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Re: Boardwalk Empire
Some good stuff last night. The scene with James Cromwell at the society club was one of the best of the entire series. You need latin to properly describe the gravitas and auctoritas of that man. Now that's an actor.
Buscemi had some stuff to work with this time, and the explosion scene was very well done. Seeing a norwegian independence day parade where they actually speak and pronounce the language correctly was also a rare touch. If anyone wonders that means this episode was supposed to take place around May 17th.
Still, that's only around 15-20 mins of script. The rest was predictable soap. And that Capone storyline is starting to get a little exposed. Until history allows for him to come more into his own, he's apparently there to beat up guys once in a while, whereupon (coincidence?) he has little moments where he grows as a man. Yeah, I'm sure Al Capone was a real sweetheart in real life.
Re: Boardwalk Empire
Some good stuff last night. The scene with James Cromwell at the society club was one of the best of the entire series. You need latin to properly describe the gravitas and auctoritas of that man. Now that's an actor.
have you seen season 6 of 24?!
i kid of course. cromwell is immense, one of my favourite american actors. but he hams it up ridiculously on 24 - in a weird way he seems to be having the time of his life while playing the stupidest role he's maybe ever had. it's really bad. really bad.
he was great in babe tho...
anyway, re: BW - gyp rossetti cracks me up. shame he's really just there to die but he's great fun nonetheless. that hat was fucking otm.
inspite of the CRAP involving the brothel & richard harrow i thought last nights was alright.
again, it was heavily indebted to the soprano's - instead of medicating tony, we get a concussed nucky. but in fairness, the writing & directing was superb & had lots of great moments (nucky beheading the birthday cake for one), especially in conveying the distortion of nucky's world - (tho i did notice an unintended(?) displacement at the very very start when he tries to get up out of bed they use a shot from later on, as he's not dressed in his pyjama's for the close-up, it's a close-up from when he tries to get up later).
w/gyp not getting the backing from masseria (who can't die for a couple of yrs yet - & @ the speed this show goes at, prob won't ever) i can't see the 'war' being given as much attn as it could or should.
who is gonna rescue nucky? harrow? rothstein? eli?!
show needs more chalky white.
good, cheap joke when a confussed nucky said about shining his shoes. it was an enjoyable episode, i hardly fastforwarded thru any scenes for a change..
Re: Boardwalk Empire
The show is getting better right now with the rise of the new breed.
Do you think the show would dare kill off Nucky? How shocking would that be.
Btw, James Cromwell is a FANTASTIC actor that kicked ass in Season 6 of 24, even though that season of 24 as a whole was a misfire in-between Seasons 5 & 7.
Re: Boardwalk Empire
well the prob is
but i do think the show might've been better had it relegated Atlantic City & focused more on either NY or Chicago, kinda reversing the plots. of course they'd have had to change the name... & the source material...
i mean it's only now, after near 3 season, that i'm actually starting to care about Atlantic City. tbh the only real thing i cared about that city before was the awesome Boss song. but i gotta admit i'm starting to get a little more interested in it & appreciate more of what it took for these guys to build a city. & as a metaphor for the American model i do think the show is finally starting to pay-off. i really didn't think it was going to w/the terrible kelly macdonald-heavy first season. i thought it was a p poor show, w a lot of waste. but very gradually it is winning me over, slightly. it's still ridiculously slow, but it is getting under my skin more & more..
re: Cromwell/24 - i think he was badly let down by the writers of that show. like a lot of the characters he simply had to repeat his plot lines over & over. it's problem that really plagued the show in season 5 & 6 (y'think season 5 is great, & i did too when i watched it at the time, but i went back to it there recently & it really drags - e.g. sean astin just kept running around into the same problems for like 6 episodes in a row, saying the same lines over & over w/the same scowl)
but hey, credit to them : peter weller season 5, cromwell 6 & voight in 7 is a great run of the coolest badass baddie americans you'll be likely to find.
Re: Boardwalk Empire
I fast forward through a lot of scenes these days, but I'm still watching and thankfully the gangster stuff has become more prominent at the end of the season. These random Gyp Rosetti killings are becoming a little unimaginative, but Joe the Boss more than makes up for it. Sleater in a box was a nice touch.
Re: Boardwalk Empire
Hell yeah, that's what I'm talking about. No nonsense just straight storytelling.
Obviously Nucky would get out of this but having Richard join the party was a great twist. Looks like they're having Capone make the move for boss as well. Should be a great finale.
