Subtitles help. Seriously. So much slang it took a while to get it.
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Subtitles help. Seriously. So much slang it took a while to get it.
Man, all y'all's reading comprehension is for shit.
Dude said, and I quote, "Just binged watched this entire show (The Sopranos) over the past few weeks. What a great freaking show. I’m sad it’s over....Might try The Wire next.. it’s gonna be TOUGH TO FOLLOW UP after the Sopranos though..."
as in, "The Sopranos is gonna be a tough act to follow", or "The Sopranos was so fucking good, I hope that The Wire is just as good", NOT "The Wire is gonna be tough to follow, I might need subtitles..."
Really guys?
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Really dook? 🤦♂️ I think it's your reading comp that's questionable here. Lol. My point was the former although I guess the comment is equally valid for the latter as well. 2 birds. Lol
^that is some good stuff right there. [emoji23]
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Ehh. I watched it on Amazon Prime.Quote:
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I've got tickets to see them at The Ryman in about a month.Quote:
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I’m pretty sure we all decided that the Sopranos was so good, that anything that follows will need subtitles. [emoji41]
Also, it’s probably been mentioned in here ( possibly by me ) , but The Defiant Ones is a must watch.
I’m in the middle of a slow binge nightly episode of The Expanse......I think I like it, but I find myself falling asleep......not sure that’s a good sign....
^^^ Stick with it. Best SF I’ve seen in a long time.
Last night started the Grand Tour. Glad Amazon picked Clarkson and the crew up after BBC got all PC on him. Continues the Top Gear spirit but honestly seems to be even better production. So far so good but only seen ep 1.
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The books Bosch is based on are great too. Michael Connolly is a gifted author. I've read through the entire series and pre-order every new book he comes out with.Quote:
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One of the best TV series ever made imo.Quote:
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Not sure if it was mentioned already, but Goliath on Amazon prime is a great show. Billy Bob's character is well done.
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Halfway through Season 3 of Sneaky Pete.
Loving it.
Its a great depiction of LA as well as being fantastic story.Quote:
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like how they brought it in to the 21st century ( Iraq vs Nam vet, etc) Ton of players from the Wire doesnt hurt...
Yep. Fantastic modern update to film noir. And spot on about the refugees from the Wire! Love those guys- super strong and versatile actors. Wish that they had a role for mcnulty!
LET THE CORPSES TAN
4.5/5
With their third feature length film, Belgian directing duo of Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani leave behind the giallo genre and instead turn their keen eyes on a hybrid of the spaghetti western and Italian crime films of the ‘60s and ‘70s. The nods to Sergio Leone are unavoidable (if the drastic close-ups of sweating eyes weren’t enough, more than half of the score is comprised of liscensed Morricone music), but the film goes way beyond that, borrowing hallucinogenic gonzo weirdness obviously inspired by vintage Alejandro Jodorowsky, and lush visual stylings copped from Dario Argento (whose influence is clearly visible in the directing duo’s previous films, Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears). The story is pretty straight forward, but it includes quite a bit of dreamscape visuals that may be confusing at first, but make total sense upon post-screening reflection (they deal with muses and madness). The action is violent, but in that hyper-artistic way that only Europeans seem to be able to pull off. If you dig over-the-top mayhem, lushly hypnotic visuals, and gritty, yet somewhat absurdist films, this is your jam.
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Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy; the early films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mounain); Revenge (2018); Pulp Fiction; The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears; French New Wave films; the films of Jean-Pierre Melville; vintage John Woo (The Killer, Hardboiled); the crime films of Johnny To; the films of Gaspar Noe; Holy Motors; Only God Forgives; Mandy
Ha, I heard of the show but nobody I know watches it so I checked it out based on recos here. About 5 episodes in and loving it. That Swearinger dude is a MOFO.Quote:
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THE FUZZ
3.5/5
Released almost 4 years before The Happytime Murders (although that film was rumored to have been in the pipeline as early as 2008), this 2014 low-budget puppet-and-human buddy cop flick is rude, crude, and sometimes funny as f$%k. The puppets are pretty decent (perhaps only half-a-notch below Muppet fare) and the comedy, while hit and miss, does have some genuinely brilliant, laugh-out-loud moments. Might be greatly enhanced by the ingestion of controlled substances, but I enjoyed it sober, fwiw.
WRONG TURN AT TAHOE
3/5
This streamlined gangster noir is pretty decent.
Granted, there were a couple of missteps (the flashbacks-within-the-flashback really had no trigger, unless you go back and rewatch the beginning after the movie is finished, then it makes a tiny bit of sense, but it's still a little unclear/fuzzy what prompts the flashbacks in the protagonist throughout the film). There's also a scene between the two bad guys that just doesn't add up/is never clarified later on. There's an undeveloped bit with the lead protagonist and his family (the stereotypical gangster who puts his work ahead of his wife/kids) that never goes anywhere, so it could have been trimmed from the film altogether. And one of the final fight scenes is kind of clunky. Those minor gaffs aside, this is a taut, well-written, gritty little thriller.
It gets panned on Rottem Tomatoes, with several critics dubbing it "Tarantino Lite", but I didn't feel like it was mimicking or biting QT at all; in fact, IMHO, the only similarity between this film and QT's films was the presence of Harvey Keitel. Speaking of which, the cast is great: Miguel Ferrer slays it, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is uncharacteristically stoic, and the supporting cast is solid.
If you like stripped down gangster flicks with bursts of ultra-violence, this is a pretty decent endeavor.
Wife and I have been enjoying the heck out of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Great comedy! Fantastic writing for sure.
No shit. Just saw a commercial for it and remember seeing here it was good and thinking WTF, Doesn't look like a show I would like, but didn;t realize it was a comedy. I'll give it a try when I'm finished with Deadwood.Quote:
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Yeah. Definitely check it out. Went in with low expectations and pretty much laughed my ass off for two straight seasons of it.
Watched Deadwood a long time ago on DVDs. Early seasons were great, later seasons meh. Seems to happen to most shows unfortunately. I'll have to check out the new ones.
Sneaky Pete season 3 was OK, definitely losing some of the mojo though. Why does ever show that is based on the east coast feel like it is necessary to do at least one California season? Even the Beastie Boys did it. WTF?
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Loved Sneaky Pete the first season, I trailed off 2nd before the end
Is 3 any better?
CA= cheap and easy change of scenery
Deadwood was only 3 seasons, and they were all strong.Quote:
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I thought it got off track and kinda boring near the end. But that's just what I remember from like 2008, when I last watched it on DVD.Quote:
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Same here. I remember watching the trailer and was pretty "meh" about it so wasn't expecting much if anything at all, but it ended up hooking me from the first episode on. 2 episodes away from blasting our way through both seasons. The trailer just doesn't do it justice at all, which is a good thing. It's nice to watch something light-hearted once in a while. Oh, and the lead (Rachel Brosnahan) is pretty hawt in this too.Quote:
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I also thought it faded towards the end, I just couldn't get interested in the Hearst and Alma stuff that season. However, I'm still pretty excited for the movie this year.Quote:
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I stuck with it....thanks...really liked it. You are totally right.....great SF.Quote:
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Will it keep going to a Season 4?
Season 4 coming to Amazon:Quote:
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Yeah, but the Beastie Boys made one of the most brilliant albums of their career--heck, one of the most brilliant albums, regardless of genre, of all time-- while out in Cali......Quote:
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Huh? There were only 3 seasons man. I think you're thinking about another show. (and there are no "new ones". Theres a movie, next week.) All 3 seasons were $$$Quote:
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edit: whoops, should've read the whole page before responding
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Nope, I definitely remember, even thought it was over a decade ago. Overall not a terrible show, I thought the dialog was kinda cheesy because it was more out of the 21st century than the old west. I read something about them saying fuck more than 1.5 times per minute over the entire show. That didn't bother me though. I just lost interest in the last season. Sorry if I insulted your shitty wannabe western miniseries, but not everybody likes the same shit. Maybe it just felt longer than 3 seasons because I lost interest but kept watching. :rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by Diamond Joe
Didn't insult anything for me bro I could care less if you like Deadwood or not, you just sound ignorant of the show your critiquing when you say something like "well the first few seasons were good but the last few weren't" when the show was only 3 seasons long. Like you really have no idea what you're talking about but feel like throwing your negative two cents in anyhow. In addition, the show turns up - high - on probably every top TV shows of all time lists (Rolling Stone has it at #23, IGN has it at #27 etc) you saying its a "shitty" show is flat out untrue. Its objectively a good show even if it wasnt to your tastes.
And the dialogue was out of the 21st century, because modern viewers would laugh at what was considered "vulgar" back then, it would sound corny to our ears, and they wanted to represent the period as super vulgar. Thus the modern swears
Actually, the dialogue was more Shakespearean with a tasty frosting of earthy 21st blue.
Started a Band of Brothers binge....always forget how good this was...
If I remember correctly, Brokeback Mountain got great reviews too. Maybe you should watch that next.Quote:
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Yeah, I was ignorant as to how long it was because I watched it over 10 years ago, and thought it sucked then. Shit, 36 episodes seems like a lot compared to what you get these days. Maybe I was fresh off a few seasons of Lonesome Dove. I don't know, but I still think that it was some cheesy wannabe Sopranos western. It was some kind of soap opera that just so happened to take place in a town in the west.
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Bro are you bipolar? Split personality? Stupid? Was the show great, or did it suck. Make up your mindQuote:
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Uh....Lonesome Dove didn't have "a few seasons" bud. It was a 4 episode miniseries. Just sayin'.Quote:
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