Farrell is good enough for the noir-ish, hard boiled detective lead, suits him as an actor. Someone like Jessica Chastain would be an excellent female counterpart.
Heard rumours that Vince Vaughn was playing the villain? Was that ever confirmed?
Jessica Chastain is a bit overrated in my opinion.
I'd like to see them get Clive Owen.
Not a bad shout. Man he's been wasting his talents for a few years.
Clive Owen is currently killing it as Cocaine Thackery in The Knick.
Really? Haven't caught that yet. I just saw a dead average movie with Owen in it called Blood Ties.
As far as I know the "list of good movies with Owen in a leading role" is still basically Croupier ... long gap ... Children of Men ... long gap ...
Sin City 😉
Shit film 😉
The Knick is a tv show on cinemax, btw. turn of the century racist doctor that's addicted to cocaine.
😆 According to my reading doctors were far more likely to be addicted to opiates / morphine in the early 20C but I guess that's probably a less interesting show.
The Blacklist season 2 starts today. In fact I believe it's screening in the US as I type if I've worked out the time difference correctly. We're even getting a rare same day broadcast here with it screening tonight only 6 hours behind the US instead of the more traditional 6 months. Think the networks are finally feeling the pressure of overseas online alternatives such as Netflix or just general downloading as there's a whole host of new and returning shows coming up in the next month or so that we're getting within 48 hours.
Clive Owen is brilliant. That would be awesome Shady. Anyone seen The Knick?
Burnwinter™ wrote: Jessica Chastain is a bit overrated in my opinion.
I find her really annoying and Zero Dark Thirty was a terrible film. Tree of Life was great but she was meh in that too.
Gotham started last night in the US. Looking forward to that, reviews have been good and I'm a fan of the 2 leads.
@Qs Spot on re Chastain. She's got to pay her dues in some decent roles.
Think Vince Vaughn could be a great villain in True Detective to be honest. Pretty sure there's a good actor in him, even though he sucks at picking movies.
I agree. He was quite chilling as the serial killer in Clay Pigeons a long, long while ago.
Burnwinter™ wrote: It's even more about the writing, the cinematography and the production values. Season one had wild establishing shots—clip below is a poor example but it seemed like nearly every scene had a moody middle distance exterior like that with fine composition. If Pizzolatto steps up with the dialogue and characterisation again they can cast Will Ferrell in it and it'll still be enthralling.
It's even more about the writing, the cinematography and the production values.
Season one had wild establishing shots—clip below is a poor example but it seemed like nearly every scene had a moody middle distance exterior like that with fine composition.
If Pizzolatto steps up with the dialogue and characterisation again they can cast Will Ferrell in it and it'll still be enthralling.
That's my worry, the writing dipped a level for the last couple of episodes but every one was still remarkably well made (and acted). They've lost Cary Fukunaga, who directed the whole first season, and it sounds like Justin Lin (who made the last few Fast & Furious movies) is going to be his replacement. So Pizzolatto's the only of the four key crew members still with the show... it's not going to live up to expectations. 🙁
To be fair the first series isn't that good. Its is possible to improve on it as much as make it worse.
I think it is really good. Plenty of people think it's brilliant, hence the IMDB rating. Think 9,3 is a bit high, but I'd put it in my top 15 series.
