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Deebot
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"Too Old To Die Young"


          

New show on Amazon Prime by NWR (Drive, Only God Forgives, Neon Demon) starring Miles Teller. All 10 episodes are up. Anyone else on this? Watched the first ep and loved it.

  

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Finished 8th episode this morning....
Jun 24th 2019
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agree with a lot of this.
Jun 29th 2019
8
I smooth skipped the fuck out of two full episodes
Jun 25th 2019
2
Seems like I made the right choice
Jun 25th 2019
3
if you skipped full episodes, how do you know you didn't miss anything?
Jun 25th 2019
4
      because
Jun 25th 2019
5
      NWR has openly said he doesn't see the need to watch in order
Jun 25th 2019
6
           if you get through the entire series, this makes sense.
Jun 29th 2019
7
only made it two eps in....
Jul 02nd 2019
9
episode 5 is one of the most unsettling things you'll ever see
Jul 04th 2019
10

Frank Mackey
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Mon Jun-24-19 09:46 AM

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1. "Finished 8th episode this morning...."
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This shit is...something else.
I've never seen anything operate at this pace, and that's not a complaint. It feels like NWR is painting pictures with some of these tracking shots.

I couldn't consciously recommend this to anyone, just because of the patience it takes to get through it. I'm constantly hitting the 'skip 10 seconds' button on the Apple remote to get through these eps. But I am enjoying it, and I think others here would as well.

Oh, and the discovery of Prince Buster's Ten Commandments is worth the price of admission alone...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df5eGlr3WsM

  

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High Society
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Sat Jun-29-19 11:08 PM

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8. "agree with a lot of this."
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Not sure I could recommend it to someone, maybe if they were a of a NWR.
But even then would have to let them know, it will test your patience and while
some stunning visual moments and great score, can’t say will be rewarded for
said patience. I did the same, I was hitting that 10 second skip a lot.

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navajo joe
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Tue Jun-25-19 06:46 AM

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2. "I smooth skipped the fuck out of two full episodes"
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and missed nothing from a narrative perspective.

There's barely enough story to justify a full-length film and Refn, contrary to what he steadfastly believes, has nothing interesting to say about literally anything. He's that film student who just discovered Lynch but has the deep pockets of a streaming service to back his nonsense, self-important student film.

Refn's effectively the rapist pornographer brother reducing his actors to live dolls that he poses for maximum cool and minimal dramatic effect before doing something horrible to them.

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Tue Jun-25-19 08:10 AM

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3. "Seems like I made the right choice"
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tapping out after the first episode. That performance from the Baldwin brother was enough for me to want to give this show the Heisman, and the sad thing is that I'm sure he did a bang up job given the material he was provided.

I do wonder how this dude manages to get top level actors, actresses, and movie studios to believe in his vision, because I sure a hell don't see it.

"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.

  

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Deebot
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Tue Jun-25-19 09:27 AM

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4. "if you skipped full episodes, how do you know you didn't miss anything?"
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Lol I'm confused. Is it inherently a bad thing if a film/show isn't narrative-driven? With that logic everyone could've skipped about 10 episodes of Twin Peaks the Return.

  

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navajo joe
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Tue Jun-25-19 11:41 AM

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5. "because"
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the main storyline chugged on perfectly fine without it. I had no questions because there were no gaps in the narrative nor was I confused. There was never a need to go back and watch them

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A lot of you players ain't okay.

We would have been better off with an okaycivics board instead of an okayactivist board

  

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Nodima
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Tue Jun-25-19 06:25 PM

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6. "NWR has openly said he doesn't see the need to watch in order"
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https://www.indiewire.com/2019/06/nicolas-winding-refn-watch-too-old-to-die-young-amazon-series-1202149753/


“It’s like a book,” he said. ‘If you go into a bookstore and find a book, you’re not going to take a book and read the first page. You’re gonna take a book and you’re going to browse through it, somewhere, and you’re going to read a piece of it. ‘Oh, this is interesting. I’ll buy this book.’ If you buy anything, you browse through it, and very rarely do you start at page one.”


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High Society
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7. "if you get through the entire series, this makes sense."
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KnowOne
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9. "only made it two eps in...."
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I dont mind slow pacing but good lord.... its too slow even for me.
Im punching out.

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Deebot
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10. "episode 5 is one of the most unsettling things you'll ever see"
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