You're not supposed to enjoy it as much as when the TV series was in its prime (that would be next to impossible), you're supposed to get closure for the story while still finding it watchable.
Deadwood movie is happening
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Ricky passed a wasy back, believe there was a thread on this site.
Thought it was very good. i liked that it was still written to leave some aspects open, instead of neatly tying everything w/ a bow which would have perhaps been a bit too much.
one quirk was they made everyone look as though they were a lot older than the 10 years that had passed, apart from Joanie, who looked almost exactly the same - she must be some form of vampire!
Thought it was very good. i liked that it was still written to leave some aspects open, instead of neatly tying everything w/ a bow which would have perhaps been a bit too much.
one quirk was they made everyone look as though they were a lot older than the 10 years that had passed, apart from Joanie, who looked almost exactly the same - she must be some form of vampire!
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13 years, and that is how people look!
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Yep, watched it on Sky on Saturday.
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It's kinda unfortunate, with most series that go big it's often a bunch of 25-30 year olds who would still look good at 45 if they to a renunion. With deadwood the younger people were mostly like 35-40, so they were 50-55 in this. Right where the people move from the good looking years to the omg they are old looking years.
Sal looked insanely old but he's 60 now, was obviously then just over 40 but could have passed for 25-30 originally. I actually looked them all up because they looked so old. THe mayor, Al, Charlie, the other bar owner, they were all like 75-80 in age.
As Olyphant said, the story was crap. Honestly the entire thing felt like bad fan fiction, bad story, it was everyone together in one place but with complete lack of reason for doing so. No reason was given for Garnet to come back and after 15 years she still pins for Bullock in exactly the same way, and even though he's clearly properly in love with a wife with new kids, he acts like the same love sick idiot child. No reason for Hearst to be back either, senator of California, so giving speeches in Dakota? Trixie being a complete ****, random stupid actions.
I suspect part of it was shooting schedule, in that to get everyone in one place at the same time they had to make it short, sweet, simple and not a complex episode that takes longer to film. I was just exceptionally disappointed by it. Rewatched the three series and they are genuinely so damn good though that too had a horribly weak ending where they just let Hearst get away with it.
Even with limitations in place the dialogue was poor, story absurd and pointless and once again Hearst story wasn't wrapped up. One black guy (which at the time wouldnt' be taken seriously at all) gave a dying statement as to Hearst's guilt and Bullock is once again going by the letter of the law. So the bad guy wins, again... all that for Hearst to once again get away with it? Like if you had to wrap up a single real story from the show after 15 years... it would be that Hearst actually got what he deserved.
sure it would be nice, but it is based on real people.
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Hearst was real and didn't get convicted in real life, so I guess it's hard to do that.
Also I read that the Show-runner has Alzheimers, which I imagine made the chance of getting a really decent script more challenging.
https://pagesix.com/2019/04/23/deadwood-creator-david-milch-diagnosed-with-alzheimers/
Also I read that the Show-runner has Alzheimers, which I imagine made the chance of getting a really decent script more challenging.
https://pagesix.com/2019/04/23/deadwood-creator-david-milch-diagnosed-with-alzheimers/
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That explains quite a lot, reduces his writing capacity to a noticeable degree starting 5 years ago is not great. The whole thing was kinda cursed from the start I guess, and maybe really just a bad idea.
Based on real people, sure, to a degree. But if you can't get a good ending with Hearst, don't have him in it. Have everyone else banding together on something as usual. Hearst wasn't an original character either, it could have and would have been much better with a story that more heavily involved Al, Garnet and something they were working against, because that was fundamentally what the show was about. Plotting, scheming, how to deal with a particularly bad guy, keeping someone safe, keeping the camp safe, keeping control of the camp.
As they couldn't give Hearst the ending he deserved he really shouldn't have been in it imo.
he was a massive part of Deadwood's history at that time, and his presence totally fitted the seasons plots. i think he was suitable for the film too, it's just people want a come-uppance that i think would be too jarring w/ the rest of the series, ie keeping it as realistic/true to history as plausible. sometimes in real life, bad guys get away w/ it.