I Need a Series to Watch

[botfly10]

I've been watching the Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan show from Amazon.... surprisingly good.

I mean the story thus far has not been anything ground breaking, but the show is interesting.

yeah, I watched maybe half of that. Started losing interest once I realized they were gon make him an action hero instead of a spy.

 

[botfly10]

I started watching Hanmaiden's tale. Its fuckin riveting. I knew it would be good, don't know why it took me so long to start watching it.

 

[Scoot26]

I've been watching the Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan show from Amazon.... surprisingly good.

I mean the story thus far has not been anything ground breaking, but the show is interesting.

I wouldn't be able to take Jim Halpert seriously.

 

[airtime143]

I started watching Castle Rock. It's ok, acting is fine, plot is ok. But holy shit, some of the dialog is so bad. Every few minutes there are a few lines that are so stupid and awkward. Breaks you right out of the thing.

Thing about Stephen King, is that he is kind of a terrible writer. And not very original or clever with plot. But his genius is his characters. His books are 2/3rds character development. Almost rambling, almost irrelevant, almost mundane backstory with characters weaving in and out of each other's lives before the plot ever kicks in. He paints peoples lives and pulls the reader in until all the sudden King has populated a town with people you know. And it doesn't matter how dumb or silly the plot is or how ham fisted he is with themes or how robotic his dialog is. Cause by then you care about the characters.

Its why movies based on his stuff generally suck. The movies skip straight to the plot, the weakest part of King's stuff. Laying out a sprawling series was the perfect chance to finally get it right and build a town populated with people where you know their entire backstory from childhood. But nope. This show falls into the same trap as the movies.

The plot of all horror movies are shit.
The plot of all horror stories are shit.

Pick any horror movie out there, distill it to the plot points, and it is garbage.
Hell- boils down any movie plot to the bare bones and it becomes something a child could spit out with a crayon and 5 minutes of brainstorming.

It isnt accurate at all to point to kings plots as bad.

It isnt just the character development, it is the conflict and impending doom that he gets you to feel in the books. The weight each character carries grows page by page.

The movie translations are directorial failings. They fail to build that pressure.

The great directors bring out the feel of the books, the bad ones dont.
Comparing story lines, running man, tommyknockers, the dome, the dark tower, it, and salem's lot should have been far better than christine, stand by me, the shining, and misery.

Those last 4 stories were killer movies simply because the directors carried the tension of the characters over to the screen... no more no less.

It isnt even close to fair to jump on the plot creating ability of king.
Think of any movie you love- I guarantee there are knockoffs out there with the same plot points that suck ass because you never get invested in the characters.
It's why sequels usually suck. The plot is way more intense, but we dont care because the character is flat. No growth.

 

[Ares]

I wouldn't be able to take Jim Halpert seriously.

I thought the same thing when I watched that 13 Hours movie, but he isn't half bad in a serious role.

 

[Wild_x_Card]

Simply put. If you haven't watched Stranger Things, you're doing life wrong. The tension and dark atmosphere are so thick in that show you wear it like sweater while watching it.

The acting is stellar. Character development really steps up big time in the second season

 

[botfly10]

The plot of all horror movies are shit.
The plot of all horror stories are shit.

Pick any horror movie out there, distill it to the plot points, and it is garbage.
Hell- boils down any movie plot to the bare bones and it becomes something a child could spit out with a crayon and 5 minutes of brainstorming.

It isnt accurate at all to point to kings plots as bad.

It isnt just the character development, it is the conflict and impending doom that he gets you to feel in the books. The weight each character carries grows page by page.

The movie translations are directorial failings. They fail to build that pressure.

The great directors bring out the feel of the books, the bad ones dont.
Comparing story lines, running man, tommyknockers, the dome, the dark tower, it, and salem's lot should have been far better than christine, stand by me, the shining, and misery.

Those last 4 stories were killer movies simply because the directors carried the tension of the characters over to the screen... no more no less.

It isnt even close to fair to jump on the plot creating ability of king.
Think of any movie you love- I guarantee there are knockoffs out there with the same plot points that suck ass because you never get invested in the characters.
It's why sequels usually suck. The plot is way more intense, but we dont care because the character is flat. No growth.

I read every book you mention in this post along with other like the eyes of the dragon, it, the stand, dark tower series, pet semetary, cujo, etc... I wasn't making a flippant remark and I stand by my assessment.

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

Dark was better then stranger things but it’s in subtitles

 

[DC]

Simply put. If you haven't watched Stranger Things, you're doing life wrong. The tension and dark atmosphere are so thick in that show you wear it like sweater while watching it.

The acting is stellar. Character development really steps up big time in the second season

Bummed we have to wait until 2019. GOT and ST in 2019, can't wait!

 

[BaBaBlacksheep]

Red Shoe Diaries

 

[Wild_x_Card]

Dark was better then stranger things but it’s in subtitles

I didn't think it was but still liked it.

 

[dweebs19]

Dark is a pretty good show

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Black Mirror sucks. Sorry guys.

 

[ZOMBIE@CTESPN]

100% agree one of the worst shows I didn’t last after two episodes

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I like this BEARZOMBIE guy....

 

[zack54attack]

Hell of a season finale for Better Call Saul

 

[DC]

Red Shoe Diaries

Wasnt that some late night skinamax soft porn? Cut my teeth on that a couple of times.

 

[airtime143]

Wasnt that some late night skinamax soft porn? Cut my teeth on that a couple of times.

If you cut your teeth....you were doing it wrong.

 

[airtime143]

Hell of a season finale for Better Call Saul

It was- Mike had a dirty job, but he went through with it.
The look on Jimmys girlfriends face when he asked for the paperwork to change his name was awesome- that looks to be the nail in the coffin for them.
He even fooled her in to thinking he was sincere.

 

[dweebs19]

It was- Mike had a dirty job, but he went through with it.
The look on Jimmys girlfriends face when he asked for the paperwork to change his name was awesome- that looks to be the nail in the coffin for them.
He even fooled her in to thinking he was sincere.

I feel like she had a hand in helping him become Saul Goodman. She had him help her do shady stuff