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Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« on: November 01, 2022, 08:58:49 AM »
For those of you who have not seen it yet, you are in for a treat.


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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2022, 09:21:29 AM »
...or huge disappointment.

Some episodes are very good. And some aren't.

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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2022, 02:18:32 PM »
I've watched only the first at now. Good for who has never already seen that kind of stuff. Not for my 50 years books/movies/comics past....
Hope for the followings....

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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2022, 04:09:55 PM »
Been pretty good thus far.  Excellent production values, good dialog scripts and the acting isn’t B-list wooden or hammy. Alfred Hitchcock or Rod Serling would have been proud to produce any of the episodes I have seen to date.
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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2022, 08:26:13 PM »
Been pretty good thus far.  Excellent production values, good dialog scripts and the acting isn’t B-list wooden or hammy. Alfred Hitchcock or Rod Serling would have been proud to produce any of the episodes I have seen to date.

 Indeed! Not a new format. Quite Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Twilight Zone but more gore, very well exexuted and everything has that Del Torro flavor.

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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2022, 05:54:35 PM »
...or huge disappointment.

Some episodes are very good. And some aren't.

The first one I watched (set in the storage facility) looked good but was fairly easy to work out what was about to happen although the critter was good

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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2022, 06:05:46 PM »
The first one I watched (set in the storage facility) looked good but was fairly easy to work out what was about to happen although the critter was good

This is exactly what I meant. It's a very good product but a bit predictable.....

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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2022, 06:08:24 PM »
Yup...first one ok, but I like the sound of the others more.

Will watch and see.

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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2022, 06:49:45 PM »
This is exactly what I meant. It's a very good product but a bit predictable.....

It’s not like the short format allows for much chance at misdirection or surprise for the jaded…you know going into each episode that a fresh take within the genre is always going to be difficult…kinda like scenarios in any game within the genre! At least the vampires don’t glitter with enough cuteness to sop a teenager’s cushion.
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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2022, 01:42:40 PM »
Dreams in the Witch House and Pickman's Model are original Lovecraft stories. It think they are my favorites beside Graveyard Rats.

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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2022, 02:49:05 PM »
I think it's a decent 7/10 for me. Each episode does look good and it's kind of fun, but nothing surprising, no twists or turns.
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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2022, 09:04:30 PM »
Presumably it improves after the first two episodes? They were shite although to be fair I didn't quite quite get the denouement of Ep 2. Ennui followed by sleep intervened. Mercifully.
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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2022, 11:36:09 AM »
I think it's a decent 7/10 for me. Each episode does look good and it's kind of fun, but nothing surprising, no twists or turns.

Quite rigth, they follows the formula of previous similar earlier shows in 1) that they are predictable and 2) quite moralistic. WHat one expect and enjoy is what form of ghoulishness one will be shown.

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Re: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2022, 12:33:39 PM »
5/10 for me. Nearly all of them are way too long for the story they're telling. The Lovecraft adaptations were disappointing, but I think Pickman's Model would always be hard to adapt without seeming a bit goofy.


 

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