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Aside from Oz, what other things with Christopher Meloni are worth a look? I've seen Carriers (which was awful, he was the only good thing in it, but his role was very brief) and Green Lantern: First Flight (which wasn't bad - certainly better than the live action Green Lantern movie). What else has he been good in? He's going into True Blood next, right? (I don't watch that show). Also, is anyone else looking forward to that Sam Waterson show on HBO? I hope we don't have to wait ages for it to air here in the UK...
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OldMemes posted:Aside from Oz, what other things with Christopher Meloni are worth a look? I've seen Carriers (which was awful, he was the only good thing in it, but his role was very brief) and Green Lantern: First Flight (which wasn't bad - certainly better than the live action Green Lantern movie).
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Jan 22, 2012 04:56
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Also, he was the sassy gay clerk at the Flamingo Hotel in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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Jan 22, 2012 05:07
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bobkatt013 posted:Wet Hot American Summer I can't stress enough how much you need to see this movie, it's amazing and Meloni in particular is great.
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Jan 22, 2012 08:31
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I'll look into those - to my shame, I haven't seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas yet  Has Ice-T been in anything good? And out of Richard Belzer's and Jerry Orbach's filmography, which of their films is worth watching ("all of them" isn't a specific enough answer for Orbach)?
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Jan 22, 2012 16:47
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OldMemes posted:I'll look into those - to my shame, I haven't seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas yet For Orbach Beauty and the Beast is pretty good, other then that his most famous role is Dirty Dancing
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Jan 22, 2012 16:52
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Crimes and Misdemeanors has both Orbach and Waterston, and is a great movie.
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Jan 22, 2012 17:58
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Orbach had a pretty great starring role in Lumet's Prince of the City from 1981.
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Jan 22, 2012 20:53
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With Waterston The Killing Field is awesome
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Jan 22, 2012 22:38
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bobkatt013 posted:With Waterston The Killing Field is awesome There's also a cute little movie called Hopscotch on Netflix streaming; basically, the film stars Walter Matthau as a former spy who, facing his retirement, decides to write a memoir about all of his dirty little government secrets. He leads the intelligence community on a merry chase as he stays one step ahead of them; Waterston plays Matthau's friend, who is sort of half-heartedly chasing after him. He looks the same as he did in Law & Order, same haircut, but with no gray at all. It's uncanny.
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Jan 22, 2012 22:49
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OldMemes posted:I'll look into those - to my shame, I haven't seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas yet I think your question is answered with this picture. This is the pinnacle of Ice-T's movie career. 
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Jan 23, 2012 00:44
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Oh boy it's the episode with the vampire people and the lesbian lady who's really bi. This is pretty amazing as far as SVU goofiness.
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Jan 23, 2012 01:12
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Sam Waterston was also in Serial Mom directed by John Waters. There was a rerun of SVU on today where some woman is found in a burning building. It is shown that she had sex before she died, and she was pregnant. It turns out that her fiance didn't get her pregnant but his father did. In the end it was some other girl that killed her though. Anyway all is going well in the episode until the last 5 minutes when the girl pushes herself and the fiance off the ledge of the police building. I can never understand what it is with SVU and people dying in the last 5 minutes, especially in the police building. The worst part is crazy girl got up and left and someone asks the ADA if someone is going to stop her. The ADA says there is only one exit from the building (the entrance) and is all smug until they found out that the crazy girl went to the roof to jump off the building.
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The pinnacle of Ice-T's acting career is Surviving the Game. Also I was watching some Criminal Intent the other day and goddamnit I love Goldblum in it. He's just funny. There's an episode about some lovely dude who rents out this giant shared community loft to aspiring artists and he's this old washed musician dude with a hilarious accent. Gillian Jacobs has a smaller role in the episode too but Goldblum in the episode ends up playing some piano and just acting Goldblumy. It's great. Also THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kntiwssyeDk soggybagel fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Jan 24, 2012 |
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Jan 24, 2012 06:58
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Madkal posted:Anyway all is going well in the episode until the last 5 minutes when the girl pushes herself and the fiance off the ledge of the police building. I can never understand what it is with SVU and people dying in the last 5 minutes Those crazy twists are the best twists - I love the one where they finally have enough legal standing to arrest this man who is deliberatly poking holes in his condoms, so that he can have as many babies as possible, and one of the women stabs him with one of those anti-shark guns and he explodes (off screen, mind). We really need to start doing a tally of how many people have been shot, killed, or oherwise injured in the SVU squadroom over the years. I guess Cragen just never gets in trouble for that, no matter how many times it happens?
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Jan 25, 2012 01:24
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OldMemes posted:I guess Cragen just never gets in trouble for that, no matter how many times it happens? The usual procedure is that John Schuck shows up, screams at Cragen for a while while giving a "one more thing like this and I'll have your unit shut down" speech like it's the loving X-Files or something, Cragen gives a little grief to Benson and Stabler about their latest failure to turn in DD5s or whatever, and occasionally Cragen gets suspended for 30 minutes and Munch takes over the squad.
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Jan 25, 2012 01:36
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In American Jihad (The muslim murders the college professor) was the implication the girl laughed at him because he had a small penis or am I missing something?
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Moose Bigelow posted:In American Jihad (The muslim murders the college professor) was the implication the girl laughed at him because he had a small penis or am I missing something? I've never seen it any other way. Orbach's last year was pretty brutal in terms of scripts, with that episode being a notable example. "Girl laughed at my penis, so I became an American Muslim at war with Western society but really I just hate women."
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Jan 27, 2012 00:04
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Last year, the Universal Channel in the UK had a poll for viewers to pick thier top ten episodes of the show, which they showed in a marathon. The thing was, they didn't allow you to choose an episode, but rather the ORDER of ten pre-chosen episodes. Seems to defeat the point to me - there were some good episodes, but they also included the "crazy scientist makes fake Benson DNA in a centrifuge!" was in the top ten.  At least the interviews with the cast were interesting - although Universal's marketing here seems to think that SVU is the "Oliva Benson Power Hour", rather than an ensemble show.
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OldMemes posted:"crazy scientist makes fake Benson DNA in a centrifuge!" You just made this up, right? RIGHT!?! 
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Jerusalem posted:You just made this up, right? http://allthingslawandorder.blogspot.com/2009/11/law-order-svu-perverted-recap-review.html?m=1
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Jan 28, 2012 01:17
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I'm developing a photophobia condition and am not saddened by it because it means I am now closer to being Munch. Now I just gotta find out what type of special lenses Richard Belzer has.
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Jerusalem posted:You just made this up, right? The glory part of that episode is the ending set it up that things will never be the same (now that people can make knock off DNA of anyone), and then just dropped it and never mentioned it again.
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Jan 28, 2012 01:33
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 And SVU is still the most popular of all the L&O's, right? 
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Jerusalem posted:
SVU: When it's good, it's good, when it's bad, it's wonderfully insane. I think that's one of this thread's favourite crazy episodes, up there with the tiger one... According to Universal, "Undercover" (season 9, ep. 15 - Benson undercover in prison) is the best episode. I'd say that "Countdown" is my favourite, but that only got to number 8 or so (It's the best episode because Munch grows a silly looking beard in it). We're still waiting for season 13 to continue airing after its Christmas break here. And Season 10 is airing on Channel 5 for the first time - which gives me an excuse to enjoy the insanity of that season again. OldMemes fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Jan 28, 2012 |
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The best part of SVU are the episodes that go through 8 different plots in one episode. Like the one on USA right now. Starts as a missing child case, becomes one kid killing another in a wrestling match, and then became "oh, hai, the dead kid's girlfriend is a 28 year old that has been defrauding the foster care system for ten years by pretending to be sixteen"
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To update on the iOS L&O game: two new episodes of it are out now and are considerably better than the first two. One of them takes place in modern times and seems to imply that McCoy is still the DA (but who knows if a game is considered canon in the L&O universe) and the other takes place in 2000 with Lenny and McCoy being angry as ever at social injustice. It's all great. Edit: And (not spoilers) if you play the cards right there's a great McCoy speech at the end. Also the Vanilla box set is worth the price, really. got dat wmd fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Jan 28, 2012 |
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There's a really great moment in the SVU Season 1 episode "Chat Room", where Stabler is talking to this guy who has been storing pictures of internet predator's victims for him, and the guy tries to justify by it by claiming "Hey, man, they're just pictures...". Stabler reacts by slamming the table and shouting  "THEY'RE NOT JUST PICTURES!". Meloni really sells the moment, without going into the "Stabler is a crazy super cop" terrority that the the character fell into in later seasons.
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OldMemes posted:SVU: When it's good, it's good, when it's bad, it's wonderfully insane. I think that's one of this thread's favourite crazy episodes, up there with the tiger one... I have to take this moment and mention Lunacy as my favorite crazy SVU episode. It has James Brolin as Stabler's Marine role model and Chris Elliot spergin' about astronauts. The ending has one of the greatest lines ever. "SHE TOOK THE MOON FROM ME!!!"
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afro gunsou posted:I have to take this moment and mention Lunacy as my favorite crazy SVU episode. It has James Brolin as Stabler's Marine role model and Chris Elliot spergin' about astronauts. The ending has one of the greatest lines ever. "SHE TOOK THE MOON FROM ME!!!"
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HookShot posted:It also has a shooting in the squad room! Doesn't pretty much every episode in seasons 9-12 have one? It's pretty much the least safe place in the Tommy Westphall Universe - and I'm including the projects in The Wire in that statement.
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Boom mic spotted in a shot of CI, around 13:30 S1E21, just thought you'd like to know.
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Both Parks and Rec and 30 Rock had Law and Order references last night. Parks and Rec: Leslie is showing a slideshow of models for a potential date for Ann; one slide is Sam Waterston. 30 Rock: The new self-promoting page, in a cutaway gag, is shown behind Cutter's shoulder in a courtroom scene, looking straight at the camera and holding up a sign advertising "massages and acting."
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Just spotted Lance Reddick as a medical examiner in the last episode of the first season of SVU - a lot of people from The Wire have had guest spots in the shows, I guess. I've spotted Wendell Pierce at least twice in the original series. Season 13 of SVU doesn't carry on in the UK until March.
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OldMemes posted:Just spotted Lance Reddick as a medical examiner in the last episode of the first season of SVU - a lot of people from The Wire have had guest spots in the shows, I guess. I've spotted Wendell Pierce at least twice in the original series. There's a fairly large crossover between L&O of various stripes and HBO shows like The Wire and Oz.
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Cracked had a photoshop contest based on the question "If Classic TV Shows Never Got Cancelled", and since it made me smile, and we've talked about Tommy Westphall before, I thought I'd share it. (It's by someone called "runner-runner", appparently) All of St. Elsewhere is on Channel 4 On Demand right now. How does it hold up nowadays?
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AA is for Quitters posted:The best part of SVU are the episodes that go through 8 different plots in one episode. The best part of that episode was the previews for it on NBC. With the gravely voice saying, "Find out why they call her...The Black Widow." and then showing the clip where she says, "I loved them all."
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Was there any episode of SVU where some crazy victim impersonates Benson?
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LongDarkNight posted:Was there any episode of SVU where some crazy victim impersonates Benson? She's had perps stalk/become obessed with her so many times now, it kinda blurs together. The best one was when the guy started killing victims who she'd helped in the past, and they find that the victims were lured in by a fake computer scam run by a company called "Avilo", and when they go to the empty office, Stabler flips the sign on the door, and turns out Avilo is Oliva spelled backwards!  Yes, SVU had a Troll 2 moment.
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OldMemes posted:The best one was when the guy started killing victims who she'd helped in the past, ....how would he even find out the identities of people one particular police officer worked with? Did he just walk into the Squadroom while they were distracted by somebody being murdered and go into the filing cabinets?
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