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Post by Capo on Feb 25, 2008 16:04:01 GMT
I don't know how up-to-date you fans are, so I won't give details, but...
I mentioned this show on the BB the other day and some cunt posted a major, major spoiler. I gather it was quite a recent spoiler, too.
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Post by Valenti on Feb 25, 2008 21:53:45 GMT
Yeah. Pretty intense stuff, real surprising.
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Post by Kino on Feb 25, 2008 23:18:27 GMT
Got a link to the spoiler, Capo? The search function isn't available to non-members.
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Post by Capo on Feb 26, 2008 0:11:41 GMT
How up to date with the show are you? I'll PM you the spoiler I was told (I know Omar for one isn't up to date).
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Post by Kino on Feb 26, 2008 22:10:18 GMT
I'm up to date. Just one episode left!!
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Post by Kino on Feb 28, 2008 21:21:58 GMT
Capo, that spoiler is all kinds of awfully fucked up. But you can trick yourself: act like the show is like a film based on a well-known event.
As a warning to everyone, don't go on the show's HBO page either. That's only for up-to-date watchers.
The cast and crew pages are okay to browse, though.
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Post by Omar on Feb 28, 2008 21:47:26 GMT
I feel like I'm missing out on the end of this great show. I'll be able to finish the seven episodes of season 5 when I go home in about two weeks, but that feels like FOREVER!
In my journalism class, we were being shown the famous "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" article from Esquire over the internet, and on Esquire's home page, there was an article about The Wire with a picture of Omar. I really miss this show.
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Post by Kino on Feb 29, 2008 3:27:49 GMT
Let me pour salt in your wounds, Omar. Yes, you're missing the fuck out!
David Simon has mentioned in interviews a phrase-description of Season 5 that'll help put it in the intended perspective, but I won't divulge that unless you don't think it'll spoil anything for you.
Have you heard/read some of the general feedback concerning Season 5? (Just a yes or no answer is all I'm looking for.)
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Post by Omar on Feb 29, 2008 6:05:45 GMT
SEASON 5 SPOILERS
Yes.
I may have heard spoilers, but I'm not dwelling on that. I've heard that Simon said nobody gets out clean except for Sydnor.....
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Post by Omar on Mar 5, 2008 19:57:50 GMT
Two (contradicting) quotes from the show that really represent what it is all about:
"You can not win if you do not play." "The game is rigged."
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Post by RNL on Mar 10, 2008 22:13:55 GMT
I watched the first episode tonight. It's good.
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Post by Kino on Mar 10, 2008 22:49:00 GMT
Wetdog, first the news of Celine and Julie yesterday and now this! I'm extremely happy.
(I know there are a few people that don't like the shows' theme music during the opening credits, but be warned - do not hit the chapter-forward button to skip the opening credits because the chapter doesn't break after the sequence ends. I've read of people making that mistake. There's another 4+ minutes of a regular scene after the credits.)
Well, the series ended last night. I think I said here that it's worth it to spend the time watching Seasons 1 through 3 just to be able to get up to and finish Season 4 with the necessary background. I'll add on to that - it's totally worth it to sit through the entire series for the series' final 2 episodes in its final season (Season 5).
Seems like the majority of Season 5 haters can't deny how great the season ended up.
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Post by Capo on Mar 11, 2008 0:36:00 GMT
I've been meaning to say, I love the kind of cinematography that blurs out the cityscape behind characters so that traffic lights, carlights, windows of building etc. are reduced to mere soft-edged circles. Elswit uses it a lot in Michael Clayton, for instance, I notice it very much in The Wire from what I've seen; in stark contrast to grey interiors and abrupt vertical lines (of cityscapes and buildings frameworks, evoking the imprisonment of capitalism and urbanity), it's very good.
Anybody know what I mean?
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Post by Kino on Mar 11, 2008 1:18:12 GMT
I've been meaning to say, I love the kind of cinematography that blurs out the cityscape behind characters so that traffic lights, carlights, windows of building etc. are reduced to mere soft-edged circles. Elswit uses it a lot in Michael Clayton, for instance, I notice it very much in The Wire from what I've seen; in stark contrast to grey interiors and abrupt vertical lines (of cityscapes and buildings frameworks, evoking the imprisonment of capitalism and urbanity), it's very good. Anybody know what I mean? Yeah, I love out of focus city lights in the background of shots like in Heat, Taxi Driver, and lots of The Wire. It's dreamy and pictorially abstract. A wondeful backdrop to the actors and characters that are usually the focus of the scene. In fact my absolute favorite scene of The Wire has those out of focus city lights in the background. What episode are you on, Capo?
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Post by Capo on Mar 11, 2008 12:00:32 GMT
I've finished the entire show! Wasn't very good, to be honest.
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Post by Capo on Mar 11, 2008 12:01:53 GMT
...only kidding!
I'm going home this weekend for four weeks. Hopefully I'll race through the rest of my Sopranos retrospective and catch up with The Wire; seasons 2 and 3 are quite cheap at the moment, too.
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Post by Capo on Mar 11, 2008 12:02:42 GMT
Oh, and yeah, I always associate those abstract city compositions with Michael Mann: Collateral and Heat are gorgeous.
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Post by Kino on Mar 14, 2008 21:53:09 GMT
When you walk through the garden, you gotta watch your back Well, I beg your pardon, walk the straight and narrow track....
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Post by Omar on Mar 17, 2008 14:06:57 GMT
I watched the first six episodes of season five yesterday (the first three being a rewatch), and I might be jumping the gun here, but this is my favorite season thus far.
So many surprises. So much detail and closure on certain things. And I love the appearances of some of the old characters, too. It's not overdone at all.
Every character in this season is so damn ambitious, it's clouding their minds and fucking things up for the entire city. I can't wait for the final four!
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
Not much of a spoiler, but the scene with Scott Templeton under the bridge interviewing the homeless veteran is one of the highest points of the series.
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Post by Omar on Mar 18, 2008 4:13:20 GMT
The series finale of "The Wire" = six years wrapped up to PERFECTION. Life goes on and on and on and on and on.................
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