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Post by Mattsby on Nov 8, 2019 0:43:09 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Nov 8, 2019 6:32:07 GMT
Give me some Farrell and Graham!!!
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 8, 2019 8:02:50 GMT
Damn haven't heard of this but I'd watch anything with Mullan in it and with Graham and Courtenay (and Farrell) that's a must see......
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 8, 2021 22:48:07 GMT
Oddly no buzz for this show, it pemieres next week, July 15 on AMC+
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Post by Mattsby on Aug 16, 2021 17:58:38 GMT
Didn't live up to the promise of its cast and ambition. At 5 hours, overlong, and I didn't care enough about Jack O'Connell to sit in the literal dark with him for about half that runtime. Grim and seedy, in spades, for sure- I guess! Farrell puts on weight and crumbs... puts in a solid, dirty-feeling perf. My fav of cast tho is Tom Courtenay - in his 80s! - only in two eps, a couple of scenes, but they really count, and he plays them in a sly, interesting way. He gets the best lines. "Money does what it wants, doesn't care what we prefer." He's smart enough to know the people he's dealing with ("too vicious, too stupid") but himself corrupted and moronic and so wealthy he thinks he's free of consequence.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Aug 16, 2021 18:54:55 GMT
Yeah I got the impression from the trailers that this would be a realistic-ish answer to The Terror and you can't help but compare them against each other. And although this thankfully doesn't include a giant supernatural polar bear, it pales in comparison to the 2018 miniseries in every other aspect. This story peaks in ep. 3 when the ships sink and the sense of doom sets in, and there are some wonderful moments in episode 2 that make use of the stark and frightening environment (I love that shot of O'Connell struggling to pull the seal pelt across the ice and you see the ship so far in the distance that you immediately feel the futility), but narratively it's underwhelming, underdeveloped and overlong, and O'Connell isn't interesting as a character.
Colin Farrell was the best thing about it. Reminded me of Tom Hardy in The Revenant. Fantastically vile and over the top.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 17, 2021 13:21:42 GMT
Hadn’t started this yet. These reviews are pretty disappointing to hear.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Aug 17, 2021 17:42:26 GMT
I watched the first episode and not much in it made me want to continue... so I didn't.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Nov 5, 2021 23:01:13 GMT
Just finished this. O’Connell and Farrell are fantastic. Almost McCarthy-esque in its brutality and bleakness but often very thrilling.
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