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Not yet, recorded it because I fell asleep pretty early last night.
Having said that, I expect Michael Pitt to be very good in this, I think he's an underrated young actor.
Did anyone watch on HBO last night? It reminded me of a 20's version of The Sopranos.
http://www.hbo.com/boardwalk-empire/index.html
Not yet, recorded it because I fell asleep pretty early last night.
Having said that, I expect Michael Pitt to be very good in this, I think he's an underrated young actor.
Is that the one with piggy Snooki?
no, i was watching porn. Channel 935 on Time Warner.
Pretty awesome. Definitely had Scorcese's stamp all over it.
I attempted to watch it, but found myself too easily distracted to pay much attention. Even Buscemi, who I absolutely love, couldn't keep me engaged enough to follow very closely. But Michael Pitt definitely stood out and was impressive enough that I want to keep trying to gel with this one. I'm hoping it can override my very limited tv-watching attention span.
Same here
Thx for telling me.
Yep, it sure did. Mark Wahlberg is Executive Producer.
I havent seen it yet but am planning on watching them.
Liked it a lot, and was thrilled that it had such an explicit Sopranos OVERtone.
The Enoch/Jimmy, Tony/Chrissy relationship for example...
dont have hbo anymore. too busy watching breaking bad and mad men. might check out "the event" maybe its worth the hype. i read people said this was good but not great. hbo better hope this is a hit cause true blood aint gonna get it done
I watched it. I liked it but I thought that too much was crammed into the first episode. Like, they tried to bring in a bunch of important characters and didn't really give them too much time on screen to remember them. But, I think I'm the only one who felt like that. But, it'll get better over time I think.
*SPOILER*
And yeah, it had Scorsese written all over it, from the writing to the camera work. And of course, the obvious death montage at the end of the episode set to background music that we've grown accustomed to from Scorsese.
Last edited by AnthonyM; 09-20-2010 at 09:41 PM.
You only watch 25 hours of TV a year? Props on your active life brah.
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I just can't watch Michael Pitt. I think he's pretty damn bad to be honest. Most people seem to disagree with me on this, so I guess its a taste thing.
You edited it but said I posted a spoiler...
I went back and changed it but it wasn't much of a spoiler but if you didn't think that a Scorsese directed series about prohibition that includes Steve Buscemi as a corrupt politician and characters like Al Capone would involve death then lol
I removed it because this is a thread about the series, so you would expect people would talk about what happens in it. The specific type of sequence you mentioned is what I objected to before I realized where I was.
Just watched the first episode and can't wait for the next one. At first I wasn't sure if the series would be typical Scorsese (gory and violent) from the previews I saw but it definitely is and I really liked the first episode.
The premiere wasn't quite what I wanted from a single episode (I thought there were a few issues with the pacing, and the fake incubator baby dolls were amusing enough to be distracting), but I definitely see potential as a series. I thought Michael Stuhlbarg was especially good as Arnold Rothstein, and I've liked Steven Graham as an actor (Capone) since Snatch.
Also, purely for the sake of addressing a pet peeve, Scorsese's style was indeed all over last night's episode, but not necessarily because it was gory gangsters. Despite the obvious popularity of Goodfellas, Mean Streets, and the like, the Mafia/gangster stuff makes up a pretty small percentage of his filmography.
I was impressed. The premiere did a good job of introducing all the major players and setting the table for future conflicts/wars/uprisings. Looking forward to next week.
I felt that was a major strong point also. They really did a nice job of introducing the characters in 1 episode... Unlike for example, The Pacific if anyone watched. I could still only name like 3 guys in that series after the final episode.
That was ing amazing.
It was a little fast paced for a first episode like someone mentioned earlier, but I was okay with it. I needed an attention grabber with all the hype that it was given.
but in all fairness, The Pacific ended up being a great show.
I suppose I just compared it to BoB as I watched it but I completely was turned off by the whole unit R&R, individual psych eval etc of the series. I just could not make myself empathize in any way and I wanted more displacing machineguns.
Looking forward to the new episode tonight.
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