BLOODLINE: new netflix florida noir drama starring kyle chandler, sissy spacek and ben mendelsohn (2015)

all brilliant roles imo, esp. animal kingdom. he is one of my absolute favorite character actors.

also jessa's dad on girls!

yeah, he's great

scott, you should def see Animal Kingdom

i'll check it out.

one of the best $3 used dvd purchases i ever made!

ya ben mendelsohn is good stuff

yeah he pretty much single-handedly makes this show addictive, and I like Coach and Lindsay Weir

and Carrie and Chuck Yeager!

really liking the back half of the season for its increased charles willeford/late 80s elmore leonard feel

(lot more serious/straightfaced than those guys though, to its partial detriment)

ya feel like they approached some leonard vibes and almost reached out and touched faith but ultimately dealing wit leonards plot mechanisms is too terrifying for every filmmaker, having the story turn on that tape of the childhood interrogation is nearly leonardian tho i will admit

a little more elmore would have gone a looooong way for this show

notable Ben Mendelsohn roles:
-bad person and criminal in /The Place Beyond the Pines/
--Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton)

I recall him being semi-likable in this one but okay. He's amazing in Animal Kingdom.

He is pretty good in the quite ridiculous but enjoyable Starred Up as well, also looking forwards to seeing Slow West with him + Fassbender .

some good pictures of him in a nice jacket http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/only-the-very-best-screenshots-of-ben-mendelsohn-wearing-the-worlds-most-majestic-fur-coat-in-the-new-western-slow-west/

just finished this. pretty enjoyable throughout despite its occasional hiccups and cliches. mendelsohn should get an emmy nom, for real

still not quite sure who the creators wanted the audience to sympathize with tbh, if only because I can't really see how, in the end, any character is more worthy of empathy than danny despite the bad shit he ends up doing. like I I bought all of his motivations, everyone else comes off entitled in some type of way or another

you know what is a cool better show than this with similar vibes: the affair, recommended

entitled isn't exactly the right word for the other siblings, but idk I liked danny and chelsea and not really anyone else

other major deficiency is the women characters, well acted all around but p underwritten, even sevigny, which is odd bc these creators made damages and for all that show's numerous flaws the women on it were very well drawn imo

xp really? heard a lot of strong hatred for that show but then again am going solely off reviews and one friend who watched it

i loved it, p much the height of prestige trash with some legit subtly and humor in there and cool characterization

hm, I'll try a few episodes of that at some point. I'm a huge fan of both mcnulty and ruth wilson (alice morgan on Luther = 💯), although the idea of mcnulty as ennui-stricken author is kinda strange

i dont want to spoil anything but mcnultys character is so perfect

The Affair has some good stuff but was pretty underwhelming as a whole imo

I thought The Affair was terrible and have always found West a really terrible + appallingly wooden actor, he seems the opposite of Mendelsohn to me, who has the presence + talent to elevate cack like Bloodline to above average television. West has the opposite effect for me, he makes watching trash even more unbearable and drags it down even further with his anodyne shiteness.

ur anodyne shiteness

I don't get paid for my anodyne shiteness :p Would you consider West a fine actor? I wouldn't trust your judgement on fuck all else if you did.

sure hes fine

He is amongst some of the worst British ex-Eton actors ever, he represents mostly what I hate about the class system in my country. But at least you can enthuse about what you like about him rather than giving non-committed monosyllabic smart arse replies. At least I hate the talentless cunt and really feel the hatred.

i appreciate and salute your passion for the topic of dominic west but at the same time i dont actually owe you any sort of explination, i will say tho that the same things that makes him perfect as mcnulty makes him even more perfect for this role i really enjoyed the performance

Mcnulty is just a tedious stock macho Irish/American character and the writer he plays in The Affair is even sketchier and more badly written than that, only saying this because you fucking started it and now I am making pithy little comments on your fucking worthless opinions:p

my opinons are very worthwhile, clearly

BLOODBORNE: new PS4 souls noir drama starring kyle chandler, sissy spacek and ben mendelsohn (2015)

same

would watch

finally watching the finale tonight. Thought this developed very nicely. It's easy to forget what Danny's gasoline runs contributed to. A credit to the performance. When you remember, it's impossible to side with Danny. But you still want to side with Danny.

Guess you can also credit the fact that you have no backstory for his innocent victims.

he didnt know

Until he did. And then his response was "ok, this guy is a big timer. I'd better move drugs for him."

Guess that's unfair. But he was still trying to get the drugs moved after he knew.

at that point he's gone too far down the road of his ultimate goal (making his family pay for what they did to him) to turn back from his dealings with lowery. but I definitely think it shakes him up, which is a testament to both how complex they made danny as a character - at the expense of other characters - and how well mendelsohn plays him

to be fair I could be projecting bc of how much I like the character, who could've easily been just another antihero to add to prestige TV's list of antiheroes but is ultimately too complicated to fit in that box. the other rayburns, especially the pig brother, are more typical antihero than danny

pretty good show. agree that danny definitely elevates it. not too enthused about a second season with danny 2.0.

i think, more than anything else, i just enjoyed this for its slow pace and setting. the acting was usually decent, if the characterizations weren't always. this was ideal for netflix, as it was probably too slow to sustain week to week interest.

pretty good show. agree that danny definitely elevates it. not too enthused about a second season with danny 2.0.

― ryan, Sunday, March 29, 2015 12:42 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shd just have mendelsohn play him too

or actually i bet what they do is have tons of flashbacks filling in the story as to how he got so desperate

a godfather 2 type scenario if u will

hmm. i like it.

seems likely right

yeah but i fear it will involve a lot of teen angst with 2.0 as well. though i did think it was pretty funny how little anyone gave a shit about john's son.

"dad! but why can't we hang out with our transparently creepy uncle!"

http://www.aguitarforum.com/data/attachments/55/55150-c32300cb6c16722a197470686ed398b0.jpg

I enjoyed the second season but then again I am a sucker for slow burning noirish crime dramas

I did think the bit at the end with Kevin killing Marco was a bit much though. Did he think that this would save John and Meg or did he just panic?

he just panicked

I thought that was the case but it seemed very out of character as Kevin hasn't been violent before if I remember right. Great show overall though, very atmospheric

Can someone clarify something for me, having just finished season 1? the first few episodes lean pretty heavily on a flash-forward scene of John dragging Danny through the swamp in striped seersucker suits. At about episode 8-9 you see that the suits are for Meg's wedding but Danny dies and Meg doesn't actually get married. Did I miss something major (like a whole episode!!) ?

cancelled, from what I read....did season 2 end on a cliffhanger?

It's been cancelled after season 3.

We chained eight episodes of season three yesterday - the bent coroner is straight into the pantheon of great minor characters.

I hope the cancellation doesn't mean they haven't brought the whole thing to a satisfying conclusion.

First half of the last series was quite good but those final episodes were a complete crock

I enjoyed the bleakness of the conclusion well enough but the second series had clearly set a number of plates in motion that they weren't able to resolve in time. I got the distinct impression that a number of plotlines had been very hastily rewritten once the series was cancelled - characters just suddenly keeling over and dying or shooting themselves in the head etc.