Klaus wrote:
Well I was impressed by the first two episodes at any rate. I thought it was terrific. Amazing effects too that made you wonder just how much money Apple have sunk into this. It reminded me of the Dune movie, and not just because of the brutalism. There's one particular scene in episode one that is pretty jawdropping.
Brilliant effects team, really lavish stuff. Thought the art direction overall was uneven and a bit trite, though I loved those raincoats in the very beginning. Unfortunately, I think overall it's an abhorrent waste of money that totally bastardizes the original work (which wasn't even that amazing to begin with).
That idiot trying to do an American accent for some reason is laughable bad, impossible to watch. Every scene is just buying time, and the plot basically has nothing at stake other than a heavily abstracted possible future that may not even come to pass. Makes every decision by every character essentially pointless. The casting is a hamfisted neoliberal meta-gesture in service to contemporary identity politics that doubles as an excuse for a pathetic romance and getting a girl into her skivvies, the themes are stale 911 allegories using the Roman empire only as a style guide, and they just say the word "math" constantly without actually doing any (or demonstrating how it even applies to their circumstances).
Jared Harris is great and I can see why he'd obviously say yes to this project, but they wrote him so badly he's having trouble making up for it. Thing is a total train wreck as far as I'm concerned.
