BLOODED_hands
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Supposed to be another wife for The Baron Quinn. She's banging the dad and the son.
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Into the Badlands - Post-apocalyptic kung-fu meets steampunk western - Sundays on AMC
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Supposed to be another wife for The Baron Quinn. She's banging the dad and the son.
Baroquemantic
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That was a really good pilot, in my opinion. Looking forward to the rest of the season.
You might get this reference. But it would be awesome if Cynthia Rothrock appeared as the Widow's mentor.
If the fights are this damn good I'm cool with that. I don't need action all the time. I just need to be completely satisfied with the fights they do have and I was. In fact I'm glad they're weren't any at the end and instead it was more character drama.
It makes sense now why the son was upset about the other wife. I'm really curious as to what the main wife Lydia is going to do. She knows what Sunny did. I wouldn't be surprised if in the end she ends up taking control from Quinn instead of the Widow or the son..
Was she the one the Baron was with in the garden?
BLOODED_hands
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Yep.
Huh, k. For some reason, I thought the hair color was different.
Oh, well good. Reason to keep watching because the story is pretty bad. I couldn't care about the baron or the baron's in-fighting. The mysterious kid trope is a trope that's as old as time.
I just want to see Sunny fucking people up. Repeatedly.
styl3s
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Sadly never got into anime but i did grow up with badly dubbed 70s-90s hong kong movies (a lot bootlegged from flea markets) and yeah it's right up my ally.
I wish they would of thrown all the money at Sammo to have him play a Baron.
Now i want this and and Biao.
bluesun.exe
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Good pilot looking forward the rest of the season. Didn't expect M.K going into the avatar state.
Yes.....I'll be seeing you guys here everyone week. First episode had me hooked. Acting is ok....but I wasn't expecting anything amazing. Daniel Wu does a decent enough job for me....can't wait to see how crazy some fight scenes get....especially knowing there is at least 2 an episode.
DangerMouse
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Yup.
Baroquemantic
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This is pretty much me.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
BLOODED_hands
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It was a bit dark but I noticed she looked similar and then it clicked.
I also hope they explain at some point why guns aren't usable. I don't see people unanimously agreeing not to use them if they have them. Are not able to reproduce them and the bullets or is something else stopping it? Also how did the world regress to this state?
They have cars and motorcycles. Stands to reason they can be repaired so there is some industry either left or being rebuilt. They should be past the level where some gun types can be manufactured.
They have cars and motorcycles. Stands to reason they can be repaired so there is some industry either left or being rebuilt. They should be past the level where some gun types can be manufactured.
peaceiscloser
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Yeah, I mean the 100,000 folds of glorious Nippon steel they use on the swords has to be at least more complex to manufacture to make than gunpowder or some kind of variant.
That car really threw me for a loop.
CrunchyFrog
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It shows, that was some A-grade fight choreography, and holy crap some of the most brutal I've ever seen on TV, Game of Thrones included.
The fight scenes in this are amazing, but I feel this episode was bogged down in trying to do the whole in medias res lore dump thing. Like that whole 5 minute sequence with sonny and his girlfriend, from making out to I can't read to I'm preggers to we have to kill it to why don't you love me. Like character development whiplash. This should've been a 90 minute to 2 hour premiere. The dialogue is pretty meh, and a lot of the setups feel really tropey and obvious. It's readily apparent the show is banking on the kung fu action set pieces (for which every bit of praise is earned), and it's got a really great hook and aesthetic, just wish they'd spent more time making us actually care about some of these characters in the first hour.
Well they mentioned oil for use in factories, and Sonny point blank referenced Cat in the Hat at one point, so we're definitely dealing with an earth that was at least 1950's level of development before going all apocalypse-y. I'm expecting they'll get into the Badlands history, Baron's rise to power, lack of guns in due time.
NipplesAndToes23
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This was pretty ok, I'll watch the next episode.
How ole girl gonna ask him to do something for him after sending assassins on him?
How ole girl gonna ask him to do something for him after sending assassins on him?
ShadowSwordmaster
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I enjoyed what I saw in the first episode.
The rain fight was uploaded by AMC. It was said before but I really appreciate they all attacked at the same time and kept trying to after the initial opening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmpQALpFDBQ
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That's why the doctor seems so familar. I knew I had seen her before. She played Astrid in CW's The Tomorrow People.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmpQALpFDBQ
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That's why the doctor seems so familar. I knew I had seen her before. She played Astrid in CW's The Tomorrow People.
More_Badass
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Love shots like this
the_firewithin
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Yooooo these fight scenes are brutal. I love it
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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This was fun. the fight scenes were really well done.
RatskyWatsky
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Not too bad, but lots of exposition (understandable for a pilot) and clunky dialog. Still, the acting was solid and the fight choreography was spectacular. I can't wait to see what kind of crazy shit Sunny gets into next.
Tim the Wiz
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The fight scenes are great but... I guess Banshee has spoiled me?
It's possible to make a show with great fight scenes and a more than decent everything else.
Yup. This world makes little sense so far.
It's possible to make a show with great fight scenes and a more than decent everything else.
Yup. This world makes little sense so far.
Cant believe daniel wu is 41 already.
I remember reading about him in the early 2000s when he started doing Hong Kong films -especially since he was from the sf bay area. Its ways cool seeing the american born asian actors make a career in the homeland - i was wondering when he'd try his luck back here in the states.
Hoping the rest of the series is good
I remember reading about him in the early 2000s when he started doing Hong Kong films -especially since he was from the sf bay area. Its ways cool seeing the american born asian actors make a career in the homeland - i was wondering when he'd try his luck back here in the states.
Hoping the rest of the series is good
Sammo is still pretty busy in Hong Kong. IIRC he is now working on a wuxia movie with Stephen Chow. Knowing how slowly Chow works (especially for HK movies) he'll probably be tied up with that for a while. Plus I think Martial Law soured him for working on US TV again.
It would be cool to have more HK or HK related actors in the show though. A lot of them (especially the younger ones) speak English pretty well. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Stephen Fung pop up in at least a small role, or maybe Maggie Q since she used to date Daniel Wu.
Dominican Power
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I liked it.
Cardon
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Really enjoyed ep1. Some of the dialog/writing was a tad rough though that could just be due to it being the first episode and all so the show may not have found its footing per say.
All in all I'm excited to see where things progress and the concept as a whole slightly reminds me of the action movie Bunraku which I loved.
All in all I'm excited to see where things progress and the concept as a whole slightly reminds me of the action movie Bunraku which I loved.
Yo what the fuck? This motherfucker went Avatar State.
Didn't know this was that type of show. This anime as fuck.
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That fight scene in the rain on some Daredevil shit. Legit truth.
Rest of the episode was good. Can't stand MK, but I'm in for the ride.
Curious to see what the ratings are like.
Didn't know this was that type of show. This anime as fuck.
edit;
That fight scene in the rain on some Daredevil shit. Legit truth.
Rest of the episode was good. Can't stand MK, but I'm in for the ride.
Curious to see what the ratings are like.
dead souls
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Watched this tonight. Count me in the "Great fights, everything else was garbage" camp.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Are people honestly bothered by the writing?
This is meant to be a throwback to exaggerated as fuck kung-fu movies of the early days.
The writing is bad on purpose, or rather, it's not the focus. It's not the point of the show. And I don't mean that in a "it's not that type of show" way.
This is meant to be a throwback to exaggerated as fuck kung-fu movies of the early days.
The writing is bad on purpose, or rather, it's not the focus. It's not the point of the show. And I don't mean that in a "it's not that type of show" way.
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