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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6 Offseason Thread
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Unpopular opinion, but I don't really like McKellan as a film actor anymore. He was absolutely amazing in LOTR, but he never had anything meaty to do in X-Men, and in The Hobbit he became a parody of himself. I hear Mr. Holmes is pretty bad, too. He's brilliant on stage, though.
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I haven't been keeping up with Mr. Holmes, so I don't know how good or bad he may be in that, and frankly everything in The Hobbit kind of became a parody of itself. Can't deny though that in film at least he's kind of been coasting on the fame of being the old British guy everyone knows.
Damphair should be cast by a homeless man they find in a dumpster. Just pure, raw man from a dumpster.
Steelyuhas
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All this casting news
petethepanda
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Max von Fucking Sydow. Holy shit.
demosthenes
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I like this news. Bran segments can be really good next season if they do it right.
edit: Damn, dude is 86.
edit: Damn, dude is 86.
Atraveller
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Oh yeah, no more mall santa in a tree!
Seriously I thought he had already died.
Sydow as Bloodraven, awesome. I feel sorry for the previous actor though. Though he did get paid to sit in a tree and say one line, it's hard to beat a gig like that. They definitely need to update his visuals. He didn't even have one eye. The dude even says, "With a thousand eyes, and one." THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE IF YOU HAVE TWO EYES.
Shuggananas
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ain't happening, let it go
But he is unemployed now, there is no better time to do it!
Latvian Hitman
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I mean, yeah- of course he was. But that was hardly the actor's fault. Great news, though. They don't get any better than Ming, the Merciless himself.
RatskyWatsky
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It's Peter O'Toole in Caligula all over again.
Why settle for Mads now? Clearly, we need to set our sights higher.
Daniel Day-Lewis for Euron!
I have to ask. Has Mads ever done an English accent?
None of us will be satisfied but I think there might be some effort to make him look a little bit more of the earth.
Who knows what it would take to get Day-Lewis into any kind of TV show.
None of us will be satisfied but I think there might be some effort to make him look a little bit more of the earth.
Who knows what it would take to get Day-Lewis into any kind of TV show.
She's definitely the MVP.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I think Euron could get away with having a Danish accent, tbh.
We need somebody a lot manlier and gruffer.
Hmmmmmm. I suppose they could work that out if they had to.
I'm pretty sure all the actors who need it have accent coaches. I think Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has one. He also happens to be close friends with Mads so this has to happen.
What, the critically acclaimed Mr Holmes for which McKellan has been consistently praised for his excellent performance?
True. It's just that Mads' accent is THICK. Although, he has smoothed it out a bit this year on Hannibal so I don't suppose it'd be like Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men(you could tell he was straining but in that case it added to the eeriness of the performance).
I think it helps that the Ironborn in the show so far have all sounded a bit rougher.
Steelyuhas
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I was trying to think of what I've seen Mads in where his accent wasn't very thick and I remembered it was the (not good) Clash of the Titans. Here's a scene with him.
I think Mads is great, but honestly I've never seen him as Euron, especially with how they've cast the Greyjoys. I'm sure he could give an interesting performance if they wanted to go that direction though.
I think Mads is great, but honestly I've never seen him as Euron, especially with how they've cast the Greyjoys. I'm sure he could give an interesting performance if they wanted to go that direction though.
Has it been critically acclaimed? I see. However, I don't decide whether I'm interested in a movie or not by what critics say.
My brother (who I trust a lot as far as movies go), saw it and said that it was nothing special, and that McKellan plays the same old charming bumbling character he usually plays (Magneto being an exception - he's just boring). And the twist in the plot literally amounts to
"it wasn't the bees, it was the wasps!"
Anyway, this is off topic.
Gabriel_Logan
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His performance was okay. The movie was really boring and dull. Its not his best work.
bengraven
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How weird is it that everything we're going to see, most likely, is fresh and new to all of us?
And am I the only one a bit scared?
Oh dammit I shouldn't have read your spoiler. I thought we were in GOT territory.
And am I the only one a bit scared?
Oh dammit I shouldn't have read your spoiler. I thought we were in GOT territory.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
They gonna spend all their money on one episode again?
Lactose_Intolerant
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The Wall is coming down
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Frost Pussy wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Nah, isn't he supposed to be like tough bulldog type? Get ray winstone for him
Just in time for the incomparable Alliser Thorne to refer to the whitewalkers as a bunch of traitorous bastards.
I'll bet whitewalker Benjen Stark kills Alliser himself.
It is about fucking time to learn about Benjen's fate.
That's when Tyene becomes a pantless ice zombie.
That's when Tyene becomes a pantless ice zombie.
Oh, those Dothraki! They're descended from ape-men, we can't blame them for their simple ideals.
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