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The Wire (2002)
Well, good but not exceptional so far
I have been waiting for years before watching The Wire. I am mid-way into the 1st season - not that impressed so far. Big part of the show is having a bunch of loser cops chatting in a basement about a bunch of loser drug dealers, Actions scenes are mostly made of hidden members of the first bunch taking photos of the second bunch.
Hopefully it will improve.
My problem is at this point I have watched Breaking Bad, The Shield and Bosch. IMO way superior shows. Funny enough the chief of police in Bosch is played by he same actor as in The Wire - but the character is much better. The lead character in the other shows are way more interesting than the one in The Wire (Walter White, Big Mike and Bosch)
Superpowerless (2016)
Beautiful Small Independent movie
Just saw the premiere of this movie at the Fantasia festival in Montréal. It is truly a beautiful movie with brilliant acting. Part of the beauty is that the director wrote that movie having in mind the main actor, a friend from when he was 8 years old and with whom he was making super 8 movies as kids. The movie was shot in the main actor's actual house. Some of the characters were the Director's aunt and uncle. This is the type of movie that seems ordinary but will haunt you (positively) for months. Why is it that Hollywood produces crap movies with hundreds of millions budget when something so crafty can be made for a minuscule amount of money?
I can't find better words to describe that movie than Dante in the "Divine Comedy": "In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost". That's what "Superpowerless" is about.