paskamaha
Joined Oct 2007
Welcome to the new profile
We're still working on updating some profile features. To see the badges, ratings breakdowns, and polls for this profile, please go to the previous version.
Reviews7
paskamaha's rating
10 episodes down, I felt the grandness after the pilot and kept on watching.
Hard to explain anyone unfamiliar with the show, what makes 'Terriers' so utterly compelling; the easiest way out would be to just say Hank & Britt are THE best main characters on a TV series in a long, long time. Talking (another) Hank & Jesse (Breaking Bad) chemistry and charisma here. These people are real, with a real heart and a mind, real problems, and real reasons for living. I would never want to throw in any comparisons here, they would just do no justice... either way. Where the Lebowski references come from - me, being the high priest of Dudeism, I still don't get it. Stop comparing people, this is unique, witty, and fun crime/drama, with heavy ups and downs, you do not want to spoil it with sloppy comparisons.
Every episode is so well written and directed it laughs at the face of today's television. The casting is immaculate. This is true visionary material; and 'Terriers' just keeps on getting better. I am literally in awe and waiting for the next week now. And I am absolutely, indisputably, in love with Hank & Britt. In a Platonic way.
Hard to explain anyone unfamiliar with the show, what makes 'Terriers' so utterly compelling; the easiest way out would be to just say Hank & Britt are THE best main characters on a TV series in a long, long time. Talking (another) Hank & Jesse (Breaking Bad) chemistry and charisma here. These people are real, with a real heart and a mind, real problems, and real reasons for living. I would never want to throw in any comparisons here, they would just do no justice... either way. Where the Lebowski references come from - me, being the high priest of Dudeism, I still don't get it. Stop comparing people, this is unique, witty, and fun crime/drama, with heavy ups and downs, you do not want to spoil it with sloppy comparisons.
Every episode is so well written and directed it laughs at the face of today's television. The casting is immaculate. This is true visionary material; and 'Terriers' just keeps on getting better. I am literally in awe and waiting for the next week now. And I am absolutely, indisputably, in love with Hank & Britt. In a Platonic way.
I love animals. I love dolphins in particular. I wanted to avoid this film because I knew it was going to make me - a grown man with a brick-size ego - weep, or at least hate everything I know, and affiliate myself with.
I wanted to love this film, and feel sick to my gut how evil men are. Perhaps I am already too old and cynical, perhaps I was expecting something mind-numbingly harsh and true, to slap me across the face... but nahh; I did not receive that slap. There were no underwater hot-shots, nothing cinematic to speak of. Just home video quality shots of almost-interesting arm wrestling with some local people, who did not fancy a bunch of random hippies on the shores of their wee town.
There is SO much hype and so much anticipation built around this very film, that after seeing it (15 minutes ago, fresh) I can only say it was a decent try in making people understand what kind of demon, what kind of monster, we, humans, are. But it left me empty, to be honest. We kill other living beings. We slaughter them, en masse. We eat them. So what? Who wants to see a documentary about cows being slaughtered in a tiny Danish village? If I was a teacher, I would include this in the programme, good basic biology, followed by a discussion. I would save the clear anti-Japanese agenda (I hear they kill animals in USA, France & Finland, too!) for the ones who can bear it and just concentrate on the big picture: Who slits the throat of a dolphin? Class dismissed.
PS: 10/10 not for cinematic experiences BUT for the fact this film NEEDS to be seen by anyone who has a heart - or a soul. 11th point to the people who made this film. I am with you 100%, although I think your film kind of sucked.
I wanted to love this film, and feel sick to my gut how evil men are. Perhaps I am already too old and cynical, perhaps I was expecting something mind-numbingly harsh and true, to slap me across the face... but nahh; I did not receive that slap. There were no underwater hot-shots, nothing cinematic to speak of. Just home video quality shots of almost-interesting arm wrestling with some local people, who did not fancy a bunch of random hippies on the shores of their wee town.
There is SO much hype and so much anticipation built around this very film, that after seeing it (15 minutes ago, fresh) I can only say it was a decent try in making people understand what kind of demon, what kind of monster, we, humans, are. But it left me empty, to be honest. We kill other living beings. We slaughter them, en masse. We eat them. So what? Who wants to see a documentary about cows being slaughtered in a tiny Danish village? If I was a teacher, I would include this in the programme, good basic biology, followed by a discussion. I would save the clear anti-Japanese agenda (I hear they kill animals in USA, France & Finland, too!) for the ones who can bear it and just concentrate on the big picture: Who slits the throat of a dolphin? Class dismissed.
PS: 10/10 not for cinematic experiences BUT for the fact this film NEEDS to be seen by anyone who has a heart - or a soul. 11th point to the people who made this film. I am with you 100%, although I think your film kind of sucked.