Anyone else watching the last season of Burn Notice?

[Crackpot]

Well are you?

[Joe Guy]

Never heard of it.




But I just created the above from here.

[Rick]

Nope watchin a Sinbad marathon on SYFY

[Lord Jim]

I am.

Is that all you wanted to know?

[Crackpot]

Yes.

No really what's your impressions? Personal;y I'm surprised they've kept it fresh for this long and I like how especially this season they've managed to cultivate a sense that things could go absolutely sideways.

[Lord Jim]

I've enjoyed the program, I think it's a fun show, (a lot of the time it has reminded me conceptually of The A Team ; a group of trained pros operating off the grid and outside of the law, using their skills to help good people and bring down bad guys...with lots of cool explosions )

Of course it also has darker moments, (one of the things the producers of The A Team always liked to say as that despite all the violence, nobody ever got killed on the show; Burn Notice on the other hand has wracked up an impressive body count; and not just bad guys...)

I agree that the concept for the final season is an interesting one. The expectation was that this "network" that Michael has been forced by the CIA to help bring down was a group of Über Bad Guys doing Über Bad Guy things, but it's turning out to be a lot more complicated than that. (That's been one of the strengths of the show all along; the way it explores moral ambiguities and dilemmas)

It's beginning to look like this Network is in reality an organization operating outside the law for the purpose of bringing down bad guys...(really bad bad guys....)

In other words, it looks like James Kendrick and his group are doing on a larger scale what Mike and Fi and Sam and Jesse, (and sometimes mom) have spent a lot of time doing...

This is obviously going to create a moral dilemma for Michael about what the right side to be on is here, and it will be interesting to see how that plays out in the final episodes...

[Long Run]

I will have to catch up. I enjoyed the first few seasons and then the show lost a little fun and started taking itself a bit too seriously, or lost some of the fun the early years so I have missed some of the last couple of years. Glad to hear it is having a solid final year.

[Sue U]

I've seen a number of episodes of this show over the last couplafew years (how long has it been on? Seems like forever) and I have to say:

Worst. Acting. Evar.

(And that includes, in this genre, The A Team, which despite its general terribleness was always played for laughs, and MacGyver, which was kind of goofily endearing.)

Also, the writing was terrible; god-awful dialogue, plot lines and story arcs. Has it really gotten any better?

[Crackpot]

You Dare insult Bruce?

Them's fightin words.

Seriously tho I haven't seen Bad acting on the show since Gabrielle Anwar dropped the irish accent and liberal use of voice-over has done a good job of covering up the plot holes.

[Sue U]

You Dare insult Bruce?

Them's fightin words.

Seriously tho I haven't seen Bad acting on the show since Gabrielle Anwar dropped the irish accent and liberal use of voice-over has done a good job of covering up the plot holes.

Every time Bruce is in the frame, that's pretty much Bad Acting personified, I don't care how much slack you cut him because of Evil Dead. Jeffrey Donovan as the lead gives about the most humorless and one-dimensional read I could imagine; it's no wonder his girlfriend-character constantly wants to shoot him/things.

[Lord Jim]

Jeffrey Donovan as the lead gives about the most humorless and one-dimensional read I could imagine

How did you manage to get to your age and never see a movie with Kevin Costner?

[Gob]

[Sue U]

Jeffrey Donovan as the lead gives about the most humorless and one-dimensional read I could imagine

How did you manage to get to your age and never see a movie with Kevin Costner?

Despite his prodigious output, I have actually seen only two Kevin Costner movies: Bull Durham, which was watchable if your fondness for baseball is strong enough to overcome the basic stupidity and sexism of the story, and Waterworld, which I think I watched on a dare (that's 8 or 10 hours of my life I'll never get back again). But even so, Costner was a churning ball of emotive expression compared to Donovan in Burn Notice.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Kevin Costner was at his best in the Big Chill.
Award winning if you ask me.

[Guinevere]

No Way Out was actually a pretty good movie, btw.

[Crackpot]

Costner was Excellent in A Perfect World then again he was playing an emotionally stunted sociopath so the role hit his strengths.

[Crackpot]

As for Bruce he has a knack for bringing believability and humanity into far fecthed roles. You see Bubba Ho Tep? his Elvis to Ossie Davis' JFK was brilliant. They brought such humanity to thier roles that it became about them not the B-movie plot.

But that's What Bruce does best is taking roles that we've been conditioned to accept at face value and play them in such a Manner that they become at least somewhat more real, Before Bruce can you point to one horro movie hero that completely lost the plot? No. that we the territory for the expendable extra who was soon after killed as a lesson to everyone that you must absolutely keep your cool just like the leading man. All this depite the obvious fact that loosing your shit upon being confronted with a completely forigen reality is a perfectly normal thing to do.

[Lord Jim]

I had forgotten about A Perfect World....

That was probably his best role...

It's the one role that I can think of that he doesn't play some variation of The One Dimensional Earnest Good Guy that he's played in movie after movie after movie....

[Long Run]

Similar type of character in 3000 Miles to Graceland. He was actually a little likeable in Silverado. I'm not a big fan, but he's had his good moments. Open Range would be among the many that don't fall into that category.

[Lord Jim]

Say, didn't I leave a thread about Burn Notice around here somewhere?

- Stroppypot