Thunderstorms in LA, baby carriages on the street at night...
Weak writing in the first 10 minutes isn't a good sign.
shareI live in LA. We do have thunderstorms.
shareYeah, but how often? Come on....
If you haven't noticed this show doesn't go for realism, & the baby carriage is like a meme in cinematography, ever watched Brian de Palma "The Untouchables"? Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" ?
Build yourself some knowledge up b4 improvisin' urself a critic lol.
''As Imbecile examines finger, Wise man sees who's watching Imbecile, & Moon gets intimacy.'' H.E
Oh c'mon... When DePalma used the baby carriage on the steps for a sequence in his gangster film The Untouchables, it was a clever riff on Eisenstein...
Here it's just a trivial touchstone back to The Untouchables (which did it first), and one that didn't improve the scene but just made it more silly and unbelievable.
But I suppose if cartoonish, stereotypical gangster/cop stories like Mob City are what you prefer, you must have found it a touch of genius. Tarantino is probably a god to you, too.
. . . there's always room for Jello!
I had never before saw a TV series spoofing the "maffia genre" ( do you know any ? ...yea The Sopranos did it in a subtle yet very funny way, i agree), so i gave it its chance instead of "doom-watching" down the first 10mn.
Also Darabont is kinda someone you ought to owe some respect.
But after, what is it ... 6 episodes, i 'm pretty sure it's not for me.
Tarantino ... pff, who is that guy ? His name keep being uttered by trolls on imdb boards ;]
''As Imbecile examines finger, Wise man sees who's watching Imbecile, & Moon gets intimacy.'' H.E
Agreed. When I saw the first few minutes of the pilot, and saw the woman with the baby carriage, I had to laugh. It was so "noir" - great throwback to the film noir industry.
Let's not forget also that one of the working titles for this series was "L.A. Noir."
neat . . . sweet . . . petite
A lot in the winter, and more frequently than you think in the summer.
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I lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years, and while it can rain quite often in Southern California, I can count on two hands the number of thunderstorms that occurred. So I'd say calling them "rare" is pretty accurate.
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You must have a terrible memory. Thunderstorms happen there far more than what you're saying...lol. Besides, why can't you allow someone to take dramatic license with the weather? That's so damn nitpicky. If we were talking about thunderstorms in Boston, that's a different story. I went to college there, and I think I saw one thunderstorm there, and it was shocking. It rained all the time, but there was never any thunder except that one time.
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Are you kidding? I've lived in L.A. my whole life--a lot longer than 20 years, and longer than I care to publicize. Thunderstorms? Not only rare, but extremely rare. I'd say maybe one every couple of years. If you've lived on the East Coast, or in Tampa, where my daughter lives, they are practically a weekly occurrence. But here? Nope, really rare.
shareAnd what part of L.A. do you live in (I lived there about 20 years, and am a weather freak, so I would notice them)? Once every two years seems very very low to me, but I really don't care about the facts of how many thunderstorms there are per year there.
The thing that I find amazing about your logic is that you act like Mob City is taking place over a period of years, and it's wet streets in every flashback. It clearly isn't. It took place over a short period of time, and why can't we assume it was during a particularly wet period, even if that's false (I also think they depicted one thunderstorm, but it might have been 2)? Nit much?
There's so much to harm's one enjoyment of television, this really isn't something that should.
If you want something to nit about, go check out the scene in Amarillo, Texas in the movie Midnight Run. The old saying was that you could stand on a fire plug in Amarillo, and see all the way to Dodge City, KS. There were mountains in the Midnight Run scene.
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Its not wet streets in every flashback, but its wet streets in every night scene. And the issue with that is not whether it's factually accurate or not, but that its one of the many items that are in fealty to the noir cliches.
I find most of those "goofs" to be silly and posted by people who get some sort of perverse pleasure out of nitpicking. Most of the time, while the nits may be correct, it has nothing to do with the quality of the movie. [Oops, it's supposed to be 1947 and the hubcaps on that car were not introduced until 1949.] Same here. Even if, as the song goes, "It Never Rains in Southern California" so what? Its just about another cliche that's thrown in. And, as I said several times, the show is entertaining nonetheless.
And I also know for a fact that they relished making the streets wet for the noir throwback. That was purely intentional as a homage, and something they definitely wanted to do. I just don't understand how something that adds a layer to the visual can bother anyone. Did it bother people that they did it in the noir movies...lol? Ohmazgawd, why are da streets wet in CA, in 1939.
One of my favorite gangster movie moments was in the Jimmy Cagney movie Lady Killer. When they went on the run from New York, while they're at the train station, he asks his girlfriend where she wants to go. They pull out a Sunny California brochure, and the next scene cuts to them arriving in a pouring rain storm. Believable? No. Hilarious? Yes.
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You don't have to have them often, you just have to have them occasionally. One happened on the night of the action, big deal. As for the baby carriage, is there some rule about not taking the baby out at night? Again, you have to do that sometimes, and it only had to fool the other guys for a few moments. Talk about feckless nitpicking.
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