Holy crap!
He made a career out of getting hit by stuff.
Holy crap!
Yep! he is one of fiction's greatest asholes in it.Is that the toxic waste dude from RoboCop?
EDIT: Can't you watch Marco Polo in Dolby Vision? I'd check that out for the HDR alone.
Rome is truly a cut above schlocky Starz type stuff and network TV because the writing, performances and set and costume design contribute to a sense of verisimilitude that's really not been paralleled by anything other than perhaps deadwood. Rome is better than thrones by a wide marginRome was close, but I'd imagine it'd seem like a STARZ show today in comparison to new stuff. Rome was a great fucking show, I wish that Game of Thrones had been out before it to prove that an expensive show could pay off.
Westworld has really good production value today, too. But it's not like... a spectacle like GoT is.
Not true. Im loving proofYes. If you liked GoT is scientifically impossible for you to not like Rome.
Rome is truly a cut above schlocky Starz type stuff and network TV because the writing, performances and set and costume design contribute to a sense of verisimilitude that's really not been paralleled by anything other than perhaps deadwood. Rome is better than thrones by a wide margin
It's a subjective thing at the end of the day, but I really feel that the budget and set design is used in subtle ways that make the world feel more lived in - e.g. a forum teeming with slaves and merchants, and interiror villa scenes where people plot treacheries. Less so with dragons and battle scenes with thousands of extras. Definitely a subjective thing though!I *loved* Rome when it came out, one of my favorite shows ever and I used to consider it as good as The SOpranos and The Wire, which I was watching all aorund that time... but... I'm fearful of watching it again because I feel like the last ~20 years of insane TV budgets will make it feel cheesy.
I gave it an honest shot. I tried it between GOT season 6 and 7 hiatus to tide me over. Made 4 episodes in before I gave up. I even love Roman history. Seemed perfect for me. But it was not to be
From memory, episode 4 of season 1 is where it starts to pickup and from there it's just a constant increase in quality episode after episode until the end.Wow, I am amazed at people saying Black Sails. My wife and I tried to get into a few weeks ago but couldn't get past 4-5 episodes. We literally said it felt like the poorman's GoT. Dialogue was cheezy, poor acting, forgettable sets and incredibly slow. So do things get a lot better?
edit - Just saw what Fatoy said above: "Black Sails is definitely the answer, but you need to ride out quite a slow (but still good) first season". We will have to keep powering through. We really wanted to like it.
They saw the popularity of Hardhome and decided to repeat it over and over again.Rome
The Last Kingdom
Black Sails
All impressive "period" pieces in their own right.
They literally lost the plot partly because of their obsession with just being the biggest and most ridiculous show on TV. Post S4 it seemed each season was just building up to some insane set piece.