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true detective is so gudIt's pretty amazing, yeah, and it's getting better as it goes on. The last two episodes have been on some other level.
for realtrue detective is so gudIt's pretty amazing, yeah, and it's getting better as it goes on. The last two episodes have been on some other level.
it somehow managed to deliver and then keep on delivering even more
luv it
also alexandra daddario is uh such uh a fine actress yep
Got Game of Thrones S3 on Blu-ray earlier this week. Working through that. On episode 3 of House of Cards S1. Gonna have to catch up with True Detective. Nothing but praise everywhere you look.
Another one here for True Detective. Show's quality is arguably better than BB, unfortunately it's not a fair comparison with it being an anthology series.
Im on that Netflix kick. Been watching through the whole season of Chuck and then im headed on to House of Cards since so many of you cats have been recommending it.
TV is about to start getting good, Vikings comes back next week then Game of Throne starts in like a month.
Do I need to start watching True Detective is there any show it can be compared to?
Do I need to start watching True Detective is there any show it can be compared to?
Just saw last night's True Detective. So good.Marty is basically human garbage, yet I can't look away.
TV is about to start getting good, Vikings comes back next week then Game of Throne starts in like a month.
Do I need to start watching True Detective is there any show it can be compared to?
I compare it to:
An insanely dark version of Sherlock
Acting on Par or Better than Breaking Bad
Cinematography arguably better than most movies
It really helps that it's only a one season story. The quality is amazing every episode.
McConaughey's really incredible in that show.
I blitzed through all of GoT s3 on my blu ray this weekend, and then watched all 6 episodes of True Detective. I'm TV'ed out...
I blitzed through all of GoT s3 on my blu ray this weekend, and then watched all 6 episodes of True Detective. I'm TV'ed out...
Really enjoying True Detective.
Well, I say 'enjoying', but the damn show gives me a mix of tension and dread every episode.
I think its first episode was probably one of the best first episodes I've ever seen of a show. I was completely hooked.
Well, I say 'enjoying', but the damn show gives me a mix of tension and dread every episode.
I think its first episode was probably one of the best first episodes I've ever seen of a show. I was completely hooked.
house of cards season 2 episode 1 was :shock:jumped the shark with it tbh
cheapened the show completely
its a higher budget version of scandal now :cry:
Academy Award Nominees.
BEST PICTURE
“12 Years a Slave”
“American Hustle”
“Captain Phillips”
“Dallas Buyers Club”
“Gravity”
“Her”
“Nebraska”
“Philomena”
“The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST DIRECTOR
David O. Russell, “American Hustle”
Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Alexander Payne, “Nebraska”
Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
Martin Scorsese, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale, “American Hustle”
Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”
Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Judi Dench, “Philomena”
Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“American Hustle” – Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
“Blue Jasmine” – Written by Woody Allen
“Her” – Written by Spike Jonze
“Nebraska” – Written by Bob Nelson
“Dallas Buyers Club” – Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“Before Midnight” – Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
“Captain Phillips” – Screenplay by Billy Ray
“Philomena” – Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
“12 Years a Slave” – Screenplay by John Ridley
“The Wolf of Wall Street” – Screenplay by Terence Winter
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
June Squibb, “Nebraska”
Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County”
Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips”
Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle”
Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”
Jonah Hill, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ANIMATED FILM
“The Croods”
“Despicable Me 2”
“Ernest & Celestine”
“Frozen”
“The Wind Rises”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Grandmaster”
“Gravity”
“Inside Llewyn Davis”
“Nebraska”
“Prisoners”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson, “American Hustle”
William Chang Suk Ping, “The Grandmaster”
Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby”
Michael O’Connor, “The Invisible Woman”
Patricia Norris, “12 Years a Slave”
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“The Act of Killing”Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
“Cutie and the Boxer” Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
“Dirty Wars” Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
“The Square” Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
“20 Feet from Stardom” Nominees to be determined
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“CaveDigger” Jeffrey Karoff
“Facing Fear” Jason Cohen
“Karama Has No Walls” Sara Ishaq
“The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
“Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall” Edgar Barens
BEST FILM EDITING
“American Hustle” Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
“Captain Phillips” Christopher Rouse
“Dallas Buyers Club” John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
“Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
“12 Years a Slave” Joe Walker
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“The Broken Circle Breakdown” Belgium
“The Great Beauty” Italy
“The Hunt” Denmark
“The Missing Picture” Cambodia
“Omar” Palestine
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“Dallas Buyers Club” Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” Stephen Prouty
“The Lone Ranger” Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
John Williams, “The Book Thief”
Steven Price, “Gravity”
William Butler and Owen Pallett, “Her”
Alexandre Desplat, “Philomena”
Thomas Newman, “Saving Mr. Banks”
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Happy” from “Despicable Me 2”
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
“Let It Go” from “Frozen”
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
“The Moon Song” from “Her”
Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
“Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”
Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
“American Hustle”
Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
“Gravity”
Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
“The Great Gatsby”
Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
“Her”
Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
“12 Years a Slave”
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“Feral” Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
“Get a Horse!” Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
“Mr. Hublot” Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
“Possessions” Shuhei Morita
“Room on the Broom” Max Lang and Jan Lachauer
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
“Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)” Esteban Crespo
“Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)” Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
“Helium” Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
“Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)” Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
“The Voorman Problem” Mark Gill and Baldwin Li
BEST SOUND EDITING
“All Is Lost” Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
“Captain Phillips” Oliver Tarney
“Gravity” Glenn Freemantle
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Brent Burge
“Lone Survivor” Wylie Stateman
BEST SOUND MIXING
“Captain Phillips” Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
“Gravity” Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
“Inside Llewyn Davis” Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
“Lone Survivor” Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“Gravity” Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
“Iron Man 3” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
“The Lone Ranger” Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
“Star Trek Into Darkness” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton
BEST PICTURE
“12 Years a Slave”
“American Hustle”
“Captain Phillips”
“Dallas Buyers Club”
“Gravity”
“Her”
“Nebraska”
“Philomena”
“The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST DIRECTOR
David O. Russell, “American Hustle”
Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
Alexander Payne, “Nebraska”
Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
Martin Scorsese, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST ACTOR
Christian Bale, “American Hustle”
Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”
Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Judi Dench, “Philomena”
Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“American Hustle” – Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
“Blue Jasmine” – Written by Woody Allen
“Her” – Written by Spike Jonze
“Nebraska” – Written by Bob Nelson
“Dallas Buyers Club” – Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“Before Midnight” – Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
“Captain Phillips” – Screenplay by Billy Ray
“Philomena” – Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
“12 Years a Slave” – Screenplay by John Ridley
“The Wolf of Wall Street” – Screenplay by Terence Winter
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
June Squibb, “Nebraska”
Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County”
Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips”
Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle”
Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”
Jonah Hill, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ANIMATED FILM
“The Croods”
“Despicable Me 2”
“Ernest & Celestine”
“Frozen”
“The Wind Rises”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Grandmaster”
“Gravity”
“Inside Llewyn Davis”
“Nebraska”
“Prisoners”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Michael Wilkinson, “American Hustle”
William Chang Suk Ping, “The Grandmaster”
Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby”
Michael O’Connor, “The Invisible Woman”
Patricia Norris, “12 Years a Slave”
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“The Act of Killing”Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
“Cutie and the Boxer” Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
“Dirty Wars” Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
“The Square” Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
“20 Feet from Stardom” Nominees to be determined
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
“CaveDigger” Jeffrey Karoff
“Facing Fear” Jason Cohen
“Karama Has No Walls” Sara Ishaq
“The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
“Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall” Edgar Barens
BEST FILM EDITING
“American Hustle” Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
“Captain Phillips” Christopher Rouse
“Dallas Buyers Club” John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
“Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
“12 Years a Slave” Joe Walker
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“The Broken Circle Breakdown” Belgium
“The Great Beauty” Italy
“The Hunt” Denmark
“The Missing Picture” Cambodia
“Omar” Palestine
BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
“Dallas Buyers Club” Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” Stephen Prouty
“The Lone Ranger” Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
John Williams, “The Book Thief”
Steven Price, “Gravity”
William Butler and Owen Pallett, “Her”
Alexandre Desplat, “Philomena”
Thomas Newman, “Saving Mr. Banks”
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Happy” from “Despicable Me 2”
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
“Let It Go” from “Frozen”
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
“The Moon Song” from “Her”
Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
“Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”
Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
“American Hustle”
Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
“Gravity”
Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
“The Great Gatsby”
Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
“Her”
Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
“12 Years a Slave”
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“Feral” Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
“Get a Horse!” Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
“Mr. Hublot” Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
“Possessions” Shuhei Morita
“Room on the Broom” Max Lang and Jan Lachauer
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
“Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)” Esteban Crespo
“Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)” Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
“Helium” Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
“Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)” Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
“The Voorman Problem” Mark Gill and Baldwin Li
BEST SOUND EDITING
“All Is Lost” Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
“Captain Phillips” Oliver Tarney
“Gravity” Glenn Freemantle
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Brent Burge
“Lone Survivor” Wylie Stateman
BEST SOUND MIXING
“Captain Phillips” Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
“Gravity” Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
“Inside Llewyn Davis” Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
“Lone Survivor” Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“Gravity” Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
“Iron Man 3” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
“The Lone Ranger” Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
“Star Trek Into Darkness” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton
Gravity is raking up the awards.Same here. And its because I had a friend that saw it and summed it up as "Leandra Bullock getting hit over the head with shit and an entire planet tuning her out". I'll get around to it - but I need to stop laughing first.
i still haven't seen it yet, smh.
Gravity in Imax 3d was amazing. First time I felt it legitimately added to the experience. Seeing it at home will probably lessen the movie.
did y'all catch angelina jolie?
she looked like a plastic wreck with all them botex.
what a fucking shame.
she looked like a plastic wreck with all them botex.
what a fucking shame.
Gravity is raking up the awards.Same here. And its because I had a friend that saw it and summed it up as "Leandra Bullock getting hit over the head with shit and an entire planet tuning her out". I'll get around to it - but I need to stop laughing first.
i still haven't seen it yet, smh.
Yeah, Gravity was... good but not great. I wouldn't re-watch it.
Her was really great though, very well executed.
And I didn't really rate 12 years either. Good movie for sure. But it felt... unfinished.
did y'all catch angelina jolie?
she looked like a plastic wreck with all them botex.
what a fucking shame.
I noticed her boobs were back.
did y'all catch angelina jolie?
she looked like a plastic wreck with all them botex.
what a fucking shame.
I noticed her boobs were back.
She had breast cancer iirc.
I think they said she had a 70% chance of getting it so she removed them before she actually got itdid y'all catch angelina jolie?
she looked like a plastic wreck with all them botex.
what a fucking shame.
I noticed her boobs were back.
She had breast cancer iirc.
Public Service Announcement:
Do not enter the True Detective thread on that other forum and question whether it's the greatest show ever made or state that McConaughey isn't the equal of James Gandolfini or Bryan Cranston.
Do not enter the True Detective thread on that other forum and question whether it's the greatest show ever made or state that McConaughey isn't the equal of James Gandolfini or Bryan Cranston.
Public Service Announcement:I'm on season four of Breaking Bad now and I think I'd agree that Cranston is better.
Do not enter the True Detective thread on that other forum and question whether it's the greatest show ever made or state that McConaughey isn't the equal of James Gandolfini or Bryan Cranston.
There's no comparison. Especially because of the respective lengths of the shows--Cranston has a chance to stretch his legs and really explore every aspect of Walter White, while McConaughey's Cohle is stuck in eternal "life is a meaningless abyss" mode (partly because of the length of the show, and partly because Cohle is a one-note character).Public Service Announcement:I'm on season four of Breaking Bad now and I think I'd agree that Cranston is better.
Do not enter the True Detective thread on that other forum and question whether it's the greatest show ever made or state that McConaughey isn't the equal of James Gandolfini or Bryan Cranston.
Both performances are great, but I definitely think the hyperbole has gotten out of control for True Detective. It's an extremely well-written, well-made, well-acted show. But comparing it to Breaking Bad or The Sopranos or Deadwood is a disservice to TD.
It might get to that level someday, but let's hold our horses before we declare it to be the best show ever.
True Detective is great, but the range Cranston went through as Walter evolved is unparalleled. He played a character who changed drastically through-out the series and nailed each and every phase of it.
True Detective is great, but the range Cranston went through as Walter evolved is unparalleled. He played a character who changed drastically through-out the series and nailed each and every phase of it.The guy I'm attempting to reason with on the other forum stated that "the writing was very subpar" in Breaking Bad.
I... I... I don't even...
I'm not even gonna respond to that post. Life's too short to try and reason with crazy people.
a lot of the final bb season is a bit subpar tho. esp if 'par' is what the show was beforehand, aka glorious season 3 and 4 bb.
Just saw on my fb feed that 24 starts tonight.Fuck yeah it does! Jack is back!
Definitely gonna ride this train.
opening episode was pretty good.Yeah, Chloe was a bit weird. I was like, why is her hair black and why is she tatted up. Is that what happens when Jack leaves.
gonna take a while to get used to goth chloe though.
In any case, it's 24. It looks like it, it definitely feels like it. I liked it a lot. I wonder who the mole will be.
I'm not out on the new 24, but I'm not all in either. I'm still I am still in limbo with it.
Game of Thrones spoiled me. I expect everything to be at its level (aka The Wire/Breaking Bad etc... level).
Game of Thrones spoiled me. I expect everything to be at its level (aka The Wire/Breaking Bad etc... level).
Anyone else watching Fargo? Show is pretty good.
I've also been slowly catching up on this season of The Americans. Last episode I watched featured a lot of Kerri Russell's naked ass.
I've also been slowly catching up on this season of The Americans. Last episode I watched featured a lot of Kerri Russell's naked ass.
A comment from the AV Club that perfectly sums up my reaction to 24:
"YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET ATTACKED BY A DRONE, MOVE NOW!"
...
"Why? Who is this?"
"Say what now?"
"A drone!"
"Who's a clone?"
"You're about to be bombed!"
"What did you say about my mom?!"
"Sir, take cover!"
"No, I've never met Ed Lover."
Classic 24 military personnel.
"YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET ATTACKED BY A DRONE, MOVE NOW!"
...
"Why? Who is this?"
"Say what now?"
"A drone!"
"Who's a clone?"
"You're about to be bombed!"
"What did you say about my mom?!"
"Sir, take cover!"
"No, I've never met Ed Lover."
Classic 24 military personnel.
Oh, everybody besides Bauer, Chloe, and that blonde from Chuck that definitely ends up helping Jack is comically inept. I think it's part of 24's charm. I was wondering why Benjamin Bratt would sign up to be the useless CIA head.
Oh, everybody besides Bauer, Chloe, and that blonde from Chuck that definitely ends up helping Jack is comically inept. I think it's part of 24's charm. I was wondering why Benjamin Bratt would sign up to be the useless CIA head.Yeah, it's definitely kinda endearing.
I enjoyed the first two episodes, but coming off of True Detective, this definitely feels like a guilty pleasure.
