You’re right! At its peak, GOT cost about $10m per episode. HotD is at $20M.
Wowsers!
I’d have to watch GoT again for those early seasons, something I’ve been reluctant to do knowing how it all ends! 😂
It just felt like a bigger more expensive show to me somehow. Probably just my memory...
We've been watching House of the Dragon and enjoying it. You're right about the comparison to GoT though.
It feels like the GoT producers got a little skittish about doing a spin off/prequel so reined in the budget a bit. It's not so sprawling, doesn't feel like as many storylines/characters...
Actually as an addition…
I think a bunch of people went into this expecting Close Encounters or War of the Worlds, both Spielberg alien movies.
But if there’s a comparison in his back catalogue, then this is probably closer to Minority Report (I love that movie!!)
They have similar structures...
Wife and I saw Disclosure Day on Thursday.
I very much enjoyed it, my wife was meh on it. Both of us agreed we thought it was a little too long.
I think a lot of the people naysaying were expecting an action movie with aliens, à la Independence Day. There’s a scene in the trailer with a UFO...
We went to see this and I was pleasantly surprised. It was a lot funnier than I thought it would be. It’s just the right balance of serious fantasy with tongue firmly in cheek regarding some of the absurdity of the IP, especially the character ‘names’. 😂
Wife and I went on a cinema binge this past week..
We watched The Sheep Detectives over the weekend. Gentle bit of fun, I enjoyed it a lot. :D
We also saw The Mandalorian and Grogu. Which I enjoyed. Felt very old school Star Wars.
And we saw Mortal Kombat 2. Which didn't take itself too...
Did you wait it out? The queue was for both the Washington game and the Philly game. And the AmEx queue was broken for a while.
There’s still tickets left according to the site. The AmEx ticket site has about 140 tickets left.
Well I’m hoping my wife got it right.
She googled it and found the side that the home team usually plays on. The east side.
So that’s where we got our tickets! 😂
This was from 2021, but as far as I know the stadium hasn’t changed…
We’re in East 119
Everywhere I’ve googled said it is the...
We were fortunate to have a friend with an AmEx so we used her to get the tickets and then paid the money back.
The queue had 24k people in it when we joined. The wait wait was about 5 hrs before we got tickets (AmEx were having issues and paused the queue for 2 hours!)
There were a lot of...
There are two films that top my list for a cinema viewing. Both because I was too young to see them on a theatre screen at time of release. Jaws is one, Close Encounters is two! I imagine the music conversation at the end would be epic in the theatre.
The Birmingham Symphony Hall often does...
In my head, the issues with Aiyuk is that while he might be healthy, is he in football shape? Has he been diligent enough to keep himself in that shaper over the last two years?
The issue with Diggs is he's 32, which pretty much puts us in a similar boat to where we are with McLaurin.
I...
All being well I’ll be at the London game! Soooo excited!
Warning you all now, it’ll probably end in a tied game! 😂
For context I’ve seen only two NFL games here in London.
The American Bowl in ‘93 between Dallas s d Detroit… tied game 13-13
Then Redskins vs Bengals in 2016… tied game 27-27...