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The Night Manager – (2016 show)

2016-07-01

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399664/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210721174231/www.amc.com/shows/the-night-manager–108
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03g13rt

A dude begins his career as a night manager for some place somewhere but gets used by British intelligence to act against an arms dealer.

Fairly decent, but I suspect it’s only because this is another show with a British accent being thrown around carelessly.

Based on The Night Manager (1993 book), by John le Carré

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The Boondock Saints – (1999 movie)

2016-05-17

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/
was boondocksaints.com

Tired of lax justice, two brothers become particularly effective vigilantes against the criminal element in their greater area.

I don’t know what to say about this movie. It’s fantastic. Good characters, a good story and with a good flow to it.

TODO – A two-part comic book story, serving as a companion to the movie sequel, was released in May 2010.

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Who Am I - Kein System ist sicher (2014) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042408/

A young, broken, man, enters an underground community of computer crackers, trying desperately to prove himself but with consequences.

An extremely good movie. While not quite mandatory, it’s definitely a proper advancement of the “hacker kid” movies that have sullied past movies. Highly recommended, even for people that “know their stuff”, as it doesn’t lay on the techno-babble which describes everything painfully wrong. Instead, it takes a reasonable middle ground, staying away from pop culture and fairly-firmly on the social side of storytelling.

Trailer
In English, the title is Who Am I: No System Is Safe
This movie is in the German language.
See also Fight Club – (1999 movie)
- And cross it with your choice of cheezy 1990s hackers film, like Hackers – (1995 movie).

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Abashiri Prison – (1965 movie)

2016-02-28

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058869/

Some Japanese guys are in a prison.

I have no idea what’s going on with this, but after nearly a half an hour I’m just going to give up.

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Legend – (2015 movie)

2016-02-27

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3569230/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190402165441/https://www.legend-the-movie.com/

Set in the 1960s, two brothers are gangsters.

Incomprehensible. I can’t hear through the accents.

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Better Call Saul – (2015 show)

2016-02-17

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Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3032476/
https://www.amc.com/shows/better-call-saul–1002228

A down-and-out semi-lawyer bumbles around his life, trying to make ends meet.

After an entire season I still don’t feel anything for this show.

This show is a spinoff for a character from Breaking Bad – (2008 show)

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The Blacklist – (2013 show)

2016-02-14

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2741602/
https://www.nbc.com/the-blacklist

A bad guy blackmails the good guys because he likes this one good girl.

My impression from the first few episodes was:

Seems “ok”. Unless this has a more interesting story-arc, I won’t consider this particularly good. The predictable and episodic nature of television bores the shit out of me. It makes a series only valuable only the course of multiple episodes and individual episodes become the shit I have to slog through.

My later impression, from the end of the second season:

Characters were slow and stiff until they were developed more fully. When they were, a broader story arc took hold, making this show quite a bit more interesting.

My final impression:

It gets repetitive and annoying.

Avoid cliffhangers: Watch more when it’s part way into the next season.

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The Frankenstein Chronicles – (2015 show)

2016-01-04

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The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015-) poster

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4206804/

After a stitched-together corpse is found, it is determined that children have been going missing.

Featuring a Sean Bean who is restrained from acting, this plodding may as well-be documentary features people with an English accent doing stuff and caring about things. It is neither captivating nor even interesting.

Inspired by Frankenstein – (1818 book), by Mary Shelley

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Fargo – (2014 show)

2016-01-04

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TODO – I haven’t started watching this yet, but it’s next up for a quick peek.

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2802850/
https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/fargo

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River – (2015 show)

2016-01-04

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4258440/

A detective is haunted with hallucinations that include his dead partner, who was killed under mysterious circumstances.

I think some would find this movie slow and boring, and I did at first, but it very quickly revealed a depth and character that I haven’t seen in any television show before and I doubt I will again.

This isn’t a classic cop-and-mystery show. All I can say is give this a good chance, at least until the end of the second episode.

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All posts tagged crime entertainment

The Night Manager – (2016 show)

The Boondock Saints – (1999 movie)

Who Am I – Kein System ist sicher – (2014 movie)

Abashiri Prison – (1965 movie)

Legend – (2015 movie)

Better Call Saul – (2015 show)

The Blacklist – (2013 show)

The Frankenstein Chronicles – (2015 show)

Fargo – (2014 show)

River – (2015 show)

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