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:
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.
I watched it as it premiered sunday, monday, and Tuesday. I gave it an honest, fair effort. I have NO idea what I saw. Moment to moment the whole experience was constant muddled confusion. Towards the end I was FORCING myself to watch. It felt like Andromeda Seasons 3-5. It's certainly a bad sign when you look forward to the commercials as they offer a break from the labor of paying attention.
At least AMC led into the Sunday premier with a Mad Max Marathon. Mad Max 1...now there's a film that should be remade!
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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.
Do you think you can oversimplify and over-react a bit more?
There are far more differences between today's performance and productions styles than the surface elements you mention.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
I lasted about 17 minutes before I just had to exorcise it from my hard drive!
I DVR'd it - at 21 minutes I dumped it - I lost 2 more minutes than you!
It's bad when you're tempted to fast forward through the show to get to the commercials.
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Originally posted by pizmobeach:
I DVR'd it - at 21 minutes I dumped it - I lost 2 more minutes than you!
Ummm, 21 - 17 = 4 more minutes. You have my sympathy.
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Well, when you put it THAT way, sure, 4 minutes total. 
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Quote:You punks- I lasted two & 1/2 whole episodes. You wouldn't do well at the waterboarding thing.
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
Well, when you put it THAT way, sure, 4 minutes total.
But BlueSunCompanyMan is tougher than ALL of us!
The laughing Chrisisall
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