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Doubt it. TV series are very rarely any good at all, let alone better than the predating them actual films by actual directors.

>>5896 Depends on series. Game of Thrones, seasons 1-4, are actually better than any fantasy drama movie ever made.

>>5896 I watched two episodes of Alien Earth and so far i like it more than everything recorded since Prometheus. It is just more entertaining. Nice balance of horror, humour and xenomorphs, with a lot of other fancy alien stuff, and everyting nicely maintained in the franchise universum.

Out of new series this one is cool too. Very action-packed with coherent characters, quite addictive.

>>5908 >everything recorded since Prometheus That's just two movies then.

>>5910 Three, including shitty Prometheus

>>5907 >Game of Thrones, seasons 1-4, are actually better than any fantasy drama movie ever made. Get a load of this zoomer

>>5922 I watched it. Boring. I was born in 1990.

>>5924 You are not fooling anyone.

>>5922 While the Lord of Rings movies were good, there were a few things Peter Jackson did not do well. He didn't understand a lot of the themes and metaphor behind the characters, and preferred just to think of everything as good vs evil. For example, the dead men were cut or not well implemented because he didn't like the idea of evil creatures fighting for Gondor. He also had trouble developing characters. Aragorn is always Aragorn in the movies, Frodo is always Frodo, Bilbo is always Bilbo, even though in the books they change dramatically.

>>5926 Sounds to me like you haven't even seen the movies.

>>5927 It's AI.

>>5909 Brosnan is great in role of mafia boss btw. Magnificent actor.

>>5925 I do not fool you. GoT was so fkn brutal and grim, it still sits in my head after years. It was like a kick in the head. Meanwhile Lord of the Rings was a fairy tale with nice visuals, a boring Hollywood stuff for children. Maybe you are a fan of Tolkien books thats why you liked the movie. I hate such stuff, i never watch DC/Marvel movies because they are full of idiotic fantastic things, like superheroes, monsters etc. But Game of Thrones was a brutal show for adults. Fantasy elements were a minor aspect of this piece of art.

>>5955 > But Game of Thrones was a brutal show for adults I see.

>>5957 It was. Sparse fantasy elements were there only to make it more spicy, but the series is so remarkable because of its rough brutality, very good story telling as well as unforgetable characters. It was best series i ever watched, especially first 5 seasons. I re-watched it multiple times, and if i watch smth more than once, it means its great.

>>5957 >>5959 BTW, the only Peter Jackson movie i watched more than once was "Braindead". It was a fkn masterpiece.

>>5959 >the series is so remarkable because of its rough brutality, very good story telling as well as unforgetable characters Understandable.

>>5909 It is first British crime series i watch without subtitles. They speak using a rather clear English without annoying dialects, so i am surprisingly able to understand most they say. I even kind of learnt new words like a cupper that is a cup of tea. And they constantly use 'mate' instead of 'pal/dude'.

>>5970 >a cupper I just googled it up. It was actually a cuppa. I couldnt know because i didnt read subtitles.

>>5973 It can be spelled cupper as well of course but most common spelling is cuppa. Very interesting.

>>5970 Even more useful British word i learnt from this series is wotcha. It is a version of US-American howdy.

This one is good too, just finished watching

Never spelled 'cupper'. NO not ever. Always Cuppa. Simple as. Don't trust a pole on English.

I forget Game of Thrones already even though it comes up all the time and people always talk about it. I read one of the books as well and it was pretty average. Also it's spelt Kayrpah not Cuppa.

Kayrpah? Baffling. I looked forward to reading the GRRM thing when it was finished. I'm never going to read it. c'est la vie.

>>6536 Non ironically, should I watch it?

>>6583 You should watch everything with Stephen Graham recorded with a one-shot filming technique. This is fkn magic. Entire movie in one-shot. Any even smallest mistake destroys everything so it cannot happen. If you watch Adolesence, i recommend Boiling Point.

>>6536 I liked it, too, because it showed the stupidity and ignorance of all people involved. Normies are the true horror.

>>6560 It's the fast food of modern fantasy and the writing took a nosedive as soon as they ran out of source material, of course it was quickly forgotten. IMO, the outfits of the GoT show were too high-fantasy and uniform for the feudal, grounded pre-industrial society it was supposed to be portraying. E.G. the Bannermen of the Lannisters would all wear their individual heraldry, that's how one imagines it in the books, but in the show it's all copy pasted lions and identical copy pasted armour that looks stupid. That was my main problem with the show. With LOTR I like both the books and the films, though they used more and more CGI as it went on. Hobbit films are garbage because of that that overreliance on CGI.

>>5955 >Fantasy elements were a minor aspect of this piece of art. In the show, yes. The book is much more mystical with magic and shit.

>>6608 First season was awesome cause it was 1:1 the first book. Later seasons weren't that close to the book. Charakters in the show are portraied "nicer". Caitlyn hates John Snow in the books while this topic almost doesn't appear in the show, Tyrion is much more evil, etc. And the plot lines are much deeper and better carved out, like Boltons betrayal of Starks, how John Snow becomes commander, Aryas escape tour trough Westeros, etc. But this is always a problem with shows and books that shows tend to simplify.

>>6596 I can also recommend this mini show featuring him

>>6614 Thx

Just watched episode 3. The show is quality one. I find it incomparably better than Alien Romulus

>>6596 Isn't this gimmicky? Why filming everything in a single shoot instead of having a good story, dialogue and atmosphere?

>>6687 If it is done good, effect is mindblowing. It is like theater, only better. It creates intense real-time drama. It immerses actors in a continuous unbroken performance, mim8cking raw authentic emotions and intense focus. It mirrors real-life pressure, like natural reactions and chemistry as theres no pause to break character or reset.

>>6687 >>6689 But you need very skilled directing and good disciplined actors for such a trick. Otherwise it is impossible to make.

Xenomorph scenes in Alien Earth are fucking great. Much better than in any franchise movies imo, even these from 80s/90s. Xenomorph was created using a combination of practical old school costumes, animatronics and CGI. They used detailed suits and puppets like classic Alien for close-up physicality and enhanced it by digital effects for fluid movement and 'otherworldly' features like the "tadpole" stage.

>>5894 Which isnt hard... but Romulus wasnt bad either?

>>5960 Its so friggin disgusting (which is the joke). Like that one zombie thats just living guts.

>>6682 I dont like how the Alien can get one-shotted easily.

>>6692 >Xenomorph doing Moonwalk MASTERPIECE

>>6701 The series features other aliens too. These blood-sucking ones are badass PENIS

>>6702 These body-stealing ones are cool too

I only care for 2 and 4, everything else is either boring and/or trash.

>>6704 Alien 1 was fkn great.

>>6702 >PENIS Why are emojis being turned into PENIS? WTF?

>>6705 I saw it after seeing part 2 first, so it wasn't that frightening to me.

>>6706 >Why are emojis being turned into PENIS? Because the admins are surprisingly based? Emojis are a literal israeli psyop.

>>6706 Lurk moar >>6708 Lurk less

>>6710 >Lurk less That's actually a very nice compliment, thank you!

>>6700 Thats compatibile with universum. Xenomorphs are actually easy to kill/stun with using modern weapon. Fe in Aliens colonial marines liquidated shitloads of them but eventually got fucked by xenomorphs stealth, adaptability and predatory intellect so they were ambushing them in the end with using hive tactics. Or this scene from Alien 4 where one xenomorph deliberately killed the other (who agreed to sacrify itself for thd hive) to destroy the 'cage' with using acid-blood. It was easy to stun/imprison xenomorphs but it was not so easy to dominate them forever, as they always managed to free themselves somehow.

>>6718 >Alien 4 Or Alien 3. I dont remember exactly.

>>6718 Meanwhile Nostromo was a commercial towing spacecraft, it dudnt have any weapon onboard and the crew was not trained to deal with such scenarios. Thats why it was so hard for them to kill even one xenomorph in Alien 1. Moreover science officer was a synth amd he had a mission to make the alien survive at cost of the crew.