You are not logged in. Please login or register.
Active topics Unanswered topics Mark all as read
Search options (Page 4 of 5)
I'm not sure what we do now. Discuss? Cry?
I'm still trying to figure out how in the hell they crammed all that content into an almost normal sized episode and still had long setup scenes like at Gretchen and Elliot's house.
That daydream that Jesse had was an amazing intro to that scene.
Every storyline they wrapped up I had Trey's voice in my head "of course that's how this is supposed to go."
Oh yeah and:
Raven wrote:If this weren't the series finale, I could see a ragtag group of Walt, Badger and Skinny Pete assaulting the compound to rescue Jesse. THose guys are way too funny to fit into a series finale, in this context anyway.
I hate to quote myself but for a second I thought "....maybe?"
Really enjoyed this episode and the Thanksgiving with the Kranzes parody. Laughed really hard at that. Also borrowed my dad's From the Earth to the Moon dvd set from my mom as a result of watching this. I'm about 4 episodes in and it's really interesting.
I don't know what it is about Argo but I get sucked into it every time somebody has it on and I walk into the room. Even though they have such small parts, I find myself constantly waiting for Goodman and Arkin's next scene.
Greg Kinnear as Captain Amazing (Mystery Men)
Liked the first episode. You can totally see Joss all over this.
That outro did sound like every drunk best man speech I've ever heard. How fitting that Bride was in the title. How accidentally meta.
Teague wrote:Zap, I edit the show. I edit the show. And it's a run on me.
If anyone was ever gonna make the call not to put it in, it would be the guy who edits the show, about whom the joke is made.
It's out of your hands. You are absolved. 
OK. Due to this conversation this one is on the top of the pile, but I actually haven't watched Dark Crystal in a long time so I'm gonna actually listen with the dvd. Maybe Wednesday.
I'd like to see you guys do Soderbergh's Bubble. I don't remember it being all that long and I believe it was supposed to be the 1st in a series of super cheap, non-L.A. produced movies. And the way they were released was strange too. I think the theatrical release coincided with the DVD release or something along those lines. The commentaries on the super low budget movies that I hadn't previously heard of like Monsters and 2010: Moby Dick are really interesting to me and I'd love to hear about how this was put together.
Side note: Any thought on letting listeners commission a commentary via the donate button and actually pick the movie? Not throw away titles like The Room or Birdemic but serious titles we'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on or more complicated titles similar to the Fountain or Mulholland Dr. that we might want explained film school style, without actually going to film school. I noticed a ransom request from a while ago for a new microphone stand in exchange for the missing episode grunt work from the re-branding and thought I'd ask. Just curious.
Just watched This Film is Not Yet Rated because it was mentioned in a couple of the commentaries. Interesting documentary that was pretty much what I expected it to be. If you're told the premise of the documentary you've pretty much seen it with a few exceptions. Some of the side by side comparisons were interesting but when you look at who's in charge of the MPAA none of the rulings they came out with were surprising at all.
The lone quote that made me rethink how we should look at movies was actually a statement by Kevin Smith. The realistic violence that shows how horrible it is to get shot or blown up should be the PG13 and any movie with bullets flying around and nobody getting hurt should be the R. The premise that guns aren't dangerous that movies portray is probably adding some to the problem of rampant firearms in our society. Not the number one factor by any means but a possibility.
Hopefully with the swaying of public opinion in regard to gay marriage, the NC17 ratings given to movies with homosexual content will tend to work themselves out moving forward because unfortunately I don't see the MPAA being replaced by a better entity any time soon.
Trey wrote:To put it in Serenity terms, the DEA are the Reavers that Walt could lure to the party to make sure the job gets done. 
Well why didn't you put it that way in the first place.
Having no knowledge of what even existed in the first place the ones I've seen mentioned while browsing the boards are-
Mystery Men
Hunger Games
Spider-man 3
Harry Potter 2
Zombieland
Groundhogs Day
3rd anniversary show
Trey wrote:I rather suspect Walt's surprise ally against the Aryans will be the DEA.
How would that work? If he's a nationwide manhunt subject, he wouldn't be allowed to be there and would have no use for the gun. Unless he goes for another Hank interrupts Tuco gunfight scenario.
Rob wrote:I sense a plot to destroy the aryans...
I think you guys are right that chemistry will carry the day. When Walt and Saul were temporary bunkmates, Walt was thinking hard about hiring a team. I doubt it'll be "Avengers, assemble!" but it shows that Walt realizes he'll need some kind of help.
I'm not seeing where any help would be coming from. Saul is the one who would hook him up in the past and he's gone. The guy hiding him said if he heard that he'd gone to town, he'd never be back. If not for his previous purchase of a gun he wouldn't even know where to get that. The only connection he has left in the underground is the guys he's after and that gun guy and he obviously didn't give him that much info as has been established in the flash forward to open the season.
If this weren't the series finale, I could see a ragtag group of Walt, Badger and Skinny Pete assaulting the compound to rescue Jesse. THose guys are way too funny to fit into a series finale, in this context anyway.
I'm curious how serious Vince Gilligan is taking the Scarface thing. It's been pointed out that the gun Walt buys is better served as a defensive weapon. Perhaps Walt will use his intellect to lure them into a setup of some kind and actually have his last stand as a defensive measure instead of storming the compound.
Given the swerves this show throws at you, perhaps the redneck storyline gets resolved by Jesse thinking a way out of his situation successfully for once, and the gun isn't intended for the rednecks at all. I'm not saying that this is very likely but it is a possibility.
Trey wrote:There's also the Todd/Lydia business that clearly needs some sort of resolution. And good lord, they played the Stevia note yet again, suggesting that somehow or other Lydia's gonna get a steaming cup of Ricin. But if that's not a red herring (it could be) then who, and how?
The person who could most easily give Lydia a fatal dose is Todd. But he's also the least likely one to ever to do it. And yet... Todd's right/wrong meter is so bizarrely calibrated that I could see circumstances arising where he might do it.
Finding out how they'll resolve this particular plot thread is what intrigues me the most, actually.
To bad ricen is so slow acting. It would be awesome to see Todd try to do a Romeo and Juliet kiss the poison and play it off as that's the only book he's ever read.
Eddie wrote:Teague wrote:Like finishing the pizza when you've had all but one slice.
No, see this is the story of every single FIYH recording.
Are the ones that you don't finish the frozen gas station pizza that everyone takes 3 bites of one slice and the rest goes to the dog?
Trey wrote: Walt's finally accepted that he can't "fix" this, not in the way that he used to. Flynn made that clear. Instead, he's coming back to atone for all his sins by doing what's right - not what feeds his own ego or advances his legacy. He wants to die as ol' Walter White, rather than Heisenberg. The werewolf changing back to human form as he lays dying, you might say.
I took that completely the opposite way. He turned into old Walt when he hung up the phone with Flynn and was ready to face the music. He basically gave up and was waiting to be arrested. Then the TV program pissed him off and turned him immediately back into Heisenberg. Hence the Ricen and purchasing of oversized firearms at Dennys.
Trey wrote:Or it'll be something else entirely. Hell, I dunno.
This should be the ending of every article written about Breaking Bad.
I'd love it if they did a Clue thing and shot 3 separate final episodes and the disk would play a different one every time you play it. There are so many ways this story could go and all of them would make sense to the world they've established. That's a rarity.
I wonder if Walt has figured out that Jesse is alive or not? The fact that all of a sudden there's pure blue meth worldwide and the knowledge that Todd was fucking it up previously could easily inform Walt that Jesse is cooking for Todd and Co. If Andrea's execution was in the paper as well, he could even deduce that it's against his will.
I could see Walt threatening Gretchen and Elliot or outright killing them, depending on how much he's thinking or not thinking right now. Since giving money to his family outright wasn't working, it would be interesting to see him threaten Elliot or Gretchen into giving monetary support to Skyler and the kids.
Peter Stormare as Satan (Constantine)- Best version of Satan ever.
avatar wrote:Zarban wrote:Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker. A role for a young actor to die for, the stuff literally of which legends are made, and Lucas casts a good looking kid who can't even play AWKWARD convincingly.
True, but it wouldn't have mattered if Lucas had cast the world's greatest actor. The prequels did have some kickass actors (Neeson, MacGregor, Portman, Jackson, et al) - all of whom have noteworthy credentials, but Lucas' direction flattened them all out to monotone line-readings.
That's just another example of bad casting. George Lucas as the director of the Star Wars prequels. I wonder who was responsible for that decision.
Teague wrote:*grumbles, loads up all these episodes to begin the grand rebranding*
At least there's not a copyright infringement claim from the writer's of Herman's Head that triggers a re-rebranding that makes you redo the entire website again. Jim Mallon could also be after you for the concept of asking a movie questions directly so that would be a potential re-re-rebranding down the road.
BBQ wrote:Walt Fucking Junior! Way to go Flynn. He hasn't been the most dynamic or important character on the series, but I'm kind of glad my prediction that he would kill someone by the end of the series (thus corrupting everyone in the White family) seems as though it won't play out. Granted, there's an episode left, but at this point it seems that his role was to be the one who finally pushed Walter over the edge into suicide-run territory...and that's awesome.
The phone call to Walt Jr. didn't push him to a suicide run. It finally broke him to the point that he gave up. He was waiting for the police to take him in and had he not seen Elliot and Gretchen on the television he would have done just that. He was ready to give up and try to get Skyler out of trouble and probably lead Marie to where Hank and Gomez were buried. He was truly defeated at that point, realizing that after all that he had done, there would be nothing left that he'd tried to collect. I think being faced with his potential legitimate fortune was a final kick in the teeth that sent him over the edge. It mirrored what he said to Jesse in the previous episode. Given Jesse's circumstances there was no reason for the Jane conversation to take place except to prove to him that he hadn't reached the full bottom of his existence yet. Walt thought he'd hit rock bottom and was broken. Then Gretchen and Elliot took away something that he didn't even recognize could hurt him. His sense of entitlement. They made a direct assault on his justification for the whole "empire business" line of thinking. The fact that he was legitimately a founder of a huge company like Grey Matter was a sense of pride and the way that he carried himself even before the story of Breaking Bad takes place. I'm sure there are people all over the world that claim they were partially responsible for the foundation of fortune 500 companies as a bragging point, even if they have no monetary profit from those companies "back in the day."
Nice slow burn for a setup episode. Glad to see the passage of time instead of just skipping forward. Did not see Grey Matter coming back into the story at all.
I think it's a very complex left wing series of propoganda films about paying our nation's teachers more.
Posts found: 76 to 100 of 115
