Watching BBC in an attempt to learn anything meaningful about Russia and Putin will simply leave the viewer less informed than they were before they watched.
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Thanks uploader. I’ve never seen this before, but watched the first ep. It was well-written, acted and entertaining.
It’s also quite an education on the differences a couple of generations can make. If the PC police ever get wind of this series, whoa Nelly!
Utter nonsense. The US isn’t the world’s policeman. It’s the largest global liability, destabilizer and parasitic imperialist that exploits every nation that doesn’t have strong enough defense to resist.
Calling it the world’s police is spin for the plebes to throw them off the scent.
I saw this last year when it came out. It was a fun movie. Entertaining in a sea of blah. It doesn’t deserve such a low rating.
Such a really great, hilarious, and unusual film. It’s a real sleeper hit. Watch it.
Everyone of those athletes who puts on a gold will wonder the rest of their lives if they could have beaten the Russian, who was denied their opportunity to compete because of politics.
I won’t be watching this year. The integrity of the games have been compromised.
BBC will never tell the truth about Lula. If you want to learn about him, read Pepe Escobar, who has even had the opportunity to interview him in prison.
What an amazing show. So bummed the season has already ended. Hope it gets renewed again.
If it were now instead of 1986, he’d end up in Belmar or isolation in supermax. Whistleblowing that uncovers criminal action has been criminalized to the maximum degree in the UK and the land of the free.
The BBC lied through their teeth about Russia and the safety of World Cup visitors to the point where nearly everyone in the UK stayed home. I live in Russia and enjoyed the games here in St. Petersburg. It was one of the best experiences of my life; something I will always cherish.
I’m afraid to watch this series considering the source. It’s got to be cringe worthy with claims of hooliganism and worse.
Started off well, but just got weird and uninteresting about halfway through.
very boring! I love military drama, action and documentaries, but this… all revolves around one guy and action is at its minimal… crap production.
I hate Clooney, but this was a brilliant adaptation of the book. You need to read to book to appreciate this. The book is classic literature and one of the funniest things in writing.
They seriously think we are stupid. British state media got the interview so that they could massage the story as best they could. The real interview should go to the prosecutor’s office, but anyone with two brain cells knows the surface to this story has still only been scratched.
Agree with the other poster. This film was brilliant. Bobcat is a unique film maker who is entirely underrated. He should be as well known as Tarantino as he’s just that set apart from the crowd. I’m not much of a Williams fan as he seems to rely on shtick, but he was fantastic here.
If you like this, you’ll enjoy Sleeping dogs lie too.
One of the best films out there and totally underrated. Absolutely recommended.
Watch the original. This is a real stinker. They add nothing new and spend way too much time focusing on the more metaphysical aspects of the book, where the book at the original made that only a sub plot until the end.
Man builds straw man. Man tears down straw man.
Pancho tilting windmills is more interesting.
Getting through the first 20 minutes was a chore. I finally gave up. Why can’t they make entertaining movies anymore? Lopez a stripper at 50? Did she produce it herself to alieve a midlife crisis?
They’re ruining a perfectly good show with all this Democratic party nonsense. Both parties suck, so I’m not taking sides, but these people so focused on Trump fail to see how bad the system and their own candidates are too.
First ep of Season 4 was unwatchable. Let’s hope it gets back to the basics in the next one.
Mindless cartoon violence no story line bad acting this was just a thrown together mess of a movie. Bob Odenkirk is great as Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman but he really is nobody special in this movie 1.5/5
Agree. People must have low expectations these days as they keep churning out these mindless romps through tired uninspired scripts.
It was a sham trial charging him with a genocide that never happened. He was posthumously acquitted and exonerated.
Does it tell how he created ISIS and set up a literal nazi regime in Ukraine?
I disagree. The BBCs Russia/Putin content is significantly better overall than anything similar produced in the United States… in fact I would label the BBC vids “objective journalism” compared to almost anything over here. Watch this; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i5tWVlecz6g
That’s our FBI director. He’s essentially stating that Putin secretly videotaped in the situation in the video. And that’s a mild news report. Many have been much, much crazier and literally unbelievable
BBC may be more sophisticated in terms of production value and presentation than the US, but both countries have a stated campaign against Russia and in particular, Putin’s Russia. I live in Russia and can assure you what BBC reports and what is reality are in two different worlds.
This movie is so funny and touching. Just entertaining all around and one that will stay with you. Highly recommended.
Poor, poor Americans suffered a bit after their planes full of napalm and bombs they were dropping on innocent people got shot down. What a tragedy.
“A dark horse is a previously less known person or thing that emerges to prominence in a situation, especially in a competition involving multiple rivals, or a contestant that on paper should be unlikely to succeed but yet still might.” They are using it correctly. “Dark horse” is not necessarily a derogatory term, and the main character in this movie saw himself as a dark horse. The film is not centered around his family or himself viewing him as a black sheep…in fact, his parents enabled and coddled him to a degree.
I’m familiar with both terms. I stand by my original comment. The description here and on IMDB is of a black sheep. “Abe Wertheimer - an odious, purposeless, self-centered 35-year-old living parasitically with his parents (by choice) and working in his dismayed father’s business office (avoiding work while scoping eBay for collectible toys) - meets Miranda,”
dark horse: a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
Brought to you straight from the NED. If you believe it, they have a Xinjiang and a Syrian story to sell you too. It’s a real gas!
After the special effects guys are paid, there is no money in the budget for writers.
You are literally 100% wrong.
“Russian” is not a race, it’s a culture. And it’s not even a monoculture (like, say, China).
Now personally, I think the statement “Russians have an art for lying” is simplistic and mildly offensive (although most Russians I know would laugh about it), but it’s not racist.
The word you want is bigoted. Although I wouldn’t even have bothered using that, personally.
They’re not interchangeable.
Get a grip.
ps - this is just a TV site.
Semantics doesn’t remove the bigotry displayed in the claim, which is wildly wrong and wrong minded and says much about the commenter and nothing about the Russian people whom it attempts to besmirch.
For someone who claims to think my response was overblown based on the venue, you sure went out of your way by not only taking the time to respond, but to create a troll identity to do so.
You would think they would have figured out they mixed the idioms dark horse with black sheep before they finished shooting. Apparently not.
FYI for those who haven’t already made up their mind from someone who lives in Russia-
The video won’t tell you this, but the true story is they guys went into the national cathedral during a religious ceremony and started screaming blasphemies at the priests and parishioners. After getting arrested for disturbing the peace, which would happen in any country were someone to do this, they went back and re-recorded themselves screaming political and anti-Putin lyrics.
The claim then was that they were arrested in the church for political protest. Not true.
Very scattered. It needed editing and more direction. I wish they hadn’t deviated from the Soprano style so much.