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Post by kamikazijoe on Jun 3, 2007 22:15:09 GMT
As if I couldn't guess
Go for it, post whatever complaints you may have. And allow me to open with a lack of Mab. Granted we have a version of puddles, but not the original. And is it just me who thinks that Miranda is somewhat apathetic to the role this time around?
Gripe away...
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Post by himiko on Jun 3, 2007 22:45:39 GMT
Well, if we're going for gripes, then my list of gripes opens up, as you said, with lack of Mab. And then continues on with it. After this horrendous oversight, however, even more bile kicks in. 1) [glow=red,2,300]Jack[/glow] Well, well, well. Where should I begin? If ever there was a character that deserved to be stabbed in the eyes with red hot toothpicks, it's this little bugger. Firstly, if he's going to attempt to do an English accent, have the courtesy to do a decent one. If you can't manage it, don't bother trying. Secondly, he's irritating- he sits around self pitying and moaning and generally being useless. He is written to be needlessly "comic", and yet isn't even remotely funny. If I were Merlin, I would have killed myself upon finding out that he was my son. He requires instant death. 2) [glow=red,2,300]BLATANT CANON RAPE [/glow] Does this one even need explaining? What's the point in making something out to be a sequel, and then ensuring that there is no possible way of it following on from the first film without breaking all laws of logic and sense. Now, I like a good Merlin-killing as much as the next rabid-Mab fangirl, but if it's in a film, let's at least try and keep it canon? Were it not quite so late, I'd make an even lengthier post about this, and may well do so in the future. It doesn't matter that they then said "Oh, it's not really a sequel", if they had been advertising it as such since it's beginning. 3) [glow=red,2,300]ACCENTS![/glow] Right. Now, I've heard people putting on bad accents in films before, and usually I'm OK, but when 99% of the entire damn cast (Sam Neill and Miranda Richardson- who is British anyway, and doesn't put on an accent) is slaughtering the accents of my homeland, I feel the need to protest. Why hire a cast who fail miserably at the accents if you want them to do said accent? Either hire British people, hire people who can do the accent, or allow the actors to keep their normal accents. That's an annoyance to realism, but less annoying than hearing another accent butchered. 4) [glow=red,2,300]ACTING![/glow] Not only can the cast not do accents, most seem incapable of acting, as well. 5) [glow=red,2,300]LOCATION[/glow] Firstly, it's obviously not filmed in Britain (except for the shots nicked from "Merlin"). Fair enough, if they hadn't nicked those shots from Merlin, as they looked really out of place. Also, Caemlot looked totally different from in "Merlin"- it was a different colour, as well as shape, etc. Well, I think that's all at the moment. There may be more to come....
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Post by hilloneko on Jun 4, 2007 4:10:05 GMT
*agrees with himiko* Though I must also add one. Name pronunciation. Kind of weird when one name is said many different ways. Call me silly but sound things like that really bug me, that is why I can't stand dubbed movies. Must have the original language with subtitles or hillo goes to whack her ears off with a butcher knife.
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Post by tosca on Jun 4, 2007 18:32:36 GMT
Wow, considering how many movies like that are in existence, you must have some pretty amazing respawning ears!
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Post by Mab's Familiar on Jun 4, 2007 19:20:57 GMT
And don't forget the pig that started talking from some reason. That talking pig was the last straw for me.
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Post by Incapability on Jun 4, 2007 21:26:31 GMT
*is suddenly rather glad not to have seen it*
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Post by hilloneko on Jun 4, 2007 21:27:21 GMT
yep, or I just damage the prosthetic ones they give me at the doctors office.
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Post by kamikazijoe on Jun 4, 2007 21:32:17 GMT
The pig was the only half decent part of the film, right up until it opened its big yap and started spouting all that bulls**t about getting to Tartarus just by saying the name. Even if that were the case you'd still have to cross the Styx, get passed the cerberus, and get to the Elysion plains to locate Merlin, you wouldn't be taken directly to him
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Post by hilloneko on Jun 4, 2007 21:35:58 GMT
I wonder if that is what really happened. Jack gets across Styx only to be lunch for Cerberus. I like what I am hearing.
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Post by Mab Rox on Jun 4, 2007 22:02:03 GMT
I know, right! Yay for all of the thripple-headed things in Greek myth!
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Post by himiko on Jun 4, 2007 22:27:08 GMT
Hmmmm, perhaps that's what really happened, and the ending of MA was infact Jack's illusions as he died. Painfully.
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Post by kamikazijoe on Jun 4, 2007 23:01:04 GMT
I'm liking this more and more
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Post by tosca on Jun 4, 2007 23:04:19 GMT
Hm, same here - and omg, I remember the pig! It's... painful. *clutches head* Really, though, why did they have to bring in Greek myths when none of them believed in the Greek underworld?
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Post by himiko on Jun 5, 2007 9:23:54 GMT
Because it was written by pigeons.
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Post by tosca on Jun 5, 2007 10:44:05 GMT
THESE DAMN PIDGEONS! *brings truckfulls of sodium bicarbonate and sprays it all over her town*
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