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“You play the game? Yes… your fired!”
This is gonna be like Resident Evil, Halo.. gonna be dead in the water.
HBO raced swapped Sarah (Joel's daughter) to be black. That is all I need to know that it will be a woke fest.
The last of us 2 already murdered the franchise, don't see how they can male It worse
“You can’t get invest in video game character deaths.”
Cries in Sev from Republic Commando
I don't quite understand the dissing of games. The story in games has to captivate the player for many hours not just 2-3 hours like a movie.
So good games would have greater/longer story-scripts than movies, imho.
I think I remember a quote from years ago that you could make a game into a multi-part movie for the same story.
…SO don't watch it I don't care what u guys watch.
BTW: Don't even try to tell me what a 50 yo man is supposed to feel like. The oldest guy on your little panel is what? maybe 30? STFU.
I love you guys. You are very entertaining to watch, and you get your point across with humor and alacrity. Much appreciated 🙂
First red flag was "it's a game movie"
I'm really hoping this show is good, I'm already too invested
Pedro is a declared Marxist and I can’t stand him!!!
If the show was done several years ago, with Ellen Page, and followed the game, I would see it, but nobody cares about source material anymore. As for Last of Us 2, about 1/8 of it wasn't too bad if they made it as a DLC for the first game. A few chapters were okay. Not worth playing the full game for.
@ 7:53 Amy Hennig wrote the first Last of us (and segments of the second which were almost entirely scrapped), the Uncharted series, and the Legacy of Kain series.
Neil C uckman and Straley kicked her off Naughty dog and they have suffered since.
I said exactly that about .the alien franchise….just do an alien isolation film beat for beat ..and it will be the best alien film we have had .in 40 years !!!! …
I swear to god .if abbi is in this
I'm done
..the fucking he / they / she
Who takes it up the arse …im fuckimg done ""
Good acting is better than how similar they look
Apparently the last of us series is made by the creator of the chernobyl serie, so it's a good sign
Criticizing the show for not wanting the main character to play the game is not a 'red flag'. Many on screen talents have not played or read the source material. lol. Peter Dinklage famously did not care to read any Game of Thrones books and he had one of the best performances on TV.
It makes sense for a 50+ year old man living in a post-apocalyptic world to be old, and living old. Yeah, there are 60-70 year old men and women that run marathons and are in peak condition, but living in a world w/o modern medicine/technology you probably shouldn't expect an old man that's living in rough conditions to be fully healthy and a plus athlete.
Kinda crazy to say 'at least have good people working on this. The people that created the game and the creative team that did Chernobyl are working on this. Chernobyl won like the most Emmys and is heavily considered one of the best miniseries. Just because the show character does not look like the video game character does not impact the show or performance. Peter Dinklage character on GOT was described differently. (the people that did Encharted is not working on the show, don't know if he was trolling).
Pretty fair to question the second game because you do not like it. Would not say most fans do not like it. Some fans do not like it. I disagree with saying 'this is different than House of The Dragon'. It's not. There were a bigger negative push from 'fans' of Game of Thrones after the final 2 seasons. Lot of people hated it. There were a big push from fans to redo the seasons. Same thing can be said about TLOU2. HOTD got good directors and GRRM. TLOUHBO got the creators of the game and one of HBO best talents to do the show.
Seems like some are coming into the show to hate w/ weird/false reasonings (ex. Joel and Elie do not look like the game Joel and Elie, saying the people working on Encharted are working on this game, logic for Joel being disabled/old, and for actors not looking at the source material).
So far the most faithful video game adaptation movie was Prince of Persia (not compared to the first game of course but the 3D ones). Both are on the same level of over the top action that you can't take seriously but can very much enjoy.
As for the "why make it now?" question. Simple: God of War Ragnarok, Mandalorian, Kenobi… the running trend of these last several years was the "middle aged jaded father figure gets entrusted with a child to protect and thus rediscovers their own will to live life as more than just survival". So they are cashing in on it with the Last of Us, which was the game that more or less started the renaissance of this trend back then. With the aforementioned Mandalorian being the reason Pedro Pascal was cast as Joel.
Don't know if you guys know but they announced that they got rid of spores and replaced it with tendrils because they didn't think spores would be realistic enough or some bullshit.
Silent Hill 1 adaptation was decent.
You didn't have to tell me not to watch the series the last game was just a dumpster fire.
So you're gonna take a universally praised story from the Last Of Us which at the time was outstanding because we had a several year dry period of the same type of post apocalyptic video game settings where its all browns and greys and Last of Us did something different replace it with greenery and color, a unique pathogen origin story and zombies, and iconic characters and great plot points. Now they want to wipe it all away and subvert people's expectations for said good plot points and make it look like a rip off of the Walking Dead? Ok HBO have fun leaking millions of dollars.
This aged poorly 💀 also no the people that made the uncharted movie didn't make this, it was infact the people who made the Chernobyl mini series that made this and if you haven't seen Chernobyl I suggest you do as it is critically acclaimed by fans and critics.
It was a mid cgi darkness copout
Sonic movie is great!
I think the problem with the Last of Us is they pick a stroy what already existing and works well as an interactive story but its nothing they can add new as a cinema really. The best they can do is taking out from it what is making it worst already…. These picks are terrible choices to play it out exactly the same way, then being smug about it not praised. What about using the world from the Last of Us to make a new story? Not just Ellie and Joel live in there. Are their story seems the only worthy to tell? Why dont they simply jsut skip Ellie and Joel arcs or just let it play in the background? Don't touch it. Its a straight story so you have points where you know the players definiately experienced the same so they can use them as easter eggs or cameos if it can fit in the story somehow and then move on… – and I think the problem is. If there is no Ellie and Joel story the world was just a generic Zombie apocalipse with a little twist (its a fungi and not a virus… ba boom. What a differnece) and the whole thing already played down by the Walking Dead series where every possible setup used with these kind of a world maybe. Wonder if they would set to that path the game would be strong enough to replay the walking dead like series again… but for that. They need to leave the games and make their own story in the world… even if they using these characters they need to get away the events from the games…
To be fair, video game adaptations can be entertaining, if you have low expectations. Often the story of a video game isn't very deep or compelling either. Its often just the world building or the atmosphere or the general very good gameplay that makes a video game good.
Last of Us is no exception in that regard either. A zombie apocalypse…wow… never saw that on the screen before. Last of Us had very good presentation and a very comelling gameplay. Both together make the gaming worthwile and memorable. The story itself… not so much.
If you take the Tomb Raider Adaptations for instance: Yeah they lack a good storyline, but honestly, there is no Tomb Raider Game on this planet which has a very good storyline. The action was alright. I personally enjoyed the new Tomb Raider movie more than the old ones.
The Mortal Kombat movies were descent too. The best video game adaptation so far (for me) was Silent Hill. I think they really did a great job with the atmosphere in that one (except for the gory scenes maybe).
These fat people are so cringe. Where is king Shad. These three spreading propaganda as much as left-wing activist XD
To be fair, now that it's released they actually did a great job on the first episode. Was pleasantly surprised even though I still don't like the Joel casting. But the Actress who played Sarah actually did a phenomenal job. Hoping it doesn't take a shít after the first episode but so far so good
These predictions are turning out to be hilarious. The last of us is good so far and Avatar closing in on 2 billion.