TV Show recommendations

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gallsman

Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast takes that crown.

bennydorano

Quote from: gallsman on November 16, 2017, 03:30:50 PM
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast takes that crown.
I'd second that, probably more memorable because it was such a departure from his other roles, the first time I watched it I was transfixed by him. Fantastic Film.

nrico2006

Quote from: blewuporstuffed on November 16, 2017, 02:42:52 PM
Quote from: playwiththewind1st on November 16, 2017, 02:00:57 PM
Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men.....now that was a performance!

Best on screen badie of all time

100%, I was disappointed with him in Bond as I thought he would just do a repeat performance and become the best bond baddie of all time.
'To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal, light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.'

playwiththewind1st

Quote from: gallsman on November 16, 2017, 03:30:50 PM
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast takes that crown.

Sexy Beast - great picture! Kingsley's character was 1 seriously scarey man, when he went off on a rant. He probably didn't actually have to get violent, you knew that he meant every single word of it & would back it up with action, if required to.

ziggy90

Quote from: playwiththewind1st on November 17, 2017, 01:04:47 PM
Quote from: gallsman on November 16, 2017, 03:30:50 PM
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast takes that crown.

Sexy Beast - great picture! Kingsley's character was 1 seriously scarey man, when he went off on a rant. He probably didn't actually have to get violent, you knew that he meant every single word of it & would back it up with action, if required to.

Joe Pesci in Goodfellas was a proper time bomb?
Questions that shouldn't be asked shouldn't be answered

Newbridge Exile

Quote from: ziggy90 on November 17, 2017, 01:32:00 PM
Quote from: playwiththewind1st on November 17, 2017, 01:04:47 PM
Quote from: gallsman on November 16, 2017, 03:30:50 PM
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast takes that crown.

Sexy Beast - great picture! Kingsley's character was 1 seriously scarey man, when he went off on a rant. He probably didn't actually have to get violent, you knew that he meant every single word of it & would back it up with action, if required to.

Joe Pesci in Goodfellas was a proper time bomb?
Good call with Joe Pesci

screenexile

John Lithgoe in Dexter has to get an honourable mention as well!!

Some departure from Shrek/3rd Rock and Harry and the Hendersons!

gallsman

Been watching Billions recently on recommendation of a few friends. Decent.

Cunny Funt

Quote from: screenexile on November 17, 2017, 03:01:28 PM
John Lithgoe in Dexter has to get an honourable mention as well!!

Some departure from Shrek/3rd Rock and Harry and the Hendersons!

Yet not that far away from the memorable badie role he had in Cliffhanger

Ethan Tremblay

John Litgoe was brilliant in Dexter.  On the topic of TV Recommendations, Dexter Season 4 is one of the best season's iv'e watched of any show. 
I tend to think of myself as a one man wolfpack...

Syferus

Quote from: Ethan Tremblay on November 17, 2017, 04:13:56 PM
John Litgoe was brilliant in Dexter.  On the topic of TV Recommendations, Dexter Season 4 is one of the best season's iv'e watched of any show.

That was definitely the high point of Dexter. I really enjoyed the show but it struggled making characters that weren't Dexter interesting, I always wanted them to get back to the A plot and whatever Dexter was up to. The rest of them felt almost like they were acting in a generic procedural.

Ethan Tremblay

True, it was only going one direction after S4, and as you said, every other character was less than secondary to Dexter. 

Maybe that's why shows with big casts such as Sopranos and GOT are so successful, there are that many interesting characters with their own arcs viewers can take an interest in them if the main plot is dwindling....   
I tend to think of myself as a one man wolfpack...

leenie

I thought mind hunter was v good .. a lot of pyscologly to take in.. but who's the man at the v end burning the stuff ?
I'm trying to decide on a really meaningful message..

Minder

Quote from: leenie on November 21, 2017, 02:18:43 PM
I thought mind hunter was v good .. a lot of pyscologly to take in.. but who's the man at the v end burning the stuff ?

BTK
"When it's too tough for them, it's just right for us"

Geoff Tipps

Quote from: leenie on November 21, 2017, 02:18:43 PM
I thought mind hunter was v good .. a lot of pyscologly to take in.. but who's the man at the v end burning the stuff ?

Dennis Rader - serial killer. He appeared at the start of a lot of episodes in the first series.
He's obviously going to play a major part in subsequent series.