Yeah, I dont get that one. She seems fine, acting as Eleven was probably kind of tough, but I cant say that I've ever seen her in anything else that impressed me.
The girl in Godzilla?
She had a really unique look when she was younger. Now she looks more like generic British girl in her 20s.
I could be wrong. Maybe this is the end for her too. All she's got lined up is this:
Mike, Finn Wolfhard, isn't nearly as bad as the others. He's had other acting jobs and is likely to have an ongoing career as an actor....the rest....
Sadie Sink is a legit actor. Millie Bobby Brown will probably be around for a while too.
Yeah, the actor that played Mike gets better throughout the seasons. By the last season, he was actually pretty good. Not nearly as wooden as he was or the rest of the younger boys. I take it back about him.
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How bad was the actor playing Will? Use Ralph Macchio as a benchmark for good child actor to awful adult actor.
I don't know. I don't want to #### on him too hard. In his defense, his character went from being an important plot device at the beginning of the series but with no need for screen presence to eventually becoming one of the more difficult roles by the time the series ended. It was probably a difficulty gradient that a lot of young actors might struggle with. The other characters pretty much all stayed the same, just older. He also probably changed the most physically out of all them over the course of the series going from the small meek boy into someone who looked more like a full grown adult compared to the other boys. I don't think that helped the character either. Still, there were some pretty cringe moments with the acting in his scenes.
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Had a bunch of flying the past two weeks so finally got around to watching this. I mention flying because the excessive runtimes and dragginess in parts probably didn't bother me as much. Any way my two cents:
The good:
Satisfying end for the characters, with some really nice moments for some of them. I liked the rooftop scene for Steve at al. The D&D ending scene I actually didn't like as much, maybe just because of the acting. But then I loved the little kids rushing in.
The bad:
Show became unrecognizable at the end. Scifi wasteland battles and no more of the spooky/mystery vibe from earlier seasons. The 80's feel, learning about the characters as they grew - unfortunately that all kind of disappeared. And the CobraKai quality of acting across the board from Linda Hamilton to the core crew. It was easier to handle when they were all kids.
All in all an enjoyable series. Don't think I will be all that interested in prequels or other projects in the "extended universe".
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Man...so...the show ended. No problem. It was good! We've all been on quite the ride and I have very few complaints about the whole thing. I enjoyed it. I am also a Star Trek fan so I will complain about everything and anything.
I watched the show. My sister watched the show. Then...my Mom wants to watch the show. Not alone mind you...she wants to watch it with me.
Okay...I watched Stranger Things in sequence. Big gaps.
My mom is just mainlining this #### straight.
I gotta tell ya...Stranger Things...from start to finish in a week? Its a lot.
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If you thought this season would have a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
I watched the show. My sister watched the show. Then...my Mom wants to watch the show. Not alone mind you...she wants to watch it with me.
Okay...I watched Stranger Things in sequence. Big gaps.
My mom is just mainlining this #### straight.
I gotta tell ya...Stranger Things...from start to finish in a week? Its a lot.
It's actually kind of impressive, not unlike those people who train really hard for fitness..things.. weeks in advance to try and time their body's peak performance with an event (that may not actually be a thing and I could be making it up--I don't do fitness )
Wandering here... Early on during the pandemic my aunt and uncle (late 70s/early 80s) watched the entire run of Game of Thrones in something like 7 to 10 days. Granted, the pandemic was nothing like anything we've ever seen in modern society. But still, the sheer dedication to power through that much television that quickly!
It's actually kind of impressive, not unlike those people who train really hard for fitness..things.. weeks in advance to try and time their body's peak performance with an event (that may not actually be a thing and I could be making it up--I don't do fitness )
Wandering here... Early on during the pandemic my aunt and uncle (late 70s/early 80s) watched the entire run of Game of Thrones in something like 7 to 10 days. Granted, the pandemic was nothing like anything we've ever seen in modern society. But still, the sheer dedication to power through that much television that quickly!
Its madness. Absolute madness.
I remember when I got COVID the first time and had to stay home and quarantine for two weeks...I binged the hell out of The Walking Dead.
My wife would see me in the morning..."you look like Hell..."
Yeah, well, I spent my dreams fighting Zombies. That'll do it!
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If you thought this season would have a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
Man...so...the show ended. No problem. It was good! We've all been on quite the ride and I have very few complaints about the whole thing. I enjoyed it. I am also a Star Trek fan so I will complain about everything and anything.
I watched the show. My sister watched the show. Then...my Mom wants to watch the show. Not alone mind you...she wants to watch it with me.
Okay...I watched Stranger Things in sequence. Big gaps.
My mom is just mainlining this #### straight.
I gotta tell ya...Stranger Things...from start to finish in a week? Its a lot.
I'm pretty 'Stranger Things'd Out.' just from watching the final season and all those extended episodes. I may give it another watch....in like 2 years or more.
I didn’t really connect with the final season, and that bummed me out more than I expected.
Somewhere along the way the Upside Down stopped feeling like an eerie parallel world and started feeling like a generic sci-fi battleground, complete with an unclear villain problem--is it Vecna, the Mind Flayer/ the spider thing, are they aliens , or all of the above? And why should I care anymore?
The late-game flood of new characters didn’t help either; suddenly there's twenty Naomi Wildmans I'm supposed to find the bandwidth for and care about, and if you don’t know who Naomi Wildman is, be glad.
Add to that the barrage of endless close-up shots that started to grate me. Anytime there was an emotional moment, dramatic moment, a comedy moment, etc., they did a close-up of every actor's reaction.
What really disappointed me, though, was the storytelling drift: Seasons 1 and 2 were tight and grounded--kids on bikes facing impossible odds--and then it’s Russians, hyper-militarized government nonsense, and saving the universe, which feels less like escalation and more like the storytelling fell off a cliff.
That said, there were bright spots: Steve and Dustin’s arc landed beautifully, and the final scene in Mike’s basement was genuinely outstanding. I still like all the main cast a lot, and most of the additions that were picked up throughout the seasons added tremendously to the show. I'm glad they got rid of Suzie from Utah, and the nurse didn't add much. The pizza guy was the worst part of season 4, didn't miss him even a little bit. Why the hell was Linda Hamilton there? It feels like they completely wasted her.
But Max and Billy, Robin, Murray and Alexi, Eddie--all added so much to the show, and drove the narrative forward.
The final ~35 minutes, just being in the Hawkins universe to wrap everything up, was the high point of the season.
Up to that point in the season, as with most franchise blockbusters these days, things just got too 'big' and it lost its soul.
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