HBO: The Last of Us

[VinylGuy]

This thread is for saying nice things about the show only

I actually want to see a thread like that now. I think it'd be hilarious. Or, oh wait, isn't that the SW forum?

[VinylGuy]

just finished 4 and 5 and the show got better yeah. Its TWD but better, and the production value seems to be also more expensive.

I liked the ending of 5 enough.

[Mecca]

I guess the bloater was a practical effect, but it looked very CGI to me

[Simple Torture]

I guess the bloater was a practical effect, but it looked very CGI to me

When I hear "It's a practical effect!" about anything, I always assume it was cleaned up/sharpened/modified with VFX later, I don't think it means what people assume it means (i.e., all in-camera effects and actual, tangible objects on set).

[Mecca]

I guess the bloater was a practical effect, but it looked very CGI to me

When I hear "It's a practical effect!" about anything, I always assume it was cleaned up/sharpened/modified with VFX later, I don't think it means what people assume it means (i.e., all in-camera effects and actual, tangible objects on set).

It was a guy in a suit at the genesis of the shot at least

[Simple Torture]

I guess the bloater was a practical effect, but it looked very CGI to me

When I hear "It's a practical effect!" about anything, I always assume it was cleaned up/sharpened/modified with VFX later, I don't think it means what people assume it means (i.e., all in-camera effects and actual, tangible objects on set).

It was a guy in a suit at the genesis of the shot at least

Yeah, I have no doubt, I've seen a few behind-the-scenes shots and they went all-out with the fungi makeup/prosthetics.

[Coach]

I read somewhere that they banned the word "zombie" on the set of this because they insist these aren't zombies since it's a fungus. Very pretentious and speaks to the issue I think some are having with this show.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Coach]

I don’t understand how that underscores an issue some are having?

How this show seems like just another paint by numbers end of the world, zombie show.

[Ello Sailor]

1. They're still zombies. 2. No one gives a shit what they call the zombies behind the scenes.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[spike]

Confirmed: this show is way too far up its own arse

[Ello Sailor]

Cope harder, toots.

[Coach]

https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/the-last- ... shows-set/

This word is dead to them.

Creators of the hit HBO adaptation of “The Last of Us” are being called “pretentious” after banning the word “zombie” on the television show’s set, reported the Motion Picture Association site The Credits.

“We weren’t allowed to say the Z word on set,” said cinematographer Eben Bolter. “It was like a banned word. They were the ‘infected.’ We weren’t a zombie show.”

Based on a video game of the same name, “The Last of Us” takes place in a post-apocalyptic 2023 where many humans have been reduced to “zombie-like” creatures after an outbreak of a mutated cordyceps fungus in 2003.

[Coach]

I don’t understand how that underscores an issue some are having?

How this show seems like just another paint by numbers end of the world, zombie show.

The character development in five episodes has surpassed what I saw in five seasons of The Walking Dead, IMO.

I bowed out of Walking Dead after like season five. I actually prefer it to Last of Us, but again, that's just personal opinion.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[JuanHamm]

If this was The Walking Dead we'd have spent two seasons in Kansas City and somehow accomplished less story telling.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Coach]

https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/the-last-of-us-creators-banned-this-word-on-the-shows-set/

This word is dead to them.

Creators of the hit HBO adaptation of “The Last of Us” are being called “pretentious” after banning the word “zombie” on the television show’s set, reported the Motion Picture Association site The Credits.

“We weren’t allowed to say the Z word on set,” said cinematographer Eben Bolter. “It was like a banned word. They were the ‘infected.’ We weren’t a zombie show.”

Based on a video game of the same name, “The Last of Us” takes place in a post-apocalyptic 2023 where many humans have been reduced to “zombie-like” creatures after an outbreak of a mutated cordyceps fungus in 2003.

Sounds like the show runners wanted to foster the philosophy that this was a love story first and foremost. Makes sense to me.

My take is that they were more worried about being compared to other zombie movies

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.