Woohoo, who’s in! I just caught up on last week’s episode earlier today so I’m stoked for tonight’s. Hopefully I get my fill of Ari Gold.
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I totally called Med- Medei- Medill-…uhhhh… The Pablo Escobar movie being bad. I didn’t expect Vince to think it was good.
The Drama and Turtle party plot was lame.
I loved Ari pulling his daughter out of class… plus someone acknowledging what a giant ass he is so much of the time.
If Vince really loved it but E didn’t, might that point to a movie which does well but gets panned, assuming Vince has “less sophisticated” taste than E?
If I had a girlfriend that looked like Billy’s, I’d never be able to leave her alone.
Since I’ve long hoped that the show tracks Vince’s fall from Leonardo Dicaprio to Casper Van Diem territory, I hope this is to show that the new movie just isn’t very good.
I agree that that would be an interesting place for the show to go… but someone like Casper Van Diem was never the main star of the biggest-opening movie of all time.
This episode was kind of a let down after last week’s (which I thought was brilliant). I’d trust Vince’s instincts over E’s any day, though.
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I loved Ari pulling his daughter out of class… plus someone acknowledging what a giant ass he is so much of the time.
I also loved the fact that is was Homer Simpson (Dan Castellenta) who told him that!
I think we’re supposed to be in doubt as to whether or not Medellin is a good movie. I think Vince looked really dumb in the mustache and fat makeup, not sure if that was intentionally bad or not. The whole thing is coming off like a complete disaster, though I have no point of reference for knowing if all movies are that nuts or what. I do wish someone would just punch Billy in his face, continuously, for an hour. That’d be worth paying for HBO by itself.
I was also thinking it might be interesting if Medellin was actually good, and the show then tracked Vince through an Oscar nomination and awards ceremony. We know Mark Wahlberg went through it, and “edgy” biopics like Medellin are the kind of things that get nominations, so it’s not an impossible plot possibility, and I think that would be a cool way for the show to go. I’d like to see it from the POV of an actor, behind the scenes.
This season of the show has been great so far, IMO. I’m glad I stuck with it.
Also, I believe that Medellin is done entirely in Spanish, which will tend to restrict its popularity in the mainstream American audience, while others would question why they didn’t hire a native Colombian. I don’t believe he’s a native speaker of Spanish, but I don’t know enough to judge the quality of his performance.
Edited to add that I have no idea why they hired Billy, knowing what a flake he is, and then they gave him final call on the movie.
They could only raise $30 million (since Vince elected not to be the Russian guy’s wife’s man-whore) and so they needed a director who could shoot the thing on a tight budget. They already knew Billy from doing Queens Boulevard, so they went with him. Billy demanded final cut because the studio butchered QB.