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MOVIE MAJICK posted:I refuse to believe Adrien Brody's Pat Riley isnt 100% accurate The mirror shots show present-day Pat Riley, so he likely okayed this portrayal of him. I dig the 70s van he owns but expect him to trade it in for a Porsche when he slicks his hair back. I am not sure I like that they have Spencer Haywood smoking crack in the show, there was a recent article from 2020 that stated his addiction was Cocaine and the reason for his personal issues. But we'll see, I think this episode redeemed a bit of their Jerry West, Hardass portrayal. Ninurta fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Apr 25, 2022 |
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Hollismason posted:Larry Bird comes off as a major rear end in a top hat was that just how he acted? Yeah he was a notorious trash talking rear end in a top hat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kq53Shq1js
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:I refuse to believe Adrien Brody's Pat Riley isnt 100% accurate It's been confirmed that he never demolished his garage with a chainsaw.
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Ah I just found this thread. I've been watching this pretty much from the start and I love the acting. I'm glad they really toned down a lot of the 4th wall breaking poo poo after the first few episodes. That part nearly made me stop watching, but it's been a lot better recently. I could probably do without the "vintage filters" too, but it's not that obtrusive. I'm willing to forgive the creative writing for a better story, but I'd probably be pissed off if I was Jerry West too. He comes off as a little psycho in the beginning. Can't believe this show has me rooting for the Lakers.
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Hollismason posted:Larry Bird comes off as a major rear end in a top hat was that just how he acted? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FE3yA6fLBo In real life he and Magic ended up becoming really good friends. I'm sure the show will cover that, just probably not the way it really happened.
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baalaagaa posted:Yeah he was a notorious trash talking rear end in a top hat. yea I think for a lot of people it was a 'he does this to everyone, that's fine, I'm gonna get pissed in the moment but the game's partially mental and he's playing the game that way' thing, I'm pretty sure Magic himself has said things to that effect, but yea he's a famous absolute monster at trash talking/mind game stunts who absolutely pushed any button he knew would get a reaction. The video does a good job describing one of his favorite moves, which is to look a dude in the eye, say 'I'm gonna shoot this shot right in your face', sink it, and go 'told ya so'. Just absolutely crushing poo poo to do to a grown man on national TV. Basically when it comes to dramatized shows like this it boils down to: nooneofconsequence posted:At this point you shouldn't believe any of the portrayals are remotely real. Except for Larry Bird.
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I could have done with out the latest installment of Jerry Buss needing to gently caress everything that moves
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Yeah that was pretty rapey.
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bawfuls posted:I could have done with out the latest installment of Jerry Buss needing to gently caress everything that moves Yea that was a very low point for a guy pretty low to begin with. Only problem with this show taking so many liberties is that you don't know if that's something that really happened, or something they did just to add drama. I hope that didn't actually happen, but I can believe it did. Must be some sort of mental thing for a guy who reveres his mother so much, but then objectifies pretty much every other woman he runs in to.
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Apr 25, 2022 20:14
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Buss's mom died before he even bought the Lakers.
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Apr 25, 2022 21:33
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Why do they keep having 50+ actors portraying NBA players? Dr. J looks like he should be playing at the Y. He was 30!
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Apr 25, 2022 23:19
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Yeah Wood Harris is a great actor but he'd be by far the oldest player in NBA history.
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nooneofconsequence posted:Buss's mom died before he even bought the Lakers.
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Isnt the actor playing Kareem also like a 22 year old due and playing someone who is supposed to be older than Wood Harris?
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Dude playing Kareem is 43, believe it or not. He played college ball 20 years ago.
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Ninurta posted:The mirror shots show present-day Pat Riley, so he likely okayed this portrayal of him. I dig the 70s van he owns but expect him to trade it in for a Porsche when he slicks his hair back. The person in the mirror shots is the actor that plays Pat Riley's father in the show. I thought it was actual Pat Riley myself at first, too. MOVIE MAJICK posted:Isnt the actor playing Kareem also like a 22 year old due and playing someone who is supposed to be older than Wood Harris? You think Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was in his mid-50s in 1979, still in the NBA, and played another several years?
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30-year-olds looked 50 in the 80s
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beejay posted:The person in the mirror shots is the actor that plays Pat Riley's father in the show. I thought it was actual Pat Riley myself at first, too. Can we can a separate thread for book readers?? Mods?
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I seriously thought Kareem's actor was way younger than Spencer Haywood was at the time but I was very wrong lol
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Bip Roberts posted:Westhead didn't get fired until his third season with the lakers. If anything he's going to get a redemption arc this season and Buss and Magic's stories are going to get darker. Yeah this appears to be the way things are going. I wonder if the Buss family is as pissed off as Jerry West now after this latest episode. That car scene seems like an especially egregious moment to invent for "dramatic license".
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jerry's daughter literally vomiting at the sight of her dad being a creep was a TAD on the nose also a waste of chicken
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beejay posted:The person in the mirror shots is the actor that plays Pat Riley's father in the show. I thought it was actual Pat Riley myself at first, too. Ahh, thanks for that. I thought it was sort of a look into his future given the first couple times we see him he's trying to still play pick up basketball and is sort of rudderless with his life on the show.
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LMAO, what was with having Julius Erving wearing a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker-type hat? Was this really a thing? I am also struck by just how much Jason Clarke resembles Jerry West, something I’d not thought about before this show e: the actors/players they found for Magic and Kareem are great likenesses too. This has been renewed for a second season, and I wonder if they are going to continue with the Magic-era Lakers, or jump up in to the Shaq-Kobe era, which Showtime author Jeff Pearlman wrote a different book about. MrMojok fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Apr 26, 2022 |
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This show opened with Magic announcing he’s HIV positive and has otherwise only covered one season. McKay wants to do the whole Showtime era.
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Brolander posted:30-year-olds looked 50 in the 80s 
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Brolander posted:30-year-olds looked 50 in the 80s as someone who collected a ton of baseball and basketball cards in the '80s, it's this.
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Kareem seems not far off at all from his personality imo he may be the most accurate in the show Thinking bout wearing my shirts like Dr. Buss the_american_dream fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Apr 28, 2022 |
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Is there something about the Magic portrayal that doesn’t seem accurate? I haven’t read extensively on him or anything but “extremely extroverted horn dog” would be in line with my perception of him.
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TheBizzness posted:Is there something about the Magic portrayal that doesn’t seem accurate? I haven’t read extensively on him or anything but “extremely extroverted horn dog” would be in line with my perception of him. Based on his Twitter his lines should be more like "I had 17 points and 11 assists to go with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's 29 points and 12 rebounds leading to our win against the Boston Celtics!"
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In real life the Lakers already played Boston that season at home before the road trip and Magic scored 23 in a rout. In Boston he only had 1 point.
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nooneofconsequence posted:In real life the Lakers already played Boston that season at home before the road trip and Magic scored 23 in a rout. In Boston he only had 1 point. Yeah, after I watched that episode I went and looked up game logs from that season. Alterations made to characters, and moving things up and back in the timeline for dramatic effect, are things I expect with docudrama type shows. But for some reason I was really surprised to see that they are even changing the historical record of how the season played out. I couldn’t find the game where they got blown out by a bad Pistons team, either.
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The Dr. J cradle dunk was on Michael Cooper in real life.
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Yea I have no idea why they had to make that on Magic The just losing to Dr J at that moment has the same effect. Also good lord they couldn’t find anyone who looks less like Erving
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Eau de MacGowan posted:jerry's daughter literally vomiting at the sight of her dad being a creep was a TAD on the nose I like a lot of what this show does. I like the vague basketball stuff and the way its presented. I'm glad they aren't trying to teach people the game. Some of the characters are great and I wish we got more of them in general, Dr. J, Kareem, Spence. I hope they do a show just about Brody as Riley cause he is my favorite part of the show so far. I love watching him go from dweeb to competent coach. I hope they have him do his hair slicking thing like a power up in a movie. He puts on the white suit like Iron man and walks out to his Porsche. All that said. The Maid storyline was probably too much for me. I found Jerry's initial conversation with the maid to be really oddly filmed. They zoomed in really close on their faces and I thought they were trying to keep something out of frame. When the daughter popped in screaming I was sure they would show Jerry having put the maids hand on his crotch. Especially after the mexican restaurant scene. What is crazy is having him acknowledge the conversation with the maid seemingly admitting she was uncomfortable. Cut to the loving car ride home and the whole lead up to him raping her I just couldn't believe they would do it. What a scumbag. This seems like a late era GoT style HBO show. An era I didn't love.
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Henchman of Santa posted:The Dr. J cradle dunk was on Michael Cooper in real life. So was this, which is even more badass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhdGihdnSKQ Probably Doc's signature moment among many. Julius is my favorite player of all time
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I don’t recall Spencer Haywood contracting his drug dealer to put a hit out on the Los Angeles Lakers. Like, at all.
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Gonz posted:I don’t recall Spencer Haywood contracting his drug dealer to put a hit out on the Los Angeles Lakers. he's publicly admitted to calling someone to have westhead killed but said his mom talked him down
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The Wood Harris performance when Spense is talking to Cap about growing up in Mississippi was drat near an Emmy moment
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I just can't imagine Will Ferrell as Dr. Buss. JCR has such a tragic air about him, in every great role he's ever played he's got some sort of hole in his soul that can never be filled and he's an expert at playing a guy who's trying to cover that up with a smile and thumbs-up.MrMojok posted:The Wood Harris performance when Spense is talking to Cap about growing up in Mississippi was drat near an Emmy moment Yeah I was watching that with a couple of people and we were all dead silent during that scene. This show is just so drat good, even if it's not real.
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I love JCR but something about him in this role just doesn't work for me. I'm really curious how Ferrell would've approached it since he is an LA sports guy and it was apparently his dream role.
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