The declaration "Fallout sucks" is not worthy of a post on its own, but I'm more curious about the state of media in general due to my generally ascetic lifestyle. I don't stream, I don't watch new movies, and other than a few games on Steam and my PS2 I don't game anymore either. I gave the new Fallout a shot through rather Frobisherian means and could only last two and a half episodes before Shift-Deleting the files from my computer.
My main complaint? The acting. The stiff, uninspired, stilted acting. The show up to the point that I quit felt like a comedy sketch done very poorly. I understand that they were trying to capture the lampooned 50s feel of Fallout as a whole yet they failed in that execution, mainly due to the acting.
I honestly can't think of one good acting performance. Maybe Titus, and only because Rapaport just played him like he plays everybody?
The thing is, I'm seeing praise for the show and I don't understand it so I'm wondering if those giving praise are used to wading through outhouse troughs and view this as a breath of fresh air? Are my expectations too high? Is this a me problem?
I enjoyed it. I'm 55 years old and lived through the golden age. I played the first fallout when it was a new release. I thought the direction did a good job of capturing the dark humor in the setting.
I’m only a couple episodes in but I like it too. You can tell they were pushing for diversity here and there with two of the three main characters being a woman and a black man, but as a character the black guy’s actually kind of evil which is refreshing, and the woman’s hot. The ghoul’s mostly just fun and goes around killing everything and hates everyone but the dog. Played the games growing up and lived through the golden age too.
It’s not a literary masterpiece of serial cinema or anything, but I like it. I like Fallout but don’t know enough to know if they broke all the lore but I’ll just assume they broke some of it. I mean if it’s a 1950’s future the fact that everybody’s race mixed is already breaking that I suppose. And the Ghoul’s daughter being black and his wife being black in the opening obviously wouldn’t make sense.
I’ll agree with some others that said it may be my low expectations, but I like it.
Okay now you're the second person I've heard claim that and I really question the modern day bar for "hot" she looks like a latina version of Pepe the frog but I guess that's just another case of lowered standards. now days it takes multiple pages of looking through porn sites just to find a woman as attractive as what was considered "average" just a few decades ago.
She's the 6est 6 I've ever seen. As you say, another case of not-as-bad-as-it-could-have-been. It was telling that she wouldn't even dump the wedding dress for the sex scene. Was that only done to disarm the raider of all weaponry, by the way? Also, is anything going to come from that like a pregnancy or some shit, or are we supposed to assume that he was too irradiated?
I’m all for shitting on modern beauty standards but the lead here’s your typical thin hot model chick: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFNjRmJjAM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
She’s not frumpy or anything in the slightest.
It was the face that got to me, in the show the proportions just seem off somehow, looks a lot better in the image you posted though
She's cute and has congenial features. In a favorable context she's pretty attractive.