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Husky
THE Prey 2 fanatic
lmao we're rowing in this boat together
I can't stand the mix of awful pop music with that generic action trailer sound, and I burst out laughing at the line about their hearts being bigger than their feet. Probably not gonna watch this one.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
That CW music feel.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
Fool of a took.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
Don’t look to closely at the armor. They went with shirts and long sleeves instead of real armor.
NecrosaroIII
Ask me about my terrible takes on Star Trek characters
That bugged me in the hobbit
AJUMP23
Gold Member
When I was watching LOTR I was thinking why isn’t glamdring glowing. It should. They just wanted to set Sting apart. But I want swords to glow and dragons to blow.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
No. In the hobbit GLAMDRING which Gandalf takes and oakenshields sword orcrist from the troll hoard all glow. They were elven swords. Elrond talked about them when they made it to rivendale and talked about the swords histories.
in the movies they only made sting glow for clarity and making it easier to find on screen.
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Ironbunny
Member
Ah ok. Been a while since I've read the books.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
BaneIsPain
Member
if this is not associate with Tolkien, I would’ve give it a chance. It doesn’t feel like tolkien and that’s the final trailer? Poorly chosen music doesn’t help.
Ironbunny
Member
The soundtrack is available in spotify.
AJUMP23
Gold Member
Does it have the stupid song from the trailer.
Ironbunny
Member
No, thats Ex Makina - Breath from trailer music firm.
The soundtrack is from Howard Shore (only main title) and the rest from Bear McCeary.
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Billbofet
Member
I am going to watch this, but this trailer was the worst one released so far. Very antiseptic and rife with generic fantasy platitude-speak. Still excited overall. This seems like it won't have the brutality of Book of Dragons, and I kinda feel it would benefit from that, but I don't know shit about the source material.
TaylorSwiftFan
Member
House of Dragon did half of the numbers that the season finale of GoT did.
pramod
Banned
Another of those trailers that just throws a bunch of random one-liners and CGI scenes at you to make you go "ooh look how cool that is!" while telling you absolutely nothing about what the show is actually fucking about.
When I see trailers like this it doesn't make me more interested in the show, it makes me wonder if there's something wrong with it so they're not telling us anything.
When I see trailers like this it doesn't make me more interested in the show, it makes me wonder if there's something wrong with it so they're not telling us anything.
pramod
Banned
Probably because the people who make these trailers have no idea what the show is about, either. They probably just cobble up a bunch of "cool" scenes and give them to some dude with a video editor and say "here, make a trailer out of this shit and put some random music over it."
It might be intentional though. There's so much fear of stuff leaking out these days, the less people who actually know what happens in the show, the better.
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And is the biggest premiere is HBO history. It's a succesd. What matters now is what happens with viewership further down the road.
Xenon
Member
0:25-1:05 Lets look at people's serious faces. These people can't even craft a decent trailer. How can anyone expect a good movie. I expect 80% of it to be sweeping camera shots of computer generated landscapes. 18% nonsensical drama and 2% actual plot and action.
My advice, RUN YOU FOOLS!
My advice, RUN YOU FOOLS!
Ironbunny
Member
And then it releases ; it’s great , (or not) but here everyone has already made up its mind
If you dont want early impressions dont release a trailer.
Hbomax is a very young service, hard to say what "best premier EVA" really means in context of their shows from the past. And if no one watches ep2 of HotD...trust me, they wont be cheering about that premier anymore.
I joined hbomax primarily for this show, if it heads downhill I absolutely will cancel my sub. It's really the only way to influence future shows to be more like what I want.
The articles said biggest premiere in HBO history, not HBO Max history. If that's an error on their end I can't comment, but they did dofferentiate between HBO and max in the articles.
Moot topic anyways till be see next week's numbers.
But back in the day most folk had HBO through their cable subscribers, so I don't think they had the kind of global reach hbomax does today and exact stats.
Just saying that it is much harder to do viewership comparisons between services.and reaching back in time because the landscape is quite different today. HBO says it was the largest premier in hbomax and I'm sure that is true, it just is more difficult to put that into context alongside other shows as a ranking of popularity.
Artoris
Gold Member
very large potential
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Valedix
Member
turns out money can't buy good writing lol
Artoris
Gold Member
I think there is about 10% chance it's watchable and 90% of it being various degrees of failure
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Punished Miku
Gold Member
They credit for The Boys though. One of my favorite shows on right now.
nominedomine
Banned
Trash. No Tolkien feeling at all, so many interesting stories that they could've adapted while still being respectful but they chose to go about it in the lamest way possible.
If the objective was to go crazy with special effects why not tell the story of Fëanor or something like that? They would have a lot more room to come up with stuff if they went back way further with the story. Give me a guy that can stand up to a bunch of Balrogs.
If the objective was to go crazy with special effects why not tell the story of Fëanor or something like that? They would have a lot more room to come up with stuff if they went back way further with the story. Give me a guy that can stand up to a bunch of Balrogs.
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This is basically just a lot of bla bla, yadda yadda trying to downplay what HBO themselves call the biggest premiere in HBO history (not max history, I looked it up now).
No matter how you try to spin this, HotDs premiere was a huge success, drawing 10 million viewers.
Commenting on future numbers is meaningless until we have those numbers.
Why is it so hard to accept that people were lining up for this?
Oh, and btw, I streamed all seasons of GoT on HBO Nordic, so it's not like streaming wasn't a thing back then. GoT was huge, internationally.
Lord Panda
The Sea is Always Right
Looks and sounds both janky and super polished. Shame about the uninspired writing and dialogue so far in the trailers.
Oh well, back to finishing up the final session of Better Call Saul (great show btw), so that I can get started on my Breaking Bad rewatch.
Oh well, back to finishing up the final session of Better Call Saul (great show btw), so that I can get started on my Breaking Bad rewatch.
Artoris
Gold Member
Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad were excellent, but I could not take any more of it
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I'm not dogging it, I'm still watching the show. Just saying that the statement that it was their largest premier, when it pulled half of the prior shows finale, is a hard number to really parse. Plus GoT was NOTORIOUSLY pirated like CRAZY, so is HotD only getting 1/4th the legit paying views? What where they hoping for? What do they need to keep making it? What is the metric for success? IIRC they canned 1-2 other GoT shows already, so there is a lot of catch-up HotD has to do to pay back all that investment. So if it MUST pick up right where GoT left off, well, so far they ain't there yet.
These numbers, out of context, are virtually meaningless other than allowing confirmation bias. The true measure is next weeks hold, as curiosity alone can make the first ep get views, that's why these folks spend so much on "known IP" and then make a show almost completely divorced from it. The IP gets the initial views and then they hope to hook you on whatever it is they are actually selling.
I don't think this is what they are doing with HotD, mind you, I think it will follow the source material fairly well. Good on them for making a competent pilot, hope they can wash out that bad season 8 GoT aftertaste. I also hope they fixed their marketing merch process, GoT had a loooong delay in acting on the popularity of the show with "stuff". We'll see how confident they are in it if we get lots of Dragon shit, spin-off art books, etc. This time period is also much more conducive to the wargames they kept trying to sell for GoT/ASOIAF. We have many more dragons now to separate it from just another medieval wargame.
Hari Seldon
Member
I used to love that show but I bailed like 4 episodes into the latest season. The plot was just spinning its wheels and I lost interest.
The best show on Amazon by a country mile is Mrs Mazel. (This is not really a typical gaf show tho lmao). That is the one show that could be on HBO in its golden age and fit right in. They do big dick filmaking like having a 10 minute back-stage to front-stage Burlesque scene with zero cuts. Seems like the directors skilled enough to pull this type of shit off are stretched too thin in the streaming wars these days haha.
Punished Miku
Gold Member
I'll have to check it out.
I'm not blown away by the plot of The Boys, but it's enough to keep me interested. The characters are just funny enough to keep me hooked and the general tone of the show is like watching the sarcastic dark commercials in Robocop, but all the time lol.
Artoris
Gold Member
I'd buy that for a dollar!
Cyberpunkd
Member
Did anyone notice how YouTube comments are absolute madlad trolling?
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That’s all fine , judge the trailer .. but most write the hell series off by these ..
Hari Seldon
Member
This review is glowing, hype rising!!!
collider.com
'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Early Reactions Call It a Breathtaking Spectacle
You can hop on your eagle and make your way back to Middle-Earth, it's safe.
collider.com
ManaByte
Gold Member
Because they couldn't.
This bit worries me some:This review is glowing, hype rising!!!
'Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' Early Reactions Call It a Breathtaking Spectacle
You can hop on your eagle and make your way back to Middle-Earth, it's safe.
With a franchise of this depth and scope, it's understandable that the first two episodes might not be enough to fully establish the world that the series will be introducing fans to, some for the first time. Most critics seem to acknowledge the arduous task of world building, like Brandon Katz who praised the new series for its unrivaled "scale, scope, ambition and grandiosity." While others like Rob Keyes pointed out that there is still work to do to make the plot exciting, which was echoed by Meghan O'Keefe who theorized that the plot could either fall apart or rule after the second episode.
Come on, TWO EPISODES in and "the plot could rule"? WTF with these writers? 2 epis is an ENTIRE FILM, enough with the dwadling, glacial plotting these "prestige shows" try to pull these days. Show me the hero. Show me the bad guy. Tell me of their conflict. We used to be able to do this in the OPENING CREDITS of a show
