tom you know i'm very with you on the wire but house of flying daggers was garbage! don't wanna kill the vibe, but i'm shocked, dudeman. and hey -- season two of the wire just came out. rent that shit.
Yancey, why do you think it was garbage? I'm not saying it was a great work of art or anything, but I was completely entertained for two hours or however long it was.
i disliked it cuz:
01 every scene involving dialogue went on at least 20 seconds too long. things went like this:
"i love both of you."
"you love both of us."
"it's true."
"is it true that you love both of us?"
"love is like the breeze."
"breeze is love."
"freebird. awesome."
i think it was probably poor translation.
02 the ridiculousness of the finale. i know that it's a bit of a fairy tale and there's a suspension of disbelief necessary for this sorta movie, but i thought it went above and beyond what could reasonably be asked from an audience.
03 it was pretty but i've seen prettier.
04 i'm an asshole.
You're probably the 400th person I've had tell me or read that's all "Oh, you gots to start watching the Wire...you been to B-More?...you like rap?...that shit just came out on DVD...you heard about Stringer...Avon is the man...etc."
I guess I gotta rent it. I gotta say, I find it hard to believe it's fucking with Deadwood, which is my shit. Swearingen what!
(That Oliver Monday yammering \|/ is high comedy.)
Yeah, what the fuck? Oliver Monday?
I was kind of sick of people going on and on about The Wire before I actually watched it; now it's all I really want to talk about. As for fucking with Deadwood, I have no idea; I only saw the first one.
Yancey, I have a theory here. You live in New York. You have a glamorous job at emusic. You get to go to special critics-only events like Big & Rich at CBGB. You probably ride a winged unicorn to work. You don't need a movie about graceful flying ninjas in beautiful billowy bathrobes falling in love with each other, since that's, what, your life, right? I live in freezing-ass dirty Baltimore and take the bus to work and just had to argue with my landlord over whether I could keep my dog, so I needed a movie like that. Oh, and the last two movies I saw before it were Napoleon Dynamite and Resident Evil: Apocalypse, so, you know, garbage is relative.
well my unicorn is without wings (fucking azerrad), but otherwise, yeah. that sounds pretty much spot-on.
more than anything else, the wire is a grower: it has its beginnings in what looked like flashy police pornography and the standard post-PATRIoT received wisdom of stevedore unionbusting, but it became one of two shows (along with deadwood)to have a reliable ensemble cast that didn't need people rising from the dead.
putting the exclamation point on their quintessentially private accomplishment, the writers, to their credit, were quite critical of the police procedural genre and its diaspora, and noted that as much as telling a story, it documented the rapid decline of historic, working-class Baltimore in a way that was simultaneously sentimental and modern.
would that i could say the same for any show based in philadelphia, including the real world!
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