching this as a family, I'd properly have zoned out a few eps ago.
It feels like a 90 minute concept stretched across an 8 episode format (again).
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Post by gamingdave on Jun 27, 2024 12:10:04 GMT
The last two episodes have been really strong. The lightsaber fights have indeed been great, some real weight to them and well edited. It continues to look and sound amazing, and I'm fully onboard with it all now. My partner found it slow to get going, and was a bit jaded with it, but is also now fully invested.
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Post by Binky on Jun 27, 2024 12:19:55 GMT
You liked the editing of those fights? Fair enough.
They do look bloody lovely what with them leaning into the HDR lighting, but the constant zigzagging between the different subplots was annoying for us.
Oh, and the big bad's helmet is great btw!
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 27, 2024 12:31:15 GMT
If nothing else, I’ve never seen that many lightsabers smashed before
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Post by gamingdave on Jun 27, 2024 12:46:13 GMT
Yeah, I was fine with the cutting between scenes. I do get what you are saying, the cuts are more frequent than they are at the end of ROTJ (as an example), but I thought it was easy to follow and you knew where everything was taking place.
When I commented on the editing, it was more the editing of each individual scene than them as a whole - it didn't suffer from constant jumping between bad angles (along with shaky cam) so much action seems to suffer from at the moment.
They had a nice flow and felt dramatic, with high stakes.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 27, 2024 13:44:53 GMT
"Basically, there was loads of killings in it"
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Post by Reviewer on Jun 28, 2024 15:50:08 GMT
I just can’t help myself and, after giving up on this, have now watched the latest two episodes.
It definitely improved to the point of being watchable background viewing now, mainly because something is happening and there’s not so much of them talking so the writing is less noticeable.
Jason from The Good Place is extremely distracting though, although he might actually be putting in the best performance out of all of them.
The whole thing didn’t need to be a TV series. As with the rest of their shows (except Andor), there’s a good 2 hour film in there somewhere.
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Post by nemesis on Jun 28, 2024 22:00:17 GMT
“You guys should listen to me. I came up with thousands of ideas in my life and only one of them got me killed”
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