AMC's 'The Prisoner' premiers this week!
POSTED BY: cljohnston108
UPDATED: Thursday, November 19, 2009 20:28
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
They tried to make "6" an everyman.
*FAIL*
Wide-eyed disbelief sucks in an agent.
And the Village sucks.
The laughing Chrisisall
Well, Patrick McGoohan had such a unique look and sound about him that nobody could ever hope to duplicate.
BTW, I actually met Mr. McGoohan when I was working at the Westside Pavilion about 20 years ago!
I told him how my folks would watch The Prisoner religiously when I was 6, but that all I remembered was being terrified by that "big white floating ball" ("Rover").
He just shrugged and said, "Yeah, well, they're still out there!"
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Quote:Possibly. It's servicable TV, I guess. Just pales to the point of white-out next to the original.
Originally posted by Calhoun:
I've not seen the original, could I like this new one?
The laughing Chrisisall
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I tried watching the original a few years back, but the acting and shooting style was so dated, I gave up.
The new version is actually more engrossing, because it uses more familiar acting styles and production values.
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Originally posted by Suasor:
I tried watching the original a few years back, but the acting and shooting style was so dated, I gave up.
The new version is actually more engrossing, because it uses more familiar acting styles and production values.
Acting style? Like the massively repeated mimicking of Spielburg inspired, "oh my gawd what's happening" facial expressions? Like Chrisisall said, #6 is way too uncool to have ever been a secret agent for any functioning nefarious government service. Oh, wait a sec., in this take he's an American.... Okay, I'm likely easily trumped on this score.
Dated shooting style: yeah, it's really impressive having two second edits throughout, regardless of the scene. Because it's of paramount importance to assume the entire audience is ADD afflicted, or at least it's important for some reason to make them feel that way.
The story is tame, in that it doesn't dare to take a shot at anything controversial, nor does it appear to be willing to take on anything of a political nature.
Unlike some others who have chimed in on this thread, I do like the Village. Cool A-frame dwellings in an appropriately desolate environment where it's obvious it's never going to snow work for me. Kind of sets up a melding of seemingly senseless over-engineering within an ambiguous psychological environment. Doesn't nearly enough make up for the horrid direction and lame story.
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He wasn't an agent, he was an analyst.
As for style, de gustibus non disputanten est.
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Quote:Yeah, American agents are easily awed. See: CHUCK.
Originally posted by tag:
Acting style? Like the massively repeated mimicking of Spielburg inspired, "oh my gawd what's happening" facial expressions? Like Chrisisall said, #6 is way too uncool to have ever been a secret agent for any functioning nefarious government service. Oh, wait a sec., in this take he's an American.... Okay, I'm likely easily trumped on this score.
Quote:What di you say? I couldn't get through all of what you wrote...
Dated shooting style: yeah, it's really impressive having two second edits throughout, regardless of the scene. Because it's of paramount importance to assume the entire audience is ADD afflicted, or at least it's important for some reason to make them feel that way.
Quote:We must be PC & tollerant here, no?
The story is tame, in that it doesn't dare to take a shot at anything controversial, nor does it appear to be willing to take on anything of a political nature.
Quote:Okay, you're right on that one, it's DIFFERENT than MgGoohan's village, not worse. I stand corrected.
Unlike some others who have chimed in on this thread, I do like the Village. Cool A-frame dwellings in an appropriately desolate environment where it's obvious it's never going to snow work for me. Kind of sets up a melding of seemingly senseless over-engineering within an ambiguous psychological environment.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:Lazy writing choice IMO. That's like re-making Firefly with Mal as a a flight attendant.
Originally posted by Suasor:
He wasn't an agent, he was an analyst.
Quote:Sorry, I don't speak Klingon.
As for style, de gustibus non disputanten est.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Oh man, more worthless sh*t. Just watchin' it now & I'm gone. Even McKellen couldn't save it.
What lack of vision/creativity/homage.
Be seeing you.
The laughing Chrisisall
I lasted about 17 minutes before I just had to exorcise it from my hard drive!
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Quote:You have a low-crap threshold, CL!
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
I lasted about 17 minutes before I just had to exorcise it from my hard drive!
The laughing Chrisisall
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