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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by murky21 » Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:38 pm

firky wrote:
danrev wrote:i just dont like jimmy mcnulty
you're not supposed to, he's a dick. if you did like him I'd question yourself :wink:
are you serious? Got nothing but love for him! at the end of the day he's GOOD POLICE

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by sirjonnyp » Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:34 pm

Sick new episode, good start to series 2 :D prediction right here - Eli to betray the Commodore and go back to Nucky by the end of the series

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by aspect-dubz » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:30 am

Awesome ending to the second season, HBO get it right every time.

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by murky21 » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:15 pm

symmetricalsounds wrote:
danrev wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:
danrev wrote:already seen the whole thing.


its very good, probably the best first series I've seen of a hbo thingy.


Whether it lives up to sopranos and wire I dunno yet but so far so good.
easily betters sopranos, nowhere near as good as the wire.
didnt rate first series of wire too much

if you didn't rate it as soon as the first conversation featuring mcNulty and the kid on the step then i feel sorry for ya man.
:Q: well said. Because of scenes like that I think season 1 is in some ways the best

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by my_war » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:28 am

incredible season! can't wait for season 3. :corndance:

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by pikeymobile » Thu Dec 15, 2011 2:24 am

murky21 wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:
danrev wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:
danrev wrote:already seen the whole thing.


its very good, probably the best first series I've seen of a hbo thingy.


Whether it lives up to sopranos and wire I dunno yet but so far so good.
easily betters sopranos, nowhere near as good as the wire.
didnt rate first series of wire too much

if you didn't rate it as soon as the first conversation featuring mcNulty and the kid on the step then i feel sorry for ya man.
:Q: well said. Because of scenes like that I think season 1 is in some ways the best
Season 4 and seasons 2 always hold a place in my heart. I hated season 2 at first but it ended up growing in to one of the best stories ever. I found it a lot more depressing and cold than other seasons.

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by symmetricalsounds » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:22 pm

"it all counts" - lester freamon

i can't really seperate between series cos it's just this big amalgamation of awesomeness.

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by yoowan » Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:43 pm

shit is gonna go down about eli lying like that next season. it'll all come out
you're not wrong, you're just an asshole

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by inDistinkt » Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:17 pm

^ After the convo him and Nucky had on the front porch, it seemed Nucky might know Eli was lying, the way he ended it saying it could've been worse for him and all. IDK though, guess we'll have to wait a few months.

I also watched Wire all at once, so I don't know how I'm going to be able to wait for the next season to find out what happens. :u:

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by cityzen » Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:03 am

See now, I would have had her clipped instead of marrying her.
Shame about Jimmy - sick character. Allow the oedipal leanings though.
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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by legend4ry » Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:28 am

I watched a about 8 episdoes of the first season but stopped cause I got into madmen proper, need to catch up!
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Post by ruckus49 » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:27 am

cityzen wrote:See now, I would have had her clipped instead of marrying her.
Shame about Jimmy - sick character. Allow the oedipal leanings though.

I thought he sucked. I started to empathize with him more towards the end when they were showing his family history, but overall, he was really disgusting. He was such a terrible leader, I'm surprised he didn't get clapped sooner. The Oedipus complex was straight trippy, though :o

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by noam » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:36 am

absolutely fantastic program.

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Post by cmgoodman1226 » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:12 pm

pikeymobile wrote:
murky21 wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:
danrev wrote:
symmetricalsounds wrote:already seen the whole thing.


its very good, probably the best first series I've seen of a hbo thingy.


Whether it lives up to sopranos and wire I dunno yet but so far so good.
easily betters sopranos, nowhere near as good as the wire.
didnt rate first series of wire too much

if you didn't rate it as soon as the first conversation featuring mcNulty and the kid on the step then i feel sorry for ya man.
:Q: well said. Because of scenes like that I think season 1 is in some ways the best
Season 4 and seasons 2 always hold a place in my heart. I hated season 2 at first but it ended up growing in to one of the best stories ever. I found it a lot more depressing and cold than other seasons.[/quote]


Did anybody else want to find the actor who played kenard and actually kill him after season 5?

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by noam » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:23 pm

still dont buy that the Wire is better TV than The Soprano's

The Wire is like a well written essay

The Soprano's is a finely crafted Manuscript

there's basically one level to The Wire, The Soprano's goes deep on di dubz

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by cmgoodman1226 » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:49 pm

noam wrote:still dont buy that the Wire is better TV than The Soprano's

The Wire is like a well written essay

The Soprano's is a finely crafted Manuscript

there's basically one level to The Wire, The Soprano's goes deep on di dubz
I haven't seen that much of the sopranos, but in regards to the wire, It gets really deep. It's nowhere near your simple crime drama. It's not a simple, cops are good, dealers are bad kind of show. Every season they go at a different REAL issue (corrupt unions, politicians, public school system). It seems to me that sapranos is more of a mafioso style show (from what I've seen at least) whereas The Wire actually conveys a ton of different messages. You're left really being able to empathize and even sympathize with almost every character, protaganist and antagonist alike. Not to mention the production team they had on it. And it's about a city I live right next to, so there's some nestalgia (albeit misplaced) in that too!

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by symmetricalsounds » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:21 pm

noam wrote:still dont buy that the Wire is better TV than The Soprano's

The Wire is like a well written essay

The Soprano's is a finely crafted Manuscript

there's basically one level to The Wire, The Soprano's goes deep on di dubz

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

sopranos is wack in comparison.

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by my_war » Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:53 pm

The Soprano's > The Wire.

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by noam » Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:01 pm

symmetricalsounds wrote:
noam wrote:still dont buy that the Wire is better TV than The Soprano's

The Wire is like a well written essay

The Soprano's is a finely crafted Manuscript

there's basically one level to The Wire, The Soprano's goes deep on di dubz

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

sopranos is wack in comparison.
i mean its all down to personal taste at the end of it, its entertainment, whatever entertains you more is what you like the most... to call the soprano's whack in comparison to the wire kind of suggests that most of the Soprano's went over your head though

The Wire is great, The Soprano's is AWESOME, literally, its pretty much unrivalled for character depth. I dont think television or film has ever really had a character exposed and dissected in such fantastic detail as Tony Soprano. The shows theme's transcend every boundary set by conventional gangster/mob story's binging i right up to sit alongside The Godfather as pinnacles of their respective fields.

The Wire was a great expose' of a city, all its layers were neatly dissected and we experienced them through a variety of different characters, by the end of The Wire both it and The Soprano's had put in great claims to be the best tv shows ever made, but I think The Soprano's just went that bit further with the writing, i mean, it was able to because of how the show was set out... which is why i say the Wire is a well written essay, and the Soprano's a finely crafted manuscript: The Wire is like an exercise in specifically the political science of American cities; The Soprano's is an analysis of the psychology of modern western society, specifically America post-Freud.

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Re: Boardwalk Empire

Post by symmetricalsounds » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:17 pm

noam wrote: its pretty much unrivalled for character depth.
lol i think the characters in sopranos are paper thin tbh, no depth at all. tony is just a dick, there's nothing more to him than the occasional pretence of not being a dick, also massive LOLZ@it going over my head.

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