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A carbon copy of True Detective S1

posted 4 years ago by TreeShaman (806)
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Directed by non other than Cary Fukanaga.

Here are all of the similarities:

-A mysterious villain who wears a mask and has weird scars on the lower half of his face. While the masks are different, the scars are identical.
-An obsession with the main characters' personal lives which have little to do with the mission/investigation that the show/movie is purportedly about.
-A messy personal relationship between two main characters who will stick together anyway for the sake of the mission (Bond/Swann and Hart/Cohle).
-The person who we thought was the villain is not actually the main villain. There is an even worse super-villain who was initially overlooked. (The occult killer Rust and Cohle eliminated 20 years ago ends up not being the mastermind who continues the killings through to the present day / Blofeld is now locked up, but Saffin was actually the main villain all this time and continues to lurk in the shadows).
-A slow build up that exhausts significant time on insignificant plot details, but with a rushed and anti-climactic ending due to production restraints.

[–] untitled6 (278) 4 years ago

Nic Pizzolatto wrote True Detective, not Fukanaga. So your argument is invalid, Fukunaga had nothing to do with TD script, nor with Bond 25.

Also I take it you alredy saw the movie coz you know all the plot? Or you just pulling this all from the trailer?

[–] TreeShaman (806) 4 years ago

Fukunaga was also an Executive Producer, so he obviously had a role in the creative direction of the series.

This film is a direct sequel...again. We already know a lot about the plot from previous films, we've seen leaked on-set footage which spoils some parts of the story, and now we have the trailer which obviously confirms details I wrote about such as Bond and Swann having some major conflict.

[–] untitled6 (278) 4 years ago

Sorry, but you are reaching.

[–] TreeShaman (806) 4 years ago

It won't be the last time Fukunaga makes a film/show with a masked villain character. He probably learned about auteur theory in Film 101 class and then came up with an extremely uncreative way for him to stamp his own 'auteur' style onto all of his work. It's a cheap imitation, just like how Rami Malek's mask is a cheap imitation of the phantom of the opera mask and it was probably bought at a thrift store in LA.

[–] johnlogan (230) 4 years ago

You have too much time on you hands!

[–] TreeShaman (806) 4 years ago

Not as much time as the fools who spend their whole day going to multiple message boards and starting threads about how Rami Malek is Dr. No.

[–] johnlogan (230) 4 years ago

LOL

[–] KD637 (488) 4 years ago

If you're going to waste your life on discussing movies online anyways, putting some thought into it won't hurt.