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Anyone see Chef?

People keep asking me if I have seen it, and have positive things to say about it.
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I saw it.

I'm a pretty big Jon Favreau fan. Not of the Iron Man stuff of late but old Jonny Fav stuff like Swingers and Made.

This film is made for foodies and people in the industry which isn't necessarily a bad thing but I don't think I fall into either 2 of those categories.

Leguazamo and Favreau are great in the film but I'd rate it a 7.25 when I was hoping it would be an 8.5.
 
Boardwalk Empire *SPOILER ALERT*

They fooled me.

They changed the story of Nucky in a way that I didn't think they would. But I guess that was why they called him Nucky Thompson instead of Nucky Johnson - which was the real guy. So they could just play fast and loose.

I know they changed some details or just made up stuff all along, but I didn't think they would change his actual death. Real guy died age 85 in 1968.
 
Question for all from the uninformed: I guess people that don't have any TV package .... say Cable, Dish, etc. etc. .........I know they download from the internet the shows but do they watch it on a monitor? The article below suggests consumers will be paying just for what they want to see? As you know I don't have a smart phone and in regards to modern day technology MrM's screen is fuzzy a lot so be gentle!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/bu...vice.html?_r=0

The push into web-only offerings by HBO and CBS, two networks that earn billions of dollars in profits from the traditional system, highlights how rapidly the balance of power is shifting in the television landscape. The CBS All Access service, at $6 a month, made its debut on Thursday; details about HBOs service, which is set to start in 2015, are still hazy.

Media executives are eager to appeal to the fast-growing number of viewers who pay for Internet but watch TV via cheaper streaming alternatives, or free video options like YouTube and other social media. The growth of subscriptions to cable and satellite services has stalled, dropping 0.5 percent to 101.4 million this year, from 101.9 million in 2012, according to SNL Kagan. Among people ages 18 to 34, about one in six said that they did not watch any original television series on a traditional television set in the last 30 days, according to comScore.

Media executives are eager to appeal to the fast-growing number of viewers who pay for Internet but watch TV via cheaper streaming alternatives, or free video options like YouTube and other social media. The growth of subscriptions to cable and satellite services has stalled, dropping 0.5 percent to 101.4 million this year, from 101.9 million in 2012, according to SNL Kagan. Among people ages 18 to 34, about one in six said that they did not watch any original television series on a traditional television set in the last 30 days, according to comScore.

Take Jennifer Seide, 28, a Queens resident who watches at least four hours of television a day. She pays Verizon about $60 a month for Internet access but does not pay for a conventional TV subscription. She stays up-to-date on the latest shows via an $8-a-month subscription to Netflix, a friends subscription to Hulu, another friends subscription to HBO, and YouTube.

Ms. Seide said she was thrilled with this weeks news. With cable, you get a lot of stuff, but it is a lot of stuff that you dont want, she said. With the Internet, you can pick and choose the shows that you want.
 
MrM I mentioned it earlier - you can easily hook up a modern laptop to your TV with a simple HDMI cable.

I watched the latest Downton Abbey that way last night. Download off ThePirateBay, hook up to the TV and voil, on-demand Brit melodrama.
 
I watch stuff right on my laptop all the time. I have totally gotten used to it and don't give it a thought.

I haven't even looked into hooking it up to my TV via cable. Prolly should.

Not worried about my laptop being up-to-date enough but I wonder about the TV.
 
Yeah we have one TV it didn't work on, HD TV but just didn't work. Pretty old TV, though.

You'd probably want to google that shit depending how old your TV is. Ours that didn't work was about 5 years old I believe but you're probably working with something like this so you should definitely Google, imo.

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MrMonkey
Thanks again Matty! I'll have to see how modern my laptop is when that time comes for me!

Matty, do you pay for Cable TV along with internet service presently? If you don't mind, how much you pay for such?
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Yeh we do, but we might get rid of it shortly. Main reason we have/had cable was for the French broadcast of Habs games, and since this season most of the games are blacked out outside of Quebec. Stupid shit.

I don't know how much our TV package is by itself. Internet/TV bill is like $220 a month. Which seems like entirely too much money.
 
Mudcat
Boardwalk Empire *SPOILER ALERT*

They fooled me.

They changed the story of Nucky in a way that I didn't think they would. But I guess that was why they called him Nucky Thompson instead of Nucky Johnson - which was the real guy. So they could just play fast and loose.

I know they changed some details or just made up stuff all along, but I didn't think they would change his actual death. Real guy died age 85 in 1968.
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Another SPOILER ALERT

Very CONCLUSIVE and well played, thank you BWE. Mob commission - formed. Capone - ain't getting out of the clink. To top it off, Jimmy's Revenge.

Very complete feeling as it goes. One of the best of all time, and stayed that way on its way out. :hattip:

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RIP and RIP.
 
I got Boardwalk Empire on my second level. Very good. As recently disclosed in a statement of crucial importance, my Mount Rushmore of dramas is

The Wire
Deadwood
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under

I think the next group would be like

Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
The Knick



Feel like I'm forgetting something

Mad Men is a tough nut. Season 1 belongs on Mount Rushmore but the whole run of the show, not quite in that next level.


At some point I'm going to rewatch Homicide start to finish and see how that holds up. Hopefully it is available somehow.
 
What I really enjoyed was binging the first 3 seasons of Boardwalk Empire. I was not so enthralled with it once I got caught up and just got my weekly episode with huge breaks between seasons.

Still liked it very much but it was not the same. I don't know if the show changed or it is more a statement of the binging experience versus "normal" viewing.

As with all thing, the second viewing will be all-important. Prolly won't be for a number of years though.
 
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