#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Plus I get confused when I watch Fillion's antics.Sexually confused? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Yeah it's man crush territory. Or more specifically, man's man crush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,326 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Yes!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6_U8gbR6UY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Yeah I saw that available to stream on Netflix. Looks like another shaggin' and sandals soap opera along the lines of Tudors.Okay so suddenly Curb got 10x better. I'll be sad to see Cheryl go, but it needed to happen. The show was getting stale and a big shift like that was required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,800 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 The Borgias is worth watching mostly thanks to Jeremy Irons performance. The episodes tend to drag a bit, but when it's good, it's fucking awesome.Irons for the win! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,326 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Huh, two different series about the Borgias at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Are both interspersed with random soft porn scenes? If so I'll pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,326 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Apparently, this one has better reviews than the one with Irons... I'll see both. Reviews can't be trusted (even if in this case, I'll think I'll agree with them)Production value of the Showtime one (Irons) must be good. I believe they did The Tudors as well.Let's see what this does over at Metacritic ...... Oops, only 66/100. But still, it's better than the 64/100 the Tudors received and I liked that show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,301 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Yawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,326 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 8/10 on IMDb.The best word to describe this show is 'beautiful'. The sets and costumes, like other reviewers have pointed out, are stunning. Everything flows together cohesively, and nothing feels out of place or awkward.Going into this show, from the buzz surrounding it, I was expecting a soap opera, akin to The Tudors. Calling it a soap opera, however, really doesn't do the show justice. From what I've seen thus far, I'd compare it more to HBO's Deadwood or Rome. Sure, it shares some elements with soap operas, but it's so much more. It's hard to describe without giving out spoilers, though, so you'll just have to see for yourself.Deadwood and Rome you say? Okay, Blu-ray it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Anything over 50 on Metacritic and RT is usually worth watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 The Borgias has its moments and Jeremy Irons is excellent (as always). But overall, I felt they lost a lot of potential with this show. I believe the Tudors was better than this.Theres something that Showtime tends to miss with its historical dramas. Camelot was really flawed in parts and I wouldn't watch it if it hadn't been for Eva Green's excellent performances. Even Ralph Fiennes was good, I just hated the guy who was casted for Arthur...urgh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,326 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Then Boardwalk Empire (88/100) must be fantastic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Anything over 50 on Metacritic and RT is usually worth watching.You sure bout that? Pirahna 3D has high 70s on RT, wouldn't call that worth watching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 I've heard that's a very entertaining flick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 Then Boardwalk Empire (88/100) must be fantastic!Boardwalk Empire is the best show on TV. It's really, really good. Season 2 was even better than Season 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 I watched the pilot, which was decent, and then a random episode after that. I almost died of boredom.HBO should have kept Bored To Death and Hung. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 Hung is also very good, I'm so bummed they didn't renew it. The season 3 finale was a non-finale!Boardwalk Empire only works if you watch every episode in order. Otherwise nothing will make sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,326 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I almost died of boredom.Then Blu-ray it is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,493 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 The other day, I watched "Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy". It failed on two counts:1/ it wasn't luxurious, and2, it wasn't funny."Shameless" is back (yeah!), but it's the last ever "Hustle", next week (yah boo sucks!!).Still, roll on 7th. April... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Anyone here watch Cougar Town? I keep hearing it's exactly like Scrubs, and that Bill Lawrence is struggling to keep it on the air. I want to watch it eventually, but don't really feel like buying the DVDs.I think Season 3 starts on Valentine's Day. I might watch just to help keep its ratings up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted February 10, 2012 Author Share Posted February 10, 2012 You only help the ratings if there is a Nielsen box in your homeI watched the pilot and didn't like it. I'm sure it got better, but I haven't botheed to find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Never mind, then. I'm told the show made a drastic change and isn't even about what it was originally about. The cast and crew make fun of how bad the title is.http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/6j4z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I'm currently attempt all 9 seasons of the X-Files, in a relatively consistent fashion. I'm in the middle of season 2 right now. I tried this about 5 years ago but only got to season 4 before I decided to take a break but never started back up again.So I'm trying one more time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni Wiljami 1,206 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Why in the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Just finished season 6 of Curb.Ahh, that finale was freakin' hilarious! Absolutely brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 I laughed out loud hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 The last scene at the door with Susie was punch the air satisfying. I laughed like Bruce Campbell did when his severed hand got caught in the mousetrap, it was that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 I am smiling just remembering itBut I like the Season 7 finale more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Ooo, now I'm intrigued. But I'll be genuinely impressed if they can manage THREE barnstorming finales. I don't think they can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Hung is also very good, I'm so bummed they didn't renew it. The season 3 finale was a non-finale!Boardwalk Empire only works if you watch every episode in order. Otherwise nothing will make senseBut if it does, it's a hell of a saga. Think of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA spun over 30 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I have been having a Jeeves and Wooster marathon this week. Despite the very repetive plot lines, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry keep the show alive and oh so funny. The upper classes, as exaggerated as their foibles might be in the show, give endless amount of opporturnities for lampoon.The rather sorry line of hapless loons, excentrics, lovelorn men and women and aristocratic fops dancing around Bertie Wooster, Bertie getting embroiled in plots for money or acceptance of marriage or trying himself to avoid imbending doom of marriage (usually arranged by aunt Agatha) offers great comedy in classic British fashion. The main pair could not have been chosen better, Laurie's performance a masterpiece of absent minded ease and ineptitude, Fry as the ever stone faced yet suave butler with perfect diction working brilliantly. I also love the production values and again the way they create the time and place of manor halls, luxurious flats and other haunts of the upper classes in the beginning of the century through to 1940's, the world a mix of different decades.The cast is excellent, playing their roles at times with exaggerated glee and for their part enforce the spirit of Wodehouse's stories that seem to paint these people with broad strokes, leaving the actors and writers a lot of room to invent all kind of colorful details for their personalities, appearances and manner. The adaptation is done imaginatively, weaving several short stories into unified plots, producing some very succesful plot lines that flow quite naturally from tale to tale. Bertie's near escapes finishing off each episode become a life affirming trope for the show, Jeeves and our befuddled bon vivant driving into the sunset, escaping marriages, aunt Agatha or angry mobs or resolving predicaments and learning some airy light lesson in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Laurie's performance a masterpiece of absent minded ease and ineptitude, Before House came along, it was the only role he knew. He literally did the same routine in everything he was in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Indeed. In that way House was a stunning revelation. Not so much because of the flawless American accent, but because Laurie could play someone with a brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Hung is also very good, I'm so bummed they didn't renew it. The season 3 finale was a non-finale!Boardwalk Empire only works if you watch every episode in order. Otherwise nothing will make senseBut if it does, it's a hell of a saga. Think of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA spun over 30 hours.I think Once Upon A Time In America is great just the way it is, at 4 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,713 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Laurie's performance a masterpiece of absent minded ease and ineptitude,Before House came along, it was the only role he knew. He literally did the same routine in everything he was in Yeah that was a bit the case. But I think Bertie Wooster is the epitome of this particular style and really fits the character like a glove. Especially his eyes bulging with disbelief and horror are so funny And funnily Fry and Laurie reminisced in a recent documentary how Laurie gets so beaten up in all these comedic roles. As Fry put it, people just love to beat the crap out of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,800 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I think Once Upon A Time In America is great just the way it is, at 4 hours.This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 Boardwalk Empire is nothing like Once Upon A Time In America Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 It more then 26 hours longer, for one thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,326 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I hope it's better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Better than Leone? Surely you must be joking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Once Upon a Time was good, but I thought it was one of his more melodramatic and bloated movies. I'd be expecting Boardwalk to be superior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 You can't beat Leone's eye and Morricone's hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I never knew he made a good film after Once Upon A Time In The West.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,800 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I never knew he made a good film after Once Upon A Time In The West....Once Upon a Time in the Revolution and America disagree with you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 I never knew he made a film after Once Upon A Time In The West.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Anyone watch Mildred Pierce? Its fantastic with some exceptional acting on Kate Winslet's part (as to be expected). Yes, it starts off a bit slow, but the series is so engrossing and engaging in its strong narrative and haunting characters. I love this loyal adaption! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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