The Pillars of the Earth, new miniseries

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http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-pillars-of-the-earth

http://www.the-pillars-of-the-earth.tv/

The first episode of this series set in 12th century England was broadcast on Channel 4 on Saturday night. Unfortunately I missed it because I had no idea it was on!  :mad:

Did anyone see it? What did you think of it? Was it any good?

Thanks.
 
I've heard of it, and I've always wanted to read the book but I haven't got around to it. Sounds good though.
 
Pinky skipped Michael McIntyre to watch it! Let's just say I'm willing to skip Michael McIntyre again next week to watch it. Keep that in mind!
 
Hm. I thought I commented more in the old thread. Anyway:

Merlkir said:
Huh. Interesting. Pity TV still can't get something basic like swords right. And the dialogs are sometimes quite retarded. But interesting, I'll watch further.

edit: man, the costumes and armours are bad. There is a chap with a breastplate. And shields? Screw that, what for? At least the battles are cut so quickly they look okayish.

All in all, I didn't like the miniseries. The costumes were bad, the actors were mostly bad, the dialogs were badly written, the whole story wasn't all that interesting and the mystery plot was obvious and unbelievable.

Yeah, there are worse things out there, but that still doesn't make this good.

edit: oh, yes. And they cast Eddie Redmayne. Whom I hate now.  (he was also in Black Death, played a whiny weakling again, still couldn't act for **** and I still didn't understand a word he mumbled.)

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Merlkir said:
All in all, I didn't like the miniseries. The costumes were bad, the actors were mostly bad, the dialogs were badly written, the whole story wasn't all that interesting and the mystery plot was obvious and unbelievable.

There's a mystery plot???

But yeah, pretty poor acting, stunted dialogue. Felt like a tasteless, medieval copy of Rome.

EDIT: Still like Matthew Macfadyen though.
 
I thought it was quite good actually; one reason being because there seems to be such little things involving the 13th century on TV now and the other being I like where the story is going. You just got to ignore some of the bad acting is all.  :wink:
 
Big Mac said:
I thought it was quite good actually; one reason being because there seems to be such little things involving the 13th century on TV now and the other being I like where the story is going. You just got to ignore some of the bad acting is all.  :wink:

meh. The story could've just as well been about wandering cheese makers during the second world war and it wouldn't be that much different. :/
 
I only watched it for Ian McShane, and this miniseries got him to look like a decent actor, and not the great actor he is.

Whoever saw Kings know what I'm talking about.

Anyway, this miniseries was interesting at first, but as they went along, they changed everything from the book. They could have done it if the results were good. But they are not, the final episode sucks balls, I think. And many other things, like ambientation, vestuary, dialogues, etc, are bad.
 
The book is a lot better, but I enjoyed watching Aliena's tits all the time.

Did anyone else think that the guy playing Alfred looked like Toby MacGuire and Jake Gyllenhal's lovechild?
 
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