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cindidindi76 |
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It was only 2 hours. Two one hour episodes.
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scepticA |
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I gave up on it about 40 minutes into the 3rd hour. Esoteric isn't quite right - perhaps "jumbled mess" is more accurate. They did the cardinal
sin in such dramas - they made me not give a damn.
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GameShowMyAss |
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That was the best hour so far, too. The fourth hour was pretty slow, but there was some payoff. I'm liking it, so I'll stick it out - it probably helps that I'm not 100% in love with the original series. It's also totally geared toward a U.K. audience, which I guess is appropriate. |
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barnabusb |
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Watching it is like a rollercoaster of liking it and then hating it and then liking it again and then being annoyed by it. The dialogue seems really clunky and
misplaced, and the plot is sort of jumbled and weird, but then again, it IS The Prisoner. I haven't watched the third part yet, but I liked the ending of
the second part with the whole I'm-not-your-brother thing and stuff.
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GameShowMyAss |
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I watched it all - I win! I"M NUMBER ONE So I liked all of the odd-numbered eps and not so much the evens. The first one because it wasn't hopeless yet, the third one for the surveilance theme & because it reminded me of Wild Palms, and the fifth one for all of the mindfuckery & Ian McKellen's performance. Here's a link to an article that explains how it all played out, and I tend to agree. It made sense to make the village virtual, but at that point it wasn't really the same concept any more. Oh well. I don't regret watching it, but I would only recommend it to people I hate who just hit their head and aren't supposed to fall asleep or they'll die. http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/11/18/the-prisoner-finale-now-it-can-be-told/ |
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Mrs Krista Boogie |
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I watched all 6 hours too. Don't know why. I feel like either it was pretty bad or I'm pretty stupid. On the other hand, Jim Caviezel is really nice to
look at and I enjoyed listening to British people doing really horrible American accents (4-15/Lucy), which doesn't happen too often. In a weird way, I
enjoyed it.
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Sigvold |
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It seemed like the stole a lot of story gimmicks from Lost == jumping around through time, dreams vs reality, etc... The Prisoner was not as good as Lost in
making clear the chronology of events
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micknrc |
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Mrs Krista Boogie wrote: I know why. Same reason I did. Jim Caviezel is hot when he's macking on females. If it hadn't been for so much tongue action, I'd have given up. That said, at least this new version gave us an explanation (weak though it was) for the Village. Unlike the old version, which never had time to explain itself. |
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cabanachat |
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In the course of the six hours of my life I'll never get back cuz I was watching this pretentious pile, there were several moments when I thought I could
get into it -- that if I just HUNG ON there'd have to eventually be at least a miniscule payoff of some sort. I don't necessarily need linear
narrative, I don't even need much of a plot if the characters hold some interest. Hell, I don't even need behavior that makes any logical sense if
it's in the context of some greater meaning. But if you can't be bothered with any of the above, please have the common decency NOT to take
up six fucking hours of people's lives, essentially jumping up and down on the high dive screaming "Look at ME!!!"
I struggle, now that it's finally over, to remind myself of even those fleeting moments of apparent promise, since in retrospect it all seems like a strenuous, unlubricated masturbation session that not once came within miles of an orgasm. Perhaps s few wisps of monetary amusement, but after all is said and done, I'm left with nothing but chafing and a shallowness of breath. |
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GameShowMyAss |
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I liked the fiber-optic surveilance shit, esp how they all started hearing the whirring of the drill nearby. Then to have the little girl shipped off for spying on #2 was pretty good. Not that it made sense as a plot point, since there was no physical village and all. then um.... I guess the ep where Ian McKellen slowly deteriorated wasn't bd either. That's about all I got. |
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blockhose |
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What a colossal turd this is turning out to be.
Some of the worst writing I've... wait, this is television. Shit writing is the norm. |
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barnabusb |
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I liked the brief scene in episode three when Six was shipped off to the tunnel and they played that Beach Boys song or whatever while they threw a bag on his
head and dragged him around. That was 30 seconds of inspired weirdness, I thought.
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samsgap |
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I love the original series and was looking forward to this, but found it to be a big letdown. I watched the first two hours and thought meh. But I still gave
it a chance to get better and started to watch the 3rd & 4th hours. Then I fell asleep of boredom halfway through that. I didn't even bother with the
last two hour part. As is often the case...the original was so much better than the re-make.
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Mrs Krista Boogie |
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I was playing Yahtzee on my Blackberry while watching it, so that may explain my enjoyment of it. It also contributed to my migraine.
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scepticA |
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Bumping this thread in the event that AMC ever puts this pile of steaming drek back on the air.
Do not watch it. It is a muddled, confused, pretentious pile of dung that would have garnered an F in a high school media classroom. I kept waiting for the big payoff, but found myself throwing up my hands (vs. merely throwing up, which I was sorely tempted to do) on several occasions. Useless characters, pointless arcs, stories that simply ended with no purpose... You get the feeling that this was the result of a brilliant pitch for a half-thought idea. You have been warned. |
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blockhose |
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What a waste of acting talent and concept.
The writers should be condemned to working the McD's drivethru to their dying days. |
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