TRUE DETECTIVE on hbo - Season Two

We Get The Marriage We Deserve

...with Dr. Phil

After a certain age, every man has the world he deserves.

We're the generation that bought more shoes

And what we deserve is... cool intricate highway interchanges!

they are and we do

― Punny Names (latebloomer), Wednesday, April 22, 2015 4:46 PM (5 hours ago)

otm

http://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-aide-accused-of-running-an-occult-police-force-2015-5

big grant morrison fans no doubt

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/maybe15/xtruevaughn460.jpg.pagespeed.ic.1lyE6JgXVJ.jpg

looks like a true religion X hipstamatic collaboration

watching the trailer again last nite i was struck by the thought of how cool it would be if S2 had no dialogue at all

well, nobody's tried that for a series before

more like we get the demotion to prestige cable we deserve

Alexander! Fred Claus! The Time Traveller's Wife! John Carter!

Together they are....ready to take tv meetings

blatant farrell slander, unacceptable

tbf kitsch came from TV i don't think he really minds

oh i'm sure all of them are kissing the ground in gratitude

even mcadams - who's got the least turkeys (poor kitsch got slaughtered with john carter and battleship right out the gate), could use a juicy prestige role to get her out of romcomland

to be clear, i like farrell but damn america has been very, VERY consistent in having no interest in seeing a movie with his name first in the credits. and vaughn's been in freefall over the last decade.

in terms of gross/budget ratio, the only movie with Colin Farrell first in the credits to be even remotely a hit is Phone Booth, which is hilarious. I guess I we just don't like seeing him talk to other people.

runner-up is In Bruges, which tbf did quite well outside the US

and is great. i like him!

in bruges is the best, basically the key with farrell is he either has to speak in his natural accent (bruges) or not be /the/ star of something (crazy heart, that fright night remake, seven psychopaths, intermission, ondine)

yeah see crazy heart did well but fright night, seven psychopaths, intermission and ondine all tanked (again, in terms of gross-to-budget - just as a very sloppy shorthand you'd probably want the global gross to be more than 2.5 times the budget to really call it a hit, so for instance even though his total recall brought in 200m, only about half of that goes to the studio, which spent 125m to make it, not even counting the money spent on advertising). so basically the chance to drink a little of what mcconaughey's been having is a godsend to him and vaughn.

MacAdams is about to be one of the two female romantic prospects in the new Cameron Crowe movie, which looks like a real piece of shit but stars Bradley Cooper and Bill Murray so will probably be a reasonable-sized hit.

as i said, she's doing the best of the bunch by far. She'll be able to do post-notebook shit like About Time and The Vow for years. She just hasn't had a hit outside that wheelhouse since Red Eye.

Sherlock Holmes?

i'm talking movies where you're top of the line, on the poster, etc

though again, yeah, she's doing the best of the bunch. the other three have serious albatrosses around their necks - she's just hitting ceilings

and before someone quibbles that kitsch is young, that john carter was actually quite good, whatever, i'm not saying he should be shot behind the barn, i'm saying all four are thirsty enough that WE GET THE WORLD WE DESERVE is a funny thing to put over their names

also i stopped being dubious about this thing doing well as soon as the masked guy shushed me, it's gonna do great

tim riggins will be great, just you wait

I WILL BE VINDICATED

Farrell was the best thing about Crazy Heart by miles but iirc he wasn't even on the poster.

tim riggins will be great, just you wait

I WILL BE VINDICATED
--difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl)

he's already been great but it's become unhip to say that savages is kind of a great movie aside from its sudden stupid ending

also dope in lone survivor tbh regardless of that movie's other problems

i just meant he will be great in this :)

oh yeah, definitely

if some of the synopses about his character in TD parte deux: the truer california version are to be believed it is gonna be v rough to watch some of the stuff he ends up doing tho

HBO: Earlier last year, you said that this season was about ‘Bad men, hard women and the secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system.’ Is that still true?

Nick P.: It’s not, I’m afraid. There’s definitely bad men and hard women, but no secret occult history of the U.S. transportation system. That was a comment from very early in the process, and something I ended up discarding in favor of closer character work and a more grounded crime story. The complexity of the historical conspiracy first conceived detracted from the characters and their reality, I felt, and those characters are ultimately what have to shape the world and story. So I moved away from that.

https://medium.com/@TrueDetective/q-a-with-true-detective-creator-and-showrunner-nic-pizzolatto-8cc72b62c1a

aww :(

i mean the guy did say we should be reading faulkner instead of books about the yellow king, wise of him to avoid leading us back to the ooky-spooky corner of the bookstore again

good to hear dude is abandoning occult storylines pre-production now as opposed to mid-season

otm

lol otm

aw i was looking forward to more conspiracy stuff but ok.

im guessing there will be conspiracies aplenty but in a james ellroy/chinatown fashion, but probably not suggestions of the existence of supernatural realms and creatures

pizzolatto clearly aware the supernatural beauty of tim riggins of mars is all the occult wonder he needs

aww :(

― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:53 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

haha the weirdo occult veneer was the only thing that made true detective at all enjoyable, what a ball sack that dude is

Yup

cable showrunners have never before been fairly unpleasant people right

I have no opinion about him as a person, just that he doesn't seem to actually have a clue what works/made the first season appealing

(and there wasn't plenty wrong w the first season too fwiw)