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Squid Game - a different kind of Splat Fest available on Netflix now
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Something that's been overshadowed by talk of the ending and VIPs is the performances. I want to give a special shout out to the tattooed gangster. He's the kind of actor who plays a bad guy so well that you start wondering if he's a piece of shit in real life too.
I hope they do something different for a Season 2. It seems very easy to do a different setup of people, new games, and appease many of the fans.
This was incredible. It could have easily just been a run of the mill gore porn show or something like that. But some of the best acting, direction and cinematography I've seen for a show in a long time.
LOVED that guy and his performance was amazing.
Personally I think the easiest season 2 to do might be about the 2015 game that involves the detective's brother. They can bring back a lot of the same actors too like the old man, red/blue card suit guy, the detective, the detective brother… etc.
I'd be interested to see a season about someone trying to sabotage the games from within. Like a previous winner re-enters the games in an attempt to get as many people through alive as possible, exploiting their own rules on fairness to do so. How long would the people running the games keep up the facade when every single player, aware of the risks, gets through red light/green light? How would they deal with players finding a legitimate loophole which allows so many of them to survive that it's no longer entertaining for the VIPs?
I feel like that would be too boring until the final episode. Ideally S2 would be Gi-hun and the Detective in the next game as dual protagonists trying to find a way to bring them down, with lots of flashbacks to the 2015 game.
The show was great until the VIP's and the ending was very, very cliche and odd in its execution.
The American VIP's conversations and english sounded like the VIP's weren't completely mentally competent and only knew english as a second language. It was so weird. I'm kinda surprised Netflix didn't get the studio to just redo those lines, but perhaps that would have been too expensive. The idea itself was fine; filthy rich, American, asshole denegrents that have no brains. But, jeez, it sounded like Trump's sons on quaaludes forgetting how english conversations function lol.
The American VIP's conversations and english sounded like the VIP's weren't completely mentally competent and only knew english as a second language. It was so weird. I'm kinda surprised Netflix didn't get the studio to just redo those lines, but perhaps that would have been too expensive. The idea itself was fine; filthy rich, American, asshole denegrents that have no brains. But, jeez, it sounded like Trump's sons on quaaludes forgetting how english conversations function lol.
I mean welcome to any US show with any foreign language voice acting ever? :D
This excuse is really lame and reaching for a strawman, just because it's a US industry standard putting horrible foreign voice acting doesn't absolve this show of getting flak from the same faults. Also it's fucking insulting you just sideline any criticism and assume people nationality just because they take issue with the baffling performances that takes you out of the show.
I don't know why you're exploding like this, but game-biz definitively is from the US, and that's not some kind of well-kept secret (and I'm sure he took the joke well). I'm also not excusing anything, the voice acting is atrocious, and so is a lot of voice acting in literally every other movie when it comes to foreign languages.
if it takes YOU out of the show, that's fine. I've seen enough Korean, Japanese or Chinese foreign-ish voice acting to it not bothering me.
Yeah, same here. I assume there's not enough in the budget to lure a legit American/English actor halfway across the world to star in a foreign language production, so they just get whoever's available in the country (probably pay them minimum wage). At this point I find shitty English actors in Asian cinema charming. Bonus points if the primary actors have to speak English themselves. I always found it funny when a HK character implies that they're fluent but end up actually speaking broken English lol.
Not exploding, it's all good, just kind of annoyed any kind of criticism regarding the VIP clown acting is almost always met with the same whataboutism arguments, I'm not even an english native speaker and I get what are you saying, it just gets tiresome seeing the same arguments brought up over and over again as an excuse for the show.
Maybe refused to spend his winnings like Gi-hun... or a cover so he wouldn't have to explain where all the money came from.
Still odd how
the cop was acting like an older brother looking out for the other.
Though now that I'm thinking about it, I admit I don't know whether there's a different word in Korean for older vs younger brother, so I suppose I just made the assumption based on him living in a dorm.
Though now that I'm thinking about it, I admit I don't know whether there's a different word in Korean for older vs younger brother, so I suppose I just made the assumption based on him living in a dorm.
The theory that the dorm life was a cover-up doesn't gel because if that was the case he wouldn't let the payments expire, and he wouldn't leave a card from the game in the room either. Unless he wanted to intentionally put the whole operation at risk, but that doesn't seem to be the case either.
The conclusion for that arc was too open-ended in a bad way because it feels kind of nonsensical. It's the major thing a second season would hopefully be able to fix.
The conclusion for that arc was too open-ended in a bad way because it feels kind of nonsensical. It's the major thing a second season would hopefully be able to fix.
Yeah, in korean he refers to his brother as "hyung", which means older brother. For a younger sibling he would have used "dongsaeng".
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So after they got
exposed and killed for harvesting organs did no one think to check the security footage? The footage they kept erasing or whatever? That always had me scratching my head, like were they not curious to find out how he would be leaving the games and why no one was reporting it? Or was the guy hiding the footage one of the ones that got killed.
Didn't the boss explicitly say that they didn't mind the little extra curricular activity, where it not for them giving the Dr an unfair advantage.
Pretty sure I read here or somewhere else that it wasn't the actors themselves that were the problem, that they were told to intentionally perform it that way and even tried to get the directors to let them perform it more naturally but couldn't.
One of the VIPs in this article mentioned that sometimes even the scripts for them aren't even naturally translated to English:
‘Squid Game’ VIP Actors Divided Over Fans Slamming Their Performances: ‘I Was Gutted’
One VIP actor is now getting "sexual invitations" from fans after starring in the Netflix blockbuster series.
www.indiewire.com
It's probably already been discussed in here at some point but you know, topic is 30 pages 😂
Really cool behind the scenes video.
www.youtube.com
Squid Game - Behind-the-Scenes On Set
Here's what Squid Game looked like behind the scenes as they filmed the series.➡️SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE: http://bit.ly/29kBByrAbout Netflix:Netflix is the world'...
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Similar thoughts. Loved the first 2/3 but felt the last 1/3 was kinda weak. Overall though I enjoyed it.
I fell off the series after the VIPs showed up. Is it worth it to finish the series?
Watched seven episodes, random thoughts and theories that I'll come back to after finishing it
Let's see...
-after one or two episodes, my three contenders to win the game were the old guy (#001), dude from Pakistan (Ali) or the girl from North Korea (that is, if only one person wins the game, not more or zero)
-now that there are only three players left, I think Kang Sae-byeok (the girl) will win. I mean there's just no way she doesn't return to her brother, right?
-as the show went on, Cho Sang-woo (the investment banker) became the main villain among the players for me, not the tattoed guy. Dude is the biggest snake, these type of people are the worst in real life too
-the main guy (Seong Gi-hun) still hasn't gotten his "revenge" on the banker yet iirc, for not preventing him from picking the umbrella in the second game. I think this will come up again when the banker (hopefully) dies. But I think Seong Gi-Hun will die too and that will be the death with the most emotional impact :(
-this might be a reach, but I'm still not 100% convinced the old guy is dead. Everyone else we saw getting shot or laying in the casket (Ali), but not here. Could be a "dignity for an old man" type of thing, but if there's one thing mainstream movies and games taught me, it's that you're not dead unless it's made crystal clear or your name is Tony Soprano; the player number made me suspicious from the start too. Question is, who is he then? The main boss of this whole thing? This will make me look silly if I'm wrong lol
-the side story with the cop isn't that interesting, worst part of the show for me. What kind of cop is that anyway, witnessing murder after murder without calling for back-up and shutting the whole operation down. Suspension of disbelief, I know.
Main two points of my rambling I guess: the girl will make it out alive and the old guy isn't dead
-now that there are only three players left, I think Kang Sae-byeok (the girl) will win. I mean there's just no way she doesn't return to her brother, right?
-as the show went on, Cho Sang-woo (the investment banker) became the main villain among the players for me, not the tattoed guy. Dude is the biggest snake, these type of people are the worst in real life too
-the main guy (Seong Gi-hun) still hasn't gotten his "revenge" on the banker yet iirc, for not preventing him from picking the umbrella in the second game. I think this will come up again when the banker (hopefully) dies. But I think Seong Gi-Hun will die too and that will be the death with the most emotional impact :(
-this might be a reach, but I'm still not 100% convinced the old guy is dead. Everyone else we saw getting shot or laying in the casket (Ali), but not here. Could be a "dignity for an old man" type of thing, but if there's one thing mainstream movies and games taught me, it's that you're not dead unless it's made crystal clear or your name is Tony Soprano; the player number made me suspicious from the start too. Question is, who is he then? The main boss of this whole thing? This will make me look silly if I'm wrong lol
-the side story with the cop isn't that interesting, worst part of the show for me. What kind of cop is that anyway, witnessing murder after murder without calling for back-up and shutting the whole operation down. Suspension of disbelief, I know.
Main two points of my rambling I guess: the girl will make it out alive and the old guy isn't dead
Let's see...
Okay, episode 8 was...short. Already got my prediction of the winner wrong lol. And the reveal of the masked guy's identity was fucking stupid. But maybe it looks better after the last episode.
At least my other prediction was spot on. But maybe it was obvious, don't know, I avoided reading anything about the show. So season 2 will be about Gi-Hun trying to expose the operation I guess?
Finished it finally and I really thoroughly enjoyed it. I've never seen Lee Jung-jae in anything before and I loved him. He is one of the most charismatic and likable actors I've ever seen.
As others have said the VIP voice actors were lousy but I was 100% invested in everything else.
The twist at the end completely got me. I didn't see that coming at all.
As others have said the VIP voice actors were lousy but I was 100% invested in everything else.
The twist at the end completely got me. I didn't see that coming at all.
The funny thing about how likeable he is as an actor is, apparently he mainly is known for playing villains in Korea lol
But yeah I agree all the main cast were amazing
I watched it when it first dropped and the plot was a fun ride, but Lee Jung-jae's performance is the reason I still think about the show every now and then and why it's stuck with me. Just one hell of an anchoring performance.
I still think this didn't need continuation and could have ended when Seong Gi-hun comes back as a winner but his mother dies due to diabetes and he hugs her in bed. Because that was the emotional and thematic climax about capitalism ruining lives. The cop mystery was just not that interesting and emotionally removed from the rest of the characters. I was with this show until that unnecessary epilogue.
