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 think his first appearance was cleaning up after Jane's death, can't wait to see more capers like that!
― Merdeyeux, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 12:01 (ten years ago) link
This is clearly just BC being mischievous, but thought I'd post it anyway:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/30/walter-white-not-dead_n_5415300.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000024
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 30 May 2014 14:57 (nine years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/better-call-saul-might-actually-bring-back-walter-white-and-other-breaking-bad-characters-9575313.html
lol
it's a prequel except that the timeline will jump forward so that we can squeeze in as many breaking bad characters as possible, in fact 10 minutes every week will be devoted to the ongoing adventures of walter white who survived and now cooks meth with jesse in the basement of saul's cinnabon restaurant opposite zombie gus's chicken shack
― Towards A New Novel (and it sucks and whatever) (wins), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
(stoked obv)
is it stupid of me to put @Homer_Marijuana here cause yesterday felt p breaking bad to me
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Is anyone else watching Metastasis?
― polyphonic, Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
No, is it any good?
― Towards A New Novel (and it sucks and whatever) (wins), Thursday, 3 July 2014 06:49 (nine years ago) link
Compared to the telenovelas that Univision would normally be airing? Definitely.
Wait, is that rockist
― polyphonic, Thursday, 3 July 2014 07:33 (nine years ago) link
If Walt reappears I hope it's just as dorky chemistry teacher Walt in a minimal cameo, these two character intersecting in some completely inconsequential way.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 July 2014 08:27 (nine years ago) link
TV is done guys - better bring back novels and going to the cinema again.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 July 2014 10:16 (nine years ago) link
Been watching Orphan Black recently, and while it's trashier and less artfully done than BB it's the only thing I've seen since that comes close in terms of tension and narrative drive.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 3 July 2014 12:08 (nine 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 (three 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 (ten months ago) link
Or at least turning him onto his back..
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 07:02 (ten months ago) link
Skyler.... Skyler.... put. the. knife. away.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 13:07 (ten months ago) link
She did better than a knife: "I fucked Ted."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 16:12 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link