A few films recently watched.

  On 4/8/2011 at 2:28 AM, Z_B_Z said:

bale lived up to the hype. an incredibly realistic performance.

hmmn i thought the exact opposite.

  On 4/8/2011 at 3:47 AM, ghOsty said:

Went and saw Insidious last night with a big group of people, it was a fun time. It's not overly scary but it has plenty of scare moments, the girls all screamed (and a couple of the guys), concept was pretty cool and done in an original way (astral projection anyone?), and I think it was one of the better horror movies I've seen in a while even if some parts were slightly campy and the ending became slightly predictable when it came close. It was a fun time and like a friend described "like being in a haunted house, without being in a haunted house.

This was about my impression. I had low expectations going in but enjoyed it enough.

Your Highness was awesome. Drug in a few places but I haven't laughed that hard in the theater in a while.

without seeing it i am going to award it 10/10 for natalie portmans ass i saw in a trailer

(your highness)

she has an ass ... ?

humor or ignorance?

  On 4/8/2011 at 12:30 PM, keltoi said:

  On 4/8/2011 at 2:28 AM, Z_B_Z said:

bale lived up to the hype. an incredibly realistic performance.

 

hmmn i thought the exact opposite.

thought he was hammy or something?

  On 4/8/2011 at 6:32 PM, Haldermaniac said:

Your Highness was awesome. Drug in a few places but I haven't laughed that hard in the theater in a while.

Taking some people to see it tonight because of the lol confirmation entailed in this post.

Thanks Beneboigurl, you had a much longer run this time, hopefully not your last, watmm needs all the hi-jinx & O.G.s it can get.

i just bought the entire series of deadwood on bluray.. third time through, fucking amazing series and second only to the wire.. which they need to release in hd already for godsake

someone on here said that the sopranos has aged badly and i tend to agree.

  On 4/10/2011 at 7:41 AM, Z_B_Z said:

i just bought the entire series of deadwood on bluray.. third time through, fucking amazing series and second only to the wire.. which they need to release in hd already for godsake

 

someone on here said that the sopranos has aged badly and i tend to agree.

it's amaaaazing!

am i crazy for not having it click that the same guy who played the coward jack mccall also played wolcott? like the first two times i watched the show i was like "man is that guy ever familiar!" but i never bothered to look it up or anything. same dude. what the hell. p. good actor.

droop eyed cunt

on season 2 of deadwood. weird show.

i disagree that sopranos has aged badly. i would not hesitate to recommend to anyone i know watching all 6 seasons over nearly anything else apart from other HBO shows.

i've read a lot of Sopranos negativity around the net in the past few months and I find it irritating. the Wire will age 'poorly' in the same way, I assure you.

I don't think Six Feet Under will age at all.

anyway, watched Before Sunrise and Before Sunset in a row last night and was absolutely blown away. the kind of movie watching experience that only comes every once in a while. very special.

200/10

  On 4/10/2011 at 8:20 PM, vamos scorcho said:

i disagree that sopranos has aged badly. i would not hesitate to recommend to anyone i know watching all 6 seasons over nearly anything else apart from other HBO shows.

 

i've read a lot of Sopranos negativity around the net in the past few months and I find it irritating. the Wire will age 'poorly' in the same way, I assure you.

What? I watched it for the first time about a year ago and I fucking loved it. I loved it to bits!

  On 4/10/2011 at 6:44 PM, disparaissant said:

  On 4/10/2011 at 7:41 AM, Z_B_Z said:

i just bought the entire series of deadwood on bluray.. third time through, fucking amazing series and second only to the wire.. which they need to release in hd already for godsake

 

someone on here said that the sopranos has aged badly and i tend to agree.

it's amaaaazing!

am i crazy for not having it click that the same guy who played the coward jack mccall also played wolcott? like the first two times i watched the show i was like "man is that guy ever familiar!" but i never bothered to look it up or anything. same dude. what the hell. p. good actor.

 

droop eyed cunt

i missed that the first time around as well. yeah that guy is a hell of an actor.. he had a great bit part in 'the assassination of jesse james..'

  On 4/10/2011 at 8:20 PM, vamos scorcho said:

the Wire will age 'poorly' in the same way, I assure you.

 

I don't think Six Feet Under will age at all.

no way, the wire is a much more intelligent show. the production values will age the show a bit but who cares about that. unless this country gets it shit together the social commentary will remain vital.

six feet under was a nauseatingly manipulative soap opera. fuck alan ball.

  On 4/10/2011 at 8:20 PM, vamos scorcho said:

anyway, watched Before Sunrise and Before Sunset in a row last night and was absolutely blown away. the kind of movie watching experience that only comes every once in a while. very special.

 

200/10

Nice...yeah, Sunrise was appropriately crude, immature, and a bit silly, but it works perfectly in the context of the sequel, which is mature, refined, and sober...

  On 4/11/2011 at 12:04 AM, Z_B_Z said:

  On 4/10/2011 at 8:20 PM, vamos scorcho said:

the Wire will age 'poorly' in the same way, I assure you.

 

I don't think Six Feet Under will age at all.

 

no way, the wire is a much more intelligent show. the production values will age the show a bit but who cares about that. unless this country gets it shit together the social commentary will remain vital.

so you're basically saying that the Godfather has aged poorly because it isn't a social commentary.

all the negativity towards Sopranos in light of The Wire is essentially based only around the idea that one touches on social issues and therefor is a greater work of art.

personally, I've watched both of them twice through and I don't honestly think The Wire is any more 'complex' in terms of storytelling. it tends to come off that way with the political curvature, but Sopranos is up there too with the lengthy story arc and it has a fair bit to say about America [now that I think about it, it's probably even more potent in terms of relation to the average American person than The Wire is, despite appearances].

The Wire is probably 10X more manipulative than Six Feet Under. You know that feeling you had at the end of season four? Borderline abusive towards the viewer. I agree with what the guy is saying, but that shit was brutal. Manipulative in a good way. Who says Six Feet Under isn't manipulating in a good way?

  On 4/11/2011 at 12:04 AM, Z_B_Z said:

six feet under was a nauseatingly manipulative soap opera. fuck alan ball.

stupidest thing i've ever read

sorry dude, but it is indeed a goofy and melodramatic soap opera. feels like it shoulve been on fx or something..

also, im not saying the sopranos is a bad show, but its just not on the level of deadwood or the wire.

I actually used to think that about Six Feet under , didn't give it much of a chance. Now watching it 8 years or so after it first aired it has aged extremely well i think. I think it's a really great well put together show with a solid cast. The tone of the drama mixed in with everything else (ie comedy) is actually done well unlike a plethora of 'adult' shows on pay channels these days. Far better than any dramatic series on FX. Part of the reason Six feet under aged well for me is when i first saw it i thought it was trying too hard to be edgey and forced in too many themes like drugs or public sex, but it's pulled off in this show far more naturalistically than so much similar stuff today.

some of the acting is good but most of the characters just seem so contrived and hollow.. and some of those plot twists were incredibly manipulative in the worst possible way.. at certain point it was just like "oh come ON this getting really really stupid" so i stopped somewhere in the fourth season.

I don't think I ever would have watched Six Feet Under by myself, but with a Chinese girlfriend who has no clue about US culture, it was a lot of fun. Same thing with that recent movie "The Kids are All Right." Quite boring for a kid who grew up in the SF bay area, but watch it with a girl who has no idea that it's possible for two lesbians to raise a family, and suddenly it's entertaining.

By the way, Julianne Moore was utterly unconvincing as a lesbian. Kind of funny as I always thought of her as a bold actress, but she was sleepwalking through this role as badly as Bobby Deniro. Annette Bening wasn't much better. Also, Mia Wasikowska is a raging hottie - after seeing her in Alice in Wonderland and this one, I have to say she gives me le petite horn.

I know I've said this before, but the thing that sets the Wire apart is the fact that I can't think of a single episode where I could point and say: "see, this is where they're pandering to the audience, or to the conventions of episodic, seasonal network television." Does the Wire have the best dialogue, acting, etc of any TV series? No. But it has the biggest balls.

I had to turn off the start of Season 2 of Deadwood, so that automatically takes it out of contention for me as one of the greats. Have no idea if it recovered in the 3rd season.

what made you turn it off?

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Does the Wire have the best dialogue, acting, etc of any TV series? No. But it has the biggest balls.

precisely.

  On 4/11/2011 at 6:20 AM, Z_B_Z said:

some of the acting is good but most of the characters just seem so contrived and hollow.. and some of those plot twists were incredibly manipulative in the worst possible way.. at certain point it was just like "oh come ON this getting really really stupid" so i stopped somewhere in the fourth season.

well i mean that says something right there doesnt it that you watched the show until it's 4th season? seems like you enjoyed it to some extent

  On 4/11/2011 at 8:10 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 4/11/2011 at 6:20 AM, Z_B_Z said:

some of the acting is good but most of the characters just seem so contrived and hollow.. and some of those plot twists were incredibly manipulative in the worst possible way.. at certain point it was just like "oh come ON this getting really really stupid" so i stopped somewhere in the fourth season.

 

well i mean that says something right there doesnt it that you watched the show until it's 4th season? seems like you enjoyed it to some extent

oh yeah, i got some enjoyment out of it but in the end i felt used.

  On 4/11/2011 at 8:07 AM, Z_B_Z said:

what made you turn it off?

The part where Sheriff Bullock and the Saloonkeeper Al get into a grappling match and fall off the balcony. It was just too over the top, and at the same time a letdown. Whether true or not, I feel I have a bullshit detector that goes off when writers have no idea where to take a show. It went off big time with Battlestar Gallactica, which is why I stopped watching it in season 2.5. Same thing with Deadwood, what made the show special was the sort of tension between personalities that can erupt in spectacular bloodshed (a la Peckinpah, Leone, and even Tarantino). But I dunno, that whole fistfight thing just seemed so anticlimactic and somehow out of character. It wasn't quite a gunfight, it was just this sort of teenager-y thing. Seemed like they just needed a way to start the season. Maybe I should give it another chance, I have the box set...

Edit: that said, the episode with the grifter kids getting their comeuppance was some of the best TV I've seen, period. I was blown away.