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09-23-2014, 09:34 PM #601
Damn you Splat!
Watched all 24 episodes in a mega-marathon.
The soundtrack (great songs in every episode) and James Spader are really the only reason to watch this show, imho. Spader SLAYS. The dialogue they gave him is insane. I imagine somebody, somewhere has a blog that keeps track of all the places that his character has been (would be a great tour, btw).
I do notice a distinct similarity between Blacklist and White Collar, though.
{POSSIBLE SPOILER}
The feds in both shows are f@#kin' idiots! It took them 24 episodes realize that Red is playing them and that everybody on the blacklist is interconnected? That was pretty obvious in the first episode (and I even think that somewhere in the first few eps Red explicitly states this to his FBI contacts).
Still, Spader is mesmerizing.
While not on NF streaming, I highly recommend tracking down The Music of Chance, easily one of Spader's best movies (other than sex lies and videotape and Less Than Zero).
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09-24-2014, 09:55 AM #602
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09-24-2014, 05:21 PM #603
Totally got hooked on The Blacklist over the last 4 days. Spader's character is awesome.
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09-24-2014, 05:35 PM #604
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09-29-2014, 10:44 AM #605
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09-29-2014, 04:48 PM #606
Peaky Blinders,
Blinding, real good,Gone fishing
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09-29-2014, 09:35 PM #607
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09-30-2014, 03:42 PM #608Banned
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New thought after watching 6 episodes of Blacklist -- its formula gets old after a couple episodes but Spader is good enough to tune in again. He hasn't been this quietly nasty since that Molly Ringwald movie where he played the arrogant prepster.
The absurdity of the spooks in-story almost warrants not watching, but Spader delivers. Also, I like how the Harry Lennix character is there to reinforce the Nobility of Obama theme. Network TV, always pretending to expose govt ineptitude/chicanery while actually telling viewers that without spookery, shit would always be flinging off the fan blades.
Blacklist's little tributes to X-Files ("The Courier") and Silence of the Lambs (first episode) are done without absurdity.
In other news:
Hinterland is good.
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09-30-2014, 10:13 PM #609glocal
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Revolution had a slow first season until the end but picked up nicely in season 2.
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10-01-2014, 12:08 AM #610
Haunter
Interesting little psychological horror flick from Canada with slight nods to Nightmare on Elm Street.
Slightly creepy and a tad bit mind-bending.
Worth a watch if you like horror movies with more mystery and atmosphere than gore and ultra-violence.
Directed by Vincenzo Natali, the same guy who did the awesomely twisted Cube.which is easily one of the best sci-fi horror movies ever made (imho).
It stars the young chick from Zombieland as well as several well-known Canadian genre actors (Peter Outerbridge, Stephen McHattie, and David Hewlett).
Again, if you dig atmospheric horror mystery movies, then this one should be up your alley.
*Not linking to the trailer since it kind of gives too much of the movie away.Last edited by dookey67; 10-01-2014 at 12:31 AM.
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10-01-2014, 09:53 AM #611Banned
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10-01-2014, 02:41 PM #612
Detention
Over-the-top high school horror flick that does everything that Jennifer's Body attempted to do, but failed miserably at.
This romp is directed by Joseph Kahn, who directed the highly underrated modern motorcycle western insanity known as Torque.
The dialogue is off-the-nuts and totally ADHD spastic; in many instances I found myself rewinding scenes so that I could catch everything that was said. The overlapping speed dialogue is an obvious homage to the stylings of Robert Altman (think M*A*S*H) where characters talk over one another in rapid fire.
The genre mashing is beyond compare, as well. On the whole it is a bugged-out pop culture pastiche of John Hughes' high school hijinx, slasher flicks from the '80s, and the aforementioned Altman.
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10-08-2014, 11:36 PM #613
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10-09-2014, 09:34 AM #614
I am glad I gave this a second pass as it didn't take the first time I watched the pilot. Spader is awesome though he lays that schtick down a little thick at times. His limited run in season 6? of the office was some of the funniest shit they ever did - and that is tall order to equal likes of Michael Scott and Dwight shrute.
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10-09-2014, 10:37 PM #615glocal
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10-15-2014, 01:53 PM #616Registered User
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Peaky Blinders. Way better than I expected.
I really like Revolution, even though it is starting to get a little strange. Charlie, oh my! Sooooo hot!
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10-20-2014, 12:25 PM #617
The Sacrament
Over the course of his last two movies--House of the Devil, The Innkeepers--Ti West has become the master of the seemingly innocuous, yet ultimately unnerving and intense horror film. Opting for mood and creepy atmosphere over splatter tactics, West's films are veritable slow-burn spine chillers.
The Sacrament keeps West's flow intact, providing a film that manages to accomplish what Kevin Smith failed to do with Red State (both films center around cults, btw).
Low-budget, but filled with some great character acting and a wonderful sense of build-up, The Sacrament is more of a hyper-real thriller with horrific undertones than a classic horror film, per se.
Totally worth a watch.
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10-25-2014, 09:23 AM #618glocal
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Peaky Blinders was worth watching.
Just finishing the rockumentary on the Eagles. Didn't think it'd be as good as it was.
But for us old fucks, they defined the times through the 70s.
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10-25-2014, 09:37 AM #619
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10-26-2014, 05:57 PM #620glocal
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Not all in one spell, but yeah. I found it all very interesting. Saw at least one person I used to know in it.
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10-27-2014, 11:13 AM #621
Come on, man. I had a rough night and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!
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10-27-2014, 01:10 PM #622
Killing Them Softly
Dark, quietly violent, and ultra-moody post-modern noir/gangster flick with an intensely subued performance from Brad Pitt. Great supporting cast, too (Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini, Scoot McNairy, Sam Shepard).
It's based on the novel, Cogan's Trade, by George V. Higgins (he also authored the much lauded The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which was also made into a pretty decent film starring Robert Mitchum back in 1973).)
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10-27-2014, 02:55 PM #623
I was so bored I watched Hunger Games 2. Da fuck is that shit?
The first 1 was at least comically bad. The 2nd one was just bad.
People actually like that garbage, or are most people like me and watch it out of boredom because Jennifer Lawrence is pretty?
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10-28-2014, 09:23 AM #624Banned
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10-29-2014, 11:04 AM #625
HICK
A low-key, backwoods neo-noir starring Chloe Grace Moretz (the chick from Kick-Ass). Her character is like a cross between a naive Iris (Jodie Foster's character in Taxi Driver) and Charles Driggs (Jeff Daniels' character in Something Wild, the film Hick most reminds me of).
There are some great cameos from name actors/actresses and an incredibly engaging performance by Eddie Redmayne, who masters the slow-burn, creepy-cool with much finesse.
There are several brilliant moments in the film, one of which had me in stitches laughing and another that is perhaps one of the best and most intense few seconds I've seen in a movie in quite some time. Loaded with great, snappy dialogue, too boot.
THE CONSPIRACY
I was skeptical, what with this being another one of those found-footage "horror" films, but I found myself sucked into the rabbit hole of the story really quickly. As the title implies, the film is about conspiracy theories; well, perhaps the great-granddaddy of all conspiracy theories. I'll leave it at that. The ending is a little obtuse, but the film builds its intensity really well and manages to inject some really subtle hints of terror, horror, and paranoia.
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