Edonidd
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Just watched the first episode of this tonight. Looks really good so far, some weird choices on changing stuff for seemingly no reason. But I'm trying hard not to be that guy this time. Trying to just watch with an open mind and no preconceived notions. It's definitely beautiful cinematography the colors and design choices look great. The trollocs in this episode looked kind of cheesey to me for some reason, some worked better than others. Sometimes they looked like fantasy monsters but other scenes they looked like a guy in a hairy suit like 1980s teenwolf. The fade looked right. I get that they're going for a certain look with the Aes Sedai, but the actress that plays Morraine seems weird. Don't know that she's got that gravitas or scene stealing presssence that Morraine Sedai should have in this first book. The Rand actor reminds me exactly of Hayden Christianson as Anakin Skywalker, I keep expecting to see his stupid Palawan braid and hear him complaining about sand. He's also so obviously gay that i don't know if I'll be able to believe him with any of these women. Overall I really liked it though. Gonna watch the next two episodes probably this weekend too.
I know I said I wasn't gonna be that guy, but I just don't understand why screenwriters consistently do things like this. They went to school and had these grand thoughts of being an author and writing their own stuff. But they couldn't. If they could write their own stuff they wouldn't be screen writers. So they get the chance to adapt somebody else's book (whether it is fantasy, or sci fi, or thriller, or drama,mystery, whatever) that was a best seller and beloved by many and performed so well that it was being adapted to a movie. And then these screen writers think they can do better, so they make changes to things that didn't need to be changed. It's like going back and painting a smile on the Mona Lisa. And while you're at it give her blonde hair and big tits. Sure it'll make her more attractive to audiences, but there are millions of paintings of smiling blondes with big tits. There's only one Mona Lisa. And which one do we go all the way to Paris just to see?
I know I said I wasn't gonna be that guy, but I just don't understand why screenwriters consistently do things like this. They went to school and had these grand thoughts of being an author and writing their own stuff. But they couldn't. If they could write their own stuff they wouldn't be screen writers. So they get the chance to adapt somebody else's book (whether it is fantasy, or sci fi, or thriller, or drama,mystery, whatever) that was a best seller and beloved by many and performed so well that it was being adapted to a movie. And then these screen writers think they can do better, so they make changes to things that didn't need to be changed. It's like going back and painting a smile on the Mona Lisa. And while you're at it give her blonde hair and big tits. Sure it'll make her more attractive to audiences, but there are millions of paintings of smiling blondes with big tits. There's only one Mona Lisa. And which one do we go all the way to Paris just to see?