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Freelancers

Fitty doesn't go the typical good guy/bad guy plot route with this.

Even the good guy is bad.

Refreshingly different outlook to this type of film.


Pretty. Pretty. Pretty Good

6.8


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Mudcat
Scarface (1983) - Hadn't seen this for so long it was almost like seeing it for the first time. It is such a cliche for dopey SBR-type simpletons to love this movie that I kinda wanted to hate it, but it's actually pretty good. Over-rated no doubt but not enough to get really uppity about.

(It is not often I find a soundtrack/score unintentionally funny but this Giorgio Moroder effort here seemed comically wrong at all times, like it got lost on its way to a teen coming-of-age flic. But whatever.)


7 out of 10
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Storyline is cliche but any movie lover has to watch it simply for Pacino's performance.

His best performance of all time in my opinion by a mile and obviously no oscar going to come his way for a movie like that.
 
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on the new show, Vegas, Mike has made his first appearance as a mafia boss from chicago...show has promise, although its a little too made for tv
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RR, fell asleep and missed it last night! Big D Quaid fan who has been making a comeback in his older years!

Matty lol1985 movie preview!


I enjoyed it probably cause of good acting by Lou Gossett Jr and Quaid holding together!
 
Yeah. Homeland is not bad if you're willing to overlook the fact that it's basically a slower-paced version of 24, but it did not deserve to win all these awards over Mad Men & Breaking Bad, which are ten times the shows.

The acting awards I have no trouble with. Claire Danes and what's-his-face did a fantastic job in the last couple episodes of season 1.

But yeah.
 
I have had a few near misses on TV shows lately. Stuff I have tried out and it was not completely awful but I just couldn't see getting in the habit. Something missing.


Perception - Crime-solving guy with the twist being he is a schizophrenic genius. Not dreadful - watched 2 full episodes - but that was enough. It was already getting too much of a by-the-numbers gimmicky feel, and the girl (Rachel Leigh Cook?) is not hot enough.


American Horror Story - this is a show that is trying very hard. I watched the pilot and, if horror was my thing at all, I probably would stick with it for awhile. They obviously have some big plans for spooky supernatural whatnot. But I guess horror is not my thing because I came away feeling mildly impressed yet unmotivated to watch any more. Well, impressed is a strong word but I would recommend it to, say, my ex who loves that stuff. (On an aside, I see the mom is already in some new show so maybe American Horror Story is cancelled? Don't know.)



Enlightened - Other than being a vehicle for Laura Dern (in case someone was holding their breath waiting for that) I'm not sure what this show is supposed to be. The episodes are half an hour but it's definitely not a sitcom. I guess it's a character study? But the character is annoying and a dipshit. But then every once in awhile she will do a voice-over of her thoughts on life and it seems like they sincerely think she is deep and possibly moving - Enlightened, get it? - but we've been watching this dipshit character who is just about the last person I would go to for wisdom. I don't know. Nothing fits. I actually watched about 4 episodes because I thought it must surely be going somewhere but I give up.
 
Well, I'm on season 5 of The Wire. I think I'm done though. The writing turned to shit. Season four was excellent.

But the financial shit and watching McNulty try to create a serial murderer? Fuck that.

Excellent show through the first four seasons though.

I think I've exhausted my TV viewing for another five years or so now.... I can't watch the crap that passes as mediocre these days.
 
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