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Tigernanama

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12/31/11 02:27 PM

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Complete shock - I turned on No Country for Old Men today (great book - fantastic movie) - and who was it that played Llewellyn's girlfriend? Mrs. Schroeder herself! Complete with Texas accent!

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01/02/12 01:21 PM

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Tigernanama wrote:
Complete shock - I turned on No Country for Old Men today (great book - fantastic movie) - and who was it that played Llewellyn's girlfriend? Mrs. Schroeder herself! Complete with Texas accent!

She has appeared in many disparate films. There was one about some man who voted on some UN committee to combat world hunger.

I'm surprised to hear she managed a Texan accent. In the few films I've seen her in, she has never seemed to put up a very good acting job. She is not my favorite actor.

But I saw Steve B. in Resevoir Dogs and Fargo today. His portrayal in Fargo was directly in line with my opinion of his acting abililty.

I won't say much more because I do not wish to offend any of the members here - most of whom apparently hold his acting ability in high regard. I will just say that I don't agree with the majority opinion there.

But in skimming through Resevoir Dogs, it seemed to me that many of the actors in that film would have been much much better if cast in the role of Nucky Thompson.

Can you imagine ... Harvey Keitel, or Michael Madsen? Michael M. is probably too good looking. But he would have been really believable.

Harvey Keitel would seem to me to be the perfect casting choice for Nucky.

Tim Roth would have looked kind of strange in that role - but certainly no more strange than Steve B.

Laurence Tierney is probably too old. But if you've ever seen him in his heyday, he would have been an amazing choice.

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maxxfisher

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01/02/12 02:20 PM

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Ooga Ooga wrote:

Laurence Tierney is probably too old.

He's also too dead

Ooga Ooga

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01/02/12 03:29 PM

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maxxfisher wrote:

Ooga Ooga wrote:

Laurence Tierney is probably too old.
He's also too dead

Spoilsport!

*blush*

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Jason009

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01/03/12 01:31 PM

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Question: Any thoughts on the Boardwalk Empire finale (and second season overall)? Based on initial Internet reaction, I seem to be one of the few fans not about to dramatically boycott the show as a result of Jimmy Darmody's fate (although I'm always skeptical about how well the most vocal voices represent general opinions). I could have happily watched the character for another season, but I love the gutsy choices made, not just in the finale but in the episodes leading up to it. Characters that were "supposed" to survive according to TV conventions were killed off while someone like Manny (the awesome William Forsythe), an obvious dead-man-walking as the season villain, survives. I think even the writers realize the risks involved in their choices, but it's silly to say there is nothing left on the show now with Jimmy gone. Not just the repercussions from the last episode, but with several recurring characters now gone, it should provide additional space to develop some of the other existing characters. At any rate, I'm already impatient for season 3.

PS: Do you have any insight on the overall "health" of the show as a continuing series? I know channels like HBO take a more liberal view of ratings and the like compared to the major networks. As best as I can tell, Boardwalk Empire seems to be doing fairly well, all things considered. My concern is that it would be a more expensive production to sustain and therefore have to meet higher than normal standards of "success" even for an HBO show. — Daniel

Matt Roush: I'm a bit ambivalent about Boardwalk Empire (I think in part because for me it was so overshadowed by Homeland on the same night for most of the fall). The season's first few episodes grabbed me, possibly because I devoured the first month's screeners in a batch, and like many HBO dramas, Boardwalk isn't always seen at its best in weekly hourly installments. Then I felt it was spinning its wheels a bit during the midsection, but came to life in those shocking final chapters. It was incredibly gutsy for the Nucky-Jimmy storyline to come to this violent and perhaps inevitable end so early in the show's life, and it does reset the narrative's calculus, with the spotlight now strictly on Nucky, for better or possibly for worse. I'm still not entirely convinced Nucky is a solid enough anchor for such a diffuse show that splits its focus from Atlantic City to the action in New York, Chicago and now even Philly. Jimmy's departure leaves a hole in the show that I hope some compelling and appealing new characters will fill — or maybe it will allow Capone and Rothstein and others to come into their own a bit more fully. I agree that it's best not to overreact to knee-jerk Internet furor, where everyone's always too eager to declare a shark has been jumped. Still, there is room for growth and improvement on Boardwalk, but the one thing I'm not worried about is HBO's willingness to give the show's creators a long leash to realize their vision. They've invested a lot in this one, and while it's no Sopranos, it gives HBO a powerful signature drama around which to launch the rest of its fall lineup (the way Game of Thrones operates in the spring and True Blood in the summer).

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Ask-Matt-Factor-1041195.aspx?rss=news

maynard crabs

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01/03/12 01:39 PM

Complete shock - I turned on No Country for Old Men today (great book - fantastic movie) - and who was it that played Llewellyn's girlfriend? Mrs. Schroeder herself! Complete with Texas accent!

She's in Gosford Park, too.

Even more amusing is watching Val Alden as the infamous manager, Kim, in The Runaways.

factoryhurl

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01/03/12 01:57 PM

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he's just as creepy as fowley as he is in BE.

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01/03/12 03:13 PM

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Val Alden in a John Waters film...hilarious

http://youtu.be/WpXbaoeV1N8

wolfytheblack

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01/03/12 06:14 PM

maynard crabs wrote:
Complete shock - I turned on No Country for Old Men today (great book - fantastic movie) - and who was it that played Llewellyn's girlfriend? Mrs. Schroeder herself! Complete with Texas accent!

She's in Gosford Park, too.

Even more amusing is watching Val Alden as the infamous manager, Kim, in The Runaways.

AKA my favorite movie ever lol. She's also great in Trainspotting if you haven't seen that.

Celtic Burn

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01/03/12 09:34 PM

Haven't seen Trainspotting? Hush your filthy mouth.

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Pseudo Propaganda

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01/03/12 10:17 PM

She is also in the last Harry Potter movie. alol

Are there people really saying that they are boycotting this show because they killed off Jimmy? What ignorant fucks. Almost as bad as the crybaby tittysuckers going on and on about Game of Thrones.

factoryhurl

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01/04/12 02:33 PM

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you should look at the nutjob posts on IMDB. *OMG, i am never watching this show again!*

jimmy's storyline was over. i just rewatched the whole season again over the holiday and it's right there in the first episode of the season, the way it played out. there was nowhere to go for the character.

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01/04/12 03:37 PM

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I don't think it's a nutjob to say they won't watch this show again, I'm giving next season 1-3 episodes. Nucky's and Van Alden's storyline isn't really enough to pull me into the series, they are going to need to pull out all the stops and blow me away with the premiere for me to follow it for the next season.

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01/24/12 02:48 PM

The Emmy award-winning team at Brainstorm Digital has put together the before and after shots from season 2 of HBO's hit series "Boardwalk Empire"

http://vimeo.com/34678075#embed

Cassidy666

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01/25/12 12:56 AM

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Holy shit. That is simply incredible. They are doing amazing things on that show.

Celtic Burn

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01/25/12 07:49 AM

Holy shit is right! TAKE ALL THE EMMYS!

snakey.losttheunoffica...

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01/25/12 04:24 PM

Kelly has a new movie with David Tennant and Dylan Moran.

snakey.losttheunoffica...

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01/29/12 09:44 PM

The show and Buscemi won at the Screen Actor Guild awards tonite.
http://www.tvline.com/201...sag-awards-2012-winners/

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02/03/12 05:41 PM

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Bobby Cannavale has joined the cast of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire season 3.

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02/03/12 09:06 PM

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Bobby Cannavale has joined the cast of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire season 3.

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Meet Nucky’s latest challenge.

Bobby Cannavale has joined the cast of season 3 of of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire.

The veteran Emmy-winning TV actor (Cold Case, Nurse Jackie) will play Gyp Rosetti, a charming but ruthless gangster who challenges Nucky (Steve Buscemi) for control of the bootleg business.

Creator Terence Winter plans to have season 3 leap forward 16 months to 1923. “It was an exciting year,” he told EW.com. “All the people who stockpiled liquor started to run out, so competition between bootleggers became really fierce.”

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