He was just Columbo to me, aside from the Princess Bride, but what a role. #1 screen detective. RIP.
― ledge, Friday, 24 June 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, much as I love Wings of Desire, etc, Columbo was, and still is, a great way to spend a some time. He was just perfect in it. I miss those kind of detectives, is there anything comparable now? RIP.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 24 June 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Monk?
― Just Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 June 2011 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
I don't watch that show myself, but I know some do.
― Just Breaking 2: Electric Boogaloo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 June 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
Not dissimilar, yeah, but much more lightweight and played for laffs.
― ledge, Friday, 24 June 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Monk is the only one I could think of. I like it and Tony Shalhoub is very watchable but it's no Columbo.
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 24 June 2011 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Just rent Mikey and Nicky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE3eiZ_kbVE
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 June 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
Falk is brilliant, how sad.
― Mount Cleaners, Saturday, 25 June 2011 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
There's little in life more pleasant than a sunday afternoon reading the papers, with one eye on an early Columbo repeat and drinking many cups of tea. I always really liked Falk's cameo in Made as well, his withering contempt for Vince Vaughn's character is A+. Truly, RIP.
― Bill A, Saturday, 25 June 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
There a Columbo on ITV3 right now, British people. It's only just started, so if you switch on then you'll miss the boring non-Falk setup bit.
― emil.y, Saturday, 25 June 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
Thought he was dead already. RIP Peter.
There's little in life more pleasant than a sunday afternoon reading the papers, with one eye on an early Columbo repeat and drinking many cups of tea.
^ this
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 June 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
I preferred his stuff you had to watch with both eyes.
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 June 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
(no offense intended, one-eyed Peter)
This is kind of a sad anecdote, from Wells, of all people:
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/06/falk.php
and he played Shelley Levene on the stage in LA!?
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 25 June 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
That earlier Columbo on ITV3 was one iffy 90s ones, innit? But all of those from 71-76 or so are all mostly awesome, can watch over again and again with several cups of tea. They should've repeated the one w/Donald Pleasance, probably my all time favourite.
Monk sorta riffs on it -- but you never believe Columbo ever has a fear of heights or the like. Its all acted, for us as well as the soon to be caught killer.
And obviously it isn't even that much of a cop show. Even before the 'you know who the killer is from the start' thing, you also see him working w/out a partner, the LA setting is hardly ever made use of, no conflicts over his methods, no home life (Ms. Columbo is a good ol' joke on that)...guy doesn't even eat (ok, he takes a bite out of a bowl of chilli a couple of times)!
Which leaves us with all that acting. More than enough.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
the 89-2002 ones are just all terrible iirc. seem to remember billy connolly being in one.
my favourite is the final episode of the first run, "the conspirators". the murderer in this one is a brendan behan inspired irish poet involved in running guns to the provos with money that he raises at charity nights claiming to be in aid of the victims of the troubles. its one downside, from my point of view, is that the murder isn't complicated. he just shoots a guy who tries to double-cross him, although columbo does also foil the smuggling of a shipment of arms. in general tho i love the "perfect crimes" hatched by geniuses that bumbling old blue-collar columbo manages to untangle, much to the smug cunts' astonishment.
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ The one with the chairman of the high IQ society is pretty good, particularly the ending ("The bye Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case"). Also the one with the rival chessmasters ("The Most Dangerous Match") - I saw that on holiday once where it was pouring with rain the whole time and there was nothing to do in the evenings.
― wtf is wrong with people? (snoball), Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
Haha yeah when he untangled the crime at that mensa like place. 'Are you sure you don't have a high IQ?' 'Oh no!' xp! also the one with the lawyer lady 'Ah you were v lucky...no, you are very smart'
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
the mensa place the one with the record player?
― Introducing the Hardline According to (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnWScg95paA
― wtf is wrong with people? (snoball), Saturday, 25 June 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
The 'oh fuck' look of realisation on the other guy's face is priceless.
There's an excellent 45-minute radio interview from 1976 on the Mikey & Nicky Criterion set, which I probably heard then because it was on a NYC show called "Movie Talk" which I listened to habitually. He reminisces about all the classical roles he played off-Broadway in the '50s. Also delves into the psychology of "middle-class gangsters" like M&N.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 February 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link