/tele/ - TV and Film

So is this board still active or what

>>108

Ian McShane is amazing in Deadwood

>>109

I know, right? I always liked that the series starts out with Bullock arriving in Deadwood with Sol, setting up his business, making you think this is going to be the protagonist. But more and more it shifts towards Al being the main character, because let's face it, he is 10x more interesting than Bullock, and is played by a way better actor too.

There isn't really a bad actor in Deadwood, not that I can think of anyway. What a show, I should rewatch it (again).

Season rankings:

1>2>3>4>6>5

>>74

breddy good

Just watched the pilot, it seems a bit forced but I can definitely see how it influenced R&M's humor.

Anyone else get the feeling that the creator jumped shipped and now cares more about rick and morty?

>>113

yeah

starts off bad and gets progressively worse.

If you can watch this shit with a straight face you're either retarded or swedish.

It always seemed to be the poor mans Breaking Bad because it never achieved the level of dramatic height Breaking bad reach while being its contemporary.

>>18

yes, go for it. some people dislike the later seasons because they just spin out of control and they do the usual thing where they focus on the story and forget about the ambience that was there in the previous seasons. however, imo it's a great series through and through it just changes with the story. i love how the tension grows in the latter seasons and you can see him change, see his spirit slowly crumble with time.

>>86

Jax deserved everything he got in the last season, just because your feelings are hurt doesn't give you the right to kill random people for absolutely no reason.

>>87

i fully agree. i just think it made people butthurt because he was the mc.

>>96

Does RLM count?

I used to listen to Double Feature and /Filmcast, but it's been a while since I caught an episode. (https://doublefeature.fm/ & http://slashfilm.com/filmcast/)

I'm also subscribed to Mark Kermode's youtube channel, and RLM of course. I used to follow YMS too, but I've come to find him too annoying to bear. I just occasionally peruse his lists on imdb now.

Why are all of the new Half in the Bag episodes so fucking horrible?

>>79

I think I liked all of season 2 except Get Schwifty. If you though s1 was great, you will at least like s2.

Jerry is the worst fucking character on this show.

I need to get caught up on this show

>>72

Pretty sure he was joking about Cloud Atlas, anon.

>>73

I doubt it.

>>75

I really like Happiness, it seems pretty underrated, never heard anyone mention it at all, just stumbled upon it one day, Have you watched Welcome to The Doll House? it's by the same director as Happiness it's fucking excellent too.

Clue was alright, I like how it had alternate endings that tie in quite well, I didn't like the scenes where the characters recounted all the events to come to their conclusions.

Never watched A field in England.

Aliens is Aliens, what more is there to say.

The Artist is probably the best film of this current decade, at least that's the way I feel about it.

>>90

Yay, someone else who likes Happiness, I can only remember one person ever mentioning it. I did see Welcome to the Dollhouse, and loved it. As I remember, his other movies (that I've seen) weren't as good as Happiness and Dollhouse. I want to rewatch them all before I make up my mind, but I would say Happiness > Dollhouse > Life During Wartime > Palindromes > Storytelling > Dark Horse. According to imdb his new movie Wiener-Dog is in post-production, so I'm definitely looking forward to that.

A Field in England is about a alchemist's apprentice who is tasked with arresting his master's former apprentice who stole alchemy-related stuff when he took off. He meets some civil war deserters in a field, and they all travel across the field together where some mysterious shit happens. It's pretty divisive in my experience, I heard many people think it's really pretentious or really boring. If you don't like the characters or the dialog or the cinematography or the mystery, then it will probably be boring, but all those elements really worked for me. It doesn't exactly spell out what's happening, and some bizarre stuff goes on, but I don't think it's pretending to be more than it is. I've seen a lot of people arguing about what it all meant, or that it was just pretentious experimental drivel that doesn't have any answers, but I don't think it's really as complicated as all that (or maybe I'm the one who doesn't get it haha).

Sicario, Knight of Cups, that Scorsese thing that never gets done.

The Revenant looks to be my personal MOTY

>>41

They paint houses i think its called. Its never gonna even be filmed at this rate. He is coming out with a new one about a Christian preaching in feudal japan.

>>35

>push back against Mad Max hurt it

well, this is obvious bullshit. there was no feminism in Mad Max, just a few paranoid individuals parroting conspiracy theories. there was no pushback, the movie was pretty much universally liked.

>>88

I think certain outlets did play the bullshit 'finally, a feminist action movie!' card (which maybe that /cow/ guy is implying was pushed by the studio), and some forums on the other side of the spectrum picked up on that and in turn ran with the 'mad max ruined by feminism!' story, sometimes without even having seen the movie. But yeah, I think most people saw it for the fun, straightforward action movie it was.

Fury Road is 15th highest grossing this year, which isn't really anything to sneeze at. It certainly could have done better, but to say it was the feminism articles that hurt it does seem like an unverifiable asspull to me.

I liked it because it was the most fun I've had going to the cinema in years. It looked great, had some pretty memorable scenes/visuals, it got straight to the action, both sides were a bit shit, it had pretty great world building (that they didn't ruin by over-explaining).

It was cliched fun. Not so over the top to make you cringe, just the right amount of action and one dimensional characters to have a decent experience, just like my chinese cartoons

It wasn't a B-list movie tho. It classifies as an A-list ACTION movie. You generally can't expect incredible plots in action heavy movies since they spend too much time doing ridiculously extreme shit.

Book/show discussion is fine.

As a showfag season 5 was just too awful for me to keep watching, even cleganebowl can't save it now. I doubt the Dykeknight actually killed Stannis, but at this point it doesn't really matter either way. Are the books worth starting or do they get this bad too?

>>55

A lot of people decry the later books for being too padded and full of filler bullshit, but I disagree: The fat man is quite fond of dropping hints to future events all over the fucking place, and given how many characters end up running around later on, it results in a giant autistic web of connections, foreshadowing, and subtle planning. You don't need to understand this web to get the basics of what the fuck is happening, but part of the reason why he takes so long to finish a book is because well yeah he's wasting a lot of time on bullshit too he's got a major, crippling case of autism that compels him to rev things up and make them more and more intricate as time goes on.

In comparison, the show is extremely watered down. Characters are simplified, flaws (in the case of Dany, Jon, and Tyrion) are whitewashed, big events don't happen (The Battle of Fire) or are gutted (The entire fucking Dorne plotline), and at the end of the day, it's plain that D&D can't write their way out of a fucking paper bag.

That being said, yeah it's a bit of a slog later, but if you've got the time and want to get mad at D&D, then it's worth your while to pick them up.

Anon the pussy riot episode was not supposed to make you either empathize or judge the pussy riot stand in. It was more of a political story that had no real clear answer when it came to those specific characters.