• Gigan@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Cautiously optimistic. Hopefully it’s respectful to the source material.

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      10 months ago

      It’s a very good setting for a show or mini series, but the way the IP’s current owners have handled it so far gives me pause. Hopefully the writers will be competent enough to not resort to the “radiation and mutations are basically magic” writing that’s been all too common with Bethesda.

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        10 months ago

        I mean we already saw mutants (NOT Super Mutants or Centaurs) in the form of Chris Parnell’s Overseer Cyclops in the trailer. The rest of the shots (especially the Yao Guai tearing up that Paladin) make me think it’ll be more lore-accurate.

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      10 months ago

      I mean, the way Bethesda has taken Fallout, there’s not much that could be ruined, just use a newish setting and go to town

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    10 months ago

    I didn’t realize Jonathan Nolan was a showrunner. The first season of Westworld was brilliant. And Walton Goggins is good in everything. I’ll give it a shot.

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    10 months ago

    What the fuck man where the hell did this spring up from? This just started a flame in my heart.

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    10 months ago

    Sweet! Well get a season or two and then they’ll cancel it just like they do all the rest of the fan favorites.

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    10 months ago

    There’s not enough wackiness in the trailer. Fallout has always had a thin veneer of grimdark with a whole hidden iceberg of goofy bullshit and it was amazing.

    I’m getting huge “missing the point” vibes.

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      There are a lot of reasons to not judge it yet. First and foremost, the director/show runner has zero input on the trailer. That’s all the marketing department, and the trailer is designed to get as many eyeballs as possible on the final product. Numerous examples exist of trailers which bared little resemblance to the movie/show/game/whatever.

      Secondly, they buried the lead on the director. Jonathan Nolan did direct much of Westworld. But he also wrote a bunch of award winning films for his brother, Christopher Nolan. Movies like Memento, Interstellar, The Prestige, and Dark Knight. He’s no slouch, and I’ll reserve judgement until I see it.

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        10 months ago

        J. Nolan also did “Person of Interest”. It’s a lesser-known show but it was very good.

        It felt like a classic 80s show at first(the hero is a badass supported by an eccentric rich guy to help random people) but, without spoiling it, it takes a very interesting turn.

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      While i fully agree, a lot of people won’t know what Fallout is, and they kinda have to set the basics first.

      With that being said, I question whether Amazon can pull this off.

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      10 months ago

      My hopes have definitely gone up after seeing this trailer. I really hope they don’t pull a Witcher.

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      the trailer looks great and really has that fallout spirit somewhere between funny, gruesome and batshit crazy.

      Also great to see Walton Goggins in the cast, he’s a great actor

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        10 months ago

        I’m on a strict “don’t trust trailers” diet since seeing the new Napoleon film, so I’ll wait and see for this series.

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          What do you mean ? Is Napoleon shit; I haven’t seen it yet?

          Please 🙏 don’t be shit

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            I haven’t seen it yet, but one review said it was one of the most unintentionally funny movies of the year.

            Also Ridley Scott is doing a hilarious press tour for it.

            Scott was informed of some less than stellar French reviews of his film – French GQ called it “deeply clumsy” and “unintentionally funny” – to which Scott replied with the following solid gold banger: “The French don’t even like themselves.”

            But don’t think that insulting an entire country is enough for Scott. Speaking to the Sunday Times’s Jonathan Dean last weekend, he also reserved some ire for historians, some of whom have suggested that Napoleon might not be the most rigorously accurate film ever made. Scott responded by addressing the entire historian community. “Excuse me, mate, were you there?” he raged. “No? Well, shut the fuck up then.”

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    10 months ago

    I mean it can’t be worse than the Halo show, at least this looks decent from the trailer.

    Can guarantee it’ll be better than getting mauled by a Deathclaw either way.

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    10 months ago

    Honestly I can’t wait to watch this. Consider me hyped!

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    10 months ago

    Oh no… The time has come to shit all over two legendary games again… for the second time.

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    I haven’t found a place in my life for these types of TV series. Looks good though just prefer the complete arc of a movie or a mini-series.

    Sets look kind of big budget artificial, soapy? Like that is some wicked blue dye on the suits, very fresh. Lovely hair and makeup. All good though I realize it’s just not my thing. A cinematic 90 minute fallout movie laser focused on 2-3 character arcs would be exciting to me.

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      Yeah it looks like it’s artificial almost on purpose. The vault opening and there’s a neat little skull in the corner…

      Tbh I don’t mind shitty adaptations that fan service but I think they are missing the mark on this one. I hope I’m wrong tho.