The last movie you saw...

[maxpayne2409]

whats it about? as im too lazy to search for myself

[dinky]

four irish brothers. the oldest is a hothead who hates italians cuz he inadvertently helped them kill his father. one brother is a straight arrow and is always pulling the others, led by the older one, out of trouble. but then he basically ends up having to abandon his up 'n' up school life to save his brothers from the trouble they got in with the italian mob and irish mob. and, of course, the girl he's loved since blah blah blah knows what he did and now she's mortified by him. main thrust of first ep:

Spoiler:

the first ep ends with him killing the head of the irish mob who was like a surrogate father to him cuz he was selling out the older brother to the italian lieutenant, who he also killed, along with a couple of his men. and the show leads you to believe that he's just created this huge power vacuum that he now has to step into himself. and that would be cool, I think. except three shows later, and he's still just one of the brothers who's on the run from other guys and trying to keep his brothers' alive.

[maxpayne2409]

ah i see, now if this was set in the 1920s it could be good, but im guessing its modern setting?

[dinky]

yes. it's somewhere between goodfellas and sopranos. or so it purports to be. as I said, it's quite uneven after the first ep. good acting though. just too slow. in the post sopranos era, these kinds of shows need to have every ep push forward. it's wayyyy to early to take your audience for granted and throttle back to more refined shite.

edit: not sure if you read the spoiler or not, but you'll no doubt have noticed it's clear parallel to the godfather. I was thinking goodfellas more for the deniro irish guy angle and the hothead older brother being like the pesci character.

[maxpayne2409]

i didn't read the spoiler on the offchance i decided to give the show a go

[dinky]

smallville was good again. except there were a few annoying parts (all having to do with lana & lex), but the annoying stuff had really nothing whatever to do with most of the episode. basically shit that looks like they were paying the actors for the ep whether they appear or not, so let's give'em a couple scenes. That's a great aspect about Rome: if you're part of that ep, you're not part of that ep. no monkeying around to give all cast members their share of camera time.

[MyK]

Never watched Smallville so it's something on my long list that I'll watch if nothing else is left worth watching on TV (and that happens quite frequently if you think of all the US based shows on hiatus)
Watched all aired eps of "Life on Mars" once more and it's one of the best things on TV ever IMO. I'll make note of all ppl involved in it and keep track of their work in the future cuz I don't wanna miss a single bit of their creativity It only saddens me cuz it's obvious it won't last forever Before you ask, yes I do have a life outside a TV box
Also watched "The Good Shepherd" and it was great. It's a bit hard to follow in the beginning as it jumps in time fwd and back a few times but it was still great nonetheless. Great cast w/ acting to match, solid script that holds water, and an interesting Rosenthal/De Niro production. Recommended

[maxpayne2409]

there was a thing on with John Simm (DI Sam Tyler) about picasso earlier this week, didn't watch it tho

This weeks LoM was awesome, especially the camberwick green intro and the hilarious lines DCI Gene Hunt keeps on coming out with my favourite this week being "I've come at this from more angles then Linda Lovelace", even Ray got a bit of a funny line

Ray: While you've been off sick boss, i've been here hard at work, i've not been to the pub in 36 hours
Sam:... Shit!
Ray: Yeah

just watched latest smallville too, i liked it, i'm guessing it's sweeps aswell in America? hence all the scantily clad big silicon enhanced women in the ep, and Lois in a red catsuit and the whole lesbian flirting

[MyK]

Yeah, I laughed my pants off too watching latest LoM (which, in turn, made others laugh too) My fav was that "Excuse me Mrs Woman" line I don't even think it was in script (if you noticed, others awkwardly paused for a sec after it) or it was simply brilliantly acted part

[maxpayne2409]

i remember the line and it was good, but i don't remember seeing an awkward pause after it, i will now have to check, can you remember where abouts in the ep it was?

[MyK]

35'02"

[maxpayne2409]

haha yeah your right, Liz White does seem to look a bit awkward, like him saying that made her forget her next line for a moment

[dinky]

just got back from the new cgi TMNT movie. I liked it. It was very close to the TMNT I grew up with. It was still a cartoon show stretched into a movie though. it is what it is. not a big fan of april or casey jones, but I guess they were remade in the recent incarnation of the tv series too?

especially since the live action movies, there's almost this obligation to make every arc revolve around leo/raph, which usually means relegating mikey and donny to bit roles and a couple one-liners. that dynamic remains intact here. iunno. already said I liked it. I could see a really good movie in it...or story arc. of course, they had to clean it up and dumb it down for the kiddies. but you could still see them struggling to do it, which is better than not, imo.

[dinky]

Rome</i> series finally. it was good. The real finale was last week though. This one mostly just wrapped up a few things that more or less belonged to the previous ep.

a moment of silence for a great series that didn't outwear its welcome.

[maxpayne2409]

a moment of silence for a great series that didn't outwear its welcome.

but life on mars still has 3 eps left

[spudthedestroyer]

watched BSG.... wtf is going on? singing... who's singing??? wah?


I watched the Rome finale too, that's it for that series then HBO needs more money, bring back carnivale and give it another run! At least Rome ran through to an ending


What i watched movie wise was Jeff Wayne's The Musical Version of War of the Worlds. Rock on! Its still the best version of war of the worlds, and faithful no less

[maxpayne2409]

i was so bored earlier i watched Harry Hill's TV Burp :|

[dinky]

BSG season finale. I was warned that it sucked balls and the person who warned me went from a fan of the show to not only not liking it, but being embarrassed he ever did and refusing to admit it.

now I don't think it was nearly that bad. and I do understand that season finales are designed to be really big cliffhangers. but they're also supposed to provide some fecking resolution. baltar's trial is the only thing that gets resolved. there's a silly "revelation" (one that should NEVER be revealed as long as the show airs, imo), and there's a borderline retarded "surprise" in the last five minutes.

there's just way too much going on in the series at this point, and nothing is really being treated properly or with much refined focus. I complained about this with Heroes</i>, but it's not the same thing with BSG. the BSG stuff is more like they're introducing all of these possibilities but are not following through on anything. I hate how they just randomly decide to show the number six in baltar's head. they also completely wasted him as an actor in the last few eps. so that's my analysis: BSG feels "all over the place." I was definitely more into Rome</i>, but it doesn't help that Heroes</i> is on hiatus. I was really digging that.

edit: new sopranos and entourage April 8! I could watch reruns of entourage all day. dunno why, but it has excellent replayability.

[spudthedestroyer]

What do you mean, they revealed that Jimi Hendrix is the final cylon, weren't you listening?

[dinky]

I dig, man. I dig.

watched black donnellys last night as well. getting better. pretty sure it's not the series I had hoped for. but I'll stick out the season, at least. give it a chance. it's decent. I mean feck! I wach smallville. it's not like I can claim a state of higher aesthetics or somethings.