pink poodle
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Nappy wipes are for babies and I'm a grown up....Wet Ones for the win. Beats a fist full of leaves .
Little Things You Love
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Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
Suddenly the uninteresting becomes highly desirable.
pink poodle
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Don't keep your expectations too high....even if James Earl Jones was reading them the books get pretty ordinary very quickly. I suspect the show follows suit....
Breaka
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This is read by some geezer by the name of Roy Dotrice. Apparently he's received quite a few commendations for ASoIaF, voicing more than 500 distinct characters.
I've read the books but feel that I haven't quite picked up a few vital points of the plot and other twists. This is probably because the majority of the time spent reading each book I've been sucking down beers whilst camping.
The show is pretty ordinary as far as I'm concerned. There's a few vital character's that haven't been introduced as well as a reluctancy to follow the written version too closely.
pink poodle
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The books did have a few fairly subtle aspects.
Don't be starting me on not following the books....you'll have to sit through all my pent up Hobbit rage all over again. The Lord of the Rings films were shit enough, but somehow the Hobbit is making them look good! I would rather have watched Phantom Menace.
Breaka
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I often wonder why the on screen plot differs from a book? If the cunt was good enough to be made into a movie then why change it?
Ohhh that's right, movies are made for snotty nosed kids to watch during school holidays and women to drag their unwilling husbands, boyfriends or bbfs along to. So in lieu of blood shed or an intriguing plot consistent to the novel we get corny one liners, Steven Segal type karate chop bullshit where the bad guys fall overand die type violence and terrible, soppy love stories.
Darn the masses!
Norco Maniac
Is back!
Yet another reason why I don't read books on the "popular" lists or watch TV.
wombat
Lives in a hole
Seriously? Perhaps because they're totally different mediums, and a 36 hour movie where half of the screentime was a voiceover of the protagonist's inner dialogue would, you know, suck?
Adapting a book to the screen has to be a fucking tough job. Most good books are so long that you're going to have to cut stuff, but how do you do that? Rework the story so it makes sense, and piss off lovers of the book, or don't rework it and end up with a shitful, disjointed plot that only makes sense to those who already know the story?
Not to say I don't think some adaptations are absolute shite, but I can understand how hard a thing it must be to get right.
As for GoT, I found the first couple if books a little tedious, and although the show isn't the best show ever, the production is fantastic and its damn entertaining. I've stopped reading the books because I'll enjoy the show more without them, and it's easy enough for me to find something I'd rather read.
Breaka
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Yes, all very valid points Wombat. I agree with most of that. But my biggest gripe with GoT on screen is that they've neglected to include some things but added other things. Like the exclusion of particular characters that would in essence make it even MORE entertaining if they had of kept them. Belwas and Coldhands, where are they? Yet they've added a crow called Lok? And other trivial shit like Dario as a piss ant Anglo pretty boy? A Eunuch (Greyworm) soldier that would literally fall on his sword if commanded to showing interest in a servent?
But to bring the thread back on track.
This mornings enduro (moto) ride.
Afternoon of beer, wood fire bbq and more beer.
But to bring the thread back on track.
This mornings enduro (moto) ride.
Afternoon of beer, wood fire bbq and more beer.
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pink poodle
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Read the booms long before the show existed...the first was on a throw out table in major bookstore before it was even a year old. I lost interest when George figured he wasn't selling enough books to keep writing...
As for transforming books into film...the hobbit and lord of the rings are excellent examples of the oppposite of your suggestion wombat. All made unnecessarily longer and padded out with garbage. Second hobbit being the greatest example. The book is short and well paced to make a 2ish hour film. Do we really need 25min of proof orcs can't shoot arrows? Peter jackson should have stopped.making films after meet the feebles. That was a good film.
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dude raised over 36k for potato salad. I have no idea how this is even possible but I might just create one for a new car and who ever contributes I will get thier name painted on the the car. If people are into potato salad im sure ill have a new car soon.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad
dude raised over 36k for potato salad. I have no idea how this is even possible but I might just create one for a new car and who ever contributes I will get thier name painted on the the car. If people are into potato salad im sure ill have a new car soon.
Fatman
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My wife.
About to give birth any day now, she heard how crap a day I had and bought a big feed of Texas BBQ and cold beer for me and had it waiting for me when I got home.
I have the best Mrs ever.
By the way the potato salad at Taste of Texas is bloody good and doesn't cost $36K.
About to give birth any day now, she heard how crap a day I had and bought a big feed of Texas BBQ and cold beer for me and had it waiting for me when I got home.
I have the best Mrs ever.
By the way the potato salad at Taste of Texas is bloody good and doesn't cost $36K.
Elbo
pesky scooter kids git off ma lawn
All the best with the arrival of the little one mate! That 9 months flew by!
kwikee
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Apaches? Where do you live? If there's white cockies in your garden, they weren't Apaches. Either that, or they aren't cockies!! You sure you don't mean Blackhawks? Or Eurocopter Tigers?
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