HBO's 'Barry'

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Postby easy » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:07 pm

sure why not

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Postby Ted Pikul » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:12 pm

I thought this was going to be about Obama
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Postby easy » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:14 pm

in a way, it is
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Postby bongo » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:28 pm

cautious "this may pound"
yeaaaaaaaaaaaa american nostalgia love it suburban living civilized families this could be my life
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Postby easy » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:29 pm

bongo wrote:cautious "this may pound"


if nothing else at least you got in on the ground floor
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Postby blurst of times » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:29 pm

This is the new show I'm most looking forward to so far this year, though I have no idea if it'll be good or not. Big fan of Bill Hader
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Postby bongo » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:30 pm

easy wrote:
bongo wrote:cautious "this may pound"


if nothing else at least you got in on the ground floor


yeah, hell yeah
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Postby brent » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:30 pm

yeah hader rules, i'm excited
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Postby goofjan » Tue Mar 20, 2018 3:46 pm

Hader rules, deserves every creative chance he gets. so I'm excited. I'm not nuts about the old "killer wants to do something non-killer-like," but hey... I'm sure he knows what he's doing.
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Postby groupb » Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:06 pm

yeah this seems like a show i would enjoy watching
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Postby feral » Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:07 pm

Looks awful
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Postby groupb » Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:11 pm

del's preparing the poster as we speak
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Postby Esteban » Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:15 pm

Dumb premise will probably check it out still
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Postby goofjan » Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:17 pm

I've probably posted about this before but it was announced waaay back when that Hader and Greg Motolla were gonna adapt The Dog of the South by Charles Portis. The Coens' True Grit had just come out, so maybe that had something to do with it. Anyway, I immediately read the book and pictured Hader as the main character and it was so damn enjoyable to read that way. Shame it never got made. Would have been a hell of a movie.
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Postby number none » Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:32 pm

Like Hader, puzzled that the trailer doesn't contain anything approximating humour
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Postby groupb » Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:47 pm

i just want grosse pointe blank: the show
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Postby delgriffith » Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:48 pm

goofjan wrote:I've probably posted about this before but it was announced waaay back when that Hader and Greg Motolla were gonna adapt The Dog of the South by Charles Portis. The Coens' True Grit had just come out, so maybe that had something to do with it. Anyway, I immediately read the book and pictured Hader as the main character and it was so damn enjoyable to read that way. Shame it never got made. Would have been a hell of a movie.

Agreed. Michael Cera is supposedly doing a Masters of Atlantis movie, although I haven't heard anything about it in a couple of years so it's probably dead too.
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Postby blurst of times » Tue Mar 20, 2018 5:12 pm

this interview was really nice and has me rooting for this show/hader: https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/03/19/bill-hader-on-barry-reading-the-russians-and-learning-to-write-on-south-park/

It feels like a show made by people who are really immersed in the world of film and TV. There was a lot of subtle commentary on the clichés that I thought the show was going to just propagate.

A movie we kept talking about was Unforgiven, the Clint Eastwood movie. That western is all about Clint Eastwood as a retired gunslinger and they come and take him out of retirement to go find some guys and kill them. But he hates killing, and there’s a scene where he has nightmares from murdering people. And then this young kid’s like, “Oh, you’re the famous gunslinger who murdered all these people.” And he’s just totally haunted by it, and he’s like, “Yeah, that’s when I drank. When I drank, I killed people, it’s fucked up, basically.” We mythologize violence in this country, and that movie’s so brilliant because you end up seeing the guy for what he is, and it’s brutal, and it’s incredibly sad. Alec and I talked about that — it should be sad.

But the thing we learned was, if you went too hard [in that direction] it started to feel didactic and a bit maudlin for us. Because Alec and I both have kids, there’s this very conscious idea of children — Barry gets the car at the beginning and there’s a car seat in the back. It’s this idea of, what are you gonna give to another generation? These things are rolling around in his head, [but] he can’t talk like that, so it’s like how, visually, can you put it in there, and maybe five people out of a thousand will maybe understand that? But for us, that meant something. It was very important to be like, no, there has to be a car seat in the back of the car.


The show is funny, it’s just that the humor doesn’t announce itself — it’s not like, “Hi, I’m a joke, and I’m here to make the scene lighter.”

I think what you’re describing is, when you start with a joke first, and go, “How do we shoehorn this moment into a scene?” It’s easier when the scene has the emotions right, and has the point right, and it can be totally straight. I always approach things more from the standpoint of, what’s a good story? What’s a story that’s interesting, and let’s just concentrate on that. If we can make a good script and a good story, I think we’re in good shape. And then after that, it’s like, so I guess I play Barry. It would be logical for me to play Barry.
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Postby Cone » Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:09 pm

Really looking forward to this
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Postby board ghost » Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:59 pm

liked this.
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Postby Marx & Engels » Mon Mar 26, 2018 5:10 pm

Yeah I was pretty unenthused by the premise/promo materials but the first episode was good
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Postby board ghost » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:03 pm

hader is so good.

the premise is thin but hes great and theres some good detail (the acting class all doing movie scenes was lol)

also impressed that hader directed it.

great score too
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Postby internetfriend » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:14 pm

i have such affection for bill hader and i don’t understand
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Postby internetfriend » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:15 pm

especially because i think ‘breaking’ on SNL is probably something they’re hiring people for at this point
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Postby board ghost » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:34 pm

i could listen to hader and seth meyers talking about SNL shit forever

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Postby husbands » Mon Mar 26, 2018 7:35 pm

am I crazy or is this based upon Coldblooded by Wallace Wolodarsky
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Postby Feech La Manna » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:14 pm

This was good!
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Postby board ghost » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:53 pm

saw a hader interview where he said this was really just supposed to be about feeling trapped by being really good at and stuck in a profession that you dont like abd drains you and was inspired by his feelings abt his time on SNL
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Postby guaranteed mediocrity » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:01 pm

badhat wrote:i could listen to hader and seth meyers talking about SNL shit forever



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Postby Feech La Manna » Mon Mar 26, 2018 10:02 pm

badhat wrote:also impressed that hader directed it.


yeah this looks great
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