What are we watching now?
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Last night we saw Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, from 2007, for the second time. This is by my favorite director, and I had seen it a while ago. My God, it's so dark, it's like a real horror movie. The characters are so bleak and doomed, it's like Requiem For A Dream. There acting was great, because these are all capable actors directed by the very best, in my opinion, but the story is so cruel and without hope it just was a soul destroying experience. Everything about it was well done except the cinematography, which had no artistry to it whatsoever.
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Giving House of Cards another go. Man this show is intricate! My kind of stuff. The complexity is amazing.
Btw, I just LOVE how background music plays its part in moving you along with the plot. Assuming it's done well. I wonder what those writers' rigs look like. Or are they all keyboards?
Btw, I just LOVE how background music plays its part in moving you along with the plot. Assuming it's done well. I wonder what those writers' rigs look like. Or are they all keyboards?
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I'll have to give this a watch then. I love a great suspense thriller/drama; the one that always quickly comes to mind is Fracture with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling.
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I just finished giving it yet another binge. Excellent show!
State of Epicicity
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I loved House of Cards until the final season. I felt like that was just too disconnected from the things that made it compelling. But otherwise, it made me respect the hell out of Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright as actors. With Wright, I love to compare her role in House of Cards to She's So Lovely; that shows an incredible range and quality of character building I wish I could've seen in more of her roles. Kevin Spacey to me is very much an SGIEM (same guy in every movie), but here I felt it just worked really well. He was able to oscillate between charisma and Machiavellianism so deftly.
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Agree. My first time around (in which I gradually lost the trail of the plot, why I'm trying again), I felt the same.
Which makes sense since that was right about the time they had to change everything up due to Spacey getting fired. I never even looked to see whatever became of all that.
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He kind of goes into detail about it on this Podcast. Good interview if you’re into his work:
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The Real Ghostbusters. I wish the full series (plus the Slimer and The Real Ghostbusters episodes) were available, whereas the DVD collection I found just has "most" of the episodes (minus like 20+ of them if memory serves).
I also watched the 4 Critters movies this weekend, and have been watching the Beetlejuice cartoon series.
I also watched the 4 Critters movies this weekend, and have been watching the Beetlejuice cartoon series.
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Just finished episode one. Good so far!
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So I wanted to like this one. And I am not sure if I don't like it. I tried a few episodes but I LOATHE Apple TV for reasons I can't quite describe. Seems like it feels like almost nothing is actually included and you have to pay for 80% of the crap they are advertising vs. Prime where it at least feels like an even split? Show itself is slow but has that UK cop drama vibe that I generally love. I will probably revisit some time because Gary Oldman.
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I LOATHE Apple TV because Invasion, and that is reason enough alone.
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I really liked the first episode. Colin Farrel is awesome as expected. There is a bit of a more humorous tone than I expected but it didn't feel out of place.
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