Caltrops - Peter Molyneux's The Movies





	[quote name="fabio"]I've never read the books, but good lord this series has all the glacial pacing of a Mary Worth comic. There's a saying in screenwriting on when in your timeline to being: "Wherever the story starts." I guess they were too insistent on sticking to the book, because otherwise they would have started right when Boromir arrives at the capital. Up until then it's over two hours of him and the king exchanging old drinking stories while armies meander along a road (half the series is made up of such scenes). Scenes are endless repetition of exposition and character traits we already know. Half a dozen scenes of the midget telling the kid "the wall" is a shitty place to live; we get it. Half a dozen of the exact same bonding/training scenes at "the wall"; we get it. Cram in twenty more of the mother being a worrywort or someone worrying at the kid's bedside. We immediately know all blondes are evil. The main characters verbally express that the blondes are evil and suspect them in murder. The mother gets a letter casting suspicion that they're evil. She informs Boromir (after traveling down a long road) that they should be suspicious of the blondes when they already were (she then goes back on the road). Boromir confronts the blonde and we learn the story how the evil blond killed the last king and it's suspected he would do so again. This is immediately followed by a scene where the king confronts the blonde for the exact same story. This is reminding me of The Phantom Menace where everything that happens is worthless to the overall story and could have been summed up in 10 minute between scenes where things actually happen. It's also reminding me of Plinkett's other prequel criticism: everything is shot flat and boring with 2 people talking in front of a green screen; couches replaced by wooden chairs. Dialog? I could see these lines seeming clever when read on paper (by nerds), but it's just amateurish sounding when spoken aloud. It's like the author was inspired by Dune to write a book about court politics, but thought he needed to dial down the subtext. (the only sexual position is doggie) I quit halfway through episode 4 somewhere around the 14th scene of ponytailed Mongols riding horses down a road. Does anything ever happen? [/quote]