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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Kleves

#14340
November 21, 2013, 01:17:10 AM
Jack Reacher. Meh. Rosamund Pike. :mmm:
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Eddie Teach

#14341
November 21, 2013, 08:17:54 AM
Battleship Potemkin. I liked it. Not as much as the movie critics who make "Best Ever" lists, but it was interesting.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Scipio

#14342
November 21, 2013, 08:28:46 AM
Quote from: Kleves on November 21, 2013, 01:17:10 AM
Jack Reacher. Meh. Rosamund Pike. :mmm:
There were some serious flaws in the writing of Jack Reacher, but overall I thought it really worked.

And Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, and surprise Robert Duvall were excellent.
What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
-Jose Canseco

There you go, giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck.
-Every cop, The Wire

"It is always good to be known for one's Krapp."
-John Hurt

lustindarkness

#14343
November 21, 2013, 09:06:47 AM
I enjoyed Jack Reacher.
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viper37

#14344
November 21, 2013, 10:54:34 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 20, 2013, 05:44:19 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 20, 2013, 05:41:35 PM
Marvel Shield
It seems to have gone a little better in the last two weeks.  Still well below average, imho.

Eh, the average show is completely unwatchable, so it's a bit above average.
Well, looking at network shows like Dracula or Hannibal, this product is certainly inferior.  Compared to all variants of NCIS and Hawaii 5-0, I'd say it's inferior too, and I consider this to be average (funny, but really, the plot lines are über predictable and similar from one of these shows to the other).
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

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garbon

#14345
November 21, 2013, 10:58:15 AM
Quote from: viper37 on November 21, 2013, 10:54:34 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 20, 2013, 05:44:19 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 20, 2013, 05:41:35 PM
Marvel Shield
It seems to have gone a little better in the last two weeks.  Still well below average, imho.

Eh, the average show is completely unwatchable, so it's a bit above average.
Well, looking at network shows like Dracula or Hannibal, this product is certainly inferior.  Compared to all variants of NCIS and Hawaii 5-0, I'd say it's inferior too, and I consider this to be average (funny, but really, the plot lines are über predictable and similar from one of these shows to the other).

Is it possible to be inferior to Dracula? Granted I only watched it once.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

#14346
November 21, 2013, 11:00:56 AM
Quote from: viper37 on November 21, 2013, 10:54:34 AM
Well, looking at network shows like Dracula or Hannibal, this product is certainly inferior.  Compared to all variants of NCIS and Hawaii 5-0, I'd say it's inferior too, and I consider this to be average (funny, but really, the plot lines are über predictable and similar from one of these shows to the other).

Then why the heck are you still watching it?

I disagree, btw. It's definitely more interesting than your typical murder-of-the-week cop show.
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Sheilbh

#14347
November 21, 2013, 02:20:16 PM
I like the new series of Ripper Street. Still love the show.
Let's bomb Russia!

viper37

#14348
November 21, 2013, 03:45:21 PM
@Garbon: I think Dracula is worth watching as a series.  If you don't you don't :)


Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 21, 2013, 11:00:56 AM
Then why the heck are you still watching it?
I disagree, btw. It's definitely more interesting than your typical murder-of-the-week cop show.
Ah, the humor.  The plot lines, I find them silly an predictable.  Unlike shows like, say, Game of Thrones or Spartacus, you know exactly what's going to happen.  But they are definately verry funny shows, and it's all about the interaction between the characters more than the plots in themselves.

As for S.H.I.E.L.D., I think it's improving slightly, wich is why I keep watching it.
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The Brain

#14349
November 21, 2013, 04:08:22 PM
The Spartacus rebellion is [spoiler]defeated[/spoiler].
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viper37

#14350
November 21, 2013, 04:55:37 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 21, 2013, 04:08:22 PM
The Spartacus rebellion is [spoiler]defeated[/spoiler].
[spoiler]Also, he dies in the end and Ceasar survives.[/spoiler] ;)
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Savonarola

#14351
November 21, 2013, 08:59:31 PM Last Edit: November 22, 2013, 03:26:32 PM by Savonarola
King Lear (1916)

Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters.
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness.
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,

That and all the other monologues and dialog are the part that is missing from this silent adaptation of William Shakespeare's immortal play.  Instead they mime out the action (occasionally there's a title cut with one of the bard's lines.)  Frederick Warde plays Lear; he was a stage actor, and presents Lear with the same broad movements that he would have used on the stage.  On a film it just looks hammy.

There were a number of plays filmed in the silent era.  Some work; I saw a silent film version of Lady Windermere's Fan that I enjoyed more than the play, but this one does not.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Sophie Scholl

#14352
November 21, 2013, 09:28:57 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on November 21, 2013, 02:20:16 PM
I like the new series of Ripper Street. Still love the show.
Agreed.  The new season has been quite good so far.
Garbon:  Dracula has become somewhat more interesting as things have gone on.  I'd suggest giving it to say... episode 3 for a final decision.
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"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

11B4V

#14353
November 21, 2013, 09:34:21 PM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Admiral Yi

#14354
November 22, 2013, 12:48:15 AM
I've tried twice now to watch The Great and Mighty Oz and both times it didn't take.
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