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Schlitze

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  1. You are in for a treat beause all the episodes get better after that, and they are all so unique. It pinnacled at the Xmas episode for me, the three tales, that was stunning, it's gone to Amazon now I think.

    I've been watching National Treasure but am getting pretty annoyed with it. It could have been great in the hands of a different director but it's the guy who did Utopia and he's gimmicky as fuck with oversaturated colours like he's shooting a Massive Attack video or something. Great actors and decent script, ruined by a hack who should be making nightcore videos.

  2. I read the 60 sec interview with him in the Metro yesterday where he refers to his character as ''The Man In Black''. They are trying to make him mysterious like the man with no name, I don't think Gunslinger does him justice, he is looking for the end game. Great interview but he doesn't give much away ....

  3. I'm not sure about this now after ep2. It has some good stuff and some bad. It seems to be wallowing in it's own morality too much. That English actor who plays the guy developing the storylines is a one dimensional sack of shit and a really, really bad actor. I knew I'd seen him in something else, it was The Devil Inside where he was playing a highly strung preacher doing one last exorcism to cast out a demon. He was awful in that by overacting, he's doing the same here. You know he will be killed soon by one of the hosts, but he should be less shit and have some subtlety in his performance.

  4. I think Blade Runner 2049 will have to do something really different, we're pretty much all roboted out...and zombied out. Familiarity is killing us. Even a great show like Westworld is marred by us thinking about other shows, movies, books. etc. I imagine it's very difficult to get any new juice outta such a well worn genre. All we can do is have faith in the creative talent, and if that leads to disappointment, double dawg dang, we've been there before with Prometheus.

  5. He will have been upgraded so he can live past his expiry, or if he's running on android he will have been rooted by one an XDA developers (probably Gosling) to bypass the limitations and bloatware in his code by JF Sebastian. Refreshed data partition but probably a microSD card with some memory on it that'll make him go looking for Sean Young.

  6. I liked the first episode a lot. Critchton's novel is certainly set up for the long game with all the coding glitches on Android at the moment, Wild West vs the modern world is as apt as a bulls bollocks. Love the acting more than anything, nuances and subtlety with a top notch cast. Little glimpse of Hopkins as the egotist perfectionist. The best is Sidse Knudsen as one of the ''android developers''.

  7. Four Flies On Grey Velvet (1971) is impressive and unexpected. It's Argento's ''lost masterpiece'' according to Shameless ''scanned from the original negative in it's most complete form with all previously lost footage re-inserted''. When you read that on the cover you don't hold out much hope, but this is class. Drummer in a rock band stabs a stalker then gets blackmailed by a sinister entity. Very visually disorientating but has a grip on narrative superior to Argento's later ''golden era'' of the film's we've all seen. It's time to go back and revisit his early shit, y'all. The animal trilogy.

    Plus that's a great name for a film. Or even a band.

  8. I too was bored watching Neon Demon for the first time.

    Second viewing, I realized Refn had completely knocked it out of the park. Brilliant film. You know what i'm talking about, men.

    Only complaints I have are about the soundtrack which was imo weak. And it wasn't violent enough. They used so much money on lipstick they couldn't get tom savini on set

  9. Star Wars and Indiana J had to use drawings on their covers because these cast were being diva's. They said ''we ain't doing a photoshoot, it's not in our contact'' add to that the fact the photographer was a bit of an egotistical wank who would only shoot only in b&w, eventually the producers said ''Fuck this, we're dealing with assholes. Use drawings''. Not an artistic choice at all. Purely monetary. Same thing with Stranger Things, Winona was holding out for more cash and being a diva. She said ''You need me for this photoshoot for the posters. Pay me. You don't have an image a screenshot of high enough quality to use, and stills photographers don't exist on sets. In 25 years when laptop geeks are overthinking this it's you who will have to justify why the image is low res or a drawing''

  10. I almost think that's intentional on their part. Wild speculation ahead: I feel like they included it, and purposefully opened the album with it, to almost realign the listener's ears for what was ahead. It seem like them being a bit cheeky going, "hey, here's some standard AE sound you might expect to hear, we're going to blow that shit up for 2.5 minutes, then entirely deconstruct it and twist it and warp it to hell and leave it in tatters, and just when you're clueless it'll seamlessly transition into what may be the best track on the album which is really what this all about; you need to get over the old shit and the rest of the album isn't really like the first track at all."

     

    Exactly. With Ae track 1 is great and you have  expectation of what the next is, then they blow that theory away with a few diverse sounding tracks

    They did it with feed1 too.

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