Favorite Film and TV Characters

[StCapps]

Game of Thrones and Westworld are the two most overrated shows on Television these days. If one of those is your favorite show, and you are shitting on the all-time greats, your taste in television is garbage.

[Smitty-48]

My father's favorite films were Morgan, High Noon, and The Hill, in that order.

[Smitty-48]

My father loved Platoon and Apocalypse Now as well, altho he always sided with that rat Elias and he thought Kilgore was crazy.

[brewster]

Sounds like a bad way to watch, it's just too rich a canvas.

Meh - I've seen the early seasons a lot. Take the total current seasons and subtract 1. That's how many times I've seen each season. I'm mostly skipping through the story lines of the dead people and focusing on the nuances that led us up to where we are, now, for the characters who are still alive.

I'll likely skip through Arya's journey of the many faces religion. I didn't enjoy most of that section.

Ah, I thought it was your 1st time! I've seen it all at least twice, just rewatched S7 with my daughter. That Braavos section is probably the weakest thread in the whole series. There was no reason at all that the waif needed to stab her what should be mortally, making us all like WTF? when she recovers.

Westworld was definitely worth an immediate rewatch. I sometimes rewatch particularity good episodes of Mrs Maisel immediately, it's so damn dense with details. Nothing I rewatch regularly, some things I drag out when there's nothing else I want to watch. Still only partway through Sharpe's Rifles again. Had to stop watching Sharpe's Company because it was just stupid he didn't kill Hakeswill immediately. Makes it hard when you know what a huge mistake it is. Common problem in rewatching, when you find yourself screaming at the screen "nooooo!!"

[Kath]

There was no reason at all that the waif needed to stab her what should be mortally, making us all like WTF? when she recovers.

You mean people shouldn't be able to run down and defeat their enemy after having been beaten to a pulp and stabbed?

Yeah. :/

I could have overlooked the face changing thing, using the whole, "magic smoke babies who kill are a thing," concept as a basis. Unless they give us some sort of resolution where she has magical recovery abilities like Jon does, I'm going to call it lazy writing for the sake of gratuitous violence.

[Kath]

You don't understand how good TV drama can be unless you've seen at least one of The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad. It's like living in a TV drama cave if you haven't watched at least one in it's entirety.

Your OPINION is noted, but unless you have a badge called, "100% of the earth agrees that StCapps is the leading expert on knowing what's good tv," it's literally just some random guy with questionable taste in gay men's sports spouting off on the intertubes.

[brewster]

There was no reason at all that the waif needed to stab her what should be mortally, making us all like WTF? when she recovers.

You mean people shouldn't be able to run down and defeat their enemy after having been beaten to a pulp and stabbed?

Yeah. :/

I could have overlooked the face changing thing, using the whole, "magic smoke babies who kill are a thing," concept as a basis. Unless they give us some sort of resolution where she has magical recovery abilities like Jon does, I'm going to call it lazy writing for the sake of gratuitous violence.

And there's the problem with fantasy in general. One of the things I like about GoT is how little magic there is. My guess is he'd have rather been writing historical fiction but was pigeonholed as a fantasy writer.

[Kath]

I only rewatch movies, but I've rewatched my greatest of all time list dozens of times.

Can you narrow down to one favorite of all time? If forced to choose, I'd go with The Great Escape. I'll watch it with you today, even if I saw it yesterday.

Favorite is Kubrick's Space Odyssey, but very close to that singularity is a celestial orbit which includes the likes of The Godfather I & II, Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now Redux, and The Last of the Mohicans.

That's a decent list, but sometimes I think I'm the only person on the planet who didn't enjoy Space Odyssey. I watched it with my dad. Hated it. Watched it with friends. Hated it again.

I don't get it.

[Kath]

And there's the problem with fantasy in general. One of the things I like about GoT is how little magic there is. My guess is he'd have rather been writing historical fiction but was pigeonholed as a fantasy writer.

I think the lack of magic early on was what made smoke baby an issue for me. It literally came out of nowhere ...... didn't she give birth like 15 minutes after she told Stannis she'd give him a baby? And Davos made a, "damn, that was strange," face, but he never mentioned it again. I think if I saw a woman give birth to a smoke baby, I'd have a question or two.

[Smitty-48]

Can you narrow down to one favorite of all time? If forced to choose, I'd go with The Great Escape. I'll watch it with you today, even if I saw it yesterday.

Favorite is Kubrick's Space Odyssey, but very close to that singularity is a celestial orbit which includes the likes of The Godfather I & II, Lawrence of Arabia, Apocalypse Now Redux, and The Last of the Mohicans.

That's a decent list, but sometimes I think I'm the only person on the planet who didn't enjoy Space Odyssey. I watched it with my dad. Hated it. Watched it with friends. Hated it again.

I don't get it.

Not a chick flick, tru dat.

There's a lot of things which go into it, a cinematic masterpiece, timeless work of genius.

Hard sci-fi is none the less certainly a niche.

Moreover, I'm all about the director, the subject can be anything, for me, Kubrick is the greatest of them all.