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Lawless (2012) - Where's that guy at who was always hoping people would beg him to post here? I remember he liked this movie very much and threatened to never post again if gamelive (??) didn't feel the same. But no one had anything to say at the time and no one begged him not to go away and he did a few other things but still no one begged him to post and I don't think we've seen him for awhile now.

Anyway, I finally got around to Lawless.

It's okay. It's watchable. It is predictable and manipulative and not overburdened with any kind of point, but it has a basic watchability.

6.4 out of 10.

Is that good enough? Come back whoever you were! Please! We need you posting here!


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bacon
We still don't know if Steve/Jimmy is still alive in Shameless which is a little annoying.
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Oh, I think we know. He is still alive.

Well let's put it this way: I will be amazed out of my mind if he does not make a "surprise" re-appearance next season. Which I will not like. Not just because I don't like that character - which I don't - but because it would just be such a cheesy gesture. So TV. But they are pretty obviously going there.

Have to say though, my appreciation of the show did increase this season. Decent season.
 
Shameless can go on for years with all this characters. Lip will be pimpin' at MIT, and actually end of with a rich, non-white trash chick for once. Homeboy will be going balls deep in his sergeants ass in the army, and probably run the place. Winona will go back to banging her boss. Boss dude still seems very relevant. Jimmy might only make it to a few episodes.

Going on a limb here...BUT I think one of the 2 youngins might get killed off. The show gets crazy like that, and they aren't both entirely necessary.

Way above average show.
 
Mudcat
Lawless (2012) - Where's that guy at who was always hoping people would beg him to post here? I remember he liked this movie very much and threatened to never post again if gamelive (??) didn't feel the same. But no one had anything to say at the time and no one begged him not to go away and he did a few other things but still no one begged him to post and I don't think we've seen him for awhile now.

Anyway, I finally got around to Lawless.

It's okay. It's watchable. It is predictable and manipulative and not overburdened with any kind of point, but it has a basic watchability.

6.4 out of 10.

Is that good enough? Come back whoever you were! Please! We need you posting here!


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Ironic but just saw it yesterday and we give it a 8! Muddy, how many bullets do you think it would take to kill one of those brothers? :grin:
 
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Ironic but just saw it yesterday and we give it a 8! Muddy, how many bullets do you think it would take to kill one of those brothers? :grin:
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I dunno man. One of the brothers doesn't even get a spot in the poster. What's up with that?

I have to say, I was disappointed in Jessica Chastain. Her career has started with such promise. She seems to be very selective about her roles, like she wants to build a top-level, respectable career. I mean, The Tree of Life was a horrendous movie but as a serious actor, it was a completely justifiable choice.

But what was she doing here? Near pointless character. Barely qualifies as window-dressing. Flashes her hooters and that's about it.

I guess it must have been a good payday. I shouldn't begrudge.
 
The Triplets of Belleville (2003) - I saw this when it came out and this was my second viewing.

As an aficionado of animation, this is a huge treat. We get so much Disney and Pixar stuff and, while I like a lot of it okay, it is all so formulaic and safe and conventional. I even find that it all looks the same. Even when it looks different, it looks the same.

Les Triplettes de Belleville is wildly creative and subversive and unsanitized. So great. It's different. It's interesting to look at and wonderfully random/surreal.

Solid 8 out of 10.


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I watched the Mad Men season premiere last night. That episode was all over the place. I was confused by its Tarantino-like structure... did Mad Men do some non-linear shit like that before? I don't think so.

Either way.

Lots of in-your-face symbolism (Dante's Inferno? Common! It's been done a million times), lots of ambiguity and double entendres, lots of death wishes (Roger's "This is MY funeral!!!"; Don's Hawaii ad, which was a bit cheesy in its obviousness; Don asking the doorman what he saw during his cardiac arrest, and at the end, Don telling his umpteenth mistress "I wanna stop doing this", which could mean either adultery, advertising, or life) and lots of dark insecurities as usual.

Betty going after the young violinist seemed odd at first, but I liked how her character behaved in the NYC slums. It felt like her version of the experience Don had with his old painter-mistress-turned-heroin-addict-slash-whore; upper class meets counterculture. Betty's past as an aspiring model made her a lot more self-aware and less oblivious than Don was during his clash with the "underground".

Dense episode. Will need to rewatch.
 
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