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"Phil Miller (Will Forte) was once just an average guy who loved his family and hated his job at the bank -- now he's humanity's last hope. Will he ever find another person alive on the planet? Would hoping that she is a female be asking too much?"
Series Premier March 1, 2015.
This could be major (if done right)!
So it's a comedy then.
Looks on the dumb side.
But I am a sucker for "Last Man" or "Last Day" movies. I try to see them all.
I will have to watch the first 2 or 3 episodes to see what direction this goes. I don't have any great expectations, so I won't be too disappointed if it is crap.
I just don't see how they are going to stretch even a comedical take on this out for a whole series?!
Quote from: zombiehorror on February 04, 2015, 08:01:54 PM
I just don't see how they are going to stretch even a comedical take on this out for a whole series?!
I'm thinking this is a limited series with a finale episode already written for season 2 or 3 - and with the lousy 10-episode seasons that series have nowadays, it seems barely do-able.
I just can't figure out how it crept up on this group. The darn thing premiers in a month and there hasn't been any discussion here yet. I was shocked when I did a search, that there wasn't already a thread started by another member.
My fear is that Fox thinks this is so bad that it would not stand up to too much advance word. It happens with movies that the studio has no great faith in. The show is sprung unheralded upon an unsuspecting public in hopes that enough people will see initial showings to build a word of mouth - or at least make back as much of production costs as possible before the stink spreads too far-wide.
I will give it at least a chance, because I am a lover of the general premise. Like I said, I try to see them all.
Will Forte is hilarious but can one actor do it by himself? I guess they could do constant flashbacks or introduce some funny ghouls/vampires who could constantly knock on his motorhome's door and in a whiny pleading voice:"Come out to play Morgan"
Quote from: Mord on February 04, 2015, 07:13:55 PM
This could be major (if done right)!
Oops, I hadn't watched the trailer. I'd rather see this done without the humor.
Quote from: Mord on February 04, 2015, 08:42:37 PM
I'd rather see this done without the humor.
Hey, you never know it may not be funny at all! :)
Quote from: zombiehorror on February 04, 2015, 08:44:52 PM
Hey, you never know it may not be funny at all! :)
Very funny. You may be right.
I predict this will crash and burn fairly quick. Pass.
Here is a recent article and video on this show.
(I have been avoiding reading articles and watching trailers. I prefer to watch movies and TV cold - at least for the first viewing.)
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lord-miller-last-man-qa/ (http://www.wired.com/2015/02/lord-miller-last-man-qa/)
He needs some kind of comic sidekick. How about he finds a basketball, and names it Wilson?
Quote from: Wicked Lester on February 05, 2015, 06:32:10 PM
I predict this will crash and burn fairly quick. Pass.
Ditto.
AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL.
Humanity has evidently ended with a world-wide virus. Curiously, no animals appear to have survived, either.
The Last Man On Earth is a man who has absolutely no redeeming personal worth. He spends the first third of the first 30-minute episode childishly destroying everything he can find. The mind-numbing repetition of these acts seems to go on forever.
Everything is wildly over-stated. In just two years, he manages to build up an amount of trash that would take a family of four a decade to accumulate.
He is so unsympathetic that I wanted to kill him myself.
But worst of all. I've never seen a show crap on it's own basic premise as quickly as this one did. The Last Man On Earth finds another human in the first 20 minutes of the first episode. He finds a woman camping alone in the desert.
Then the show turned into a "comedy" about two unsympathetic people who can't get along. Neither character is engaging or someone I could stand to be around. He finds the woman so irritating that he takes her back out to the place he found her and leaves her there.
End of episode one.
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Episode two opens with the woman coming back where he lives and moving into the house next door. The "hilarity" of the mis-matched couple continues.
I did not have high hopes for this show, but I did hope that at least the first episode would be interesting. How many terrible sci-fi stories have at least an interesting first 15-20 minutes, before falling apart?
I can't believe that a network bought this tripe - even Fox.
As a side note: This is yet another "last on earth" movie that supposes a world after people with no bodies, abandoned cars or even trash in the streets. People will not leave a very clean world behind. It isn't even all that clean now.
Quote from: Monsters For Sale on March 02, 2015, 01:33:56 AM
AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL.
Thanks for letting me know that I made the right choice in not watching this show! I wasn't gonna miss WALKING DEAD, anyway. ;)
Quote from: Haunted hearse on February 21, 2015, 10:33:05 AM
He needs some kind of comic sidekick. How about he finds a basketball, and names it Wilson?
Do you think that Wilson the volleyball was named after Hank's wife Rita Wilson?
Quote from: Haunted hearse on February 21, 2015, 10:33:05 AM
He needs some kind of comic sidekick. How about he finds a basketball, and names it Wilson?
Unfortunately, the writers decided to have him paint faces on about 30 different balls and talk to them - over and over again. Talk about beating a gag to death.
Quote from: Mike Scott on March 02, 2015, 02:00:31 AM
Do you think that Wilson the volleyball was named after Hank's wife Rita Wilson?
That angle never occurred to me. I figured it was simple product placement for the Wilson Sporting Goods Company, since they put their name on all their products.
Quote from: Monsters For Sale on March 02, 2015, 09:24:37 AM
I figured it was simple product placement for the Wilson Sporting Goods Company,
Well, obviously that's the origin of the name. I didn't remember seeing a name on the ball. Been a while since I've seen the movie.
Quote from: Mike Scott on March 02, 2015, 10:08:18 AM
Well, obviously that's the origin of the name. I didn't remember seeing a name on the ball. Been a while since I've seen the movie.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8623/16669155096_d67547d05b_o.jpg)
There it is! All I could remember about the ball was the face he painted on it.
Spent 5 minutes attempting to watch this last night. Never again.
Quote from: Haunted hearse on March 09, 2015, 09:50:01 AM
Spent 5 minutes attempting to watch this last night. Never again.
I warned you.
The ads for this are unwatchable (let alone the show itself).
Quote from: Mord on March 09, 2015, 09:06:24 PM
The ads for this are unwatchable (let alone the show itself).
But in them ads, you get to see he can crash into things, and blow stuff up real good. maybe the show could be improved, if they added a Waylon Jennings type balladeer adding commentary; and gave it a real catchy country theme song.
Quote from: Haunted hearse on March 11, 2015, 03:03:28 PM
But in them ads, you get to see he can crash into things, and blow stuff up real good. maybe the show could be improved, if they added a Waylon Jennings type balladeer adding commentary; and gave it a real catchy country theme song.
If that were the case, it would definitely be "must see TV". Count me in!
On a whim, I decided to catch the first 5 minutes of last Sunday's show and wound up hating myself about 3 minutes in and tuning it out.
The 3 minutes that I saw were enough to see that the "Last Man" has 2 female companions now. He has the first one that he hates, but has wed, and another that he likes, but who won't have sex with him because he is already married.
Hard to believe the awful acting on this show was enough to keep it on the air this long.
(That is the last time I will throw away another 3 minutes of my life on this tripe.)
I tried to watch the first twenty minutes of the first episode...completely unwatchable! Now the ads for new shows are hard to get through. This will not last long.
Quote from: Mord on March 24, 2015, 01:26:07 AM
I tried to watch the first twenty minutes of the first episode...completely unwatchable! Now the ads for new shows are hard to get through. This will not last long.
I never thought this would play like a Ken Burns history of the Civil War, but I really wanted this to be a show I could love.
What a lousy disappointment.
watched about 10 minutes and then flipped to something else lol
I flip the channel when commercials for this show appear.
What would you do if you were the Last Man on Earth?
I've watched this show a few times (catching it mid-season) and was also a bit disappointed that they didn't follow through on the premise, but it would be pretty tough to make a sit-com with one person. Anyway, part of the appeal of the premise is wondering what you would do if you were the last one, or if you happened to find a few more people.
Naturally The Omega Man pops into mind and being able to go to a movie theater and project a film of your choice. I don't think I'd watch Woodstock though. :) How about you all? Watching Vincent Price in The Last Man on Earth would probably be pretty depressing in that situation.
Where would you choose to live? Somewhere by the ocean would be nice. Hanging out at the mall? The library? Anyway, just thought I'd ask. The TV show is mildly amusing but already pretty formulaic and a typical sit-com. There's something about it that I like though.
Watching Vinnie in "Last Man on Earth" might actually have some helpful tips. I loved that film when I was a kid.
Ha, yeah. At least you could watch it and think, 'at least there aren't vampires running around.'
And then, based on the FOX TV show, it's interesting to think about being the last man on earth along with a couple of beautiful women on earth. There are some possibilities there.
I think this TV show is too reliant on the relationships between the characters when it could do some more with inventive ideas about what those last people might be doing to survive, or thrive in that situation.
I gave this a fair chance and tried to watch trough the whole season.
But No, I couldn't.
The only thing that would describe this is CRINGE. They acted awful, the characters was boring, the situations they got themself in was not funny, did not make me laugh but I did feel embarrassed over how awkward it was.
And talking to tennis balls and pooping in pools is just not my thing.
1/10.