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We could find another way to project the image, we're a tech society.
In the meantime use the celluloid we have.
Agreed. Except I thought that the Battle of Winterfell was one of the highlights of the last season despite the shit cinematography, which I guess is an indication of just how bad the rest of the season was for me. Ugh.
They need to account for losses until the end of last summer, at least. We're about 6-12 months away from a vaccine.
They need to make a major investment in buying up old Drive-Ins and making them AMC branded and operational before Cinemark and others do, and they will survive this thing. Otherwise yes, they may be gone forever, along with multimillion-dollar salaries for major roles, and the quality of theatrical exposition on celluloid in general, sadly.
Act fast, AMC. Drive-Ins. Trust me.
> What other ways do you think cleganebowl could work?
- the Hound is scared of dragonfire, abandons the North when Dany arrives.
- Arya wants to assassinate Cersei.
- For the first time since becoming "no one", she fails in her mission log before Dany's attack.
- Cersei hands her over to Frankenmountain for suitably sadistic punishment as was given the Sand Snakes and the septa who interrogated her.
- Arya is tortured, about to die, people think this is how her arc ends..
- The Hound has a "Han Solo" moment and attacks / fights / kills his brother to free Arya.
- Both Cleganes die and Arya escapes to the North to fight the Night King with the rest.
You're so right about the shooting of the Battle of Winterfell. It was so dark! Why?
They took this down... are there any alternative download sites? Like a MEGAupload or something?
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"Mind-numbingly dreadful."
Couldn't have said it better.
Ironically I remember the IMDB board petitioning for Cleganebowl back then, and it getting greenlit at the time and someone leaking it on the boards, so I knew it was coming. But cinematically, it was gross. It had poor fight chorography, and it was just an ugly scene with ugly colors, I did not like it. The Mountain didn't resemble anything human, he looked like the head orc in the battle of the Rohirrim when he should have looked like a zombie from Dawn of the Dead.
And I totally agree about Sandor, his appeal was that he was a hard SOB who certainly played with the lines of ethics, yet he still had an ethical code that make you like him. Killing Polliver's men to save the barwench, burying the dead little girl and her father who fed him and Arya when they were starving... yes, deep down inside he was a good person. And to reduce him to an agent of pure hate or vengeance because "it's in the cards" is just plain lazy, and character assassination of the highest order.
You're right. It sucks but they should have kept D&D on for two years to flesh out the backstory we watched over those last two seasons, and hire someone else to actually take the 4 or 5 seasons necessary to bring those stories to life in an emotionally resonant way. Such wasted opportunity, so sad. There were some good moments, like the Battle of Winterfell, but it was mostly just shit. And I get it, Sophie Turner was angry at people calling D&D out at the end of it, she wanted to defend the ensemble, but you're holding the hammer that hit the nail when you said it was rushed so badly it just broke the characters. I thought I was watching a YouTube video on Fast Forward.
See, I don't really take issue with the direction they went with Dany, with Varys, maybe even with Sansa, had they allowed me enough time and backstory to understand the key human drivers that led to their actions, in a way that resonated with my own human experience. But there was just not enough time.
And they totally sacrificed Jon on the altar of their new Star Wars gig, FFS, because none of his genealogy, history as the Prince Who Was Promised, literally NONE of his character development amounted to squat, and they completely unraveled the beautiful tapestry they weaved together to create arguably one of the richest characters in the first five seasons. I don't understand why HBO and GRRM allowed them to do this...
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