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Entertainment Featuring fresh takes and real-time analysis from HuffPost's signature lineup of contributors Michael Giltz Freelance writerGET UPDATES FROM MICHAEL GILTZ Follow Movies , Game Of Thrones Dvd , Game Of Thrones Season One , Game Of Thrones , Game Of Thrones Season 2 , George R.R. Martin , HBO Game Of Thrones , TV Shows , Dvds , Entertainment NewsReact Inspiring Funny Hot Scary Outrageous Amazing Weird CrazyDVDs: HBO's Game Of Thrones Bloody Fun But Not Great GAME OF THRONES FIRST SEASON ($79.98 BluRay; HBO) -- Game Of Thrones may be the biggest roll of the dice in TV history. It's based on a series of novels that tell one long story...and they haven't even all been written yet. In fact, if author George R.R. Martin continues at his new slow pace, theshow may have to go on hiatus for a number of years before the series can reach its finale. And that finalewill take seven seasons to satisfy fans. It's also one of the most expensive shows in TV history, telling astory laced with fantasy and set in a medieval era with all the lavishness of a feature film. Now that's boldMOST POPULAR ON HUFFPOST 1 of 2 MAP: Hurricane Isaac's Path Aims For Gulf Coast Republican Attendees Thrown Out After Racist Attack On CNN Worker Chipotle Busted For Cheating Customers Out Of Pennies Limbaugh's Wild Isaac Conspiracy RPatz Agrees To Meet KStew But Is Selling Their Home Isaac Balloons Into A Hurricane, New Orleans Threatened FOLLOW USCelebrity TV Political Hollywood Features Hollywood Buzz Videos Help Us Write 'The Words' Quick Read | Comments (27) | 08.20.2012August 29, 2012 Edition: U.S. FRONT PAGE POLITICS BUSINESS MEDIA CELEBRITY TV COMEDY FOOD STYLE ARTS BOOKS LIVE ALL SECTIONS Bill Moyers Dean Baker John Hillcoat Bobby BowdenHOT ON THE BLOG HuffPost Social Reading Like 102 Posted: 03/ 7/2012 2:58 pm SHARE THIS STORY Submit this storyGet Entertainment Alerts Sign UpSPONSOR GENERATED POST Recommend 262 Like 8k Like 563 Like 7k Like 51 Recommend 681The Avengers Political Hollywood Electronic Dance Music One Direction More Log in Create Accountand I look forward to future seasons. I just wish the first one were better. The story is one of intrigue, based loosely on the War of the Roses. Numerous royal families are vying for power while a supernaturalthreat from the North slowly works its way towards the "civilized" world. You get backstabbing,scheming, incest, swordplay, lots and lots of nudity and a clutch of fine actors. The problems? Castingand costuming. No expense was spared but the costumes and makeup quite often fall far short. Hair,makeup, clothing -- they should all invisibly denote the power and prestige of the wearers (or the lack).Instead, too often the costumes look just like that: costumes. Jaime Lannister is meant to be the mosthandsome, dashing man in the world but his clothing often looks like a Members Only jacket and thehaircut and demeanor of actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau remind you of Malibu Ken, not Lancelot. Harry Lloyd also falls quite short as the intended to be menacing Viserys Targaryen. With his bleached white hair and petulant manner, he seems like Draco Malfoy's cousin, not a threat to the throne. These weaknesses continue for other minor characters and illustrate an unusual feature of GoT . Except for Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, almost all the "bad" guys in the series are far less interesting than the "good" guys. That's rarely the case for a genre piece like this where the villains often get the best lines and the most dastardly deeds. In contrast, the Stark clan is well cast up and down the line, from Sean Bean as the family head to Maisie Williams in the challenging role of Arya (with a special shout out to an excellent Kit Harington as the bastard Jon Snow). TV rarely tackles fantasy and almost never does it well, so that and the appeal of the books will keep me watching. Stronger tech work and some better casting (luckily, lots of people die so the show always has a chance to inject fresher, stronger talent) could turn GoT from a guilty pleasure into a genuine one. P.S. Maybe it's the slowdown in DVD sales, but it's great to see the cost to consumers for an entire season of a show like this come down in price, especially on sale. Less than $40? That used to be a fantasy, but no more. MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE ($39.99 BluRay; FOX) -- This intriguing drama stars Elizabeth Olsen as the wayward sister who shows up looking for a place to crash but unwilling to talk about where she's been or what she's done. In flashbacks, we see her get slowly drawn into a cult led by John Hawkes(in another excellent performance). Then the phone calls and the mysterious strangers make clear thatthis cult doesn't let its members take off so easily. More quiet tale than thriller, the film isn't an out of thepark success but delivers on its quiet premise quite nicely. HUGO ($44.99; Paramount) -- I enjoyed the graphic/novel by Brian Selznick, which had the much more evocative title The Invention Of Hugo Cabret. Changing that to just Hugo was the first sign this movie wouldn't deliver. The second was hiring director Martin Scorsese, a man not known for gentle family fare.But it's not entirely his fault. The appeal of the book rested entirely on how the story was told: a clevercombination of images a la a graphic novel (sometimes dozens of pages would go by without any text atall, just pictures advancing the story) and text (at other times the images would stop and the text woulddominate a la a traditional novel). 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To bump up the action, lame subplots are introduced to the movie like a romance between two older characters and a bumbling cop given a greatly expanded role and his own attraction to a flower girl. That's interspersed with all sorts of chases andfancy camerawork. The movie looks just as artificial on 2-D at home as it did in 3-D at the theaterthough it's a blessed relief not to have to wear those bulky glasses when the effects were so minimal.Heavy-handed touches (like mixing the sound of a film projector unspooling early on in the movie tosubliminally remind us of the pleasures of movies) can be found throughout. Dramatically static,cartoonishly acted, Hugo is not one for the ages, though a number of critics enjoyed it far more than me. Well, they're wrong. PUSS IN BOOTS ($39.99 BluRay; DreamWorks) -- I've never been a huge fan of the Shrek films (my favorite one is their made-for-tv Christmas special; the movies I find too enamored with random popculture references). But thank goodness they spun off Antonio Banderas's witty character Puss In Boots. Iwould not want to have sat through a movie about Eddie Murphy's Donkey. This movie breathed a littlecreative life into a very tired franchise. It wasn't the massive success of the Shrek movies, but $535 million is probably enough to guarantee another adventure. SUPER BOWL XLVI CHAMPIONS ($34.93 BluRay; NFL/Vivendi) -- More. That's my sole comment about this highlight DVD, which does a good job of recapping the entire season of Super Bowl champsthe New York Giants and (finally) includes the extras you'd expect like post-game ceremonies, media dayand the like. NFL Films really does excellent work in capturing unlikely and striking footage of gamesthat's superior to what you see in a live game and during most movies about football. BUt why justrecaps? This should be a 2 DVD set with one DVD including the entire Super Bowl game day hoopla(with commercials that aired as a bonus feature -- why not?). That should be the cheap option. But theyshould also offer a boxed set with every regular season game of the Giants plus the 2 DVD Super Bowlpackage as well. And for about $70. Max. Finally, why not have a release for the Patriots. Theheartbreaking story of the losers can make for compelling drama too. They've got the footage. Why not?This one-disc release is more complete than in past years but still feels skimpy compared to the goodies lying in their vaults unused and unseen.HUFFPOST'S BIG NEWS PAGES Celebrity babies Chris Christie Television Elections 2012 Latino Politics Natural Disasters Pippa Middleton Unemployment Facebook MORE BIG NEWS PAGES » ricky_martin RetweetMake Room for (the New) Daddy http://t.co/Q6eIDokm via @huffingtonpost feliciaday RetweetThink on it: Cambridge scientists say all mammals, birds, manyothers including octopi, havehuman-like consciousness. http://t.co/aF6W2ZQhTALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE ($29.99; Zeitgeist) - Multi-director omnibuses -- with multiple short films strung together around an over-arching theme -- are one of the least-loved ideas in movie history and rarely worth the bother. But this one comes from Romania, one of the most innovative and exciting sources of movies in the past few years. Overseen by Cristian Mungiu (director of the acclaimed 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days ), this pulls together urban myths and legends that sprang up around the final years of the brutal Ceausescu regime, a terrible era the government propaganda machine defiantly dubbed "The Golden Age." Mungiu teams with other talented filmmakers to spin multiple, mordantly funny tales. It's funny how suddenly a country can become a hotbed of filmmaking for no discernible reason, but that's exactly what's happened in Romania, making even a project like this seem a tantalizingprospect. Yes, when it comes to cinema, Romania truly is in a Golden Age. IMMORTALS ($39.99 BluRay; FOX) -- Director Tarsem Singh has a remarkable ability to create striking imagery and it's on full display in this 300 -ish epic tale of a Theseus (Henry Cavill), a young villager handy with weapons who takes on the mad king (Mickey Rourke) threatening to destroy theworld. It looks amazing, if you just turn off your mind and glance at the screen in a daze. But story?Characters? Dramatic involvement in their fates? Tongue in cheek fun? Nope. Not on the menu. Butwhat you do find on the DVDs menu are tons of extras like an alternate beginning and two alternateendings, which should tell you something right there. THE BRIEF COMPLETE COLLECTION ($59.99; Acorn) MIDSOMER MURDERS SET 19 ($59.99 BluRay; Acorn) -- Alan Davies of the gently charming Jonathan Creek series paired with the team behind TV's Inspector Morse about a barrister with a messy personal life (gambling debts, an affair with the wife of a politician, etc) and far more successful legal one. Nothing groundbreaking, but Davies does have his appeal. Meanwhile, Midsomer Murders -- the long-running British cozy mystery series (that is, crimes set in a village setting that are gently humorous) -- continues along wit no signs of stopping after its latest four installments, each one a self-containedmovie of about 100 minutes. Unlike most "cozys," the murders are rather brutal in nature at times, butthe general tone is still amiable if not quite Murder, She Wrote. THE SKIN I LIVE IN ($45.99 BluRay; Sony Pictures Classics) -- One of the most baroque plots in director Pedro Almodovar's history (pulled from a not terribly interesting novel) is unfortunately treatedwith deadly dull seriousness. Almodovar long ago started making the movies he used to lovingly send upand this is a prime example, with Antonio Banderas as a plastic surgeon who has a mysterious butbeautiful woman trapped in his home. It's silly from the stilted beginning to the ludicrous finale, butunfortunately the movie doesn't realize how silly the story is and we never get to have any fun. JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN ($34.98 BluRay; Universal) JACK AND JILL ($40.99 BluRay; Columbia) FOOTLOOSE ($44.99 BluRay; Paramount) BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD VOLUME 4 ($26.99 BluRay; Paramount) -- Do we need another James Bond spoof? No, we do not, but Rowan Atkinson's non-Bean creation Johnny English is a lot more popular overseas so he will return. Are Adam Sandler's fans unthinking automatons? No, they are notbecause even they handed him a rare commercial flop with this tepid comedy about an annoying sisterwho comes to visit. Did anyone want to see a remake of the dated-the-day-it-was-released movieFootloose? Do they did not. I know it's nominally based on a true story but I always felt this story wouldhave worked better set in the 1950s.Will I laugh at Beavis and Butt-head? No, I will not. Hey, I like SouthPark and even enjoyed Beavis and Butt-head Do America, probably because they played actual charactersand had an actual story of sorts. But their TV show I find relentlessly...well, I can't say stupid because they would laugh at me and say "duh!' Dull? Yes, dull. No change but fans will enjoy these all new episodes. I guess. MOST TITLES LISTED HERE WILL BE AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE FORMATS AND IN MULTIPLE COMBINATIONS, INCLUDING DVD, BLURAY, DIGITAL DOWNLOAD, VOD, STREAMING AND THELIKE. THE FORMAT LISTED IS THE FORMAT PROVIDED FOR REVIEW, NOT ALL THE FORMATSAVAILABLE. IT IS OFTEN THE MOST EXPENSIVE VERSION WITH THE MOST EXTRAS. DO CHECKINDIVIDUAL TITLES FOR AVAILABILITY IN ALL THEIR VARIOUS GUISES AND PRICE POINTS.Samuel L. Jackson: 'Unfair' Hurricane Isaac Avoid... Robin Williams As Dwight D. Eisenhower In... Guns N' Roses Slash Once Caught David... '2016: Obama's America' Fact- CheckThanks for reading. 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The character isn't the actual threat to the kingdom, Dany is. 04:40 PM on 03/08/2012 Viserys Targaryen is supposed to be a menace to no one but his younger sister. Harry Lloyd'sperformance was spot-on, IMO. Too bad he can't be recast as some other character. 03:00 PM on 03/08/2012 In regards to the shades of morality, we are expected to identify and find favour with the Starksrather than the Lannisters, however there lies the beauty of the books and hopefully the rest of theTV series. This is not your traditional fantasy stories, as the plot unravels, allegiances changes and so does our impression of the characters. There is no right and wrong, just different families and sides, all with their own set of heroes and villains, power and ambitions. After reading the books, I think Jamie Lannister is one of the most interesting characters present. At first he appears to be nothing but the ‘bad guy’, but give the next season a chance and you’ll seehis character develop to something outside the traditional archetype. As for the costume, I have to disagree. It looks fantastic, both the costumes and the scenery. I can only hope the second season lives up to the first.Recency | Popularity HUFFPOST SUPER USER Nate35 Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USER mjredder Permalink | Share it Lamwithaplan Permalink | Share itComments 25 Pending Comments 0 View FAQ Comments are closed for this entry View All Favorites 321 Fans 220 Fans 1 Fans This user has chosen to opt out of the Badges program 01:59 PM on 03/08/2012 Game of Thrones and Homeland were the best new series in 2011, IMO. Looking forward to season 2 for both of these shows! 11:24 AM on 03/08/2012 So is this guy the Joe the Plumber of reviewers, or what? What a way to get free DVDs. 11:12 AM on 03/08/2012 I completely agree with your interpretation of "Hugo." When I heard the title was being changed forthe film I thought it augured that it would be disappointing. I felt like one of the only people whodidn't find "Hugo" to be completely and thoroughly enchanting - I thought the story was boring (and Idon't use that word lightly - I don't think "boring" is a valid complaint for why a person doesn't like something), which combined with acting I thought was unconvincing and flat. I didn't think it hit on much emotional connection between the characters - for the first time, Scorsese made me not careabout the people he was filming. I thought it was over-praised and I'm glad you made me feel like Iwasn't the only one who thought that! 01:19 AM on 03/16/2012 We're not alone! :) Thanks for commenting. It can feel lonely when you're right andeveryone else is wrong. 09:48 AM on 03/16/2012 The actual childs book has been very popular for years. I have not seen the movie asyet....bought it and will watch it soon. Granddaughter (16) and her boyfriend saw it in thetheaters and enjoyed it. 11:06 AM on 03/08/2012 I was actually very impressed with the show GoT. After the season ended, I bought and read all ofthe series and was amazed at how closely the series followed the first book. I haven't enjoyed ashow this much since "The Sopranos". As for the casting, I think they did a pretty good job. Jamie is a character who is evolving and he's still got a long ways to go. The series had to walk a fine line to make us dislike him but still leaveroom for redemption. I think they've set that up well. 06:09 AM on 03/08/2012 Well, I will agree that Sean Bean's wig sucked. flyers Permalink | Share it ChrisR Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USER threnodymarch Art is long, life is short. Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST BLOGGER Michael Giltz freelance writer Permalink | Share it rp2par Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USER andvoodoo2 My micro-bio is teeming with biodiversity. Permalink | Share it Dunbar61 Fans 106 Fans 743 Fans 127 Fans 236 Fans 540 Fans 21 FansHe didn't, though. I actually agree -- I like the Stark actors better, too. But let's look to next year, shall we? 12:43 AM on 03/08/2012 "Harry Lloyd also falls quite short as the intended to be menacing Viserys Targaryen. With hisbleached white hair and petulant manner, he seems like Draco Malfoy's cousin, not a threat to thethrone" This is entirely consistent with the book. Viserys is only a threat to the throne in his own mind. 07:48 AM on 03/08/2012 Was about to post the same thing ,not sure Mike has actually read the books. 11:07 AM on 03/08/2012 Exactly. Describing Viserys as "petulant" is EXACTLY the point of the character! He's supposed to be smarmy and egotistical and deluded - and that is exactly how he isportrayed on camera. I thought it was dead-on and, to me, lacked no menace. I also thought it was bizarre that he criticized the casting when the issues that he stated he had problems with seemed to fall under the category of writing than having the wrong actor forthe role. 01:29 AM on 03/16/2012 As I mentioned in my review, I have indeed read all of the books. (I stoppedreading the Robert Jordan books as they got so complex because I wanted to waituntil they were all done so I could tackle them all at once.) Yes, Viserys is petulant in the books. He's also compelling and viciously cruel to his sister. In the show, I found him a cartoon; just one-dimensional. I'm always happy to believe an actorcould be better in other parts. But since I found about half the cast quite strongand they were in the same show with the same writers and directors involved, I feltit was more likely the blame lied with the individual actors. There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All 07:52 PM on 03/07/2012 The costumes, set decoration, photography and even the sound effects were above the quality wesee today in theatrical releases......................Jamie Lannister is meant to be a pretty boy, not adashing swash-buckler, and everyone i know who watched the series had exactly that impression. 07:30 PM on 03/07/2012Permalink | Share it mrshasson Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USER donnyraindog Grass shack nailed to a pinewood floor Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USER threnodymarch Art is long, life is short. Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST BLOGGER Michael Giltz freelance writer Permalink | Share it noaxe397 Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USER Captain Kiddy Try thinking! It's like a breath of fresh air!7 Fans 1610 Fans 743 Fans 127 Fans 2330 Fans 162 FansYeah, I'll weigh in here too regarding Game of Thrones. The author is looking to make comparisons with artistic creations he might think should be a yardstick by which to measure Martin's creation,and in so doing he has sold both the series and himself more than just a little short (with apologiesto Peter Dinklage). Casting a problem? Not on your life, buddy. There isn't a weak actor here. He doesn't understand Jaime, Vyseris, etc., etc. Jaime is not never was intended to be and never will be "Lancelot." Vyseris IS petty, immature and a megalomaniac, not a menace (except in his own mind . . .) Costumes lacking? Only if you think this is supposed to be the musical of "Camelot." This is gritty realism guy - people are dirty, greasy and not always prancing around in their finest. I guesshe wants them to look like they just stepped out the costume shop for a high school musical. Badguys less interesting then the good guys? This isn't the world of black and white, good and evil, but all shades of grey in between - that ambiguity is what makes them so difficult to predict or judge and oh so fascinating. Boy did you strike out on this one! This sets a new standard for fantasydrama that will be unequaled for quite a while. Sheesh. Wish I wasn't limited to 250 words . . . 01:10 AM on 03/08/2012 I've read the books and love all these characters. I agree there are many shades of greybut used the shorthand of good and evil. most I think identify more with the Stark familythan say Jamie Lanister who has sex with his sister and tries to kill a little boy to cover histracks. Jamie does prove more nuanced later on in the books, but he's certainly no hero. Viserys is more strightforwardly evil -- he tortures his sister and is petulant and obnoxious as written. But as written he is also more interesting. I simply felt the actor's performance was banal and simplistic. He too looked very "modern" somehow, a combination of costume and hair and the like. 05:35 PM on 03/08/2012 Thanks for writing back - good discussion which you don't often get here with theregular writers (as opposed to the forum-posting community). I agree that Viserysis not as complex as in the books, but unfortunately I think that problem must be laid at the doorstep of the writers and the limitations of a television series, even at ten hours. Somewhere along the way, they were inevitably going to have to dosome serious trimming or the first season would have been 20 hours long. Ah, theglory of the novel with its potentially endless scope, publishers willing and all(although even there it's possible to go too far - I'm looking at your grave RobertJordan . . .) I don't think that Harry Lloyd did a bad job at all given that the writers did indeed make the character more shallow than in the book. And perhaps I'm allowing knowledge of things to come color my appraisal of Jaime who is indeedrather one-sided at the outset, although there must be that charm on some level orhe will be too evil to everyone else's shades of greys. More to come below . . . There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them All 01:17 AM on 03/08/2012 As for costumes, I certainly didn't want pretty or fresh from the rack look. I felt the styleschosen -- such as jamie's jacket and many other outfits down the line -- didn't seemauthentic and of the same period as the rest of the show. I want gritty realism, not blow-dried hair. I had limited space too and in cutting down didn't make clear the nuances ofcharacter involved in the book and reflected most clearly in the first season's storyline for Peter Dinklage. It is probably already the best fantasy (as opposed to sci-fi) series TV ever did, certainly more ambitious by a mile than Xena. TV almost never does fantasy. But I feelit could be so much better and doesn't come within a mile of the books. Thanks forcommenting and giving me a chance to clarify my opinion. 06:30 PM on 03/07/2012 I too am a huge fan of the GoT book series and totally disagree with this article. HBO has done aPermalink | Share it HUFFPOST BLOGGER Michael Giltz freelance writer Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USER Captain Kiddy Try thinking! It's like a breath of fresh air! Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST BLOGGER Michael Giltz freelance writer Permalink | Share it LadyNorth127 Fans 162 Fans 127 Fans 0 Fansfantastic job bringing my beloved books to the screen and the casting could not be better. You know nothing Michael Glitz! 01:25 AM on 03/08/2012 Glad you're enjoying the show. I think the women are generally much better than the men and the most important and difficult casting -- the young Stark children -- are very good.HBO spared no expense -- my complaints are not financial but creative. I hope the showbuilds on the good elements of the series and gets even better. PS Love the "You know nothing" reference. I can't wait to see that line in the series; it's a killer emotionally. 03:20 PM on 03/07/2012 Personally, as a huge fan of the GoT book series I couldn't disagree more with the premise of thisarticle. The first season was spectacular in execution and in its faithfulness to the books. Casting for Tyrion Lanister couldn't be better. Jaime was always going to be a problem because he is too good to be true and, of course, he is; but later events will humanize him. Littlefinger is just as creepy and conniving as in the books, though a bit overacted. Viserys is supposed to be a weak, petty little boywho could never be king; setting the stage for Daenyris' ascension. The series, if it continues withits current high quality and execution will become a watershed for multi-book adaptation to thescreen; a yardstick by which all others will be measured and found wanting. 01:27 AM on 03/08/2012 I think we all knew Peter Dinklage had to play Tyrion the moment we read the books -- itwas as inevitable as Clark Gable playing Rhett. You're right that Jamie becomes moreinteresting as the books go along. Hopefully the actor's performance will improve along with his costuming. Thanks for commenting. Advertise | Make HuffPost your Home Page | RSS | Careers | FAQ User Agreement | Privacy | Comment Policy | About Us | About Our Ads | Contact Us Copyright © 2012 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. | "The Huffington Post" is a registered trademark of TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. All rights reserved. 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DVDs HBO Game Of Thrones Bloody Fun But Not Great

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