https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8i5CR4kDjM
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 9 September 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/edtv-dvd.jpg
― da croupier, Monday, 9 September 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
I'm enjoying McConaughey 3.0.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 September 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
yeah me too
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 9 September 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
shit, i didnt even know woody was in edtv.
― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 9 September 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
this looks interesting -- yeah i really like raggedy kinda creepy McConaughey, he's much more convincing & unpredictable
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 9 September 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone done a Matthew McConaughey/Woody Harrelson TS? They both specialize in playing the same sort of guy over and over again yet are usually equally welcome additions to films, with a knack for choosing interesting roles/films. I saw the second "Hunger Games" movie the other day, and Woody once again reveals himself remarkably capable of playing silly and serious at the same time. McConaughey, too, by dint of his disposition, gives off similar vibes, especially lately. No one pegged them as the sort to get Oscar buzz and whatnot, and yet here we are in Matthew's case, and of course, Woody has already been there a few times. They're both even from East Texas, bordering the panhandle.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2013 05:53 (ten years ago) link
and many tasteful gay men have imagined a 3some with them
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 December 2013 06:14 (ten years ago) link
That's what they call the "East Texas Waltz."
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 1 December 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
McConaughey is great as usual(!), not sure how this is going to work in the long run, it's kind of ponderous. Kept flashing back to Carnivale - well-crafted but maybe overly pretentious to work.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 13 January 2014 05:53 (ten years ago) link
er, ponderous not pretentious
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 13 January 2014 06:25 (ten years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976247/?ref_=nv_sr_1
for fans of m&h, this is a true passion project for both
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri3kfC2oKzk
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 13 January 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
i couldn't handle how well-tailored and snug their shirts were, its like, no way would detectives in 1994 louisiana look that stylish
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 13 January 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
in 1994 it should have been flowing billowy silks
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 13 January 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
exactly. even today, i don't think smalltown detectives would wear ultra-fitted model shirts.
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 13 January 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.solecollector.com/media/u/images/top-10-nba-draft-suits-jalen-rose.jpg
^ what the 90s were REALLY like #90skid #childofthe90s #ripunclephil
― balls, Monday, 13 January 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
My grandfather is from Louisiana and he has always worn well fitted shirts and pants, he's ex-military so that might have something to do with it. Anyway I enjoyed this.
― JacobSanders, Monday, 13 January 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
all movie detectives should be dressed like matt damon in the informant
http://i.imgur.com/mXwjoBP.jpg
― Hungry4Ass, Monday, 13 January 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
But yeah even Fox Mulder wasn't that tailored in the 90's.
― JacobSanders, Monday, 13 January 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
<3 woody, have been realising lately that I may <3 Matthew too
I didn't know this show existed till today
― mile.y (wins), Monday, 13 January 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
I was cold on McConaughey for a while but he's been in some great stuff lately. Woody I hardly ever like his movies but he has all that credit built up from Cheers (with me anyway) so I always get sucked into watching him, lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 January 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
Loving this already. Kind of like a Louisiana Top of the Lake.
― schwantz, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
I liked the premiere but didn't love it. A lot of the dialogue was too self-consciously "writerly" than I'd have liked.
― Simon H., Monday, 13 January 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
Also people are way too excited about seeing movie stars on TV.
― Simon H., Monday, 13 January 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
i wanna say "i'd be excited about seeing woody & mac together in anything" but my having not seen edtv puts paid to that being a lie
― Hungry4Ass, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
I have no problem with Writerly, but then I'm also probably the only guy who loved John From Cincinatti.
― schwantz, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
Milch is writerly too, but has a very specific voice and outlook. This felt more generically gloomy to me.
― Simon H., Monday, 13 January 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I hear that. I perked up on the last line, though. Definitely looking forward to next ep.
― schwantz, Monday, 13 January 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
i kinda wish they were a bit more mcconaughey-y and harrelson-y. seeing the woodmeister as the straight man harshed my buzz a bit
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 13 January 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
I was prepared to hate the writerliness but totally enjoyed this. Actors acting. Cinematographers shooting. Southern gothic. Evil that men do. Millennium meets Blair Witch in Louisiana. What's not to like?
A Henriksen cameo would really pull this together but it probably takes itself too seriously for that.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
This ruled.
― ilx snitch (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 03:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah this was fantastic
― Clay, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
Good to have Mac's pretentious musings undercut by Woody. Love them, love the atmosphere, and I can see it slinking a bit in the mid but despite that when I finished the first ep I immediately wanted to watch the 2nd.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 05:14 (ten years ago) link
Encouraged by this... Felt burned by the US version of the The Bridge, so I'm crossing fingers that this will keep it together. Good to hear The Black Angels cash in on some of the HBO cash that BJM has been making.
Texas Killing Fields recommended to folks who like this new wave of Southern Gothic.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 07:51 (ten years ago) link
Don't know how I haven't seen Texas Killing Fields, thanks!
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 07:57 (ten years ago) link
if you liked the killing fields...
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
I haven't seen the movie but this definitely put me in mind of the actual texas killing fields--which is so grim I can hardly imagine enduring a movie about it.
loved this though. thought MM's monologue in the car was a little over the top until it became clear his character is a bit crazy.
― ryan, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:23 (ten years ago) link
this was p great - rog mexico otmaltho its easier to build the mystery than reveal it so im remaining a bit wary
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
the taxman called himself a realist/pessimist but “I have a bad taste in my mouth out here. Aluminum and ash. Like you can smell the psycho-sphere.” made me think of speculative crime scene investigation. a thread about this would be nice , someday.
― Sébastien, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
wow so good
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
ya guys but the shirts
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:47 (ten years ago) link
they looked awesome in their suits--i consider this as necessary as modern hair and makeup in movies that take place in ancient rome.
― ryan, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
it didn't look particularly "90s" at all. Apart from the fog of cigarette smoke in the office scenes
― Number None, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
it's funny, i was 16 at the time but if you asked me to describe what 1995 was like i could only shrug in response.
― ryan, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
well, yeah
― j., Tuesday, 14 January 2014 23:10 (ten years ago) link
1995 was like JNCOs and shitty music
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
would def loved to have seen trhem rockin jncos
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
wish this sho was more like vh1 'i love the 90s'
― a group of dadfucker types (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
a better thread idea than this one would be "POLL the 90s: music in the 90s"
― a group of dadfucker types (Matt P), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
anyone read pizzolatto's novels?
― ryan, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 23:32 (ten years ago) link
The setting and potential supernatural stuff happening giving a bit of The Terror vibes (well plus 150 years lol)
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:42 (two months ago) link
I agree with the JF detective character that the first priority when arriving at a potential crime scene is turn that fucking beatles shite off
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:47 (two months ago) link
lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 January 2024 05:51 (two months ago) link
creepy AF omg i am loving this
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 January 2024 07:01 (two months ago) link
also holy shit DOCTOR WHO is in this?AND he’s boning CLARICE STARLINGomg this show man
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 January 2024 07:03 (two months ago) link
God I love this show but I am far too impatient for it.
― H.P, Monday, 22 January 2024 09:58 (two months ago) link
I just want the mystery solved! Whose spiralling these people!
― H.P, Monday, 22 January 2024 09:59 (two months ago) link
Loving Ennis tho. Need more arctic in my tv screen
― H.P, Monday, 22 January 2024 10:01 (two months ago) link
They really needed to hire an ilxor as music advisor. Some horrendous choices this season
― H.P, Monday, 22 January 2024 10:30 (two months ago) link
The music is frustrating especially after three seasons that had original soundtracks. It’s credible that this is the music in Ennis — I’ve listened to CBC stations from Arctic towns and imagine listening to the songs they play, The Everly Brothers and so on, in such isolated places — but the music budget going to The Beatles and Billie Eilish feels like such a waste. The show is following the TD template in so many other ways but really dropped that part of it this season.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 22 January 2024 11:06 (two months ago) link
what is going on with the AI generated posters in True Detective pic.twitter.com/hLEM7pmAUM— rachel (@rachelmillman) January 22, 2024
lol what the fuck
― Chris L, Monday, 22 January 2024 12:50 (two months ago) link
how do i shot production design
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 January 2024 12:59 (two months ago) link
I've not seen any season of this show. Can I start with this one? Sucker for arctic settings, and good to have Jodi Foster back.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 13:13 (two months ago) link
I would think so. The new season has a subtitle
― jaymc, Monday, 22 January 2024 13:22 (two months ago) link
Oops, posted too soon. It's the first season with a subtitle, and they've given Issa Lopez a "created by" credit, suggesting it's some ways a new show.
― jaymc, Monday, 22 January 2024 13:25 (two months ago) link
I like everything about this except the cutesy Taylor Cohle” and “Tuttle Enterprises” throwbacks, it makes me nervous we’re in for some kind of “Carcoldsa” kinda plot twist
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 22 January 2024 14:24 (two months ago) link
Yeah, I'm really annoyed by that too, though I totally didn't grok the Travis Cohle thing while watching. But I guess everyone else did a much better job than me of remembering where a character's off-screen father grew up in a season of a show that aired a decade ago.
xp - those posters were insane, I couldn't stop staring at those
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2024 14:33 (two months ago) link
Right, Travis Cohle. I watch CC’d and the spelling is notable
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 22 January 2024 14:53 (two months ago) link
and they've given Issa Lopez a "created by" credit, suggesting it's some ways a new show.
Hmmm; and yet in other, more accurate ways, not at all. They really did Nicky Pizza dirty.
― Chris L, Monday, 22 January 2024 15:18 (two months ago) link
lol I also got derailed by the AI posters, watching this to fill the gap caused by the (predictable) cancellation of Alaska Daily which I really liked
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:19 (two months ago) link
xp - fair point, had I seen it spelled out it would have rung a bell, but I honestly didn't even remember a last name being mentioned
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:21 (two months ago) link
if nothing else, it made my GF want to watch the Thing
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:21 (two months ago) link
The New Yorker review of this just had to squeeze in a sick burn on the most recent season of Fargo, but didn't really make it sound better.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:22 (two months ago) link
I'm assuming the review is an outlier, but if that critic found season 5 of "Fargo" irritating, but likes this, then I dunno if I can get with this.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 15:33 (two months ago) link
i didn’t even notice the posters lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 January 2024 16:38 (two months ago) link
I thought it was a Metallica poster, but couldn't quite figure out if it was young or old Metallica, and now I know why. That's so weird.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 22 January 2024 16:44 (two months ago) link
being a music nerd I immediately tried to discern who the bands were, then realized it was just a coating of AI slime.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 22 January 2024 16:48 (two months ago) link
I could see it being a subtle "we're in a weird dream universe" touch, except that there are a ton of product placements sharp and in focus (was distracted by the framing that featured the Pepsi logo in one shot).
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 22 January 2024 16:50 (two months ago) link
Probably stretching here but I wonder if those were originally actual band posters that they couldn't get (or wouldn't pay the rights for) so they last minute threw AI slime over 'em?
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2024 17:22 (two months ago) link
of all the things that happened in the episode it is very ILX to be “BUT THE POSTERS”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 January 2024 17:27 (two months ago) link
sure, but it's not like they are just anachronistic or something, they are absolutely horrid!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 22 January 2024 17:31 (two months ago) link
Fargo had great character-defining band posters in Gator's bedroom
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2024 17:39 (two months ago) link
(sorry I got rid of HBO so I will only be posting about Fargo in this thread)
Ferris Bueller or Mike Damone's bedroom being the obvious standard here.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 22 January 2024 17:48 (two months ago) link
Interesting that with the CGI elements and those posters that they filmed everything set outside in the Arctic outside:
Every shot outside in the ep was shot outside, in the arctic.So, by living there for 10 months, I learned that visible breath depends on humidity. Sometimes it happens...Sometimes not. 🤷🏻♀️ https://t.co/BlpVHoSYZB— Issa López (@IssitaLopez) January 22, 2024
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:44 (two months ago) link
(though then I go google and find out that Iceland isn't actually the arctic, but 40 miles south of it)
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Monday, 22 January 2024 18:45 (two months ago) link
Amazing response from her about the AI posters:
pic.twitter.com/y9pggkqwll— grimm (@ExileGrimm) January 22, 2024
― Chris L, Monday, 22 January 2024 18:58 (two months ago) link
lol awesome
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:00 (two months ago) link
I think the very north of Iceland is technically the Arctic.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:17 (two months ago) link
There’s one village (Grimsey) on an island off the north coast, near Dalvik (one of the filming locations for this show)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:29 (two months ago) link
The grocery store scene triggered a massive “I know this place” moment for me; seems maybe unlikely that they filmed in one of the three Reykjavik/Hafnarfjordur grocery stores I’ve shopped at, but maybe so?
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 22 January 2024 19:31 (two months ago) link
I have fond memories of an AirBnB in Harfnarf Du Jour, as we still refer to it.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2024 19:35 (two months ago) link
Probably because I clicked on this thread or maybe because I googled True Detective, but now I'm getting served all these news stories claiming it is a direct sequel to season 1. So ... watch this one first and if we like it go back to season 1?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 January 2024 21:24 (two months ago) link
The first season is a great, iconic season of television, although sh wometimes it's a bit annoying, and parts of it are Very Silly Indeed. Woody and Matty are fantastic; the writing for the female characters absolutely bites. Either way, it's definitely a good time.
I'm guessing the new season has resonances to the first but isn't a direct continuation.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:04 (two months ago) link
I full-tilt adored S1, masterful writing, directing, acting, everything. I can't get my bf to re-watch it because he hates Matt McC and cares not for Woody H
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 22 January 2024 22:08 (two months ago) link
Watching the first episode - we’re off to a great start
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 January 2024 23:32 (two months ago) link
Season 4 specifically
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 22 January 2024 23:35 (two months ago) link
should i start a S4 thread since we have one for each of the others?
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 00:21 (two months ago) link
Sure!
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 00:21 (two months ago) link
ok here it is True Detective Season 4: Night Country (Ice Capades!)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 January 2024 00:30 (two months ago) link