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  1. 19 hours ago, Ran said:

    I've never read the novel, but I wonder if they language was quite so salty as it is on the show. I'm thinking not, and they decided to roughen it up, and I've no problem with that personally but it did make me wonder.

    So far, so good on the show.

    The novel has been on my to-read list for several years now. I’m torn between watching the show beforehand or reading the book as the book will be a slow read for me and the show will outpace me.

  2. 19 hours ago, Knight of Ashes said:

    Rewatching Daredevil Season 1 mainly 'cause it seems Born Again will be closer to it in tone and I won't have to feel too much pangs of longing for the Netflix series when it finally arrives .  Also, Bullseye.

    I've seen contradictory reports as to whether Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson will be back -and if they are, it will be in a limited capacity(?).  

    I guess it might be too much to hope Marci will be back as well but I am hoping nonetheless ('cause I keep thinking of her in those pumps).

    Seeing Kingpin again in  DD S1, and the somewhat altered version in Hawkeye, and the one in Echo , I find myself a bit tired of him but what the hell, he's still better than some of the fingers of the Hand.

    That reminds me, I wouldn't mind seeing Madam Gao again.

    Oh wow, I didn’t realize Jon Bernthal and  Wilson Bethel were returning as Punisher and Bullseye. I’m far more interested now..

  3. 7 hours ago, TheLastWolf said:
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    Ok don't tell me the co-op went with the 10 mil deal. I mean there was still Slim->Avon->Sergei and/or Slim->[Prop Joe]->Greeks or fuck it, its a buyers market and no self respecting drug wholesaler going to be sitting on his hands with tonnes of 'roin, more on the way hungry market . The meet either just happened by mutual need or Avon set it up or Slim did finally get around to the Greeks from his time as Joe's right.

     

     

    The problem with that is it’s outside of the character they establish with Slim. Slim’s a simple, rough and tumble kind of person. He’s not ambitious or a scheme maker which he admits to when he turns down Marlo as being the East side contact for the co-op (“I ain’t cut out to be no CEO”). He’s basically a high level soldier, built to follow orders but not make strategic decisions and he knows it.

  4. 47 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

    Idk, from what little I've read about the lore Bane is typically a super elite henchmen. If anything I thought they portrayed him pretty well, especially since the character is pretty silly in general. What I didn't get with TDKR is why the mask hurts him so much. Pretty much every other version shows him with a ton of tubes connected to it that indicates he needs it to live. In the film it's just a mask that maybe as some cartridges on it? 

    All-time gutting way to end a great story. 

    In the TDKR, Bane's mask provides a constant painkilling gas (due to some mysterious physical injury which he suffered in the Pit) which is supposed to explain why none of Bruce's blows in the initial fight seem to physically hurt him. Only till one of the pins in his mask comes loose in the final fight is when he begins to feel the effects of the fight. 

    In the comics he injects himself with a highly addictive substance called Venom, which acts as substance which artificially increases his strength (and is basically the ultimate performance enhancing drug).

    31 minutes ago, IlyaP said:

    And then motorcycle guns kill him. 

    An infuriating ending to the character. The movie built up this dramatic role for Hardy, only to kill him in the most uninteresting way possible. "So we couldja just shot at him a lot?!"

    *sigh*

     

    I believe that method of death was intentional. At that point, Bane is revealed to not be the mastermind behind everything and is literally Talia's bodyguard from childhood. So he's killed off like any other henchman.

     

  5. Nolan tried to do way too much in TDKR and it felt very rushed -- especially at the end. Also, trying to take a city hostage and leaving it's police force alive in the sewers as a form of imprisonment is just-in-your-face comicbook silliness. And everyone and their mother knew Marion Cotillard was Talia Al-Ghul. I didn't actually mind that Bane turns out to just be a bodyguard in the end but Talia's reveal just didn't do it for me.

    ETA: I didn't think it was a bad movie but it's certainly the weakest of the 3 and could have been fixed with better sound and editing.

  6. Has anyone seen Three Body on Amazon? Is it any good? The IMDB episode summaries are terribly translated (which I vaguely recall to be a criticism of the book so maybe it's just being faithful to the source material :P ). 

  7. 5 minutes ago, dbunting said:

    Bosch Legacy S2, was pretty good. If you like Bosch you'll like it. Little too heavy on the Maddie for me.

    Still in the middle of the season but Maddie being such a major focus feels like they want to do a spin-off or something. I’m a little disappointed with the way they wrapped up last seasons cliffhanger but I’ll wait and see. I do like the focus on Honey Chandler and her (Mimi Rogers’s) character which feels like a natural progression.

  8. 1 hour ago, TheLastWolf said:
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    Deep down she knew all along, just came to terms with her denial

     

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    I did get that with the owl visions that Mollie had appearing before visits with Ernest. But the final confrontation was a little too indifferent in my taste.

     

  9. Watched Killers of the Flower Moon. I didn’t feel the runtime at all and enjoyed it quite a bit, digging into the backstory for the last couple of days to see what was fact vs. fiction. I may put the book on my To-read list though that list is growing faster than I can read them.

    the one thing that stuck out most to me was:

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    Mollie should have been more devastated than Lily Gladstone showed given the truth about her husband. I felt like that could have been done more dramatically but I’m guessing that was Scorcese’s direction . I can’t imagine a human being responding so stoically to the level of betrayal that she endured.

    Good film overall.

  10. 1 hour ago, Kalbear said:

    Yay, more hot mostly naked people fighting slowly with a lot of blood and people talking in fake Roman speeches!

    Got to say, “Jupiter’s cock!” Is a fine piece of dialogue.

     

    That said, Ashur’s character was my favorite in S1 though I never finished S4. I’ll hold out hope for this one despite not likely subscribing to Starz.

  11. Back from a trip to France so was able to catch up on a few movies and TV shows during the long flights.

    Guardians of the Galaxy v3 - this was not the movie I was expecting. I thought we were going to get some kind of closing arc to the Guardians but I didn't get that feeling at the ending. The soundtrack carries the movie (again) and I was surprised that I didn't feel burned out by it.

    John Wick 4 - Ok, you know what you're getting when you go into this but I'm not sure I consider this movie to really be the best of the whole series. The thing that bothered me most was JW and any henchman character being practically Superman-level bulletproof (or in many cases, car-hitting proof). I almost got bored of some of the shooting scenes since they were treating bullets almost like blanks. Not bad but didn't live up to my expectations of entertainment.

    Avatar 2 - Nothing new here again but I enjoyed the movie quite a bit and didn't feel the runtime at all. I really regret watching this on an airplane headset TV instead of in an IMAX theater. I'm making a note to watch the next one in IMAX no matter what.

    The Last of Us - I was amazingly able to get through episodes 4-9 on a single flight. While I enjoyed this show, there wasn't much new here either. I also don't think it's worthy of a best drama nod for awards season and I wasn't really blown away by Pedro Pascal's peformance. Bella Ramsey was better in her role. It's a good show but not great. As I haven't really been keeping up with TV shows in real-time (and always seem to be catching up with older shows), I wonder if the field is weak.

    Bosch: Legacy Season 2 - this dropped recently on Freevee (Amazon's free streaming service). I'm 2 episodes in and it's your typical Bosch formula. Depending on where they go in episode 3 and beyond, I may be a little disappointed with the current storyline but I'll save commentary for later when I finish the season.  

     

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