heh
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought her issues with Kima were pretty justified!
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, September 8, 2009 5:52 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i know we've moved on, but this! i love kima, but she's kind of an asshole as a girlfriend.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I kinda didn't understand why they were together at all
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
it's all setup for the "these bitches are no joke" strip club scene
― goth casual, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
xp oh I think you understand.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
finished season 4 last night. Easily the best season - couldn't care less about the politics shit though, kinda wish it had just been all about the kids. Actually I kinda wish the whole series was about kids (cops are boring)
Favorite line of whole series: "You know who got the sweetest pussy and the fattest asses? Midgets, nigga"
I heart you, Method Man
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
you spent ~50 hrs watching a show that goes into minute & exacting detail about a profession you find boring. congratulations!
― goth casual, Friday, 11 September 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
no I spent 50 hours watching "THE BEST SHOW EVER" (tm) according to many ILXOrs
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
it was an okay show. I'd say its about as good as the movie Traffic.
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
for Shakey:http://pixiestixkidspix.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/cookie-bite-web.jpg
― 51 active users (sarahel), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
mm yummy
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
you get a whole one once you finish season 5!
― 51 active users (sarahel), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.skitch.com/20090911-cnjdk55p9m2t6g1jkey3m6qump.jpg
― cozwn, Friday, 11 September 2009 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
the wire may or may not be best show ever but it is certainly one of the most immersive tv (or general filmic) experiences you can have. the things it does well are almost totally related to procedure & the day-to-day minutiae of very particular worlds. if you're not interested in these i can't fathom getting through more than a handful of eps.
― goth casual, Friday, 11 September 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the things it does well are almost totally related to procedure & the day-to-day minutiae of very particular worlds
^^^none of this applies to traffic btw
"good" doesn't apply to traffic either.
― EDB, Friday, 11 September 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
otm
― Size-zero-brigade-embrace-token-chubby-chops (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Benicio del toro was very good-looking in traffic.
― 51 active users (sarahel), Friday, 11 September 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I really hated "Traffic", so fuck that comparison.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 11 September 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Traffic was hilarious. Traffic and The Departed are the funniest US adaptations. The UK and HK versions were not as funny.
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 11 September 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked Traffic. didn't know there wa a UK version tho! hhmmmm...
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 11 September 2009 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I give a thumb up to all movies about rich teenagers on hard drugs.
― ice cr?m paint job (milo z), Friday, 11 September 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Benicio del toro was very good-looking in traffic
mmm so sepia-y
― goth casual, Friday, 11 September 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah glad I'm not the only person who thought Departed was a comedy. running in-joke with my wife is to randomly shout "are you a cawp?!" at each other
― Blanket McCulkin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 September 2009 23:33 (fourteen years ago) link
The Departed would have been much better if it was just the parts with Alec Baldwin and Marky Mark in it.
― 51 active users (sarahel), Friday, 11 September 2009 23:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Six-part miniseries from the 80s. Spelled with a "k".
― Young Scott Young (sic), Saturday, 12 September 2009 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
leaving work i passed sonja sohn on the street
― am0n, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 02:22 (fourteen years ago) link
ws for the ages
― mark cl, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
at farmers market i saw "santangelo"
― steamed hams (harbl), Sunday, 27 September 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
My sons (25 and 27) still steadfastly refuse to watch The Wire because...their parents are into it.We shoulda shut up about it, rather than getting son #2 season 1 for xmas. We're considering paying them to watch it.
― Beth Parker, Sunday, 27 September 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
just started watching this and only about 5 episodes in to season 1, not about to read a 2000+ post thread and don't want spoilers but...
I lol'd hard at the dealin drugs is just like playin chess analogy, really? also the quality seemed to go down a bit after the pilot, and the show's main trick seems to be humanizing the bad guys while taking the good guys down a notch...can't wait for the big plot twists or whatever that I'm sure are coming
appreciate the realism but lol at every payphone being in pristine condition, no doubt thanks to the tireless efforts of verizon to keep this country connected
looking forward to watching the rest of these 5 seasons
― 囧 (dyao), Monday, 16 November 2009 08:17 (fourteen years ago) link
chess analogy doesn't really hit hard until the end of season 4 imo
― jØrdån (omar little), Monday, 16 November 2009 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I was lolling more at what a cliche it was, and the straightfaced way in which wallace & the other dude were taking it...like "oh so the pawn...can become a queen..." like jeez come on, can you be any more obvious
― 囧 (dyao), Monday, 16 November 2009 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm with you, dyao. I'm surprised everyone seems to love that scene (I saw it mentioned in a lot of articles around the time of the final season), to me it isn't one of the great moments of the show or anything.
― Jouster, Monday, 16 November 2009 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I was totally underwhelmed by season 1. Stick with it.
― I am flesh and blood. You are software and circuitry. (chap), Monday, 16 November 2009 11:56 (fourteen years ago) link
to be fair that's some pretty profound shit to hear if you're a 16 year old drug dealer
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 November 2009 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
^^see that's the thing; I like how the show in general doesn't underestimate the savviness of the drug dealers, I really liked the scene where Wallace points out Hamilton wasn't a prez, but that scene really felt like the writers talking down to their characters
― 囧 (dyao), Monday, 16 November 2009 12:06 (fourteen years ago) link
were talking down
― 囧 (dyao), Monday, 16 November 2009 12:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't even remember any chess scenes. It should be possible to find other stuff to keep you entertained, if you don't like that bit.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 16 November 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
wallace would know about hamilton because he's in school at the time! that's the kind of useless fact they teach you.
i haven't seen the shows in awhile but i recall that scene coming at a downswing in d's fortunes - he's been kicked down the heirarchy to the lowrises. my impression - as i remember it - was that d is trying to impress the lowrise dudes with his worldly wisdom, and maybe even convince himself that he's cut out for more of a thinking man's role than just lowrise enforcer. his spiel is cliched to us, yeah. but i think it gets the point across to his audience. "this guy thinks strategically".
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 November 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
the chess scene is a excerpted as a skit on the soundtrack cd, so clearly someone thinks it's deep. but yeah, it's kind of embarrassing.
― caek, Monday, 16 November 2009 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
tbf gerard manley hopkins would sound embarrassing if you heard it enough times on a sound track CD.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 16 November 2009 12:44 (fourteen years ago) link
unless it was actually gerard manley hopkins reading it and also composing the soundtrack, then it would be epic 2x
― 囧 (dyao), Monday, 16 November 2009 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
true and true
― caek, Monday, 16 November 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Obvious and cliche as that chess scene may be, I think it's important not just as an ohhhh. easy analogy way, but in sorting of setting the ground for the drug game narrative they follow. It may be cheesy then, but I think it's more subtly manifest later...
― EDB, Monday, 16 November 2009 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
d is trying to impress the lowrise dudes with his worldly wisdom, and maybe even convince himself that he's cut out for more of a thinking man's role
^^^
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 November 2009 14:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i own this whole series but my ex wound up with the last disc of the last season, so i never saw the last two episodes. i don't feel real deprived tbh.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 November 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
???? see them hoos!
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Monday, 16 November 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
what i'm getting at is that by that point in s5 i felt kinda disinvested in the whole thing. in s5 it felt like marlo was still this utterly boring cipher (and that impression wasn't gonna get blown up in the space of the last two eps), mcnulty & lester were being written completely against type, herc & carver were rarely of any fun/interest to follow solo, kima was caught in this uninteresting character loop, and if The Detail was gonna do its thing at all (the group chemistry was among the main reasons i liked the show) it was gonna do it in a severely truncated way.
idk, i just don't really feel like i need to see them unless you're telling me those last two episodes are super stellar or story-resolving in comparison to the rest of the season
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 November 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
theyre not stellar but theyre funny and heartbreaking and resolve lots of storys. its like youve gotten to page 480 of a 500-page book and are like... oh well why bother
― max, Monday, 16 November 2009 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link