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Billions is pretty good.
I want to check this out. It's the dudes who did Rounders, which I'm a big fan of.
KT
Billions is pretty good.
I want to check this out. It's the dudes who did Rounders, which I'm a big fan of.
KT
First episode is free on YouTube and the rest are on Showtime streaming.
Eh I haven't been able to really get into Billions. I'm only halfway through episode 2, but I'd have stopped watching if it weren't for the cast. Damien Lewis & Paul Giamatti, plus David Costabile ... this show should be FANTASTIC.
Instead, it's in that place where I'm going to keep watching, not because I love it, but because I don't dislike it. I'll give it time.
^^^ This. It's not bad, but it's basically a soap opera wherein all the high profile conflicts are so painfully telegraphed in advance that it becomes predictable and boring. It's Empire for white folks.
And . . . I'm sorry, but to me Paul Giamatti is a ham, and not even a quality ham like Al Pacino, but a sad canned ham (water added) from the dollar store, or maybe just a tofurkey.
All that said, it's not that bad, it just could have been a whole lot better.
True Story:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2273657/
6/10
Liked seeing Jonah Hill in a more serious role. Good movie but I left feeling like it could have been so much more.
ugh ...
i watched (half of; but my roommate who stayed up to watch the rest assures me it doesn't get better) Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3398252/reference
i don't know what's up with the IMDb votes, but this film was bad, bad bad, like Yahtzee says, not wishy-washy bad, but proper kick to the nutsack bad.
horribly acted (goes without saying), the worst.audio.track.ever, can't even tell what people are saying half of the time.
as slow as paint drying, extremely redundant, and waaaay too long at 90 minutes, SC2: DV thinks it's Kung Fury, but it's not.
horrible and NOT funny: 4/10 i do not recommend this, not even as a joke.
ok, i watched
Moonwalkers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2718440/reference
once again, wtf is wrong with the IMDb ratings.
Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) at the helm of this absurdist comedy, Ron Perlman supporting(his best role to date), it's the story of the (1969) US govt trying to hire Stanley Kubrik to film a fake moon landing, just in case the real one didn't work out, but a useless stoner (Grint) passes his bearded friend off as Kubrik, steals the funds for the project, and gets busted almost immediately by the CIA man sent to set up the project (Perlman). Money gone, they need to find a way to produce the film anyways.
The rest is an insane trip into a deformed 60s London hippy culture, a version of Lock & Stock but with more humour, better dialogue, better actors.
would recommend to (almost) anyone, 8.5/10
i mean, come on, it's got ron f* perlman hitting a bong, you gotta see this.
ok, i watched
Moonwalkers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2718440/reference
once again, wtf is wrong with the IMDb ratings.
Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) at the helm of this absurdist comedy, Ron Perlman supporting(his best role to date), it's the story of the (1969) US govt trying to hire Stanley Kubrik to film a fake moon landing, just in case the real one didn't work out, but a useless stoner (Grint) passes his bearded friend off as Kubrik, steals the funds for the project, and gets busted almost immediately by the CIA man sent to set up the project (Perlman). Money gone, they need to find a way to produce the film anyways.
The rest is an insane trip into a deformed 60s London hippy culture, a version of Lock & Stock but with more humour, better dialogue, better actors.
would recommend to (almost) anyone, 8.5/10
i mean, come on, it's got ron f* perlman hitting a bong, you gotta see this.
i'm confident that you will like moonwalkers as much as i did.