HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

Are Dragonslayer and Krull good films?

Tarsem Singh's The Fall is pretty great looking but just okay as a film. There's no creatures so there's no special effects issues.

I won't defend Krull but yeah Dragonslayer is good, p unusual film

Krull has a magnificent score by the young spoiling for a fight James Horner but I can't remember much else about it. Dragonslayer is pretty bold and different and I really need to see it again.

will no one defend Ladyhawke

Dragonslayer is good, and gold standard practical dragon (more or less).

Krill looks like shit. The thing about GoT is, yeah, I understand CGI is expensive, and dragons and wolves and zombies, etc., but 90% of the show is still people standing in a room talking. That costs money, too, but I can't imagine it is prohibitive. I can only assume as with big Hollywood movies that there is a lot more CGI than is at first obvious. I'd love to know how much that stuff costs, per minute, per effect, or whatever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfXP1RHLLx4

Now, see, in this clip they're very proud of themselves, but maybe I am spoiled by FX and stunts and stuff but it still seems pretty modest, by the standards or that stuff, or at least not very novel. And tbh I didn't leave that scene bowled over or anything, not least because it reminded me of so many swarms of zombies blockbuster scenes. Which is ultimately a problem of writing and direction.

i want to mute longneck, dog latin, and josh in chicago from this thread lol

lets laboriously explain why this 'plot hole' is not a plot hole

Well the "now you become me" comment combined with the time warp suggests that this show wants him to be bran but what do i know?

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, May 23, 2016 4:29 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like jfc

krull is fucking insane

and holy shit liam neeson is in it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085811/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

Conan the Barbarian looked p good, was that epic enough

You mean OG or the one with Khal Drogo?

Ahnuld version

It has good looking parts but I've never liked the Arnie Conan films. People who think that's the best version of Conan (books, comics or screen) are nuts.

Haven't seen the Khal Drogo version but he definitely looks more like Conan.

why look at the world created in conan the destroyer when you can drink in the acting prowess of arnold, wilt chamberlain and grace fucking jones?

More recent Conan was trash anyway.
Not read much Howard. My elder brother was into him in his early teens. He's now been in the SWP forabout 35 years. Is that bad pendulum thought or something?

Thought some of the 70s comics looked pretty good. But still not read that many.

Winterfell and King's Landing and Castle Black all feel like reasonably fleshed out places to me

i've long been bothered by the sense that both are pretty much just a single courtyard w/ a few rooms scattered around the edges. castle black, this supposedly eons-old keep that protects the entirety of civilization from northern invaders, seems barely big enough to house 100 men, if that. oh, and it's got an an elevator. in the early episodes, winterfell was fleshed out ok, but since then, it's shriveled down to that one, dumpy courtyard.

Well, there's also the kennel where Ramsay kills people.

Yeah, what happened to the elevator budget? We used to see people on that thing all the time.

King's Landing is down to that one room with a table, a couple of hallways. Been a while since we even saw the throne.

They probably have one dark room that they use for all the dark stuff. Kennel, tree room, dragon dungeon, King's Landing dungeon. The Iron Island's room with the fireplace.

I forgot there even was a throne. Game of Scenes.

Game of Room

The geography and architecture and costuming of Astapor and the freeing of the unsullied and gathering the army army was incredibly epic as were the Baratheon siege of Kings Landing, the red wedding and the fighting pit in the colosseum that ended with the Dany flying off on Drogon.

Incidentally, have we ever been to Highgarden in the show? At one point in the negotiations for the financing of the wedding Olleana Tyrell (Diana Rigg) mentions that they have already donated sth like 500,000 soldiers, 300,000 heads of cattle etc. I remember being unconvinced by the numbers anyway.

Why is it called 'thrones' anyway, there's only one throne. Should be Game of Throne.

There are definitely other thrones! We've seen the one in Dorne, and the Vale, and ... do Iron Born have a throne? Dothraki have tents. Game of tents.

They've definitely done big and epic, successfully. But lately it seems like there's been a lot of shorthand. Generic establishing shot. Room. Generic establishing shot. Room. Which is how you make things, except they have made a big point of filming all over the world. So why bother? I dunno. It's just seemed so chintzy lately, and when pretty much the entire show hinges on dragons and there are no dragons, it's pretty conspicuous. One is literally off flying around somewhere, and the other two are ... unchained in the basement? Unchained and loose? Who knows.

The Iron Born has the Sea Chair. Game of Throne and Chairs. And Seats.

The Mighty Sparrow has his famous talk and sit move. He doesn't seem to care for chairs, though.

Game of beanbags.

Bane of benbbag.

Bane of House Benbbag, First of his Name.

This thread needs this:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/44d8ab01c614fc20cc4008cc05695207/tumblr_o7m4n7inbM1r55klgo1_500.gif

^ would watch the porn parody

Game of Boners

Really just want to watch Brienne and Podrick spin off show.

Was waiting for that gif

The show did show Highgarden didnt it? Am I misremembering? All those gorgeous shots of people taking tea and throwing shade at each other in Croatian gardens full of wisteria?

I thought that was part of Kings Landing?

Hm maybe it was, given thats where joffs wedding was. Argh its all been too long ago.

The Iron Born has the Sea Chair Fish Stool.

I think so Trayce, Sansa is in those scenes talking with Diana Rigg and Sansa is def in KL. Also Brienne talks with Diana Rigg after she's delivered Jamie to KL. UNLESS THEY ARE VERY CLOSE GEOGRAPHICALLY? I've no idea.

Excuse the caps.

the garden scenes w diana rigg are in king's landing.

I think everything they film in Spain looks pretty crap. Not sure why that is but I do recall last year a making-of thing about getting the Spain crew together. I think they go through a lot of line producers because it's such a nightmare production. Maybe they're all just tired. Are they still filming in Croatia?

There's also a bigger budget for the pilot because those sets are meant to more or less last the run, so the initial expense gets paid off down the line. I remember reading somewhere back when Rome came out that they'd need to run four or five seasons to justify the cost of that huge Rome set at Cinecitta.

I wonder if bookreaders were disappointed when they first saw the TV version of the iron throne, and how they must look back wistfully every time Dorne pops up.

I'm also assuming they're saving up the budget for whatever Winterfell/Bolton confrontation is in the offing, like Hardhome last year.

well, yeah because an army of White Walkers will probably show up to that battle too

Will no-one rep for Hawk The Slayer?

Jack Palance! Bernard Bresslaw! Roy Kinnear! The spaghetti disco soundtrack!