enjoying this french netflix show, “ganglands,” about these two gay gals who are small time thieves and you know how it goes there’s an unexpected bag full of drugs at the place you’re robbing and you get in over your head and one of you ends up kidnapped, only the gal who gets kidnapped, it turns out her uncle is the neil mccauley of france
a fan film! that’s what i couldn’t put my finger on. the lighting, color grading, the video quality all feel like an expensive youtube video from five years ago. it feels like carefully, heavily, storyboarded and art directed to get just the right shot at the expense of everything else at least from the few seconds of footage.
It’s kinda funny because I specifically saw someone say “Of course they need to change stuff for the live version, when you’re making something that isn’t a fan project you have to consider stuff more carefully”
And it ended up looks like solid youtube fan from from a decade ago.
Also weird is…wait is this an episode by episode remake of the TV show? And if so, why in the hell would anyone care? If you want fidelity to the source material there’s the source material. The only possible reason this could justify itself is by taking stuff in it’s own direction and this just looks like the same thing, but instead of a best in class anime series, it’s an extremely mid-tier live show.
It’s funny because I think I saw in an interview they said they’re not just going to remake every episode because what’s the point, but looking at this it seems like what they really meant was they’re doing every episode except any that revolved around Ed.
The live action cartoon vibe feels really off to me, since the original show is heavily influenced by western cinema a music from the 70s. They’d have been better off just going for a Tarantino knock-off heavy film grain kind of look.
I do love the exaggerated designs a lot, but, it’s all going to hinge on whether or not these people can have a scene of just talking to each other without it looking ridiculously out-of-place.
there’s a nature show hosted by will smith coming out that’s called “welcome to earth” but he doesn’t even say the name of the show in the trailer. such a tease.
This show sucked but also ruled. Knight spent 90% of his screentime drinking blood out of wine bottles and sadly playing piano in his converted warehouse apartment, and his partner’s name was “Skanky”
this weeks what we do in the shadows is so visually inventive and dense with jokes and creative special effects it really puts so many animated shows to shame
