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*Strides towards viewer along crack-addict-littered urban alleyway - discarded glass pipes crunching underfoot - pulls tec-9 from waistband of lo-slung jeans and aims, sideways-style, directly into the camera lens*
"Bwap-bwap-bwap! You dyead, hwomes."
Highly enthused-about crime series The Wire is to be aired from episode 1 onwards on FX from tonight.
I've been hearing about this for ages and there was a moderately convincing programme by Charlie Brooker hyping it up last week; I reckon I'll be giving it a go and, assuming it is as good as they reckon, I'll try and stick with it. From what I've heard, it sounds like Richard Price's gargantuan crack novel Clockers but retaining the scope and detail that the disappointing Spike Lee film of the same had to jettison.
Anyone already hooked on The Wire? Is it as good as they reckon?
quote:Originally posted by ben: I've been hearing about this for ages
Where? How long is ages? I've never heard of it - it sounds frightful.
But then I don't think I'm very good at watching TV these days - yesterday was a bit of the golf followed by the film The Red Shoes, followed by actually going and playing golf. Ideally, I suppose, I should have then gone dancing. Or worn a red golf glove, that would make me play super acely but would make me play on and on, into the night, around the golf courses of Leeds, until I actually died from sheer exhaustion and golfatigue - I would OG.
"Take my red glove off," I would utter feebly, before breathing my last, possibly jotting down my score on the last hole of life before carking it, in silly clothes.
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quote:Originally posted by ben: Pls. - no spoilers!
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aPPARENTLY IT'S sNAPE AND dOBBY.
I've yet to catch The Wire, on my to-do list, though. I watched the opening episodes of heart-stopping, in-yo-face, keepin-it-real prison drama Oz last night. What a fucking load of old shit. Some of it was genuinely laughable. The Wire looks good, though.
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The Wire I believe is v good, though I won't be able to catch it until it's on the terrestial channels, as I'm a technotard. I'm most looking forward to Heroes, which no doubt is old hat, having been watched all the way through on BizTorrence by anyone under the age of 80, but I get to have all that initial fun all over again, so nah.
I did however see Clapham Junction last night, which was bleakitude to the max. Moral of story: don't do botting.
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I finally got it on DVD the other day. Watched one episode. Seems good. Nice dialogue, emphasis of story and drama over moralising, rounded characters and subtle plot. Also included one of the most pitiful portrayals of drug abuse I've ever seen.
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I freakin' love The Wire. Waiting for season four to come out on DVD. It's really top drawer stuff, and by the time the second season ends it's clear that the show has completely moved beyond its police procedural beginnings and become the TV equivalent of Middlemarch - taking a long hard look at society and attempting to dissect it with a keen intelligence.
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Sounds promising. btw - highly Mart-recommended war weepie A Matter of Life and Death is on Channel 4 tomorrow afternoon.
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Oh god, I love The Wire, it's so fucking good. We only got into it a month or so ago, and have just finished watching downloaded season 4, after ODing on it for weeks.
Roll on season 5 next year, hopefully repeated rewatching of the boxsets can stop me dying of withdrawal before then.
So yeah, anyone who hasn't seen it should do so asap, and stick with it 'cos it just gets better.
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I haven't seen a single episode of this yet, but from what I've gathered from what people on here have said about it, I should probably start from the beginning and play 'catch up' via DVD box sets. I didn't even realise that it was into its fourth season. I really am behind the times.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: It's not a weepie - it's a philosophical look at the importance of love, and life, and shit, and stuff.
But yeah, watch it folks, if only for Nivers being an outrageous flirt at the beginning as he prepares to jump to his death.
I hadn't seen this film since I was a child - my memory of it was hazy - I do remember being shocked, probably for the first time realising the horror of war - it was the shots of all the dead nurses in the courtroom that got to me at the time.
However watching it some 30 years later I can fully appreciate what a truly wonderful film it is, and so ahead of its time in a lot of ways - you have to remember this film was made in 1946, and whilst its special effects may be laughable by todays standards, for that time they were pretty cutting edge. But that aside, it is a fantastic film, and interestingly its cultural questioning about the differences between the US and the UK was the reason the MoD requested the film to be made, so that their alliance could be maintained post WWII. Also I'd imagine quite controvorsial when released - to question the UK and US's not so finest hours in history, and almost be critical of them.
A beautiful film - anything that inspires hope, and especially at that period in History, must have been almost revolutionary for cinema, but a gem of a film, a wonderful love story and I would imagine a first in many ways for leading cinema forward at the time. Most war films were of the heroicism of recent feats, but this one was unique in so many ways. And thank you Ben for letting us know this was on today!
quote:Originally posted by doc d: i like the number of english actors in it. stringer and mcnulty for instance.
its all about omar in our house.
There's another english actor in season 3, one of the blokes from Queer As Folk, so not only does it take a bit of time to get used to him speaking american, you've also got to get used to him not sleeping with blokes. He's pretty good though.
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: The Wire I believe is v good, though I won't be able to catch it until it's on the terrestial channels, as I'm a technotard.
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Verily! I have now semi-caught up with technology, having bought series 1 as a DVD box set, a few months before it's going to be on telly. Always that little bit (two years) behind the game. I've watched two, but am going to have to watch them again, with the subtitles.
We've also just got BT Vision, which is some kind of witchcraft which puts telly from the internet into a box under the real telly. Thought it would be a good idea to spend the sofa-pinned breast-feeding months watching something improving, rather than Jeremy Kyle and Bargain Hunt. However, at current showing I'll be watching back-to-back episodes of the Hotel Inspector. Marvellous.
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quote:Originally posted by herbs: Thought it would be a good idea to spend the sofa-pinned breast-feeding months watching something improving, rather than Jeremy Kyle and Bargain Hunt. However, at current showing I'll be watching back-to-back episodes of the Hotel Inspector. Marvellous.
Lol. I've got Battlestar Galactica season 3 lined up. Have been getting mixed reports on how hands-free the whole breastfeeding operation can be, and therefore whether reading or web-surfing are possible at the same time. Bottle-feeding's right out simply on the basis that it requires two hands.
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I'm planning on the Sopranos, as I didn't see it first time round, or perhaps something educational like the World at War, or similar. Bottle feeding too labour-intensive, and will interrupt viewing.
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