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Yeah Breaking Bad's just started getting noticed after season 3. The ratings got better each year and all the acting awards to Cranston helped too.. but TWD does some ridiculous number every damn Sunday.

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I'm gonna watch Breaking Bad. Not sure but soon. Maybe I'll quit my job and spend the unemployment viewing and cooking up ideas.
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Only makes sense.


So I'm two deep on House of Cards.

This is butter.

It's on the level I thought Newsroom was gonna be on. All that promise The Killing had.
At the least, I think it's the best made TV right now, outside of Boardwalk Empire.
It's film quality, style and pace.



The first episode won't hook you.
It's all intros and moving around chess pieces.
And it'll take that ep for you to get it that this isn't a film.

The last 15 minutes of the 2nd episode, though. :Nthat
That'll get over anyone with doubts. Get you fiendin for more.

Kevin Spacey is so quietly dominating every scene.
He's like Hannibal Lecter with southern hospitality.
 
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Emmy Rossum is such a geek and I love her for it.

She's on the Late Late show with CraigyFerg talking about playing Settlers of Catan and Risque all the time (she remembers names and locations and all that so you know she aint lying) while drunk :lol :smokin
 
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^ I'm sure it will, the following for the show is huge.. though the quality is iffy as hell at times. *shrug*
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Master Zik said:
TWD has got better but I'd say hold off on binging past seasons to catch up for the 2nd part of S3. I'm following it but it has no got immensely better. I'm kinda wondering if it'll make it to a season 5.
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Have you seen the ratings? Walking Dead will get as many seasons as they want.
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TWD is the highest rated cable drama. The. Highest. Over all of cable television.

BB done this year, Mad Men done next year. TWD done when real zombies rise up.
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Yeah I don't pay attention to ratings. My bad on that, I meant more like I don't feel it'll be worth watching for that long. Not so much that ratings will plummet and it'll get canceled. I was looking at this more from a quality perspective which I usually do.

The way the show is going though we'll see. They tried really hard to make up for S2 and it was pretty transparent how hard they went on gore and violent/visual scenes with all that talk before about them having a low budget due to Mad Men but I guess cuz of ratings and AMC smarting up they realized this show would be their cash cow for years to come so they improved in that area.

But yeah I'm focused on quality, we all can agree the high ratings isn't really translating to how good the show actually is. Plus it's always in the back of my head that the comic is superior in every way except for not being a tv show.
 
TWD is so much easier to write for and continue than mad men or BB. The main character is the zombies. You can kill off the entire cast if they won't take the check AMC offers. People will still watch because of the zombies

You can't have the show without Walt or Don Draper. And if you keep going on and on, eventually they will act out of character just to have the plant progress. Which will piss off the fans and critics and ruin the show.

Anytime TWD needs to switch it up it's believable because it's a zombie show. It's not based in reality.
 
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TWD is so much easier to write for and continue than mad men or BB. The main character is the zombies. You can kill off the entire cast if they won't take the check AMC offers. People will still watch because of the zombies

You can't have the show without Walt or Don Draper. And if you keep going on and on, eventually they will act out of character just to have the plant progress. Which will piss off the fans and critics and ruin the show.

Anytime TWD needs to switch it up it's believable because it's a zombie show. It's not based in reality.
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Very good point. I never looked at it that way.
 
Review - Warm Bodies


Just because you are “technically” dead, doesn’t mean you can’t feel alive.

With a new zombie, alien and monster flick or T.V. show popping up by the week, 50/50 director Jonathan Levine brings us a fresh spin on the zombie genre with a hint of love story attached.

Typically the first quarter of the year brings us dud after dud after dud when it comes to film quality. Warm Bodies puts a halt on that, at least partially, for the time being and provides a dry humored, charming Romeo and Juliet spin on what could have been a cheesy disaster.

After an outbreak which turned most of the cities population into zombies and bonies; a wall exists separating the infected from the non. As zombies occupy an abandoned airport, we follow around one young looking corpse who doesn’t remember his name. Played by Nicholas Hoult, he clearly has thoughts of a regular human and desires and knows this isn’t the ideal life for him, often times claiming he’s bored. After an early extermination attempt of a Dave Franco led human group against the zombies, Hoult saves a young girl (Teresa Palmer) from being eaten by other zombies and takes her to safety.

As Julie (Palmer) is scared out of her mind that this Zombie takes her back to his home, which is inside of a 747 plane, she begins to question what’s wrong with him. Throughout the film we hear Hoult narrate the happenings and his subconscious thoughts. After the first evening where Julie wakes up and she hasn’t been eaten, she becomes curious why this zombie has spared her and why he may have an affinity towards her.

When asked what his name is all he can do is grunt and muster out the letter “R” as to what he thinks his name use to start with. So that’s what they go with. The two begin to bond via pictures, vinyl records and most of all staying alive.

Levine does a great job of spinning the tired zombie story of eating humans and being gross by giving them a reason for their actions. We all know zombies eat brains but besides being hungry there never really is a reason. While Julie is sleeping, we see R sitting in the captain chair eating the brains of Franco who he killed because he was being attacked. We’re told that by eating the brains of humans the zombies acquire the memories, which resided in the brain thus making them feel something like a human again. So now we know why R has taken a liking to Julie, but we see the more time he spends with her, the more alive he feels.

Now of course this wouldn’t be a proper zombie flick without a survival story so there obviously is an end game and that’s to get Julie back home to her dictator-like father played by John Malkovich and to try to prove that zombies can indeed change and be home civilized.

While the acting isn’t anything to write home about it’s not bad or distracting. The zombie-like movements and makeup on R and M played by the hilarious Rob Corddry isn’t overbearing and their grunts and one-liners here and there are often on point. Corddry steals the show in terms of dialogue with some completely unexpected dry humor that will no doubt leave you in stitches. Levine did a excellent job with the screenplay balancing enough human dialogue with “dead person speak” to make the zombies tolerable, funny and most of all believable.

There obviously is a romance at the heart of this story, an unlikely zombie falling for the human element that normally would leave you shaking your head and wanting to skip this entirely. But Warm Bodies is heartwarming, charming and hits the right notes. It never tries to be something it’s not; balancing comedy, gore and love evenly. The “Romeo and Juliet” angle can’t be overlooked and it’s rather clever. The lead characters names begin with R and J, Franco’s character was named Perry “P” like Paris, the unrequited love, even a scene where R is looking up at the balcony at Julie, it’s all-apparent.

Anchored by an amazing soundtrack and just the right amount of comedy and romance; Warm Bodies serves as a fun date movie and a not-so-typical zombie flick in a day and age where films like Twilight and Beastly bring the overall genre back 10 steps.

Eat you’re brains out folks, you’ll want to stay alive long enough to see this one.

Rating: B-
 
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Is that your review venom lyrix? If so, nice...

Anyone like Chinese director Wong Kar Wai? Excited to see his The Grandmasters starring Ziyi Zhang, Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Infernal Affairs!!!), & my man Cung Le.





Also, here is some news on the Tinker Taylor sequel that was talked about & another spy flick called Our Kind Of Traitor starring Ewan McGregor, Ralph Fiennes, & Mads Mikkelsen (Le Chiffre in Casino Royale among other films).

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...l-smileys-people-may-shoot-next-year-20130207



Some very good news for fans of John Le Carré or just smart spy films in general that don't end with the hero booby trapping his house in an overly elaborate and kind of stupid plan to capture an international criminal: two books by the master of the genre are on their way to the big screen, and one of them is a sequel we thought might have been left for dead.
But first, the steadily developing "Our Kind Of Traitor," which has "The Snowtown Murders" director Justin Kurzel at the helm, has nabbed excellent actors Mads Mikkelsen and Ralph Fiennes to join the recently cast Ewan McGregor in the picture. The pair were first rumored last fall (along with Jessica Chastain, but it doesn't look like she'll follow), and will come on board the story penned by Hossein Amini ("Drive," "Snow White and the Huntsman") that follows an English couple (McGregor playing one half) who get mixed up with a Russian money-laundering oligarch (Mikkelsen). They get caught up in his plans to defect and are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust. Fiennes will play Hector Meredith, a UK government fixer. So yeah, with this cast and director? Sign us up.

Meanwhile, we'd been wondering about "Smiley's People," the proposed sequel to "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," since we haven't heard anything about it in over a year. But it seems it's very much in development, with StudioCanal honchos confirming it's moving forward with the 'Tinker' team set to return. “We are working on 'Smiley’s People' with Working Title. It’s still at the development stage - but, yes, the old team of Peter Straughan and Tomas Alfredson is back together. The same 'Tinker Tailor' actors whose characters would reappear are well aware of what we’re doing. We’re hopeful for a 2014 shoot,” Olivier Courson and Ron Halpern. Um, awesome.

As for how they will approach the material, Straughan told us that they may incorporate elements of another Le Carré work. "The second book in the trilogy is 'The Honourable Schoolboy' but it's set entirely in Hong Kong, and George Smiley's not a major character in it [the plot instead focuses on Jerry Westerby, the character played by 'Boardwalk Empire' star Stephen Graham in Alfredson's film], but it might be possible to take some material from that and combine it into 'Smiley's People' in the sequel," he said. And we're guessing they're still looking at how to put it all together.

But it appears that we'll be getting back-to-back Le Carré flicks, which is certainly something to be very excited about. "Our Kind Of Traitor" will shoot this summer in Moscow, Marrakech, Paris, London and Switzerland, and we presume there's more casting to come.
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One more thing...Here's a photo of Michael Douglas as Liberace & Matt Damon as his boyfriend. It's directed by Steven Soderbergh. He tried shopping it as a movie but apparently the studios weren't too keen on the idea of the movie (wonder why) & it wound up at HBO. It's coming out in the spring but no date has been announced yet.


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I posted a movie called Mood Indigo currently in post production starring (among others) Omar Sy (french dude). He's got another movie coming out on blu ray/dvd March 5th called The Intouchables. It also stars France's Dustin Hoffman, Francois Cluzet (many films including one of my favorites 'Round Midnight ). Can't wait to watch this...
 
Out of the blue, I got some free time last night and I finally sat down and watched The Fifth Element.

Bit of a space-y Big Trouble in Little China. Certainly, certainly had heart. I liked what the idea of it could be, some of the ideas they went after, but, just seemed a little low budgeted, had it come out today, same idea, but today's technology, mighta really had something.

I don't want to knock the lack of a budget at all, all in all they put together a decent pickture, it just felt dated to me while I watched it, starting with the moving cardboard box aliens in the beginning. :lol

And honestly, when Luke Perry is your fifth name in your cast, and his scene is over after the first 5 minutes of the film, I'm a little worried about that.

Willis played Bruce Willis. Might have been a retired John McClaine, not sure, but he looked like he was a little bored here.

Oldman was ridiculous. :lol I found it odd that he didn't even seem out of place in this movie.

Milla.......meh. Ok.

Now I know why Chris Tucker stopped doing movies not named Rush Hour.

I give it like a 6. 7 if you paid me.




American's ep 2 was solid. Not sure I'm seein stuff right tho, is hubby bangin the hot blonde too, as part of his job, as in, wifey KNOWS he has to bang this broad? Cuz, where do I sign to be a Russian spy? I just assumed that a lethal ***** like her would cut her dude screwin the other chicks, regardless of cover, but if she's cool with it, damn, there'd be spies all over this country, hell I might be one and not know it. 8o :lol

Did dude really, truly, make a joke about only 3 minorities in the FBI, back in 1981? While I chuckled, that was sort of a wack joke, for today playing yesterday. They shoulda left that one out.
 
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American's ep 2 was solid. Not sure I'm seein stuff right tho, is hubby bangin the hot blonde too, as part of his job, as in, wifey KNOWS he has to bang this broad? Cuz, where do I sign to be a Russian spy? I just assumed that a lethal ***** like her would cut her dude screwin the other chicks, regardless of cover, but if she's cool with it, damn, there'd be spies all over this country, hell I might be one and not know it. 8o :lol

Did dude really, truly, make a joke about only 3 minorities in the FBI, back in 1981? While I chuckled, that was sort of a wack joke, for today playing yesterday. They shoulda left that one out.
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Yeah I think they both know they have to do things that are just apart of the job to get what they want. I think they work on a need to know basis though but since they're willing to go that far they just assume they're banging any person they need to turn to their side. It goes back to the first ep when Phil had the tape recorder listening in on Elizabeth banging/sucking that homeland security official pretending to be a pro. I doubt she knows he had it recorded or that he had access to listen to it. So I figure she just assumes he's banging that chick as well :lol

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Do No Harm is really growing on me. It'll be tough juggling this and Elementary. I've even decided to watch Suits in it's 2nd re-airing.
 
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Kroll Show surprisingly brought the lulz :lol (4 Episodes so far)

Workaholics never fails :rollin
 
Kroll Show looks like something I'd want to watch but I heard the reviews have been awful since it started that I just keep putting it off. I trust NT's opinion a lot on movies/shows so I really do take what everyone has to say here seriously.. aside from Cabin in the Woods of course. From what i can recall everyones **** on Kroll's show which sucks because I really enjoy his work on The League.
 
The first episode was rough. I don't think I laughed more than once. The second episode was much better. You just need to get the hang of what he's trying to do by building all these characters and ideas. Some work, some don't, but it's interesting at the least.
 
We talked about it recently, but Todd VanDerWerff writes on the House of Cards/binge viewing conversation. He writes for the AV Club and just so happens to review some of my favorite and most debated about shows. His reviews on the Sopranos that just concluded were always fantastic. 
[h1]Could Netflix’s programming strategy kill the golden age of TV?[/h1]
I think the golden age was already dying before Netflix got involved. The end of Mad Men and Breaking Bad will be the final curtain, but still.

A couple of excerpts that I really liked 
All TV seasons have built-in redundancies and repetitions, certain patterns that are enjoyable on a week-to-week basis, but become irritating when consumed all at once. Yet the rhythms of individual episodes—those patterns and repetitions—often serve to orient viewers within the series itself, even in a binge viewing. The gradual loss of these things would eventually boil down more serialized stories until they seemed more like movies than television.
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I felt this with certain shows like Dexter. I marathon watched the first few seasons and really liked it. When it came time to watch the show live, I found myself noticing a lot more issues that otherwise blended into the background. Of course, for shows like Dexter, I might not have noticed bigger issues because they just weren't there early on... or they hadn't yet become tiresome or repetitive. But the point remains, you won't have the time to notice the imperfections if you're constantly moving on.
But I’ll still miss the idea of everybody watching everything together. With every new freedom comes a kind of loss, and sometimes, those can’t be quantified. We’ve been consuming content in serialized fashion for centuries now—people made weekly visits to theaters long before the novel was even a glint in Cervantes’ eye—and that habit will likely die hard. And maybe I’m being a stick-in-the-mud here, tied to a method of TV watching that was already in its death throes when I was a child. But when I can watch a great episode of TV with my watercooler—real or virtual—around me, that increases the value of it to me, increases the sense that I’m a part of something. Watching tweets about various pieces ofHouse Of Cards  fly around, with no real conversation taking place, because everybody’s watching at a different pace, I really miss that. Perhaps my children will find that attitude strange, but to me, that idea of a great, imagined audience, gathering in the dark for its favorite program… Well, that idea will die hard.
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Some would prefer to binge, while others like watching it live... but that aside.. it'll be interesting if this leads to a big shift. If it does, I'll be disappointed.  
 
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But I’ll still miss the idea of everybody watching everything together. With every new freedom comes a kind of loss, and sometimes, those can’t be quantified. We’ve been consuming content in serialized fashion for centuries now—people made weekly visits to theaters long before the novel was even a glint in Cervantes’ eye—and that habit will likely die hard. And maybe I’m being a stick-in-the-mud here, tied to a method of TV watching that was already in its death throes when I was a child. But when I can watch a great episode of TV with my watercooler—real or virtual—around me, that increases the value of it to me, increases the sense that I’m a part of something. Watching tweets about various pieces of
House Of Cards
 fly around, with no real conversation taking place, because everybody’s watching at a different pace, I really miss that. Perhaps my children will find that attitude strange, but to me, that idea of a great, imagined audience, gathering in the dark for its favorite program… Well, that idea will die hard.
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Some would prefer to binge, while others like watching it live... but that aside.. it'll be interesting if this leads to a big shift. If it does, I'll be disappointed.  
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See...that's exactly what I was talking about. There was no buildup to House of Cards, no anticipation, and no real big push once it came out. Just a few interviews here and there and 13 episodes.

Now it might be the best new show, but it's thread has less than a post an episode.

The Americans is 2-deep and it has 4 pages.

I think a big part of watching things that yearn to be more than just something to be on in the background or just entertaining enough that you don't feel like changing the channel is the conversation. That's where it builds up and gets a real, lasting appreciation. Cuz as we all know, the conversation slows to a crawl between seasons and this was born there.

This might as well be a 13-hour movie. They didn't even bother to name any episodes.

I understand wanting to serve the audience that watches like that, but they're people catching up to the conversation. It's just that they're catching up to a conversation that never happened. It's like being real late to a party and finding out they called it off.

I'm just saying, the if only the first episode of it would've come out, that'd get a bigger conversation than this.
 
So I watched Bridesmaids with my full undivided attention. It's good but still too long imo. I laughed a bit more than the other tries but the way I see it this is movie I have to be in a certain mood to completely enjoy it and I've really liked other movies where that is necessary but the thing here is nothing about it grips me and makes me sit down and watch a few scenes.

Like Beverly Hill Cop 2 was on earlier today and I want to catch the scene where Axel pretends to be a gay man with a STD to give a message and confronts the dude in the social club/restaurant and gets carried out by police or when he loses the detectives following him each time, etc. Same would go for more comedies recently like Wedding Crashers, Pineapple Express, and really that goes for any movie. With Bridesmaids the scene where Wiig is trying to outdo the other bridesmaid aint one cuz it's not one funny moment after another and that bit went on too long, same with when she tried to get the attention of the cop by speeding, drinking, etc., same goes for explosive diehard scene when they tried dresses. I can name these scenes but it's like I don't want to go back and catch them individually or watch earlier parts just to reach those parts.

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Nice way to break that down MrONeg. I see what you saying but the way I see it that particular experience is how I feel when I start watching a show that's already done like The Wire. It has it's pros and cons. Don't feel this presentation of new tv show will replace how things are currently at all though. It'll be a nice new avenue for great shows that don't want to depend on not knowing if it'll make it to it's next season though.
 
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I went and saw the matinee showing for Bullet to the Head this morning.

It's exactly what you'd expect this film to be. It's Sly and a traditional cop trying to save the world. :lol

It is what it is. Apparently the villain of the film was the star of the recent Conan remake, and also in GoT. He was alright, menacing, but typical beef-head that just is kind of dopy.

It starts the film with the whole, "We're going to spoil something for you that you'll see later in the film." You know, Carlito getting shot in the first minute of Carlito's Way. Except it doesn't work here because you really don't care about the actors very much, and you KNOW you'll see this scene again later, but it just isn't very good. It works with Carlito's Way because not only are you not sure if that's how the film ends, you aren't sure whether this is the beginning of the film, and most importantly, the film develops enough for you to care about Carlito.

The supporting cast was actually just as good, if not better than the main cast. It had two Oz veterans (Jon Seda and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). Both were pretty good in their roles, but it's sad that Adebisi isn't really physically intimidating like he was in Oz, but he was still decent. Plus, Christian Slater played the sleeze-bag lawyer very well. :lol :lol

Also, Sarah Shahi with barely any clothes on was also very nice. :hat

It felt like Tango and Cash 2 a lot of the time. :lol . Sly continually one-ups his "partner," who was actually very good in some other films I'd seen him in, specifically Better Luck Tomorrow. It just goes to show how weak the script was when you have someone who's a good actor but isn't able to show it because of how poor the dialogue and script are. I mean acting Sly Stallone isn't exactly an easy thing.. :lol For CP, he's the "Asian guy," in most the FF films. They also make tons of tasteless Asian jokes, which really aren't funny. They were funny back in like 1983, but not really anymore.

Overall, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't necessarily good either.



I'm really excited to see Side Effects; but I feel like I'm the only one who is. It's predecessor, Contagion, was widely hated by everyone on here, yet it had a lot of critical success. I loved it. It's Soderbergh. It's a spiritual successor to Contagion, so I'm really excited. Rooney Mara is in it too? I'm sold. It's also gotten great reviews, so I hope to catch it before it leaves theaters.
 
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