Breaking Bad is excellent. 

still want to see it for completeness' sake. have a whole 2 seasons to get through first though it seems!

just finished season 3 of the wire tonight - fucking brilliant viewing. i can't say i expect prison break to be anything like in the same class but from the few episodes i have seen (season 1) it seems entertaining enough; more in the 24 kind of mould

i'll remember deadwood for after; know absolutely nothing about it though in honesty. also been recommended the shield too. and dexter... so much tv so little time ;/ 

If you like a little fucked up family dramedy with your soft core porn, this one's for you. 

Oh, recommended before, but if you like The Wire then Treme is the new series by the same writers (and several of the same cast). Set in New Orleans following the hurricane and follows musicians, chefs, academics and mardi gras indians (among others) as they rebuild. Very, very good. 

is pure genius in season 2, pretty good in season 1 too but seaosn 2 really hits its straps nicely.

The three great supportign characters on tv right now IMHO : Jason Stackhouse (True Blood), Pete Campbell (Mad Men) and Jesse Pinkman (Breaking Bad).

Oh, and another plug for Mad Men, the best of the current drama on tv IMHO. 

season 4 is the pick of the bunch too I think, you should get on to that quick :)

Sleepy, what's Justified like? I know the basic premise but what's the tone meant to be like? 

I am finding it kinda hard to define that show. It's mostly about this marshall character and his friends, family, history. It's pretty funny because Timothy Olyphant is funny. It has a good cast and the stories are interesting. But it's not the stories that make the show, it's the dialogue and Timothy Olyphant's great delivery combined with quirky and crazy southerners ;-).

Kinda hard to dscribe, really, now that I think about it. I like the atmosphere of the show. 

will add it to the list of things ot eventually watch. 

Boardwalk Empire. 

I like it - gonna keep watching! 

they only started Deadwood now here. 

Aviator

Boring and terrible. We fast forwarded the last 30 minutes... 

easily the best Scorsese movie of the last 15 years IMHO. 

christ this show is awesome. And I'd thought that realistic depictions of american economics were impossible on TV. Nice to hear the show creator say,

I'll tell you what, this would be enough for me: The next time the drug czar or Ashcroft or any of these guys stands up and declares, "With a little fine-tuning, with a few more prison cells, and a few more lawyers, a few more cops, a little better armament, and another omnibus crime bill that adds 15 more death-penalty statutes, we can win the war on drugs" -- if a slightly larger percentage of the American population looks at him and goes, "You are so full of shit" ... that would be gratifying.

the idea that drug dealers are evil and that capitalist bosses are good - christ, what a specifically American form of hypocritical lie. IQ test to vote please. Eugenics please. 

that what I mean is NOT RACIALLY BASED EUGENICS, I mean a license to have kids based on IQ, non-addiction, non-craziness (including, in fact ESPECIALLY, religiosity), non psychopathy, etc. Lack of hereditary diseases. The reason I feel so OK to put forth such a universally attacked concept, is that I include myself in it: I've enough genetic problems/dispositions, that I would and do consent not to have kids. Why can't people way dumber than me think the same? Oh, right, BECAUSE THEY ARE DUMBER, and more likely to act like animals (ie, eat, fuck, etc). Where's Lovecraft when you need him. 

now I realize that anyone who's read much Lovecraft realizes that he was a racist. What I mean, is not that. My main target is religious people - in the states most of 'em are white and I'd love to sterilize them all - for example there is a cult called the QUIVERFULLS taking their name from some biblical quotation that children are like arrows in your quiver that you shoot out into the world, in order to convert it all. Stupid religious people are my target - and race, or culture, is irrelevant. If you're dumb enough to believe in invisible shit and try to influence public politics FU and this is the biggest fight that civilization has on its hands today, between Islam and Christianity we might all just get totally fucked. IQ test to vote and many more tests to breed might just turn back the tide of these retarded motherfuckers and if I'm still alive in 50 years and I see a world even dumber and more faithful than I see it now I'm going mcveigh or unabomber style. Jokes I'm using one bullet not 300. But come on whoever denies evolution and science has no right to have kids who're gonna be genetically susceptible to bullshit like them, much less the right to indoctrinate them at home. I have no kids nor will I ever to care about. I am just offended by the ascendence of stupidity. 

I was going to suggest keeping the drunk posting in the relevant place (politics thread?) but I enjoyed that rant immensely, 5 Unabombers out of 5. 

But clash of the titans (2010) should be skipped even if you're in the mood for brainless action or mind-blowing effects (they were quite bad actually).

On the other hand, that Dorian Gray movie was interesting. Not necessarily a good movie, though. 

Your mileage may vary, but I found it pretty decent.

Haven't read the novel though. 

is a great piece of writing and although I've only seen the 1946 version, there really cant be a bad adaptation of it. 

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Nice style, great laughs (with always perfect timing). Absolutely recommended if you like animation movies.

Don't watch the trailer, it gives away 95% of the whole story... 

 

I enjoyed that, lovely visuals and some good gags. 

loved this. saw roughly where it was going about halfway through but most of the 'sub-twists' i didn't get (ie. the explanations behind the details). i definitely want to see it again to pick up on stuff.

leo is getting to be one of my favourite actors. he's great in this, and in some ways i couldn't help comparing his character to cobb from inception... there are a few parallels and i think this film executes them slightly better.

in relation to a post by nitin a short while ago i'd probably even rate this as my fav scorsese film (although i haven't seen the aviator admittedly) 

was a good movie