Person of Interest - Channel 5
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Why Person of Interest is one of those rare shows that deserves its popularity
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Just a bump...
22:00 C5 & C5HD tonight.
Really looking forward to this. Deliberately not read too much about it, but the ingredients are all there - Jonathan Nolan, JJ Abrams, both responsible for some very good stuff (thinking more Super 8 and Star Trek for Abrams, rather than Lost, which started well but quickly turned into "just making st up as it went along"). Got a lot of time for Jim Caviezel also.
Received well in the US, and got good reviews on IMDB.
Gotta give it a chance, methinks...
22:00 C5 & C5HD tonight.
Really looking forward to this. Deliberately not read too much about it, but the ingredients are all there - Jonathan Nolan, JJ Abrams, both responsible for some very good stuff (thinking more Super 8 and Star Trek for Abrams, rather than Lost, which started well but quickly turned into "just making st up as it went along"). Got a lot of time for Jim Caviezel also.
Received well in the US, and got good reviews on IMDB.
Gotta give it a chance, methinks...
mr2aw11 said:
Just a bump...
22:00 C5 & C5HD tonight.
Really looking forward to this. Deliberately not read too much about it, but the ingredients are all there - Jonathan Nolan, JJ Abrams, both responsible for some very good stuff (thinking more Super 8 and Star Trek for Abrams, rather than Lost, which started well but quickly turned into "just making st up as it went along"). Got a lot of time for Jim Caviezel also.
Received well in the US, and got good reviews on IMDB.
Gotta give it a chance, methinks...
Been waiting for this to come on, i missed the first 15 mins as i was on the phone, what happened in it?22:00 C5 & C5HD tonight.
Really looking forward to this. Deliberately not read too much about it, but the ingredients are all there - Jonathan Nolan, JJ Abrams, both responsible for some very good stuff (thinking more Super 8 and Star Trek for Abrams, rather than Lost, which started well but quickly turned into "just making st up as it went along"). Got a lot of time for Jim Caviezel also.
Received well in the US, and got good reviews on IMDB.
Gotta give it a chance, methinks...
Currently watching ATM!
lawrence567 said:
Been waiting for this to come on, i missed the first 15 mins as i was on the phone, what happened in it?
Currently watching ATM!
1st 15 mins really a scene setter - unshaven drunk/bum Jim Caviezel defends himself against a gang of "wannabe gangstas" on the train, dishing out a good deal of controlled violence- these are the same guys he stole the guns from later in the episode. They're all lifted by plod, and he's released to rich guy's lawyers. Currently watching ATM!
A little bit of a back-story: female detective runs his prints and finds they're present at numerous international "crime scenes" (alluding to a past of government wet-work). In the wake of 9/11, Rich guy developed an all-seeing machine to predict terrorist activity, with a filtered list of minor events which he accesses via a back-door - and it's saving folks on this list that's his driving force now. Should bring you up to speed!
There are episode guides aplenty on the Internet - not read any, but I'm sure they'll have given a tighter synopsis than I!
Edited by mr2aw11 on Wednesday 15th August 08:19
mr2aw11 said:
1st 15 mins really a scene setter - unshaven drunk/bum Jim Caviezel defends himself against a gang of "wannabe gangstas" on the train, dishing out a good deal of controlled violence- these are the same guys he stole the guns from later in the episode. They're all lifted by plod, and he's released to rich guy's lawyers.
A little bit of a back-story: female detective runs his prints and finds they're present at numerous international "crime scenes" (alluding to a past of government wet-work). In the wake of 9/11, Rich guy developed an all-seeing machine to predict terrorist activity, with a filtered list of minor events which he accesses via a back-door - and it's saving folks on this list that's his driving force now. Should bring you up to speed!
There are episode guides aplenty on the Internet - not read any, but I'm sure they'll have given a tighter synopsis than I!
Thanks!A little bit of a back-story: female detective runs his prints and finds they're present at numerous international "crime scenes" (alluding to a past of government wet-work). In the wake of 9/11, Rich guy developed an all-seeing machine to predict terrorist activity, with a filtered list of minor events which he accesses via a back-door - and it's saving folks on this list that's his driving force now. Should bring you up to speed!
There are episode guides aplenty on the Internet - not read any, but I'm sure they'll have given a tighter synopsis than I!
Edited by mr2aw11 on Wednesday 15th August 08:19
I was watching but i could'nt hear the dialouge, so kind of got the 'jist of things!
This looks like the start of a great series!
Should keep me occupied until the new walking dead series start!
Gun said:
Enjoyable first episode but I though Jim Caviezel was terrible, wooden doesn't start to describe him!
Hmm.I like Person of Interest and will continue watching it, but it's not really a great show.
The premise is so weak, I feel like episodes hang on a thread, perhaps it's the geek in me looking at the plot holes continually.
Also Michael Emmerson is just not gelling in this role. His limp/neck stiffness/thingy is like a half-arsed Kaiser Soze and that annoys me. I also cannot get his legendary performance as Ben Linus in Lost out of my mind. He was just so hateful in that, and by that I mean his performance was so good I actually felt real hatred to the character, in this role as a good-guy I cannot buy it.
Caviezel is putting up a good show as the battle-hardened, ex-special forces good guy, but he's too close to a Jason Bourne character, and here's his problem too: Matt Damon did it better.
I know TV serials are the new film blockbusters, and JJ Abrahams clearly still has a semi on for Mike Emmerson, but I'm not sure........
Also, now I think about it, the all-seeing-computer-snooping-on-everyone has been done before in The Dark Knight (amoungst many others I'm sure)
Loving The Wire box set more than PoI at the mo.
The_Doc said:
Gun said:
Enjoyable first episode but I though Jim Caviezel was terrible, wooden doesn't start to describe him!
Hmm.I like Person of Interest and will continue watching it, but it's not really a great show.
The premise is so weak, I feel like episodes hang on a thread, perhaps it's the geek in me looking at the plot holes continually.
Also Michael Emmerson is just not gelling in this role. His limp/neck stiffness/thingy is like a half-arsed Kaiser Soze and that annoys me. I also cannot get his legendary performance as Ben Linus in Lost out of my mind. He was just so hateful in that, and by that I mean his performance was so good I actually felt real hatred to the character, in this role as a good-guy I cannot buy it.
Caviezel is putting up a good show as the battle-hardened, ex-special forces good guy, but he's too close to a Jason Bourne character, and here's his problem too: Matt Damon did it better.
I know TV serials are the new film blockbusters, and JJ Abrahams clearly still has a semi on for Mike Emmerson, but I'm not sure........
Also, now I think about it, the all-seeing-computer-snooping-on-everyone has been done before in The Dark Knight (amoungst many others I'm sure)
Loving The Wire box set more than PoI at the mo.
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