Someone recommend this Netflix original to me, knowing my penchant for 1940s detective radio shows.
Tried it ( with sound on) for an hour. Had to turn it off because it had a Peter Jackson-esqe way of padding the crap out of every little damn thing. Took ten minutes to show a two minute scene. There's a thing called pacing. The director..er sorry, the newspeak word is showrunner now, the showrunner has almost unlimited time to tell a story so everything drags and drags along.
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Monsieur Spade
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Ice Cream Jonsey
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Re: Monsieur Spade
Did you feel that the Lord of the Rings trilogy padded stuff out compared to the books or just in general? I have only read the first book so I dunno. I am curious. I do remember the movies having a lot of long shots of the ring in people's hands.
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Re: Monsieur Spade
Did you ever see the original cartoon movie? Much crisper. I'll never forgive Peter Jackson for my wife making me go through 9 hours of bullshit and at least 5 hours of sitting on the floor in line. Read the guy that played Agent Smith felt the same way.Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 10:29 am Did you feel that the Lord of the Rings trilogy padded stuff out compared to the books or just in general? I have only read the first book so I dunno. I am curious. I do remember the movies having a lot of long shots of the ring in people's hands.
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Re: Monsieur Spade
LOTR could have been told with just 2 movies. It's Jackson's way of giving our money's worth. I find it amusing that King Kong 1933 had a 30 minute intermission and it was 100 minutes. Jackson's version was 3 hours and no intermission. Maybe there's better seats in the theaters now.
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Re: Monsieur Spade
I thought Monsieur Spade was a bit of a bait and switch. Those of us who watched it did so for Dashell Hammett-esque musings with the same noir style in a new setting, and the show gave us a mediocre period piece that hops between several genres but very rarely the one we wanted.
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AArdvark
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Re: Monsieur Spade
I was hoping for some good voice-overs but alas. When the car got stopped by the tree in the rain, adding absolutely nothing to plot or suspense, I could see it was just fluffer-nutter on a steak. Then when the doctor told Sam to quit smoking I said this has nothing to do with anything! I bet it would have been better if someone told the director they had sixty minutes to tell the story, and not a minute more.