Started with Game of the Thrones since BB won't be there for a while.
So much promise in the premise, when I compare it to the bullshit that is called Lord of the Rings.
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Started with Game of the Thrones since BB won't be there for a while.
So much promise in the premise, when I compare it to the bullshit that is called Lord of the Rings.
read the book read the bookQuote:
bullshit that is called Lord of the Rings
you got some fetish for cancelled shows :-) Rubicon is kick ass stuff..can see why AMC cancelled it..slowly unfolding story which lacks those agmark cliffhanger moments which make the viewers sit up..yam thinking of a four leaf clovers DDoS attack on AMC.Quote:
Have to finish the 9 episodes of "Luck" (& see if it's a loss), then I will get to The Newsroom.
You know that's exactly what that gets on my tits. If Rubicon is 'slow burning', I implore American audience to watch TTSS..
Also I believe HBO cancelled "Luck" for PETA reasons. Having watched first 6 episodes, I'm not at all surprised.
Milch doing a Mann protagonist, in Mann-ered world of outsiders. But Mann only got to direct the pilot. He didn't really have a lot to chew there. But as the series goes on, there are lot more Mann-deserving moments. The races are all captured well. The tribulations of the stables, trailers, and races, which are really non-urbanized zone. Milch really gets that tone of people who are caught in a world they don't really want to break out of, in to the 'modern world'. Characters who are clearly stuck and content being there. Characters who have the means to get out, but wanting to go back there for more. Characters who couldn't really get out of it, for various other reasons (chief of all, for having not made it). The main plot with Hoffman's Ace Bernstein (doing the Deniro role, doing it well) who wants to get back at people he'd not want to rat out to the 'system' that he deplores & opts to be out of. Now in his own terms, wants to get back at those who wronged him. Still without having seen the grandson in first 6 episodes, you already buy in to it.
Milch really not getting the break he deserves with his sole creations.. Even Deadwood finished somewhat hurriedly that it could be considered a premature.
4th Episode.
Continues to show up the innocence of "Downton Abbey" (which I'll refuse to knock, coz the relative simple-minded morality is very much at heart of it)
Only in British television, do we see refined comic actors like Roger Allam and Timothy Spall, don't we!
If someone didn't like Godfather, no one dared said to read the book. :lol2:
Brits have an unfair advantage over them in this sort..for long they have been well-fed with stable diet of Danger Man/The Prisoner/Ace of Spies/Edge of Darkness/A Perfect Spy..they simply are masters of this domain.Quote:
You know that's exactly what that gets on my tits. If Rubicon is 'slow burning', I implore American audience to watch TTSS..
Godfather can exist/make up for a great viewing even if the viewer has no cognizance of back-stories..LOTR is a different kettle of fish wherein if you haven't read the book the LOTR will be a mere CGI porn/:confused2: for the most part..having said all that LOTR is still one of the best book-to film adaptations ever :lol2:Quote:
If someone didn't like Godfather, no one dared said to read the book. :lol2:
No no. LOTR does work for me, without the book. But it's not really something that speaks to me beyond its surface stimulations.