Whoever was in charge of casting for that show played an absolute blinder, so many of the serial killers depicted are disarmingly similar looking to the real life counterparts.
@Phoebica I watched White Lines through to completion, but it’s the first time I’ve sat there and watched ten whole episodes of something knowing its utter bollocks. I just had to know how it ended. Plus the whole organised crime, copious amounts of drugs and rave culture were enough to have drawn me in. Tell you what, glad that cunt Axel got murdered. Spent the whole show wishing someone would just end his sister too haha, god she was thoroughly dislikable.
The presence of that wanker Laurence Fox, playing an obnoxiously twattish character, did not help a lot either.
Really weird show though, in that it was genuinely quite shit but I can’t deny that I did enjoy it. Should add that I do like Daniel Mays in most things I see him in, so that helped and was a definite plus.
Really?! One of my favourite films don’t get me wrong, could watch it any time any place, but not sure intelligent is the first word I’d have reached for
I’m not sure what I’m reaching at tbf. It was intelligent in its simplicity? I don’t want to give spoilers to anyone who hasn’t seen it but it was a novel concept that wasn’t bogged down in science and made you think “woah, what if that really happened?”
10 years later we’re getting level 2 dreams in Inception. Over. My. Head.
Definitely with you here, the truly outlandish and overblown plot is part of why it’s one of my absolute favourite action films ever. I get where you’re coming from
I feel like everything we’ve been talking about since Point Break is in the bubble of 80’s/90’s action movies. So kind of in relevance to other movies of that kind I can see where Dave is coming from. Face/Off was pretty nifty and smart compared to something like Starship Troopers or Demolition Man, both of which I loved too.
Mindhunter took me a while to get into and I almost never got myself to watch it because the characters and period conventions at the beginning screamed to me, ‘shit’, but trusting in Fincher I finally got through it like 2 years later and became addicted by the 2nd or 3rd episode. Fantastic show and if you like film noir it’s very conspicuously that, even if in series format. Probably the only good series I can remember watching on Netflix and would definitely recommend it. I see it kinda as the other side of the coin of True Detective (season 1), felt a little shit at the start but proved to be a really satisfying and well done series, whereas True Detective felt brilliant at the beginning and turned out to be a pretentious piece of shite.
Dunno why it came to my head–well I know why, another television foray by quality yank director, and I think I kinda combine Soderbergh and Fincher in my head into one person a bit–but anyone on here seen the Knick? I remember starting that way back when and not being able to get into it but thinking perhaps I should dl it again and give it another try.
) in a self-conscious, Larry David-kinda way: