I kind of wish Bella Ramsey was a better actor. It's really the only critique I have of the show so far. Her facial expressions in last night's episode was so deadpan during the shooting as she's not very good at showing expressions like when she was tearing up. Originally I wasn't a fan of the casting of her or Pascal but Pascal has managed to do Joel justice while I don't think Ramsey is there yet for Ellie.
Yeah, Bella's performance is not really doing it for me. Almost unfair she has to compete with the acting in the Bill & Frank episode, and Pedro absolutely bringing it every episode.
I love all the little details the show is carbon copying from the game, like the joke book and the porn mag in the truck.
Ashley Johnson from the game just absolutely killed the role. Hard to take the role and make it your own.
How about 8th Ave by The Globe? All this and on screen for less than 10 seconds total.
The vehicles I bet were props that were dragged around. I remember when they were filming on the 4th Ave flyover. My wife was wondering what was going on and if there had been a crash. I said it was the set for The Last of Us. She wasn't convinced until I pointed out the police vehicle had "Boston" written on it.
I know a guy who was an extra in the show. When we were chatting, he couldn't tell us what he was doing, but he had mentioned he was getting close with the arts dept and starting to get interested in that type of movie support role as well. I think he had said they were building sets and many on site were helping to call around and/or source materials and things like that. I think that type of interaction, involvement and excitement from the locals is a small part of the reason why some of the actors/actresses and film crew were raving about.
The vehicles I bet were props that were dragged around. I remember when they were filming on the 4th Ave flyover. My wife was wondering what was going on and if there had been a crash. I said it was the set for The Last of Us. She wasn't convinced until I pointed out the police vehicle had "Boston" written on it.
I know a guy who was an extra in the show. When we were chatting, he couldn't tell us what he was doing, but he had mentioned he was getting close with the arts dept and starting to get interested in that type of movie support role as well. I think he had said they were building sets and many on site were helping to call around and/or source materials and things like that. I think that type of interaction, involvement and excitement from the locals is a small part of the reason why some of the actors/actresses and film crew were raving about.
I didn't think I would be this excited about it being filmed in our backyard, but I'm actually buzzing about it.
Is that civic pride I'm feeling?
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I didn't think I would be this excited about it being filmed in our backyard, but I'm actually buzzing about it.
Is that civic pride I'm feeling?
Yeah! nothing says come visit Calgary and see our decrepit city 20 years after a zombie apocalypse!lol At least you don't see the Saddledome which means we prob got a new arena before the Fungi came.
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Are the traffic lights normally vertical? Most lights in Calgary/Alberta are horizontal which is different than almost every other place in North America.
I have to say, I'm really loving the attention to detail in this show.
If, by attention to detail, you mean focusing on minutia versus moving the plot forward, then yes - there is certainly more attention to detail in this story than I have ever before seen, maybe.
If, by attention to detail, you mean focusing on minutia versus moving the plot forward, then yes - there is certainly more attention to detail in this story than I have ever before seen, maybe.
I don't mind if I get 9 episodes and super plot building rather than a rushed 2 hour movie which could have covered the entire 1st game.
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That was the weakest episode to date, but it has some good growth for Joel and Ellie as they warm up to each other more. I think Ramsey is doing a perfectly fine job, although I could have done without the fan service car scene, that felt pasted in. Amazing sets this week and some very nice shots to look at. Unfortunately the Kathleen thing is coming across as some very hamfisted "see this person is blinded by revenge and it hurts everyone, human failings are worse than zombies, isn't that deep" nonsense that represents some of Druckmann's worst instincts. Hopefully they find a way to make that less boringly obvious or at least that it ends quickly.
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Such a small thing, but I really appreciated how Joel talked about gas becoming less efficient over time requiring many fillups to keep going. That and the homemade car battery shows a finer attention to detail than even the games managed
It really is crazy, the attention to detail. They are driving past a movie theater with Matchstick Men aand Underworld on the marqee, films that came out in September 2003 (right around the outbreak).
It really is crazy, the attention to detail. They are driving past a movie theater with Matchstick Men aand Underworld on the marqee, films that came out in September 2003 (right around the outbreak).
I wonder if when a production team gets to do stuff like this from scratch, if it's more likely to avoid movie mistakes. Like instead of pulling down a thing promoting Avatar 2, they have to look up era appropriate movies to put in letters so that it won't be blank.
The building where Joel and Ellie had their gun fight took ~3 weeks to build, all that for 5 minutes of screen time.
At an alleged $10+ million per episode the scale of the production shouldn't be surprising, but it's still wild to see when the production is right in front of you from start to finish.
It really is crazy, the attention to detail. They are driving past a movie theater with Matchstick Men aand Underworld on the marqee, films that came out in September 2003 (right around the outbreak).
And yet at the ending of episode 3 when Ellie and Joel enter Bill's house the lights were still on throughout the house. While it doesn't define how long they were dead, it appears to be in the range of weeks so that diesel generator would have long run out of fuel. I kind of feel that was a pretty obvious miss.
And yet at the ending of episode 3 when Ellie and Joel enter Bill's house the lights were still on throughout the house. While it doesn't define how long they were dead, it appears to be in the range of weeks so that diesel generator would have long run out of fuel. I kind of feel that was a pretty obvious miss.
A couple days at most, I think. Based on the 80s song popping up on the radio just before they leave (?)
