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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 13, 2013 13:17:11 GMT -5
So, after hearing for years how awesome Breaking Bad is, I somehow found my way to the Wikipedia page today (I honestly can't recall how I wound up there) to read the basic summary of the show. The more I read the more compelling it became, and I started looking up information on the characters and seasonal developments. While I figured that it wouldn't matter if I spoiled the show because I had no real intent on watching it, going ahead and spoiling it for myself has ironically compelled me to check it out now.
So, I was wondering who here are fans of the show and what you guys can tell me about it. And again, I've spoiled the whole damn thing for myself (literally from beginning to end, as if I was reading a book upon which the show is based) so you don't have to worry about ruining anything for me. Though anyone who doesn't want the show to be spoiled for them should probably not go past this post.
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Post by Rush on Dec 13, 2013 14:38:25 GMT -5
Breaking bad is a near perfect show. (Waits for wk to come in and dispute it)
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Post by wildknight on Dec 13, 2013 16:10:23 GMT -5
Breaking bad is a near perfect show. (Waits for wk to come in and dispute it) Nope, I'm with you. I could point out a few minor nitpicks (like Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad developed a bad habit of the "end of episode tension spike"), but Breaking Bad did so many things right that it's barely worth talking about the bad side. Great casting, solid acting, mostly good dialogue, and a very compelling plot. The finale (since Mike doesn't care about spoilers) was ridiculously predictable, but it was also exactly what HAD to happen for me to have a sense of closure.
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 13, 2013 17:59:01 GMT -5
Thanks for the opinions. In some of the reviews for the final episode I did hear similar sentiments, that the show's finale felt proper and tied things up well which was a refreshing change from other works that ended with deliberate and frustrating ambiguity. I also read that the show has received nearly universal acclaim from critics and audiences everywhere, and that it's in the Guinness book of world records as the highest-rated show ever made. I'd always heard that the show was great but never knew that it was supposed to have been THAT good.
One thing that surprised me was to read that Anthony Hopkins, himself a highly regarded actor, wrote to Bryan Cranston to tell him that his performance was the best acting that he'd ever seen.
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Dec 13, 2013 18:24:55 GMT -5
There's one complaint I have.....they stopped the show and aren't making another season, lol.
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 13, 2013 18:37:40 GMT -5
I think that's cool though. So many shows fizzle out, get lame, jump the shark. It's nice to hear about a good show ending when it's supposed to rather than being artificially kept alive just for money or ratings. I know what you mean though, bummer when something good doesn't last.
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Post by Straight Edge Steve on Dec 13, 2013 19:23:57 GMT -5
I miss Lost. Despite what some might say, that had the best ending it could've. What else should've happened? They all die? Oh wait... that is the ending...
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Dec 13, 2013 19:25:55 GMT -5
I think that's cool though. So many shows fizzle out, get lame, jump the shark. It's nice to hear about a good show ending when it's supposed to rather than being artificially kept alive just for money or ratings. I know what you mean though, bummer when something good doesn't last. I get that too, lol. I just disliked the ending of the last season and think that it could've ended differently somehow, lol.
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Post by wildknight on Dec 13, 2013 21:49:44 GMT -5
One thing that surprised me was to read that Anthony Hopkins, himself a highly regarded actor, wrote to Bryan Cranston to tell him that his performance was the best acting that he'd ever seen. His performance really is deep and nuanced. I would have never guessed that the guy from Malcolm In The Middle had it in him. 8) Apparently he went big time "method" with the role.
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 14, 2013 3:15:02 GMT -5
-Actually cooked and sold some meth and killed a few people in the process. I started skipping around some first season episodes and it's already looking good. I watched the scene where he surprised the Hispanic drug dealer by blasting his place with solidified mercury, that was pretty awesome. Nothing wrong with wanting a show to continue but if the quality is good all throughout then it's nice to have a show that's quality from beginning to end without having the chance to become stupid.
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Post by wildknight on Dec 14, 2013 6:17:06 GMT -5
Yeah I'm not sure why there's a pushback against the series ending. That's how these cable dramas should be done. Pick an endpoint and get there. That's how you keep the narrative tight.
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 14, 2013 20:17:14 GMT -5
I almost picked up the first season on dvd today for fifteen bucks because I'm pretty sure that I'm going to love it. I held back because I have easy access to the episodes online so I thought that I'd give it a watch first. If I love it like I did Game of Thrones, I'll want to own the complete series.
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Post by Rush on Dec 14, 2013 20:20:09 GMT -5
You will love it
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Dec 14, 2013 20:22:37 GMT -5
I hate statements like these.
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 14, 2013 20:39:06 GMT -5
J knows me somewhat though, he was around when I made my favorite movie list and things like that. Not only can he probably get something of a sense of my taste, I'm sure he's just expressing harmless enthusiasm. While I specifically try to avoid definitive comments when I'm recommending something (mainly because it makes me feel like a jerk when the person hates what I told them to watch), I'm not bothered by others expressing themselves with that level of certainty.
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Post by wildknight on Dec 14, 2013 20:41:36 GMT -5
I don't mind people telling me that I'll love something, even though I rarely do
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 14, 2013 20:44:06 GMT -5
I'm extremely picky, I've been told that I'd love so much crap by now that it doesn't bother me. Though it did when everyone insisted that I'd love Blair Witch. Mother fuckers.
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Post by wildknight on Dec 14, 2013 20:46:17 GMT -5
I'm extremely picky, I've been told that I'd love so much crap by now that it doesn't bother me. Though it did when everyone insisted that I'd love Blair Witch. Mother f***ers. LOL Blair Witch was such a huge boner. The marketing was kind of brilliant, except that it required you to abandon all common sense and believe that video evidence in an unsolved disappearance/murder would be released to the public... as a major motion picture! (It also didn't help that Letterman or Leno announced that the girl who starred in the movie would be appearing on the show the night after the release. They specifically planned it for the night after the release so as to not completely blow the marketing campaign, but for some reason the show's producers decided to just go ahead and announce it anyway)
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Post by Rush on Dec 14, 2013 20:47:30 GMT -5
J knows me somewhat though, he was around when I made my favorite movie list and things like that. Not only can he probably get something of a sense of my taste, I'm sure he's just expressing harmless enthusiasm. While I specifically try to avoid definitive comments when I'm recommending something (mainly because it makes me feel like a jerk when the person hates what I told them to watch), I'm not bothered by others expressing themselves with that level of certainty. Like I said its a near perfect show. It's hard not to enjoy the show, there was a reason why so many people loved that show.
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Post by miketheratguy on Dec 14, 2013 20:58:01 GMT -5
I'm extremely picky, I've been told that I'd love so much crap by now that it doesn't bother me. Though it did when everyone insisted that I'd love Blair Witch. Mother f***ers. LOL Blair Witch was such a huge boner. The marketing was kind of brilliant, except that it required you to abandon all common sense and believe that video evidence in an unsolved disappearance/murder would be released to the public... as a major motion picture! (It also didn't help that Letterman or Leno announced that the girl who starred in the movie would be appearing on the show the night after the release. They specifically planned it for the night after the release so as to not completely blow the marketing campaign, but for some reason the show's producers decided to just go ahead and announce it anyway) I'm cynical so I already knew that the movie was bulls*** for exactly the reason you provided (what film studio would buy the rights- presumably from the state police- to distribute a videotape that's supposedly the last minutes of a group of murdered teenagers?) but yeah lol, the fact that Leno had the chick on his show on opening weekend sort of tipped everyone off. But man, what a load of f***ing crap that movie was. It failed as horror, it failed as acting, and it failed as a "film". It was three idiots in the woods b****ing about stuff while nothing happens. And then crying snot-nosed into the camera because they heard sounds in the forest (who would have guessed that things in the forest make noise?) My cousin- who's a die-hard super horror buff- loved the movie. I always ragged him about it and he always unapologetically defended it until one day I finally started arguing with him and demanded that he explain to me how the movie could possibly qualify as satisfying or even objectively "good". After a half hour of running in circles I finally got him to basically shrug and say that he liked it as a supplemental piece to the superior "Legend of the Blair Witch" backstory that could be studied by following the marketing. I won.
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