mosylu replied to your post “supercut
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mosylu replied to your post “supercut me”
Yeah, I had to keep it to one episode a night because the gore and the slicing of heads and whatnot was Too Much. Also I didn’t like Man of Steel as a movie, but I liked HC in it, he was doing a job of work. And I second the Man from UNCLE as a delightful diversion.
From this, I can pretty well guess that he Worked Very Hard in the Superman role. That seems to be his thing, Really Showing Up for whatever it is. It’s endearing. And it goes really well with Geralt’s world-weary cynical taciturn facade that trips all over itself the very instant a person is in Some Kind oF trOuble and he has to HELP. He’s seen it all before, you know, he’s so neutral, he’s– wait, that grown-ass man who should be able to fend for himself is going to get himself killed! Time to Throw Myself Into It And Get Beat Up And Probably Run Out Of Town!
I’m really not good at binge-watching things, see below for my experience with in fact Man from UNCLE in the midst of a binge. But yes even thus, I don’t think I could handle very much of this in a row. I get it, I get what they’re doing with the slicing and the mutilations and the body horror and whatnot but oh GOd
Actually I’ve sort of been surprised by the tits– like, there have been some sexy tits now and then but actually mostly the tits have been sort of reasonable?? Like ok it makes some sense for this woman to be naked right now, that is just her body and we’re not particularly lingering on it. What I also thought was quite funny specifically in whatever episode it was that I just watched was to juxtapose Geralt being completely unmoved by the orgy of writhing flesh, with him pretending to make much of spying on Yennefer in the bath when it was funny and flirty. Like, I actually thought that was a good line to illustrate, that he’s only being a lech when it’s funny and the woman arguably has agency about it.
I dunno, I could see people reacting either way to it, but that’s how it struck me.
salamanderinspace replied to your post “supercut me”
ive been watch in small doses because i just keep being like… “ugh, this is so violent, this is so macho”
i watch with my husband in the room - when he’s making lunch or whatever - and he’s like - is there dialogue in this show??? it’s just sound effects for solid minutes
Yeah, it’s kind of. It’s a lot. It’s definitely not my usual style. There’s so many wet squelching noises and whatever foley they do for the noise of “blade cutting flesh” that sounds nothing like it (listen I eviscerate things for a living, I know fine well what noise it makes and it is Not That, but it’s probably really good that they’re not more accurate).
I do feel kind of amusingly free about it, though– I’m dragging Dude into watching it with me and openly just saying “I want to watch this whole thing so I can really appreciate the fic because I can smell from here that this is going to have awesome fanfic.”
And i’m not wrong, so far, though I’ve only barely dipped my toes in because honestly with a cast that size and that many years of lore you’re going to miss out on most of it if you just try to dive in.
s-leary reblogged your post and added:
I would like your version extremely, yes, thank you.
The only other thing I have enjoyed Cavill in half this much was The Man from U.N.C.L.E., in which he played another wryly funny character.
I SAW THAT MOVIE! I completely forgot that I saw that movie because I watched it as part of an enormous binge on the flight from Istanbul to Toronto, and I watched, like… ten movies straight, starting with the hour and a half we spent on the runway with no ventilation, I just plugged in and went for it, and consequently I do not remember Man From U.N.C.L.E. except that it was funny and I quite liked Alicia Vikander and then I got distracted by my own stupidity in watching Atomic Blonde in the censored-for-Turkish-Airlines cut, which was, like. bonehead move, there; they left all the fight scenes and mutilations but cut Sofia Boutella’s love scene with Charlize Theron, of course they did. Doh.
So yes, overall this series is… not my ideal entertainment, but worth the price of admission for the bits I like, so far.
mosylu replied to your post “supercut me”
Yeah, I had to keep it to one episode a night because the gore and the slicing of heads and whatnot was Too Much. Also I didn’t like Man of Steel as a movie, but I liked HC in it, he was doing a job of work. And I second the Man from UNCLE as a delightful diversion.
From this, I can pretty well guess that he Worked Very Hard in the Superman role. That seems to be his thing, Really Showing Up for whatever it is. It’s endearing. And it goes really well with Geralt’s world-weary cynical taciturn facade that trips all over itself the very instant a person is in Some Kind oF trOuble and he has to HELP. He’s seen it all before, you know, he’s so neutral, he’s– wait, that grown-ass man who should be able to fend for himself is going to get himself killed! Time to Throw Myself Into It And Get Beat Up And Probably Run Out Of Town!
I’m really not good at binge-watching things, see below for my experience with in fact Man from UNCLE in the midst of a binge. But yes even thus, I don’t think I could handle very much of this in a row. I get it, I get what they’re doing with the slicing and the mutilations and the body horror and whatnot but oh GOd
Actually I’ve sort of been surprised by the tits– like, there have been some sexy tits now and then but actually mostly the tits have been sort of reasonable?? Like ok it makes some sense for this woman to be naked right now, that is just her body and we’re not particularly lingering on it. What I also thought was quite funny specifically in whatever episode it was that I just watched was to juxtapose Geralt being completely unmoved by the orgy of writhing flesh, with him pretending to make much of spying on Yennefer in the bath when it was funny and flirty. Like, I actually thought that was a good line to illustrate, that he’s only being a lech when it’s funny and the woman arguably has agency about it.
I dunno, I could see people reacting either way to it, but that’s how it struck me.
salamanderinspace replied to your post “supercut me”
ive been watch in small doses because i just keep being like… “ugh, this is so violent, this is so macho”
i watch with my husband in the room - when he’s making lunch or whatever - and he’s like - is there dialogue in this show??? it’s just sound effects for solid minutes
Yeah, it’s kind of. It’s a lot. It’s definitely not my usual style. There’s so many wet squelching noises and whatever foley they do for the noise of “blade cutting flesh” that sounds nothing like it (listen I eviscerate things for a living, I know fine well what noise it makes and it is Not That, but it’s probably really good that they’re not more accurate).
I do feel kind of amusingly free about it, though– I’m dragging Dude into watching it with me and openly just saying “I want to watch this whole thing so I can really appreciate the fic because I can smell from here that this is going to have awesome fanfic.”
And i’m not wrong, so far, though I’ve only barely dipped my toes in because honestly with a cast that size and that many years of lore you’re going to miss out on most of it if you just try to dive in.
s-leary reblogged your post and added:
I would like your version extremely, yes, thank you.
The only other thing I have enjoyed Cavill in half this much was The Man from U.N.C.L.E., in which he played another wryly funny character.
I SAW THAT MOVIE! I completely forgot that I saw that movie because I watched it as part of an enormous binge on the flight from Istanbul to Toronto, and I watched, like… ten movies straight, starting with the hour and a half we spent on the runway with no ventilation, I just plugged in and went for it, and consequently I do not remember Man From U.N.C.L.E. except that it was funny and I quite liked Alicia Vikander and then I got distracted by my own stupidity in watching Atomic Blonde in the censored-for-Turkish-Airlines cut, which was, like. bonehead move, there; they left all the fight scenes and mutilations but cut Sofia Boutella’s love scene with Charlize Theron, of course they did. Doh.
So yes, overall this series is… not my ideal entertainment, but worth the price of admission for the bits I like, so far.
