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Bull
May 28, 2017 1:59:03 GMT
Post by Llyan (Admin) on May 28, 2017 1:59:03 GMT
I like the even balance of men and women. Bull Benny Chunk
Danny Cable Marissa
If JP is on we'd get a lot less of the team and we'd end up with another Moonlighting and I remember all too well how that turned out. They finally did the deed after years of dancing and by then Cybil & Bruce pretty much hated one another and the show fell apart. Hopefully Glen Gordon Caron learned his lesson back than and doesn't repeat that mistake.
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Bull
May 28, 2017 15:44:34 GMT
Post by terrij58 on May 28, 2017 15:44:34 GMT
I prefer the team too. It is well balanced and if the bring JP or any other character in the same way, it will destroy the balance of the show. I don't like ships as they tend to take over. Have seen that on too many shows in the recent past.
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Bull
May 28, 2017 22:19:12 GMT
Post by nas on May 28, 2017 22:19:12 GMT
I don't watch Bull, but I have a question anyway:
in this day and age when so many shows are filming in Canada, I wonder why this one is filming in New York instead of north of the border where it's cheaper...
even shooting in California has got to be cheaper, yes? if I'm not mistaken Law and Order: SVU films in CA, and it takes place in NYC...
maybe it's a dumb question, but I wondered about this after hearing MW talk about his bi-coastal lifestyle, and what a pain in the pa-tooty it has been...
nas
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Bull
May 28, 2017 22:33:06 GMT
Post by Llyan (Admin) on May 28, 2017 22:33:06 GMT
I don't watch Bull, but I have a question anyway:
in this day and age when so many shows are filming in Canada, I wonder why this one is filming in New York instead of north of the border where it's cheaper...
Could ask the same question about Law & Order (all the NYC based one filmed in NYC). CBS is willing to pay for Bull to be filmed there (at least 2 of the cast were already living in NYC). Although the USA series Suits which is suppose to be NYC films in Toronto, White Collar actually filmed in NYC.
even shooting in California has got to be cheaper, yes? if I'm not mistaken Law and Order: SVU films in CA, and it takes place in NYC...
See above. SVU films in NYC.
maybe it's a dumb question, but I wondered about this after hearing MW talk about his bi-coastal lifestyle, and what a pain in the pa-tooty it has been...
Michael's wife and small kids didn't move to NYC because it was a brand new show and they didn't know how it would go. Just before it got picked up for Season 2 Michael gave a print interview where he said if they got picked up his family would be moving to NYC. This has since happened. His doctor wife will be working at an NYC hospital and several weeks ago her colleagues threw her a going away party.
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Post by Hari Seldon on May 29, 2017 15:52:35 GMT
I don't watch Bull, but I have a question anyway:
in this day and age when so many shows are filming in Canada, I wonder why this one is filming in New York instead of north of the border where it's cheaper...
Could ask the same question about Law & Order (all the NYC based one filmed in NYC). CBS is willing to pay for Bull to be filmed there (at least 2 of the cast were already living in NYC). Although the USA series Suits which is suppose to be NYC films in Toronto, White Collar actually filmed in NYC.
even shooting in California has got to be cheaper, yes? if I'm not mistaken Law and Order: SVU films in CA, and it takes place in NYC...
See above. SVU films in NYC.
maybe it's a dumb question, but I wondered about this after hearing MW talk about his bi-coastal lifestyle, and what a pain in the pa-tooty it has been...
Michael's wife and small kids didn't move to NYC because it was a brand new show and they didn't know how it would go. Just before it got picked up for Season 2 Michael gave a print interview where he said if they got picked up his family would be moving to NYC. This has since happened. His doctor wife will be working at an NYC hospital and several weeks ago her colleagues threw her a going away party.
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It often depends on the type of shooting style they want to use. When a show is dressing up California or Canada to look like New York or Chicago or even Miami, shots tend to be kept in closer. When they are in the real location they can use wider shots and show the scenery. This is especially noticeable in Burn Notice which was actually shot in Miami where it was supposed to be. There's also a common practice of going and taking location shots in the city where things are supposed to be then flying the actors back to the studios in California for the interior shots or they skip bringing the actors to the location and just get footage of the area and possibly have the appropriate car drive up in the wide shot and switch to the studio close shot for the actors getting out of the car. PP was in a series called Special Unit 2 that did a lot of the exterior shots without actors to look like it was in Chicago. I'm sure it looked great to someone who didn't live here.
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Bull
May 29, 2017 18:59:14 GMT
Post by tuna1 on May 29, 2017 18:59:14 GMT
It often depends on the type of shooting style they want to use. When a show is dressing up California or Canada to look like New York or Chicago or even Miami, shots tend to be kept in closer. When they are in the real location they can use wider shots and show the scenery. This is especially noticeable in Burn Notice which was actually shot in Miami where it was supposed to be. There's also a common practice of going and taking location shots in the city where things are supposed to be then flying the actors back to the studios in California for the interior shots or they skip bringing the actors to the location and just get footage of the area and possibly have the appropriate car drive up in the wide shot and switch to the studio close shot for the actors getting out of the car. PP was in a series called Special Unit 2 that did a lot of the exterior shots without actors to look like it was in Chicago. I'm sure it looked great to someone who didn't live here.
Dick Wolf's "Chicago" franchise (Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med) are all filmed on location in Chicago. Chicago offers beaucoup tax breaks to anyone who films there. That makes the city an attractive alternative to NYC an L.A.
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May 29, 2017 21:11:39 GMT
Post by Llyan (Admin) on May 29, 2017 21:11:39 GMT
The one and only problem I had with Burn Notice was the lack of traffic congestion in and around Miami, on I-95 and the Florida Turnpike. If the traffic was a light as they made it out to be I'd go down there more than just trips to the airport and the VA.
CSI: Miami made me laugh most of the time. The wide expanses of beach were NOT South Florida where the beaches are very narrow and there's NO driving on them unless you're in an official beach vehicle used by lifeguards or an emergency vehicle. The ocean was the pacific. The intra-coastal is NOT blue (the fly-over shots had it colorized) it's brown because it's fresh water and a really really long canal. And - the sidewalks outside the Miami PD are NOT always wet. When it rains the sidewalks dry up right quick due to the year round heat. The piece de la resistance were the CSI's driving Hummer's. Laughed my arse off because one of those would blow through the entire anual budget for gas in less than a month - for just one of them. For the record; I've seen the CSI vehicles and they're white Ford F-150 vans with no windows and stenciled lettering.
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Jun 27, 2017 1:49:47 GMT
Post by concisfan on Jun 27, 2017 1:49:47 GMT
Was watching "Bottle Shock" with some friends yesterday. We were surprised to see a young Freddy Rodriguez and Eliza Dushku. It's a pretty good flick, especially interesting if you are a fan of California wines.
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Post by pdsmith777 on Jun 27, 2017 3:11:34 GMT
Was watching "Bottle Shock" with some friends yesterday. We were surprised to see a young Freddy Rodriguez and Eliza Dushku. It's a pretty good flick, especially interesting if you are a fan of California wines. Love that movie. I have the DVD. Also like the extra features on it. An excellent performance by the late Alan Rickman, also.
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Aug 23, 2017 21:44:49 GMT
Post by concisfan on Aug 23, 2017 21:44:49 GMT
DVD's available on Amazon for $29.87. I won't be purchasing at this price but might consider if it's marked down later in the year.
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Aug 24, 2017 0:48:10 GMT
Just ordered. It was already on sale from nearly $50 so I'm happy.
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Aug 26, 2017 2:29:24 GMT
This is the Bull section of his FANTASTIC write-up!
The best new television series of the 2016-2017 season arrived on DVD last week in the form of CBS/Paramount’s Bull: Season One package. A smart, stylish and very funny drama with a killer pedigree – Donnie Brasco and Quiz Show writer Paul Attanasio is one of the show’s creators, Steven Spielberg is an executive producer, and indie auteur Rodrigo Garcia directed the pilot – Bull reinvents and reinvigorates both the procedural and the courtroom drama with consistent verbal wit, visual elegance and one of the most compelling protagonists in the history of television. The show focuses on Jason Bull (Michael Weatherly), a psychologist who runs a trial analysis company that uses a sophisticated combination of technology, research, behavioral science and intuition to determine how attorneys, clients, witnesses and jurors are thinking. On the surface it’s standard procedural stuff, as Bull and his team take on a different case and mystery each week, but Attanasio and his writing staff transcend the formula to tackle surprisingly complicated philosophical questions about truth, interpretation, ethics and identity. The show is both razor sharp in terms of its clarity and profoundly sophisticated in its grasp of the complexity of human nature in all its comedy and tragedy – it’s what you would get if Jean Renoir wrote and directed an episodic drama.
The series contains some of the most subtle and deft shifts in point of view anywhere on network television (or premium cable, for that matter), partly due to the high quality of the writing and partly thanks to a visual style favoring depth, detail, and frames within frames that allow the viewer to constantly reexamine the action from different perspectives. The production design by Sarah Frank is vital in this regard, as the modular configuration of Bull’s portable headquarters (which move to wherever the cases are) allows for more diverse and dynamic blocking than one usually finds in television – it also allows individual directors more flexibility in putting their own signature on the show, which is far more formally expressive than many series with more acclaim and award nominations. Anchoring it all is Weatherly’s rich, magnetic performance in the title role; I’ve been a fan of Weatherly’s work since I first noticed him in Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco, but he’s never been better than he is here. Jason Bull’s combination of self-assuredness, moral ambiguity, empathy and probing intelligence gives the actor the part of his career, and he plays it with both force and nuance in every episode. (It doesn’t hurt that he gets strong support from an excellent ensemble that includes Annabelle Attanasio, Geneva Carr, Chris Jackson, Jamie Lee Kirchner and Freddy Rodriguez; their palpable sense of camaraderie is one of the show’s most infectious and reliable pleasures.) It’s a character that’s vastly different from Weatherly’s previous signature role on NCIS, yet in both cases he’s so good that he seems to be playing himself – something that couldn’t possibly be true given how distinct the roles are. The Bull: Season One DVD collection contains informative interviews with Weatherly and the other actors as well as deleted scenes and other supplements; the boxed set is a great way to binge this highly addictive show.
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Bull
Aug 26, 2017 3:07:29 GMT
Post by concisfan on Aug 26, 2017 3:07:29 GMT
Nice review. Let me know what you think of the DVD extras NewBe16.
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Post by Llyan (Admin) on Aug 26, 2017 15:54:33 GMT
Nice review. Let me know what you think of the DVD extras NewBe16. The price came down so I ordered it a few days ago and I plan to watch the extras first. I'll post my thoughts.
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Bull
Sept 20, 2017 23:38:02 GMT
Post by Llyan (Admin) on Sept 20, 2017 23:38:02 GMT
Sneak Peeks for the season premier.
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