Post by pabulum28 on Feb 27, 2020 18:40:27 GMT
I'm new to this site, so hello to everyone here.
(Spoilers for film "1917" and technically Island Of The Lizard King)
Last night I saw the film 1917 and felt that it had this kind of Fighting Fantasy vibe to it the way that the main character (Scofield) progressed through everything adventurously in "real time." Some critics are calling the pacing/dynamic of the film video-gamey (in a disparaging sense here); I'm not criticizing anything here--just saying that Scofield's progression through the wire, mine, bridge, buildings, battlefields...it has that lonesome progression along the lines of something like, for example, Island Of The Lizard King (going through beach, jungle, swamp, mine, volcano, plains, outpost etc). And certain moments felt like, again for example, "Add Two Luck Points For Giving Canteen Over To Infant."
Has anyone else seen the film and did anyone else get this vibe as well? I've read almost all the FF books; I know that the "enemy encounters" here are not too illustrious (Crashed German Pilot, Drunken German Soldier...) And I know of course that a lot of films in general have a trajectory of dangerous adventure...it's just that the real-time-ness of the film, for the most part, felt like a live-action FF. (Not sure if you can call Lance Corporal Blake "Mungo" though).
What do you guys think?
(Spoilers for film "1917" and technically Island Of The Lizard King)
Last night I saw the film 1917 and felt that it had this kind of Fighting Fantasy vibe to it the way that the main character (Scofield) progressed through everything adventurously in "real time." Some critics are calling the pacing/dynamic of the film video-gamey (in a disparaging sense here); I'm not criticizing anything here--just saying that Scofield's progression through the wire, mine, bridge, buildings, battlefields...it has that lonesome progression along the lines of something like, for example, Island Of The Lizard King (going through beach, jungle, swamp, mine, volcano, plains, outpost etc). And certain moments felt like, again for example, "Add Two Luck Points For Giving Canteen Over To Infant."
Has anyone else seen the film and did anyone else get this vibe as well? I've read almost all the FF books; I know that the "enemy encounters" here are not too illustrious (Crashed German Pilot, Drunken German Soldier...) And I know of course that a lot of films in general have a trajectory of dangerous adventure...it's just that the real-time-ness of the film, for the most part, felt like a live-action FF. (Not sure if you can call Lance Corporal Blake "Mungo" though).
What do you guys think?