Just finished watching Squid Game, thought it was excellent.
Now we're starting You're the Worst on Hulu. Older show, but I hear it's funny.
squid game was a decent binge watch
there's also alice in borderland …similar plot idea….
and 3%…… same premise basically …..games and competition to see who 'survives'……but ya…….it's all about the suspension of disbelief with this genre
Looking forward to watching Dune tomorrow night. I've always been a big fan of the book. It was long reputed to be unadaptable, but Denis Villeneuve seems to have managed it well according to reviews I've seen.
Looking forward to watching Dune tomorrow night. I've always been a big fan of the book. It was long reputed to be unadaptable, but Denis Villeneuve seems to have managed it well according to reviews I've seen.
Unadaptable or just requiring multiple movies with tough ending choices in each installment?
Foundation is another unadaptable sci-fi property but so far they’ve done a pretty good job of keeping some beats and philosophies while re-doing bits for a TV medium.
Only 5 episodes in so they could still fall flat on their face but so far I’m enjoying it.
Id be shocked if they make a 2nd Dune movie. Even if it is "good" it has to make enough bank for the studio to consider it... Villeneuve makes amazing movies, but never pop at the box offices like the studios want.
Id be shocked if they make a 2nd Dune movie. Even if it is "good" it has to make enough bank for the studio to consider it... Villeneuve makes amazing movies, but never pop at the box offices like the studios want.
Rumors are that HBO has already greenlit the 2nd one and is prepared for this one to be more of setting the tone for the next one.
It's possible they leave it hanging, but that would be really sad to see another adaptation fail. Villeneuve might have enough goodwill to convince someone to let him finish it.
Is this show very slow? I’ve struggled with starting it.
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings which I found painfully slow to read when I was young (sure it was carved into newly formed and just hardened volcanic glass in cuneiform back then but the earth had only recently cooled and it was the best we could do), so I hold out hope for Dune. I agree the 1980s version was disjointed at best.
I do think it’s slow at the start. On the other hand it’s much faster than the books. The show also stops holding your hand pretty quickly so that may or may not feel too fast for some viewers.
They’ve taken some things that were ideas and concepts in the book and created people and faces to those ideas so there is interaction to see setup or resolution rather than having it monologued. That makes the show feel faster.
There is a lot of setup as it’s a series really based around a concept so they have to lay the right “foundation” or the show won’t have good footing later.
If they ever do Asimov’s robot novellas then I think it’ll be a similar situation.
Lord of the Rings was well adapted. Cut out a lot of the slow stuff for the theatrical releases, but filmed everything for the hardcore nerds in the extended editions.
His Dark Materials is another sci-fi/fantasy franchise that has had some adaptation trouble. The Golden Compass movie was pretty faithful to the story and well-acted, but was a box office flop and will never get the planned sequels.
They have a series on HBO now, and it's been ok but I can't quite get into it. Some of the details seem off, and that really matters for a series like that where setting and atmosphere are so important.
It’s on my list but with so many streaming options, something normally has to really jump out at me to give it a try.