True Detective

Go watch The Cell, Vince Vaughn plays a fucking detective... it's like a preview of True Detective S2. I think he'll be fine.

Szlia_sl said:

If I remember correctly, Vince Vaughn was very convincing in his bit part as a salt of the earth farmer in Into The Wild. Also, I have never seen the almost frame perfect remake of Psycho done by Van Sant, but he is supposed to have been very good as Norman Bates in it.

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he actually was, i dont think VV is a really bad actor, he just has that face you want to punch in.

McConaughey did all those shitty movies because he set up a dummy company called JK Livin' Enterprises or something so that he could get his friends phony jobs and sit around Austin and some weed.

Just finished re-watching season one. So damn good. Great television. The final episode still had me on the edge of my seat and I knew exactly what was going to happen.

Watched this last week for the first time. Thought it was really well done. A bit slow at times and the reveal at the end was kind of anti-climatic, but it made sense anyways. This show had so many awesome titties I am a little fearful season 2 will not be able to reproduce that success. Even his wife had a smokin body.

I liked this short promo a lot more



This one sucks

True Detective s1 had interesting premise, Harrelson was in his "after Reddit Rampart fiasco - Hunger Games payout" trend and McConaughey was on a better promising vibe after both Lincoln Lawyer and Killer Joe stuff after a romcom actor career. Actors who at the time were capable of doing either great or awful stuff.

True Detective also has interesting setup acting wise, with both Farrell / McAdams / Kitsch / Vaughn on the cast. Same premises really, Farrell did nice gigs and though he was Alexander in Oliver Stone infamous movie, McAdams did midly interesting convenient roles too, Kitsch did John Carter, another Disney box office bomb and Vaughn is, well Vaughn.

I'm eager to see the result.

Yea, mini-series or whatever you want to call this set-up TD has are my favorite thing. Movies are over too fast to explore anything solid.

Jimbolini_sl said:

HBO finally spills plot details about True Detective??Ts second season

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All the characters sound pretty much how I expected them to be.

Barraco Bisi_sl said:

Remember there was a time when movie stars would never set foot back into television?

TV > Movies now

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Erlich from Silicon Valley was talking about this on NPR the other day. He said we're in the golden age of television but he still really wants to be involved with movies because they are more timeless. People will watch a two hour movie over and over again, but they aren't going to sit down to watch 72 hours of a serial repeatedly so movies will always have the advantage of remaining in the public consciousness.

There are too many that are highly ensconced in the Hollywood culture that look down their noses at TV for it to ever really rise to the level of movies in the minds of those who make their livelihoods in that industry. TV will always be playing catch up because it's history will never be as rich as the Silver Screen's.

But we are in it's golden age.

I don't know about that. I have watched The Sopranos, Rome, Twin Peaks, The Wire, The Corner, Deadwood, and a few other shows multiple times. It isn't the rule, but I don't think people sit and rewatch movies over and over as a rule either. They watch classics for sure, but no one is watching My Best Friend's Wedding or Tiptoes over and over again. Classic content is worth watching, whatever format it is in.

It's economics. Until "Prestige" TV approaches to cost-benefit of an Avengers global release, you'll keep seeing an MCU movie every summer trading weekends with a DCU movie and a Twihard-grabbing YA-novel-based movie.

Prolly a few more years until paid platforms via Amazon or HBONow or some kinda netflix thing musters the numbers to pull in the sort of folks that demand $20 million per movie.

Jimbolini_sl said:

HBO finally spills plot details about True Detective??Ts second season

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well, thats original.

Royal_sl said:

There are too many that are highly ensconced in the Hollywood culture that look down their noses at TV for it to ever really rise to the level of movies in the minds of those who make their livelihoods in that industry. TV will always be playing catch up because it's history will never be as rich as the Silver Screen's.

But we are in it's golden age.

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Well, I agree with the assessment of Hollywood, but I think people are going to be shocked in 20 years where "TV" will go. We are all going to see the lines blur a lot in the coming years as delivery systems become better and better, and there is less of a gate keeper in terms of who controls the content that reaches the home (IE all the baggage that Network/Cable gate keepers come with) and, more importantly, the technological limitations on how TV is watched. I mean, people don't even realize that episodic garbage rose in America because serialized shows were so risky thanks to the nature of people missing programs by not being there at air times. As that restriction has been lifted thanks to DVR, Internet, DVDs and other ways to get content to people that allow them more control, at a low cost? You've seen a rise in TVs status, mainly because, as the guy said--TV is growing more timeless thanks to people not having to essentially drop watching a show because they missed the other week, and more importantly, being able to re-watch it. (Which raises the

The above shift in both watching habits, and the ability to sell TV shows in cheaper formats so people can do as Chaos said, re-watch them and own them? Is all vastly improving the economics of TV. And I think you're actually going to see the lines blurred as it gets more and more popular (Perhaps even over taking movies thanks to how home theaters are advancing too). Instead of movies people are going to start to opt for "limited event mini-series"--where it's essentially a 10 hour movie, and the classic movie studios will produce it for net-hosted companies like HBO/Netflix/Amazon (Not unlike what True Detective is; TV will be more about setting up tone/expectation and season will be long movies within them). Or we could see even further blurred lines--like movies being integrated directly into broader mediums...Like they've always done with Cartoons; but now on an adult level. Essentially what Marvel and DC are trying to do. Daredevil on Netflix, Agents on Network TV ect. As people become more comfortable with streaming and on demand watching, Movies might become expensive Pilot episodes

Anyway, yeah, as Khor said--I think in ten years we're all going to be shocked at how much entertainment transforms. Movies and "TV" are going to be harder and harder to distinguish, because TV is going to become bigger and more "event" based and, most importantly, it's going to spread off of the actual Television and onto the internet more. It's all based on the money, but as you have less restrictions, the money is going to flow away from all the middle men and directly nto the laps of the producers--and you'll see TV all the sudden become more and more "glamorous".

watched the first 3 episodes last night, and i got to say i love Matthew McConaughey's character it reminds me of ME, a cynical asshole.

anyway i didnt think id like the show all that much because theres really no action at all, but the acting, story and pace are done just right to keep someone like me interested without a gun fight every episode.

Did you pirate it?