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pref shows that started this decade but if you’re insistent on including Breaking Bad and/or Mad Men I cant fault you. 

Mine  -

The Americans

Hannibal

The Leftovers 

Chernobyl 

Bojack Horseman

Veep

The Good Place

Succession 

Atlanta 

Better Call Saul

Brooklyn Nine-Nine 

Crazy Ex Girlfriend 

Insecure 

American Horror Story: Asylum 
 

Glow

Mindhunter 

Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast

Beyonce - Lemonade

Afghan Whigs - In Spades

....I could list more singles but those are the only full records I listened to that came out this decade 🤣 I did love them though.

Moonlighting ❤️

Under the Skin

Mommy 

Melancholia

Inside Llewelyn Davis

Black Swan

The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence

Anna Karenina

Mad Max: Fury Road 

Holy Motors 

The Social Network

A Separation 

Whiplash

Birdman

American Hustle

Cold War

Honorable Mentions: Logan, The Witch, Elle, Winter’s Bone, Son of Saul, Margaret, Silver Linings Playbook, How to Survive a Plague, The Handmaiden, The Master, Looper, Get Out, Public Speakinf, Bill Cunningham’s New York, Her, Mom and Dad, Force Majure, Blue Jasmine, Christine, The Favorite, The Lobster, Ida, Manchester By the Sea, Phantom Thread, Arrival, Before Midnight, Jackie, First Reformed, Top Five

1 hour ago, DieselDaisy said:

I found Ghostbusters II, albeit not as good as the original, a worthy sequel. I have never understood the disdain for it. 

Agree. It’s messy but I find it really enjoyable. Peter MacNicol alone makes it worthwhile.

Rewatched The Shield for the third time. Still ranks above Breaking Bad (but below The Sopranos) in the platinum age of problematic male lead television for me.

Stuff I’ve seen recently that I really loved -

Ready or Not (aka the most fun movie of the year)

Marriage Story (aka not the most fun movie of the year, but really really wonderful)

A Rainy Day in New York (nowhere near top shelf Woody but delightful)

The Sisters Brothers (a gem)

1 hour ago, Sydney Fan said:

So in terms of illusions2 with breakdown and estranged who woukd have been in axls mind when he wrote those songs i wonder?. I doubt they were about erin 🤔

Why? Those songs were being written as they were falling apart. Estranged is definitely about Erin, he’s spoken about it. She was his muse (his words) so I’d put Breakdown, Locomotive, alt lyrics Don’t Cry in her column too.
 

I mean, Stephanie is  ostensibly playing her in the videos she did with GNR 🤣 For better and worse, Erin and that relationship was a significant inspiration for him.

3 hours ago, megaguns1982 said:

How long was he dating Stephanie anyway?  Probably not even 2 years.

I think he met her not long before they filmed the don’t cry video and they broke up before the November rain video was released. That’s only a window of about 18 months at best.

what a cry baby,  write a bunch of ballads

On and off from early 91’ to around Christmas ‘92. And it was a long distance thing the majority of that time. 

The Kindergarten Teacher. Really well done and deliriously uncomfortable, Maggie Gyllenhaal is gangbusters.

48 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

The Irishman was pretty good, I really enjoyed it.  The performances by De Niro and Pacino were indeed stand out...but not really, or not entirely due to some massive return to form, the characters of Frank Sheeran and Jim Hoffa really fit their particular artistic malaise.  De Niro, who has looked like he's dialling it in for years, finds a character here that kinda requires that feel, in the way Louis Garr kinda did in Jackie Brown, a kinda there but not there kinda feel, not in a dopey way like Louis but more like just a kinda person whoose emotions aren't at the forefront always.  The few parts where he is in heightened stress levels are beautifully illustrated by a sort of stuttering tone he takes on.  And Pacino, well, he's playing a sort of loudmouth union boss, perfect for the hoo ha.  Pesci was just Pesci to me, which isn't a bad thing cuz the role required Pesci.  A very calm Pesci...and thats what it got. 

Thinking either The Good Liar, Midway or Joker this week.  Midway is the front runner. 

Do Joker. It’s legitimately great until it can’t figure out how to end. Although that fact makes it insanely frustrating.

7 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

What the fuck is Jazz hands?! 

Basically this, although ‘spirit fingers’ sounds a good deal dirtier 😶

Dolemite Is My Name is an absolute joy. Very much the spiritual successor of Burton’s Ed Wood. It’s written by the same guys and it often plays like a remake with different characters, while still honoring Moore as affectionately as they did Wood. 
 

I don’t know how anyone could resist the charm of Murphy when he’s actually...well, trying. Hopefully he won’t retreat back into prosthetics and semi retirement like he did after Dreamgirls. 
 

Empire Records 🤣❤️ Also the undeservedly obscure 90s cult gem Fun.

also - 

6 minutes ago, Len Cnut said:

 

I find that fuckin' disgraceful but then the suits never gave a fuck, its all about the bottom line with them but you gotta push against those cunts and it can't just be the filmmakers doing it. 

Agreed but the landscape for film has changed permanently. For worse, no question.

FFS, Coppola has been hit and miss since the early eighties but he deserves better than your ‘and others’ malarkey. 🤣 
 

The problem is not so much Marvel (which I’m throughly uninvested in) but the fact that the major studios have all but abandoned mid level budget projects in favor or ‘event’ movies. But that’s as much the result of downloading, streaming platforms, and the continuing Golden Age of Television.

Marvel makes commercial movies, some of which are ok, some of which suck but the real issue here is that Marty couldn’t get a conventional studio to commit to The Irishman. 

On 10/22/2019 at 12:36 AM, Dazey said:

Worth watching then? I watched the first couple of episodes and quite enjoyed it. 

Have you watched Billions? Strikes me as a similar type of show and I loved Billions. 

Absolutely worth watching, it’s superb. Even if it didn’t have any of it’s delicious Murdoch dynasty parallels. 🤣 It’s a black comedy foremost and a vicious one at that. 
 

 Tbh, I bailed out of Billions mid season 1 because I didn’t find it entertaining enough to counter the fact I had no emotional stake in it. 

1 minute ago, Len Cnut said:

There's no way Randolph Scott was bent

It’s on PB, you’ll love it 🤣

Succession S2. Along with Better Call Saul, the two best shows going since The Americans ended, IMO. 

Terrific documentary about a truly fascinating character.

Leksi ❤️Those were the days! 

Also HRS, Spuffy, Daria and Sly

The Sopranos all the through for the twentieth time (or thereabouts).

4 hours ago, killuridols said:

I believe it because, to me, actions speak louder than mere words.

Let's quote what Axl has said about Dylan in the press:
"I’m around a three-year-old baby now and then, and sometimes after a few days it’s just too overwhelming for me. My head is spinning because of the changes it’s putting me through."
"[...] We want to maintain our friendship and be really protective of how our relationship affects Dylan. Dylan gets priority over us, because he could be greatly damaged, and I don’t want that to happen."

Beautiful words, right? But then he goes beating up the hell out of the mother and talking shit about her, and he expects those things will not affect Dylan?

If he had loved Dylan as much as his tongue spoke, then he wouldn't have exposed the kid in his videos and interviews and wouldn't have hurt his mother like he did. Because the most precious thing a kid has when they are 1-2-3 years old is their mother.

In my opinion, he saw in Dylan a reflection of himself when he was a child and he was loving the Axl he saw in Dylan, not the different being that Dylan really was >>
"[...] My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they’re right. There’s a screaming two-year-old who’s real pissed off and hides and won’t show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn’t protect him. And the world didn’t protect him. And women didn’t protect him and basically thought he should be put out of existence."

I mostly agree with this. It’s always baffled me just how attached Axl got. He and Steph had a long distance relationship - for the entire time they were together he was on the UYI tour and she was one of the most in demand models on the planet. How much time could he really have spent with Dylan?

Obviously he intended for them to be a family but it seems more based on his romantic fantasies than anything else. Like if she hadn’t left, I’m not sure a baby 24/7 in the same house whose needs came before his would’ve worked for him long term 🤣 

2 hours ago, Scream of the Butterfly said:

It didn't make sense for Axl to want a child with Erin, either, considering how dysfunctional that relationship was and that he had only recently said in an interview that he didn't want children at the moment. Yet he apparently had a very strong reaction to that miscarriage as well.

Whether it made sense or not, they both wanted children together. Axl did an interview that year and mentioned the names they’d picked out. 

I agree that Axl had a profoundly limited understanding of family/parenting , though he obviously wanted it (see his obsession with Dylan). 

2 hours ago, ChrisMaciel said:

Beta used to follow Susan’s IG?

if I remember correctly, Susan didn’t even met Duff by 1991/1992...

They met in 1996