Red Mosquito

tree_ wrote:

Jorge wrote: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?

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

Simple Torture wrote:

Mecca wrote: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 wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

Mecca wrote: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

Steve Albini wrote: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.

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

Steve Albini wrote: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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Coach wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote: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.

Steve Albini wrote: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.

Steve Albini wrote: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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Coach wrote: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.

Steve Albini wrote: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.