Gyp Rosetti
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Per Kicky, I watched Solitary Man. I loved it. Some very understated performances, which is often a good thing.
What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?
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Gyp Rosetti
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For the most part, I find ratings on imdb to be pretty accurate, well accurate to my take anyway. But this one's off. Take it for what it's worth because I rate very, very tough, but I'd give Solitary Man a solid 8.2/10.
Last movie I watched was "Wings of Desire"
It didn't do anything for me even though it has a 98% on the Tomatometer.
Roger Ebert wrote about it: "You're seduced into the spell of this movie, made in 1987 by Wenders, who collaborated on the screenplay with the German playwright Peter Handke. It moves slowly, but you don't grow impatient, because there is no plot to speak of, and so you don't fret that it should move to its next predictable stage. "
I disagree completely. I grew totally impatient and called an abort after an hour and a half.
Maybe this will cut against my reputation for only liking art movies or whatever.
It didn't do anything for me even though it has a 98% on the Tomatometer.
Roger Ebert wrote about it: "You're seduced into the spell of this movie, made in 1987 by Wenders, who collaborated on the screenplay with the German playwright Peter Handke. It moves slowly, but you don't grow impatient, because there is no plot to speak of, and so you don't fret that it should move to its next predictable stage. "
I disagree completely. I grew totally impatient and called an abort after an hour and a half.
Maybe this will cut against my reputation for only liking art movies or whatever.
Gyp Rosetti
Banned
Last movie I watched was "Wings of Desire"
It didn't do anything for me even though it has a 98% on the Tomatometer.
Roger Ebert wrote about it: "You're seduced into the spell of this movie, made in 1987 by Wenders, who collaborated on the screenplay with the German playwright Peter Handke. It moves slowly, but you don't grow impatient, because there is no plot to speak of, and so you don't fret that it should move to its next predictable stage. "
I disagree completely. I grew totally impatient and called an abort after an hour and a half.
Maybe this will cut against my reputation for only liking art movies or whatever.
You should try Warhol's Empire. Give that a shot.
Boondocksaint27
Active Member
Lately my weekend rentals have consisted solely of renting seasons of "The Wire". Everyone I knew kept telling me about it and now that I have finally gotten around to watching it I am addicted. Effing Awesome.
Gyp Rosetti
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Boondocksaint27
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Halfway through the second season. Valchek just got Lt. Daniels in the task force and McNulty is still stuck on Harbor Patrol. For the last two weekends I have literally done nothing more then sit in front of my TV and watch The Wire back to back. I was glad to see that they made a lot of it very realistic.
The second season was weak, in my opinion. The third season was the best, one of the best seasons of any show ever.
Gyp Rosetti
Banned
I'd rank them 1, 3, 4, 5, 2...but I can see how one would like 3 more...regarding the second season, I found it the weakest because it was watered down. They tried to keep the urban **** going while integrating the dock workers and I just couldn't get into the characters as much.
Gyp Rosetti
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On Encore just now, they showed a commercial/promo for John Travolta Sunday "featuring five of his greatest movies" one of which is...brace yourself...Battlefield Earth...awesome!
Why?
Boondocksaint27
Active Member
YB and KEK, I've heard the third season is the best. I'm enjoying the second season, but not as much as I was the first. I don't want to miss any storylines so I will keep going with it and will probably finish season two this weekend.
P.S. Omar is one bad mother effer.
I think that's why the second season was the weakest for me: you could skip it and probably not miss any story lines for subsequent seasons. And yes, Omar is a BMF.
Hantlers
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Great show. Love it. Gonna start watching The Wire and Deadwood soon. I'm also currently enjoying Justified quite a bit.
Presently powering through the Larry Sanders show. Yes I know I'm 15-20 years late.
You're ahead of me on that one.