The TV Thread redux

[sandsoftime]

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[Limiescouse]

Hijack season 1: Fucking stupid but enjoyable in an Idris Elba sort of way
Hijack season 2: Fucking stupid and it feels Elba should be making decisions about his career

Anyway, Monarch and Anna Sawai come back next week

[Bekloppt]

He’s done ok since the Wire, but hasn’t really reached his potential quality wise.

[redfanman]

@Limiescouse

Anyway, Monarch and Anna Sawai come back next week

Yet another show i’ve been banned from watching, by she whom must be obeyed, until all episodes are available

[RedWhippet]

@Limiescouse

it feels Elba should be making decisions about his career

I really like Idris Elba, but he does seem to make an awful lot of films that I would loosely describe as “Idris Elba films”. He’s really cool but he just plays the same character. It’s a bit like Liam Neeson, who seems to have spent the last 20 years making “Liam Neeson films”.

[Basankayis]

@RedWhippet

@Limiescouse

it feels Elba should be making decisions about his career

I really like Idris Elba, but he does seem to make an awful lot of films that I would loosely describe as “Idris Elba films”. He’s really cool but he just plays the same character. It’s a bit like Liam Neeson, who seems to have spent the last 20 years making “Liam Neeson films”.

Didn’t Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Michael Caine start that trend?

[Flobs]

Idris Elba bored me soon much it annoys me so I can not fall asleep. Do I no longer watch the same character playing a different person anymore. Was ok for the 1st series I watched, now it’s just tedious. I mean if someone shat in his cornflakes he’d just grin .

[Basankayis]

@Flobs

Idris Elba bored me soon much it annoys me so I can not fall asleep. Do I no longer watch the same character playing a different person anymore. Was ok for the 1st series I watched, now it’s just tedious. I mean if someone shat in his cornflakes he’d just grin .

Oh well… we’ll always have String…

[RedWhippet]

@Basankayis

Didn’t Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Michael Caine start that trend?

Lisp, eyebrows and shouting?

[Basankayis]

@RedWhippet

@Basankayis

Didn’t Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Michael Caine start that trend?

Lisp, eyebrows and shouting?

YESH!!!

[Iftikhar]

Watching Attack on Titan

[koptician]

Proudly carried on by Adam Sandler, Keanu Reeves, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham…

[CanuckoLFC]

@Iftikhar

Watching Attack on Titan

Hope that you can handle all that violence!
Enjoy the music by Hiroyuki Sawano too (May have spoiler warning in the YT video).

[koptician]

@Basankayis

YESH!!!

When did Sean Connery go to watch Wimbledon?

Tennish

[tesh]

@koptician

Adam Sandler, Keanu Reeves, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham…

Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell and probably Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Bob Hope, David Kaminsky, James Stewart, Nicholas Cage, Harrison Ford and Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise and etc and etc

Truly versatile actors are harder name easily
Daniel Day Lewis
Gary Oldman
Anthony Hopkins

[koptician]

I’d add Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, and Jim Carey on the versatile list

Denzel Washington probably goes on the “I play myself” list. Even though he plays himself really well.

[Quicksand]

@tesh

Truly versatile actors are harder name easily
Daniel Day Lewis
Gary Oldman
Anthony Hopkins

Kevin Bacon
Christopher Walken

[koptician]

Kevin Spacey (ugh!)
Willem Dafoe
Sam Rockwell
James Spader
Heath Ledger (RIP)
Hugh Jackman

[tesh]

@Quicksand

Kevin Bacon
Christopher Walken

Dunno about Walken - always plays some sort of crazy…

Maybe Susan Sarandon?

[Limiescouse]

Wrong thread, but I always thought Ethan Hawke had great range. To bring it back home to TV, it is incredible to see the heart throb from the Midnight film series and Reality Bites, could be such a convincing fuck up as he played recently in The Lowdown (highly highly recommended)