Summary:

When human sailors are attacked by mysterious creatures of the deep, only one person can stop the war between land and sea: the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia

Director: Kang Hei Chul

Writers: Mike Ostrowski and Rae Benjamin

Based on: "A Little Sacrifice" by Andrzej Sapkowski

Produced by: Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

Cast:

Doug Cockle as Geralt of Rivia

Joey Batey as Jaskier

Anya Chalotra as Yennefer of Vengerberg

Christina Wren as Essi Daven

Emily Carey as Sh'eenaz

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I was super hyped for The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep to drop, especially to hear Doug Cockle as Geralt again. The first few minutes had me hooked, but as soon as I found out who the producer was, I skipped the whole thing. Sorry, but I’m just not interested in anything tied to the "Butcher of Witcher" producer anymore.

know I'm late but 1 just watched the trailer and...it doesnt look. Or atleast for me. If you enjoyed it, props to you. I know won't.

I read the books, played the games and "A Little Sacrifice" (1 think that's the name of the short story in English) is one of my favourite short story and I didn't remember it like what Netflix is trying to do. AT ALL Fist off, the animation style is not for me. I got a Japanese style of animation vibe and it doesn't work for Witcher, IMO.

The story, based on the trailer, is the perfect example of what's wrong with Netflix adaptation. Outside of the obvious problems with the main show, I realised (way too late know) that they see Witcher as a fantasy world like LOTR while it is quite the opposite. The world of Witcher should feel gruesome, realistic in a way, medieval, morbid and dirty but in that trailer. It's big, it's shiny, being a witcher is portrayed as cool while it's supposed to be a curse to be one.

And let's talk about the story overall, what the FUXK is that ? Since when that small love story became an adaptation of Aquaman New 52 first run ? Why Atlantis is here ? I didn't expect them to make a good adaptation of that story but I didn't to see that..

Hopefully one day, someone will adapt the story and its Norld how it should have been done and not a fantasy like LOTR while Wiedzmin is supposed to be that dark fantasy for people who don't like fantasy.

Open to here everyone thoughts on that trailer, I'm curious to see how people feel about it.

And sorry if that topic were talked a lot already, I might have not seen it while searching for one

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I haven't watched it yet and I am wondering if it is worth watching. I saw a trailer and the animation looks good along with the voice acting

I would like to say that I didn't really like this movie, but it wasn't as bad as I expected. Sure, the original story is completely different (they butchered everything, but did you expect otherwise?) and even explores completely different GROUNDED themes (with Geralt's love relationship being the central theme, not a human-fish battle), additionally, it is highly inaccurate to the lore, and super actionized with great expansion to plot and characters. If you say "little sacrifice" everywhere it doesn't necessarily mean that you understood the story (I felt like they mentioned it every 3 minutes). I liked that the main heroes were mostly in character for their book counterparts, especially great voice acting by Doug Cockle and Joey Batey, it really was game Geralt, and Dandelion is not bad.

For Essi I have mixed feelings, I love that she is not made fat black trans lesbian or whatever (maybe it was easy because this is animation not live-action), she looks highly accurate in terms of looks which is super rare (if any) for shitflix. However, while she doesn't fight the enemies with bare hands (something that you'd expect of netflix writers), there is still this element of social justice eco-activist feminist in her, which was not true to her book character. But for the most part, she was spot on, at least they didn't make her an arrogant bitch. Also, They came up with nothing better than another villainous monarch/leader who wanted to ruin everything because they are assholes, I'm speaking about their version of Foltest, Stregobor, Vizimir, and Deglan from Nightmare of the Wolf. It's just dumb to reuse the same cliche. The animation and character design were great, but some action scenes felt too padded and unrealistic. While they change the central theme of this story, some bits taken directly from the short story were great (like Essi and Geralt's conversation). Another nice thing is that Yennefer who appears in dreams, even if she is voiced by Anya Chalotra, seems to be more faithful to books and games Yennefer, both in appearance and character.

What I found interesting though, is that this movie's plot is heavily reminiscent of Disney's version of Little Mermaid. I know that the original story by Sapkowski was inspired by Andersen's little mermaid, but this adaptation has numerous similarities to Disney's animated movie in particular (which was not in Andersen's story):

1. The whole plot of the Sea Witch disguising herself as a bride to a prince (in Disney it was Vanessa, it's strange but even her dress is of the same purple color),

2. The sea witch's ultimate plan was to usurp the throne of the underwater kingdom

3. The sea witch gives a potion to Ariel/Shee'naz to turn human, while singing a song that is similar to Poor Unfortunate Souls

4. She turns into a giant octopus in the end to battle the ship

5. While not necessarily a similarity, but prince's father is openly antagonistic which is a bit reminiscent of how King Triton was against Ariel's plans.

Intentionally or not, those seem like inspirations

So I watched the aforementioned film on Netflix and it wasn't bad the only gripe I had was when Little Eye was speaking I tried to work out what accent she had. Eventually managed to work out it was a god awful English accent being done by an American actress doing the typical "cockney" accent they all seem to think we have over here.

Soooo, is it just me or was this basically R rated the Little Mermaid? Ursula, a mermaid in love with a Prince offered legs. Did they….did they think no one would notice?

Don’t get me wrong, it’s really not that bad as far as original content and some anime light content. But it’s…it’s literally the Little Mermaid plot if it had been made by Uwe Bol instead of Disney back in the day.

I have no interest in discussing/criticizing the plot and changes from the original story. Plenty of that going on already elsewhere. I’ll leave my opinion on it at the door. What I wanna hear people’s thoughts on is Geralts fighting style in the movie. What did folks think?

I personally thought it was fuckin incredible. IIRC, Geralt has always been described as more acrobatic in his movements and the fight at the beginning of the film with the Allamorax felt like a great encapsulation of how I imagined it. I’ll admit it might’ve been a bit over the top at some points, but I’d say it does somewhat fit given the man isn’t normal.

I was gonna give it a try but then I saw the Netflix logo and I remembered what they did to the lore. I'm gonna...... acquire it through overseas methods so as to not give Netflix money(and I like having media on disk) but I wanna know if it is good before getting it.