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Jerusalem posted:Hey, I know this is some shameful poo poo, but I've started to do write-ups of Sopranos over in Ishamael's thread in a similar vein to how I did for The Wire. First episode write-up is here and I hope to maintain a similar output to what I did for The Wire, schedule permitting. There's a good handful of Wire alums who also share Sopranos credits. I won't say who shows up where in case you don't want to be spoiled, but this link has all the cast members who've been on both shows and which episodes they appeared in. https://thewire.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sopranos I'm loving the write-ups by the way!
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Season 5 makes me irrationally angry.
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# ? Mar 22, 2019 04:09 |
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Season 5 made more sense to me when I realized faking murders was the logical result of "juking the stats" and "cases go from red to black by way of green." When the system has hosed up priorities and incentives, it is vulnerable to poo poo like that.
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# ? Mar 22, 2019 06:14 |
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Rand alPaul posted:
What if Carcetti was the hero
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# ? Mar 24, 2019 05:25 |
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# ? Mar 24, 2019 06:51 |
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I'm just going to repost this here so that I'll be able to find the quote as necessary: Originally posted in the comments for Simon's Eulogy of DeAndre McCullough Tim of the BPD posted:Dave, another dead junkie, nothing more nothing less. I walked you through those very streets some 25 years ago, before the book, before your stint in homicide & before the TV shows. Fayette & Mount has not change a bit. The violence brought upon the community by all the "Dre's" of the city is unforgivable. To make him out as something special is incredibly short sighted. Your compassion is, in my experience, misguided. You've chosen to fall in love with your subject matter & have overlooked the carnage he brought upon his own neighborhood. Where, I'm left to wonder, is the compassion for those that "Dre" left in his wake. David Simon posted:I remember you well, Tim. You were a fine police officer, thoroughly professional in your duties. I remember how precise your casework was, and how committed you were to addressing the drug trade along the lower end of the Western District. I admired you and your craft in every possible sense. Tim of the BPD posted:Dave, you conventionally chose to forget about the victims of the robberies who had no clue that "Dre" was such a gentle and loving guy. Ban me if it makes you feel good but you have missed something here. I live in the real world, "Dre" was not a good person & contributed NOTHING to improving his circumstance. I know better than you the story of "Dre", I feel for the true victims of his life style, not for what he did to himself. Do you really believe what YOU write? David Simon posted:Tim,
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# ? Mar 24, 2019 12:23 |
Anyone who could blame DeAndre for his downfall clearly didn't understand the message of The Corner or The Wire. Typical drug war conservatives that think "oh another drug dealer died he deserved it for his lifestyle". As if he had much of a choice. It is sad that he seemingly came close to getting out of the game, but addiction can always pull one back in. A couple legit acting gigs doesn't necessarily repair a lifetime of living on the corner. I worry about Fran's recovery. I can't say I feel any surprise at all at DeAndre's death although it is incredibly sad. Strange that this cop pick on a dead man who apparently wasn't all that violent even in his robberies. This BPD poster is clearly an entitled individual who doesn't understand the systemic disarray that creates situations like DeAndre's on corners across the country. "To make him out as something special is incredibly short sighted." He even admits that the corner hasn't changed in 25 years, yet he's blaming one individual for being a drug dealer and addict, to the point of removing his humanity. The fact that police still think like this is so depressing. He even admits to being a street cop on those corners 25 years ago "doing good work" despite the fact that it remains in the same lovely state it was nearly 30 years ago. The hypocrisy is incredible. I'm actually visibly angry after reading these comments, on an obituary no less. These posts alone actually make the message of The Corner much stronger, it just shows the police have such a disconnect in repairing the community, they don't seem to understand that the issues on the Corner go beyond individual choices. DeAndre and others like him didn't have much, if any, of a choice in changing their lifestyle. If anything I felt his parents Gary and Fran had more culpability for introducing him to this lifestyle despite being middle-class before hand. But that's what hard drugs tend to do, they bring us down to the bottoms of society. Again a systemic drug war issue, not an issue with individual morality. How one could blame DeAndre for his circumstance and ignore the overall context of the corners of America is just plain angering, the fact that it's LE makes it even more of a piss off. To me, the Corner/The Wire showed that the corners need more positive role models like Cuddy's boxing club or the school teacher's after school program. As well as drug rehab programs where you don't have to wait weeks to enrol. If the city were willing to invest in this kind of thing it might help the issue. Increasing police presence on buy-busts on loving bottom of the barrel junkies and poor drug dealers selling simply to survive - what's the purpose? How does this sort of thing help? LE even admitted it didn't change a thing after 25 years. Anyone know if the open air markets still exist there in Baltimore/New York/Chicago? It's something I haven't experienced in Canada, here the drug problem is obviously prevalent but it's not quite as open and obvious with gangs shouting out brand names for their drugs, etc. You tend to need a connection before hand. I've definitely seen some gang members hanging out in certain areas but it doesn't seem quite as obvious or easy where to pick up and maybe that helps a bit. However, people are still dying in huge numbers from suburban kids buying fent analogues and selling them as H to various junkies across the city. But it tends to be on a who you know basis, not shouting in the street announcing product availability. Even the Corner touched on this a few years ahead of its time with Fat Kurt saying 'dope ain't dope anymore'. denzelcurrypower fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 02:52 |
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To be fair, the police selects for exactly the kinds of people with this type of thinking and then further reinforces that thinking constantly throughout their entire organisation and culture. It's because their role isn't and never was to "repair the community" or whatever noble high-minded bullshit you or they want to pretend they are for. They exist to maintain order. Specifically the kind of order where the few can profit immensely off of the labour and suffering of everyone else.
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 08:42 |
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I think it's Colvin in season 3 who basically straight up tells Carver he's not good police, but admits it isn't Carver's fault because how the gently caress else is he gonna be considering the entire system he's coming up in having completely the wrong focus for decades (if not generations).
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 12:38 |
Idris Elba has started rappin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huaE85-V8u4
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 20:59 |
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You know I'm starting to suspect Idris Elba might be a talented man.
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 22:43 |
Jerusalem posted:I think it's Colvin in season 3 who basically straight up tells Carver he's not good police, but admits it isn't Carver's fault because how the gently caress else is he gonna be considering the entire system he's coming up in having completely the wrong focus for decades (if not generations). I guess it's true, this one BPD officer isn't entirely in the blame for his misguided views. But I'm glad David Simon put him in his place for making disrespectful and idiotic comments on a man's obituary. Maybe the Wire/The Corner should be required training for police? They can't all be like this... The hypocrisy is just incredible in how he says he hit the corners for 25 years and nothing improved, and then blames DeAngelo for his death. Try something different for fucks sake.
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# ? Mar 26, 2019 02:16 |
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I interned at a DA's office in a major metropolitan city right around the time of the Ferguson protests. I was sitting outside of a courtroom waiting for a trial to begin when a group of about 6 patrol police, some of them relatively high ranking officers, sat down next to me. One of the officers began telling the other 5 a story of the previous day's events out on the streets. The officer had encountered an alleged low-level drug dealer in the middle of a transaction, making sure to emphasize the race of this individual. When the alleged suspect noticed the officer, he panicked and began trying to escape, ignoring the officer's command to halt. The officer shot the offender with a tazer, bringing him to the ground in a gruesomely described display of convulsions. It turned out the alleged suspect's mother was nearby, and probably owing to the chaos of the scene, believed the officer had shot and killed her son with a firearm and collapsed beside him in a fit of hysterics and prayers to God. I guess that final sentence was the punchline to the officer's joke or something because all 6 of them proceeded to burst into laughter, some of them laughing so hard they collapsed onto their sides on the bench, red in the face, gripping their stomachs. I felt like I was going to throw up. In my frequent interactions with the police in the course of my work, this experience was not an outlier by any means. The culture very much reinforces an "us vs them" mentality, and those that don't buy into it are shunned out or leave of their own accord. As it stands, there is no room for empathy in that line of work. People cannot be remembered or humanized in any way. The nails only exist to be hammered
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# ? Mar 26, 2019 11:44 |
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I did a bit of Google Street mapping of some of the locations brought up in both the Homicide and Corner books and man, some of those places are as depressing as hell to look at
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# ? Mar 27, 2019 23:38 |
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Jerusalem posted:You know I'm starting to suspect Idris Elba might be a talented man. If only The Dark Tower had been good.
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# ? Mar 29, 2019 16:39 |
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Hasselblad posted:If only The Dark Tower had been good. Dark Tower was probably the biggest flop he's had right? Beasts of No Nation was good, his Thor parts were good, that Netflix show might be good? Luther also was good, Pacific Rim also.
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# ? Mar 29, 2019 16:46 |
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dreffen posted:Dark Tower was probably the biggest flop he's had right? Beasts of No Nation was good, his Thor parts were good, that Netflix show might be good? It was a pretty important flop though because it's the only time he's really been given one of those huge nerd roles that fans obsess over, so he definitely could've put some extra jet fuel into his career had Dark Tower succeeded and if a few sequels had been made. He gets a lot of good roles still(he was the villain in the most recent Star Trek film), but maybe missed his chance at breaking into the true A-List.
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# ? Mar 29, 2019 20:18 |
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Basebf555 posted:It was a pretty important flop though because it's the only time he's really been given one of those huge nerd roles that fans obsess over, so he definitely could've put some extra jet fuel into his career had Dark Tower succeeded and if a few sequels had been made. He gets a lot of good roles still(he was the villain in the most recent Star Trek film), but maybe missed his chance at breaking into the true A-List. Was it actually shite or did it just flop?
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# ? Mar 29, 2019 20:36 |
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It was awful
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# ? Mar 29, 2019 20:41 |
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It absolutely loving sucked He's playing the villain in that Fast and Furious spin-off which looks loving bonkers so he's probably getting one hell of a payday out of that.
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# ? Mar 29, 2019 22:16 |
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they shoulda just made the gunslinger a movie (since it's the best book in the series anyway and would've been by far the cheapest to film).
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# ? Mar 31, 2019 17:13 |
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I honestly have next to 0 recollection of what happened in the movie. None of it made sense and non of it was like the book.
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# ? Apr 1, 2019 14:55 |
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Oh, it wasn't that bad. Fight scenes were solid, cinematography was good, gunslinging tricks were good. The main issue I had with it was that it felt like they were afraid to let it become an "epic," so they never gave the scenes enough time to breathe, just bring the characters in immediately before an action setpiece and then end the scene without giving much backstory or sense of the world around them. I thought he was a great Roland, just let down by the producers and screenwriters. I'm not sure why a movie as trite as Aquaman deserves 2.5 hours to tell a story, and all the mythology of the Dark Tower needs to get shaved off so they can fit it into a 90-minute package, but that wasn't Idris Elba's fault.
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# ? Apr 1, 2019 19:21 |
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That's the thing, the story was simply not at all told. It was a bunch of action scenes cobbled together with neat special effects. It was as flat and shallow as Siccario II.
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# ? Apr 1, 2019 19:41 |
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Yep, that's fair. They were so set on making it into a quick disposable summer action movie that they didn't let it be anything more than "Cowboy goes after evil wizard". It wasn't a bad movie though, it was a perfectly serviceable generic summer action movie. It was just incredibly disappointing for fans.
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# ? Apr 1, 2019 22:52 |
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It's thrown out there a lot, but I do think a story like The Dark Tower really needs to be told in the form of a tv series. What I wouldn't give for a season of Roland wandering through the desert, finding the doors and traveling to New York in different time periods to recruit his Ka-Tet
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# ? Apr 2, 2019 01:47 |
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Jerusalem posted:It's thrown out there a lot, but I do think a story like The Dark Tower really needs to be told in the form of a tv series. Unfortunately that is something only SyFi would do and they would add their gooniness to it. However, Amazon would likely do it justice.
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# ? Apr 3, 2019 16:47 |
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Was watching random Wire clips as I often do and found myself watching the whole scene where Stringer finally gets caught talking on the phone about illegal poo poo. And I realized....those two hitters that Shamrock is talking about being "good with it". He must mean killing Clay Davis. At that point in the show Stringer has next to nothing to do with managing the Barksdale/Stanfield war so what would he need killers for? Only logical explanation is he still wants to hit Clay even after being told no. So Omar/Mouzone kinda saved Clay's rear end too. But it's also another example of Stringer being caught between two worlds. Even if Omar and Mouzone don't kill him and his plan works and Avon gets locked up he's still going to get end up in prison himself if he were to actually hurt Clay Davis. That would bring hell down on him like Avon said. But Stringer is so proud he still can't let it go even though it's going to ruin him if he does it.
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# ? Apr 16, 2019 23:26 |
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Baltimore urban explorer Dan Bell visits Cutty's old gym https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww2_JMszX6c&t=83s
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# ? Apr 17, 2019 02:15 |
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https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/1124059882204934163
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# ? May 2, 2019 22:18 |
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Tried watching Luther. Could not understand much that Elba was mumbling. Like the Ozzie Osborne of actors.
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# ? May 2, 2019 23:05 |
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Hasselblad posted:Tried watching Luther. Could not understand much that Elba was mumbling. Like the Ozzie Osborne of actors. Rewatching Luther at the moment. It's aces. Love his physical acting.
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# ? May 3, 2019 01:16 |
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Between the accents and words I don't know I have a hard time with some UK shows too. I just turn on subtitles.
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# ? May 3, 2019 03:12 |
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deoju posted:Between the accents and words I don't know I have a hard time with some UK shows too. I just turn on subtitles. I found that heavy drinking makes Monty Python very understandable. Perhaps that will work for Luther as well.
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# ? May 3, 2019 20:38 |
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deoju posted:Between the accents and words I don't know I have a hard time with some UK shows too. I just turn on subtitles. Funnily enough, when my UK friend ripped the DVDs for me, they all had the subtitles burned in because he had problems with the accents and words he didn't know for this US show.
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# ? May 3, 2019 23:24 |
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Someone remind me, did we ever definitively settle on what exactly Simon intended with the train scenes and the train background noises?
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Orange Devil posted:Someone remind me, did we ever definitvely settle on what exactly Simon intended with the train scenes and the train background noises? It's like "the job", I think. McNulty getting drunk on the train tracks then decides he'll actually do the detail, steps out of the way of a moving train. When Lester finds the tombs in the abandoned projects you hear a train horn in the background. Or something.
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# ? May 6, 2019 11:32 |
I woke up this morning thinking that Dominic West looks enough like Steve Guttenberg that perhaps The Wire was created as a gritty reboot of Police Academy, and now I can't breathe
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# ? May 24, 2019 13:19 |
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Data Graham posted:I woke up this morning thinking that Dominic West looks enough like Steve Guttenberg that perhaps The Wire was created as a gritty reboot of Police Academy, and now I can't breathe I'm strangely intrigued by this concept
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Lol.
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