When did you stop watching The Walking Dead?
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Leo_ofRedKeep — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 12:38 AM)
What are your thoughts on Fury Road?
This film was an opera. Opera doesn't need to make sense, it's about presenting thrills in an artful way, something like musical porn.
I liked it for what it was.
Long may she reign
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Leo_ofRedKeep — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 12:46 AM)
I need to add that I have a very selective and disparaging view of opera.
Valuable opera is seldom (Monteverdi, some of Mozart) while most of it is entertainment crap (from Hndel to Rossini to Verdi) and some of it bloated fantasy with a political background (Wagner).
Fury Road was the most intense piece of opera I saw since Elektra (Richard Strauss) and just as fun.
Long may she reign
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Leo_ofRedKeep — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 01:16 AM)
Why do you feel Fury Road is an "opera"?
It functions the way music does, with tight timing being part of the effect. Telling a story is not it's main purpose.
Long may she reign
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Leo_ofRedKeep — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 02:00 AM)
I have to stand for my own. It's a form of self-sacrifice.
Long may she reign
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Fred_Baratheon — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 12:21 AM)
Cheesy is fine, but only when that was the original vision.
Frank Darabont's TWD wasn't cheesy at all. That scene of Morgan trying to bring himself to shoot his wife was gold.
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Leo_ofRedKeep — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 12:51 AM)
It's kind of hard to readjust expectations and view a once legitimately good show as camp.
You don't want to. It feels like betrayal. What's inside is not "what it says on the package".
Long may she reign
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Leo_ofRedKeep — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 12:15 AM)
I think I'll give up on Westworld after the 3rd episode too.
It's pretty good but I can't be bothered with pointless psychological questioning and find out I'm not interested in any of the rest.
Long may she reign
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Iberian_Wolf — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 02:12 AM)
stopped following after the prison season
stopped watching all together around the time they got caught and were to be killed and eaten by those cannibals
the thing is just too dumb, wherever Rick went, his group destroyed a perfectly viable way of livingand the gang still followed this wacko everywhere!
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merej — 9 years ago(October 25, 2016 03:06 AM)
wherever Rick went, his group destroyed a perfectly viable way of livingand the gang still followed this wacko everywhere!
That's a very good point really.
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.
