Must check out that Richard Ford...
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Monday, 14 October 2013 10:35 (ten years ago) link
I've been meaning to read Canada for a while, will bump that up my list.
― Matt DC, Monday, 14 October 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
fiction-wise, some of james crumley's novels prob come closest to the BB 'spirit'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Crumley
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 October 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
It's been years since I saw it, but at first BB reminded me of Blood Simple, the first Coen brothers movie, which is also kind of a very dark comedy of errors mixed with a violent thriller. I guess Fargo is kinda similar too, in fact it's not hard to imagine the Coen bros being an inspiration for the tone of BB.
― Tuomas, Monday, 14 October 2013 11:39 (ten years ago) link
BB >> Blood Simple
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 October 2013 12:07 (ten years ago) link
Tuomas maybe it's the narcissism of small differences, because i can see why you'd compare BB with the coen brothers, but i mainly can't stand the coen brothers while i really love BB. i think BB is more sincere, less self-impressed, more interested in character
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 October 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
but hey, whatever gets you through
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 October 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
Have you seen Blood Simple? I suggested that one exactly because (as far as I can recall) it's not as "Coeny" as some of the later films, it's not so self-impressed and has less artifice, therefore making it closer to BB. (Though I think BB does have it's share of artifice and self-impressed moments too, just think of the fakeout they pulled with the season 2 teddy bear cold opens.)
― Tuomas, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
I began a rewatch of The Wire, which completely put the thought of Breaking Bad out of my head.
― Frederik B, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
No Country for Old Men is completely in line with Breaking Bad.
― pplains, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
Lol @ this thread! Have you read Methland? http://www.samefacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/methland.jpg
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
wow, Charley Varrick sounds great!
― brio, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
and James Crumley! and Methland!
Great thread already
― brio, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:22 (ten years ago) link
"when he runs out of dumb luck he's always got genius to fall back on"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Charley_Varrick.jpg
― brio, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
Somebody could probably do a decent one of these for Breaking Bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml9hAN5km14
― pplains, Monday, 14 October 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
Also recommended tv --the series about Pablo Escobar (Patron del Mal) was quite good. I never finished watching it because the episodes were dvr-ing all screwy and I got sick of dealing with it, but the show was muuuuuch more tastefully produced than your average novela, if that's what you might imagine (if you watch Spanish lg tv, which most ppl probably don't?)
Anyway I'm sure it has English subtitles. It was pretty good.
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
I'd call Canada minor compared with Ford's more celebrated books but "minor" for Ford is anybody else's major
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
not the same, but watching the first season of Orphan Black has helped to scratch the itch. the pacing & structure seem influenced by BB, like there were will be some crazy unexpected violent turn but it won't come as a cliffhanger like most shows would do it, it'll be 15 minutes before the end of the episode and then the end will be other thing entirely.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
that's funny, I mentioned something on the BB thread about the show reminding me of '70s caper movies and the last one of those I watched was probably Charley Varrick. I didn't make the direct connection though. Is that the one where the bank is in a trailer and they steal the whole bank?
― wk, Monday, 14 October 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link
Here's the Patron del Mal trailer with subtítulos en Englishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLszT9sAktQ
― Untt (La Lechera), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
charley varrick is fucking awesome
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 14 October 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
WINTER'S BONE
― ṿῗᾄǤℝᾄ (am0n), Monday, 14 October 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
Charley Varrick is so great
― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 14 October 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
Patron del Mal looks up my street, thanks for that. Wonder why there hasn't been a big Hollywood biopic of Escobar yet.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 14 October 2013 19:58 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSpHeWRYYVE
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Monday, 14 October 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
oh the one with the trailer I was thinking of is Bank Shot
― wk, Monday, 14 October 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
haha holy crap, watching Charley Varrick again and it all takes place IN NEW MEXICO. at one point charley is like, well, dunno if i can really fly us all the way across the border, i haven't done fancy flying in a long time and his hot-headed young partner is like WHAT GOOD ARE YOU THEN, that full-on utilitarian view of others as parts for the machine of your own schemes. and charley pulls off all these walter white moves, like switching dental records.. SO DOPE. it really is one for the fully-paid up member of Team Walt.
maybe something we haven't touched yet is something that captures the pressure cooker domestic drama of micro-lies that S2 embodied (and which filtered out through the rest of the show)..
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 October 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link
i.e. ... Far From Heaven??
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 14 October 2013 22:09 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kZivVxB3vU
― pplains, Sunday, 17 November 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
Watched Charley Varrick the other night, fun movie.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Sunday, 17 November 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Joe Don Baker is always so monumental
You just know he was always smelling faintly of beernuts, farts and cologne
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 17 November 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
http://clickingbad.nullism.com/
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 December 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link
my hand says fuck you for showing me that
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
Ripoff of drmeth.com?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 01:22 (ten years ago) link
tbh I cheated like hell on DrMeth and downloaded an autoclicker app - who has the time to hire hundreds of thousands of dealers?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link
a friend just told me he's been hired for the writing staff on Better Call Saul. He's super talented, so I've got hopes for that show.
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
clicking bad has given me as much fun as gta5 and the new batman combined, mega thanks for that tracer
― NI, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
can't.... resist....
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
I AM THE ONE WHO CLICKS
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
can't decide whether to play until I've bought the entire senate, then make enough money to buy both the mega-mart and the industrial complex in two consecutive clicks - either one of them seems like the end, right, though if you had the whole senate maybe not
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
pfft that's amateur level, I'm working on buying a planet
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
so i guess all i'm doing today is playing this game with "for the love of money" on repeat
― da croupier, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
I have two stars, there's really a planet? given that the mega-mart increases risk 55% I figured it was instant game over
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:00 (ten years ago) link
I just bought a Meth Star and I'm saving up for some Space Mules next. I have $1.39 trillion in the bank. Just another day in the life...
― ʎɐpunsunɾɐɔ (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:02 (ten years ago) link
ok fuck it I'm going for the methmart
― combination hair (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
Taking this all the way baby. Every time I think it's gonna end it gets more cosmic
(I still think we're all actually mining bitcoins for the programmers)
― Brakhage, Thursday, 5 December 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/audible/the-things-they-carried
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 5 January 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenstjohn/2014/01/27/jonathan-banks-to-join-amcs-breaking-bad-prequel-better-call-saul/
― sktsh, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 11:24 (ten years ago) link
is this is a more lighthearted comedy series featuring characters we know wind up having to abruptly escape their entire life or with an incidental and unceremonious death
― conrad, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 11:42 (ten years ago) link
I guess Mike being in the series makes sense... When he was introduced, wasn't he working for Saul as his enforcer/clean-up guy? It was only later that he was revealed to be doing the same for Gus, IIRC.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 11:48 (ten years ago) link
i've spent the last couple months slowly going through this show. i adore it, but i've had to take a few breaks from it -- while it's completely absorbing and surprisingly hilarious at times, i find it really intense and sometimes almost too nerve-racking to watch.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 6 January 2020 06:54 (four years ago) link
after watching the first few episodes i told a co-worker that i'd found the bathtub/acid stuff a little hard to stomach and she kind of laughed, like, oh you have NO idea what's coming.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 6 January 2020 06:56 (four years ago) link
Not sure what she meant by that, the bathtub/acid thing is by far the grossest moment in the entire series.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Monday, 6 January 2020 08:06 (four years ago) link
Grossest but far from most immoral.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 6 January 2020 08:09 (four years ago) link
i'm about to finish season 4 but yeah i haven't encountered anything else that gross yet, at least a few moments that i found more horrifying tho
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 6 January 2020 08:38 (four years ago) link
I rewatched the entire series when C was a baby, so coming up two years ago, and found it just as compelling and unsettling second time around. My sense of Walt having always been an asshole got stronger.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 6 January 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
the bathtub scene is definitely the grossest moment of the series but far from the most intense - I'd say that goes to the box cutter scene, maybe the most nerve wracking thing I've ever seen on television.
Anna Gunn starts to look so much like Courtney Love towards the end of season 4.
I dunno how this came off in real time but it was strange watching the show on Netflix and just seeing her face drastically change from one episode to the next
― frogbs, Monday, 6 January 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
it was like that in real time. one season she just showed up with a totally different face.
― Nhex, Monday, 6 January 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
Seeing as JD is working his way through this for the first time, I'll hold off on anything too specific for the time being--was going to quote a great Saul line from Season 5.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
The guy who plays Uncle Jack gives a really good performance--as does Jesse Plemons, who's just about the politest cold-blooded killer ever (I think Jesse calls him a psycho Opie or something like that).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
Just looked him up. Michael Bowen--wow, didn't recognize him from Jackie Brown and Magnolia.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/pollos.jpg
Don't even think about making a move on my territory.
― clemenza, Saturday, 18 January 2020 03:32 (four years ago) link
Just started rewatching Community with my daughter and Badger is in it!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 January 2020 03:49 (four years ago) link
wait til you get to Season 5
― don't care didn't ask still clappin (sic), Saturday, 18 January 2020 05:07 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/yxd7Rw9Qpo— Heyzazel (@Hayzazel) April 5, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
lads im going back in
*record scratch* *freeze frame* yep that's my trousers
― mark s, Sunday, 2 October 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
my son just started watching this on his phone before school ! 😬
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 2 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
start with the classics!
― mark s, Sunday, 2 October 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
object lesson in how to get to the nub at speed lol, gilligan shd have showrun the elf show
― mark s, Sunday, 2 October 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
I started rewatching from halfway thru season 1 rather than the very start for some reason. A few months later I and I've just got to the Naziboys/Hank & Gomie shootout :(
― nashwan, Sunday, 2 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
xpost similarly:
More movies should start like The Stuff (old man finds weird goop on the ground and immediately sticks it in his mouth) pic.twitter.com/iqGGsAhbCY— robarbarian (2022) (@robtrench) October 2, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 2 October 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
me when i delve mithril
― mark s, Sunday, 2 October 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
domingo is literally the first person who talks sense to walt (or indeed to anyone)
― mark s, Monday, 3 October 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
KEN WINS
― mark s, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
Mark S / everyone: There's a new podcast just started called Best Quality Vacuum by the Duckfeed.TV guys where they're going to deep dive into the show. It's only just started but I recommend their stuff highly https://open.spotify.com/show/1nEvrTfeVKumy9c6w9pVNW?si=aN7ZAhRnS3K8uoi1DLqI0w
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
badger klaxon!
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
thx DL i will check that out if i have moment in between ned raggett's pitiless tolkien schedule
― mark s, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/Y5IKBjbALA— duck (@ExtremeBlitz__) October 8, 2022
― calstars, Sunday, 9 October 2022 00:29 (one year ago) link
hahaha
― Nhex, Sunday, 9 October 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
s2e1 opening: bear in the pool foreshadows what will happen to fring
― mark s, Friday, 21 October 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FirstThreadbareAmericantoad-size_restricted.gif
― mark s, Friday, 21 October 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
Nice! As opposed to the bear beside the pool in The Sopranos, which is basically Tony himself.
― clemenza, Friday, 21 October 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
link to the TV shows polls mentioned above? surprised ilx rated BB over mad men
where did sopranos rank?
― global tetrahedron, Friday, 21 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
I had the score wrong, but it must be this one:
BREAKING BAD vs MAD MEN
Just a two-way poll, no Sopranos.
― clemenza, Friday, 21 October 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
forgot how funny the long scenes with just jesse and walt odd-couple sniping at each other are
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
My daughter just started watching this, for some reason, so I've been sitting in on a few episodes with her, and it is indeed slower than I remembered it, which is a good thing.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
wait till you get to the beginning of season 4, soooooooo slow
― Nhex, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
this ep is just two unlikeable man stuck in a meth-lab camper out in the desert yelling at each other for 50 minutes (it's grebt)
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
JP: "what are we building?"WW: "you said it yrself!" JP (awed whisper): "robot??"WW (curt disgusted snarl): "battery!"
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
The way Aaron delivers the line “a robot??!!” is delightful.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
have you seen Bojack Horseman? his character in that is like 100% over-the-top tomfoolery of that sort
― Nhex, Tuesday, 8 November 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
How to Blow Up a Pipeline scratches certain itches...
― chap, Saturday, 20 May 2023 23:28 (ten months ago) link
How is there not a single shot of Skylar standing over Walt while he's asleep contemplating stabbing him to death.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 06:13 (nine months ago) link
Or at least turning him onto his back..
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 07:02 (nine months ago) link
Skyler.... Skyler.... put. the. knife. away.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:07 (nine months ago) link
She did better than a knife: "I fucked Ted."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 16:12 (nine months ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/09/entertainment/mike-batayeh-death/index.html
I had to look the character up...I still don't remember any specific scenes with him; his character was one of the multi-hit prison murders engineered by Lydia.
― clemenza, Friday, 9 June 2023 20:19 (nine months ago) link
He was running Gus's laundry, he was first seen when Hank and Gomez arrived for a surprise inspection. I only know this because I watched this episode about 3 days ago.
― nate woolls, Friday, 9 June 2023 23:27 (nine months ago) link
Hank grills him a couple of times in jail but at that point all of the Fring guys blur together.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 9 June 2023 23:34 (nine months ago) link