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. You hate it cause it's not geared towards left-brained bean counter types.
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Tron laughed but also realizes that TV/film can be very subjective.

A LOT of people I know here and in real life LOVED Dexter.

I thought it was laughable (I lasted 4 episodes or so in S1)



There is nothing I'm looking forward to more than the last season of Mad Men.


Brilliant show all the way around.


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American Hustle. 6/10.

Quality acting (and thus character dev) from most especially Bale and excluding Lawrence. Slow story, little action, a few laughs, poor payoff. Give me Ocean's eleven any day for entertainment (though I don't necessarily care what happens to the characters in Oceans).
 
Her might win original screenplay. That's about it.

Read someone making a case that Scarlet Johansen should have gotten an acting nomination for that. No. Don't be stupid.

It was the same guy who used to make impassioned argument about how Andy Serkis should be nominated for his role as the model for Gollum/Smeagol in the Lord of the Rings movie.

Yes guy, we are all very impressed with how you can think outside the box. Now shut up and don't be stupid.
 
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - I liked it more than the various comments I read led me to expect. Pretty entertaining.

It found a loophole to fight critics. The professional critic in me wants to complain how there was a lot of gratuitous stuff in it - but it is a movie about gratuitous stuff. That was the point.

So I'm fokked.

As I say, I was basically entertained. It did not have any kind of epic scope but it was more than just a piece of fluff. It had relevance. Leo was very good. Wouldn't mind if he won the Oscar. I feel like he had a few little mistakes but compared to the number of chances taken - excellent overall job.

Definitely would not vote for Scorsese for Directing. There were more than a handful of what I saw as bad directorial/editing decisions in it.


7.4 out of 10.


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Just thinking as I keep seeing this commercial for The Following, for a long time it was an accepted fact that when a movie star goes to TV, it basically meant the end of the line.

But lately I have heard the case made that TV has become better than movies and so the switch can be a lateral or possibly even promotional move.



Don't think I buy that. I see Kevin Bacon, Tim Roth, Holly Hunter, Dennis Quaid, John Voight, Michael Sheen, Laura Linney, William H. Macy, Kevin Spacey, Robin Williams, James Woods, Christian Slater in a TV series - I notice Greg Kinnear has something coming up - I know there are a bunch I am forgetting - Geena Davis had something on TV before falling off the face of the earth - Don Cheadle, Maria Bello, James Caan, Gabriel Byrne, Laurence Fishburne, Gary Sinise, Alec Baldwin . . .

- I'm thinking, "It's over Johnny." Some of them are quite good on their TV shows but career-wise, I can't think of a lot of guys who rebounded from that move.



Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey in True Detective are, I think, an exception though. But it's almost more of a mini-series than a TV show.
 
It's really pretty hard to dispute my brilliant thesis. There is a clear pattern of peeps going from the A list to TV to never-on-the-A-list again.

It's so natural I don't know why people try to make the other case. Guys like Alec Baldwin and John Voight clearly accepted that their days as leading men were over, and started gracefully accepting supporting roles before sliding to TV.

I guess it's all about what happens in the future. There are a few people I wonder about. Zooey Deschanel seems like she could revert to her Indy queen slot when she is done with that show. I don't sense her losing any cache. Michael Sheen was doing some good movie work and I don't see why he couldn't go back to it, not that he was a top leading man or anything.

Remains to be seen if they have cut themselves off at the knees.

Laura Linney is a great actress. I guess the roles just dry up at that certain age.
 
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