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[Don]

Watched Hamilton the other night. Freaking fantastic IMO. Crazy good performances throughout. Super impressed by the performers bringing it that hard for that long. Btw, the guy that played George III is the dude from Mindhunter.

[NrM]

12 hours ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

I'm a few episodes in and I have that unsettling feeling you might be right.

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There is a problem with villains in the story. They introduce one, humanize them, then feel the need to introduce another. Expanding the story might be the only way to make it work rationally but it is coming at the expense of over complicating it. Having multiple versions of the same person is slowly creating inconsistencies. Some things are better left unseen... like, why is middle Jonas trying to build a time machine in the 1800's? The dude is a high school time traveler with no knowledge of physics.

 

I agree with your sentiment of over complicating things, however, the way they ended season 3 was very satisfying. And it does come together by the last episode.

Season 1 and 2 were masterpieces in my book. And Season 3, while not as good, had a very satisfying last episode which made everything feel complete.

Unlike Game of Thrones, where the last season ruined the show as a whole for me.

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Don't read if you haven't watched further. Jonas going back to the 1800s makes sense in the later episodes because it shows how he became Adam.

 

[Redondo]

4 episodes into S2 of Deadwind

@Lou Finnish detective series right up our alley.

Didn't you watch S1 already?

[Lou]

7 hours ago, Redondo said:

4 episodes into S2 of Deadwind

@Lou Finnish detective series right up our alley.

Didn't you watch S1 already?

Sure did, thanks

[RallyMo]

On 7/5/2020 at 3:00 AM, Tank said:

Boy, that was really a different way to tell the story. We all liked it, especially George III (He was hilarious) and Thomas Jefferson. Didn’t know about his son and that part of the story. The music was non traditional but worked well. The revolving stage was a novel idea and was utilized well. Really liked the song about being in the room. 
 

The amount of memorization for this production must have been staggering for the primary actors, but boy did they pull it off well.

glad we didn’t spend a kings ransom to go see it in person.

It really is an incredibly impressive show. Lin Manuel Miranda can write songs like nobody's business. It's such a long shot of a premise.

From 2009, like 6 years or so before the show hit Broadway:

 

[T.G.]

 

Switchback (movie). Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover. Pretty good.

[AngelsLakersFan]

2 hours ago, fishbulb said:

It really is an incredibly impressive show. Lin Manuel Miranda can write songs like nobody's business. It's such a long shot of a premise.

From 2009, like 6 years or so before the show hit Broadway:

 

I was reading this trash article on CNN.com the other day criticizing the streaming release of 'Hamilton' as essentially Obama era propaganda out of touch with 2020. Lin-Manuel better be careful the cancel crowd doesn't come for him.

[Tank]

5 minutes ago, AngelsLakersFan said:

I was reading this trash article on CNN.com the other day criticizing the streaming release of 'Hamilton' as essentially Obama era propaganda out of touch with 2020. Lin-Manuel better be careful the cancel crowd doesn't come for him.

My brother read and shared a review he found from the National review that really tore the play apart. It was too heady for me and seemed to be overly critical. I understand wanting to have historical accuracy, and appreciate the effort, but this was too much.

[T.G.]

What does Josh Hamilton have to do with Obama?

[AngelsLakersFan]

6 minutes ago, Tank said:

My brother read and shared a review he found from the National review that really tore the play apart. It was too heady for me and seemed to be overly critical. I understand wanting to have historical accuracy, and appreciate the effort, but this was too much.

There is a lot of hand wringing over the portrayal of Hamilton as a self made man and his loose connections to slavery. What drives me nuts is how everything has to be compared to today's standards. Living in the 18th century and being part of the aristocracy it is going to be quite hard not to have some indirect connection to the practice. Of course he is going to have some friends in high places with questionable morality by today's standards. Heck show me someone in Washington today that doesn't.

Also it seemed like yesterday productions were being criticized for not having enough roles for people of color, and now the diversity of Hamilton's cast catches flack for covering up the racism of the day.

[RallyMo]

32 minutes ago, Tank said:

My brother read and shared a review he found from the National review that really tore the play apart. It was too heady for me and seemed to be overly critical. I understand wanting to have historical accuracy, and appreciate the effort, but this was too much.

These are the same people that took issue with The Greatest Showman. I get it. I also understand that I still think the actual PT Barnum was quite a turd in many respects.

[Slegnaac]

On 7/4/2020 at 9:51 AM, Lou said:

Watched the first 2 episodes. I'm really liking the show. Matthew Rhys (The Americans) is very good as Mason.

Watched episode 3 last night.  It is really good. 

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EB has TB? 

Charlie isn't dead? 

Can Drake survive the season? 

Hate having to wait another week. 

 

[T.G.]

Movie..  "Cleaner" with Samuel Jackson, Eva Mendes and Ed Harris. I thought it was pretty good.

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[Lou]

3 hours ago, True Grich said:

Movie..  "Cleaner" with Samuel Jackson, Eva Mendes and Ed Harris. I thought it was pretty good.

It was terrible.

[Brandon]

I actually created this thread for movies/shows not to watch.

[T.G.]

35 minutes ago, Lou said:

It was terrible.

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I know it was hard to believe he could get a white couch that clean.  Or that Eva Mendes could fall for a guy like Ed Harris or that the whole plot wasn't believable, but it held my interest and that's all I really ask of a movie.

 

[Lou]

4 minutes ago, Brandon said:

I actually created this thread for movies/shows not to watch.

That was you?

I thought it was gotbeer. 

[Lou]

1 minute ago, True Grich said:

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I know it was hard to believe he could get a white couch that clean.  Or that Eva Mendes could fall for a guy like Ed Harris or that the whole plot wasn't believable, but it held my interest and that's all I really ask of a movie.

 

17% on rotten tomatoes

[Brandon]

4 minutes ago, Lou said:

That was you?

I thought it was gotbeer. 

He's the MVP of my culmination 

[Lou]

Sidenote: met Ed Harris and Amy Madigan at the racetrack during the LA County Fair years ago. My friends and I met up with them later for drinks. Very nice people. Dude is smart.

[Lou]

FYI: Ishtar has a 37% on RT 

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, Lou said:

That was you?

I thought it was gotbeer. 

 

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

He's the MVP of my culmination 

 

See Lou.  

 

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

I actually created this thread for movies/shows not to watch.

 

Hey, wait a minute.

[Slegnaac]

2 hours ago, Lou said:

FYI: Ishtar has a 37% on RT 

Even Heaven's Gate has a higher score.

[Tank]

3 hours ago, Lou said:

Sidenote: met Ed Harris and Amy Madigan at the racetrack during the LA County Fair years ago. My friends and I met up with them later for drinks. Very nice people. Dude is smart.

Well of course he is. You can’t be the flight director for an Apollo moon mission if you’re a moron.

[gotbeer]

Netflix:  Unsolved Mysteries.  Thought this might be more in line with the other reality crime series they had.  Not really the case on this one.  One was compelling, the others were more of people trying to draw straws on a death of a loved one.  Most of them had very little evidence.  Oh, and one was about UFO's.  Most likely a pass for everyone but UFO truth seekers.