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cimoreneSo the visuals of Blood and Shadow or - was it Shadow and Bone? Where am I getting Blood then? Anyway, the visuals looked good (apart from the universal refusal of film media to tie up long hair realistically and practically in historical/fighting contexts which continues to enrage me each and every time because I'm easy to enrage like that), and so I told Wax she could take her headphones off so I could hear it as well.
It quickly surpassed my threshold for how much bad dialogue and cheesy tropes I will tolerate before throwing a piece of literature or media across the room, literally or figuratively.
My main question is whether the dialogue was already this bad before it became a screenplay or not, but I'm increasingly suspecting that it was, or at least, close to it, because of the selection of tropes and topics, like the awkward and overly contemporary flirting exchanges, for example, and even more obviously out of place feisty, spunky, and witty ("") comebacks that seem completely out of place given their background.
This reminds me a lot of watching The Witcher, actually, although the dialogue isn't quite as bad, I think. Or maybe I was just feeling more irritable then.
It's a shame people with decent concepts and plots don't more often have a writing partner to make sure the dialogue is good. Or a script polish by Carrie Fisher. Or maybe an incisively funny rewrite by Helen.
It quickly surpassed my threshold for how much bad dialogue and cheesy tropes I will tolerate before throwing a piece of literature or media across the room, literally or figuratively.
My main question is whether the dialogue was already this bad before it became a screenplay or not, but I'm increasingly suspecting that it was, or at least, close to it, because of the selection of tropes and topics, like the awkward and overly contemporary flirting exchanges, for example, and even more obviously out of place feisty, spunky, and witty ("") comebacks that seem completely out of place given their background.
This reminds me a lot of watching The Witcher, actually, although the dialogue isn't quite as bad, I think. Or maybe I was just feeling more irritable then.
It's a shame people with decent concepts and plots don't more often have a writing partner to make sure the dialogue is good. Or a script polish by Carrie Fisher. Or maybe an incisively funny rewrite by Helen.
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Date: 24 Apr 2021 11:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 25 Apr 2021 12:44 pm (UTC)I would have too, but Wax almost never stops watching something, even if she has concluded it's bad already. She watches things that she expects to be bad just for fun, actually, without necessarily holding that against it... sort of like I do with fic sometimes I suppose. I could've left the room obviously, but there were cats on the sofa...