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Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Sun June 18, 2023 11:26 pm
by Jorge
I never interpreted it as him crashing those planes on purpose. The possibility didn't even enter my mind

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Sun June 18, 2023 11:40 pm
by Mecca
Is it not enough that the man’s daughter died and he returned to his high stress job too soon instead of grieving?

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 12:05 am
by Simple Torture
I’m still on the fence with Q. But I can’t help but throw it out there. They have that convo in the bar about children and parenthood, minutes later Walt watches the guy’s daughter die—he could have done something, I’m sure of it. Yes, certainly, he could have been distracted, but the planes crash and the first thing that hits the water is a child’s toy.

I think, on my second watch, this show isn’t as incredibly deep as I thought it was the first time, but it does have these good nuggets in it.

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 12:07 am
by Jorge
Watch The Sopranos, ST

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 12:30 am
by Simple Torture
I said I’d never watch Breaking Bad, so you never know.

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 12:50 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Why are you so angry?

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 1:13 am
by JuanHamm
Simple Torture wrote:
I think, on my second watch, this show isn’t as incredibly deep as I thought it was the first time, but it does have these good nuggets in it.
This show really suffers on the second viewing. It's a fun show, but it's also pretty overwrought and cringey at times. It's nowhere near as good as something like The Sopranos.

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 2:19 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 2:56 am
by lennytheweedwhacker
Think I’ll rewatch this

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 3:22 am
by The Argonaut
I've seen it like it three or four times. At the end of the day, it's basically a bad show with a few really good moments

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 8:02 am
by Simple Torture
tragabigzanda wrote:ST has never watched sopranos?
Never a single episode. My wife started watching it a few months ago but we never sat and watched it together.

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 8:03 am
by Simple Torture
I once sold James Gandolfini a hat, that’s the closest I ever got.

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 2:54 pm
by The Argonaut
I'll read Moby Dick if you watch the Sopranos

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 2:55 pm
by given2trade
The Argonaut wrote:I've seen it like it three or four times. At the end of the day, it's basically a bad show with a few really good moments
Who watches something a 3rd of 4th time when it's "a bad show"? haha. I'd think you'd have stopped at #2.

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 3:00 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
The Argonaut wrote:I'll read Moby Dick if you watch the Sopranos
You are starting the Dick today.

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Mon June 19, 2023 3:03 pm
by Mecca
Breaking Bad in context of starting just around the writers strike is important to consider; I just don’t really recall a show gripping me like it did at the time

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Tue January 02, 2024 12:55 am
by Matters
There are other shows I like more but Breaking Bad is the most well shot, edited and directed show ever made. I can’t ever find a jump cut (bad edit) while watching it. Think of all the shows where it’s common to see something like an actor having his or her arms crossed in one shot and then arms are at their sides in the next shot. Or the actor’s facial expression changes significantly from one shot to the next, or they’re looking in a different direction. Some of the best shows ever made like The Sopranos and Mad Men are littered with jump cuts. This doesn’t happen on Breaking Bad. The expert vision, preparation and foresight it took to in order to have the show appear so seamless is really remarkable.

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Tue January 02, 2024 2:05 am
by The Argonaut
Yeah, that's really what separates great television from schlock. Arms stay folded

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Tue January 02, 2024 2:51 am
by given2trade
lol

Re: TV: Breaking Bad

Posted: Tue January 02, 2024 3:17 am
by Jorge
Matters wrote:There are other shows I like more but Breaking Bad is the most well shot, edited and directed show ever made.
Bahahahaha