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year in review; thank you for tagging me @cantbehandled-ever !! :D

top 5 movies i saw in 2019

The Lighthouse

Parasite

Joker

El Camino

It: Chapter 2

top 5 shows i saw in 2019

Killing Eve

Better Call Saul

Schitt’s Creek

Those are the only good, new shows I watched but I also rewatched:

Breaking Bad

Seinfeld

top 5 books i read in 2019

The Cruel Prince - Holly Black 

The Wicked King - Holly Black

Queen of Nothing - Holly Black (still got a few more chapters of this but it completes the trilogy and it’s really good already)

Diane Williams: Collected Stories (did not read all of this because it’s massive but if you’re a fan of short and flash fiction, I highly recommend it)

Johnny Panic & The Bible of Dreams - Sylvia Plath

top 5 songs of 2019 

Safari Song - Greta Van Fleet

When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin

Kimberly - Patti Smith  

Ghosteen - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Stupid Things - Keane

top 5 cool things in 2019

Seeing GVF twice, once in Rochester and once in Philly. In tandem, meeting light of my life @mountainofthesunn, us getting behind the barricade, me staring at Danny for two hours, and both of us screaming our heads off.

Hiking multiple times a week and discovering all sorts of new places.

Revisiting Allegany State Park

Seeing Hozier!

That one night where the sky was clearer than I’d ever seen it and I saw a shooting star and was conveniently listening to GVF

i tag: @imacrowcawcaw @mountainofthesunn @bigthighsandstupidguys @angelstraightfr0mhell @oblvions @woman-ina-dream @lazingonsunday @dreams-madeof-strawberrylemonade @lantern-inthenight @eatmyshiftsticky @that-glassbottomed-ego 

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10 Great Crime Movies To Watch If You Loved Breaking Bad

If you’re jonesing for your Breaking Bad fix (but can’t wait for the movie) then we’re here to help you out. The show has been permanently enshrined as a definitive crime story of our era. Its outstanding achievements in writing, acting, cinematography, and music have made it something that’s ranked alongside most major movies in the genre.

RELATED: El Camino: What The Breaking Bad Movie Title Means

It can feel like there’s nothing contemporary out there that really matches its relatable drama and compelling villainy. But it's easy to find if you know where to look. Here’s our list of ten great crime movies that share some of the show’s best qualities.

10 Shot Caller

Ric Roman Waugh’s prison thriller stars Game of Thrones actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as a successful California stockbroker who pleas down to a short prison sentence after a fatal car accident. Once inside the system, however, he finds himself at the mercy of prison’s gangs, particularly the local White Supremacists, and is forced to sink further and further into a life of violent crime in order to survive.

The harsh realities and almost Kafkaesque absurdity of the system that the main character finds himself trapped within echo many of Breaking Bad’s social commentaries. Not to mention the all too ignored White Supremacist element in American criminal culture.

RELATED: The Ultimate Breaking Bad Gift Guide

9 Life Without Principle

Johnnie To’s Hong Kong crime drama follows a loosely-connected ensemble of small-time players (a cop, a low-level gangster and a bank teller) as they face morally compromising situations in their collective quest to simply get by in modern life.

Fans of Breaking Bad’s focus on the mundane reality of crime, and the frantic desperation that spawns it, will find a lot of similarities in Life Without Principle. Particularly in its examination of moral equivalency and guilt. To’s following crime movie, Drug War, also being worthy of note due to its similar subject matter to Breaking Bad, despite a more traditional cops and robbers structure.

8 Gangs of Wasseypur (Parts 1 & 2)

If you’re looking for something a little different in your sprawling crime saga then look no further than Anurag Kashyap’s gangster epic, Gangs of Wasseypur, in its complete, two-part glory. Spanning over fifty years of bloody rivalry in the titular Wasseypur neighborhood of India, it sets its scenes and conflicts in rich detail. Ultimately facilitating a gargantuan story of iconic personalities and bitter family feuds.

Wasseypur’s desert landscape and the movie’s shocking violence will bring back memories of Breaking Bad’s alternate take on the kind of tragic crime fable that was more often than not reserved for the American mafia or the metropolitan streets of tourist hubs like New York, Paris or Hong Kong. 

7 Animal Kingdom

Writer and director David Michôd's Australian crime drama concerns a highly dysfunctional family of bank robbers in Melbourne, as they face extinction from a trigger-happy police squad that’s out to finish them once and for all. After the overdose of his mother, 17-year-old Joshua Cody finds himself flung back into this family that his mother attempted to keep him from and he’s irrevocably sucked into their paranoid, murderous, world.

James Frecheville’s performance as Joshua will no doubt conjure up images of Jesse Pinkman being in way over his head. But the whole ensemble, including Ben Mendelsohn’s terrifying sociopath and Jacki Weaver’s unforgettably evil matriarch, evokes the flawless network of performances that went into making the realistic ecosystem of Breaking Bad's drama. Unsurprisingly, the movie has since been adapted into a US-set TV show.

RELATED: Breaking Bad Movie: 10 Questions They Will Have To Answer From The Series

6 Trainspotting

Breaking Bad was a show that you could feel adapting and experimenting to find whatever worked best for a particular idea whilst always striving to feel cinematic. This often draws comparisons to Quentin Tarantino’s mish mashing of genres and techniques (and there are a lot of straight-up references to Tarantino in the show). But there are many distinct similarities, intentional or not, to be found between Breaking Bad and Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting.

There’s a strong resemblance between Boyle’s overall use of cameras, particularly smaller ones attached to actors or props, and Michael Slovis’ cinematography on Breaking Bad. With each of their honest, heartbreaking and wildly creative portraits of drug culture and addiction being of particular note, seen especially in Aaron Paul's and Ewan McGregor's performances as young, disaffected, men trapped within them.

5 Collateral

Jamie Foxx is the underachiever under the wing of a bad element, and Tom Cruise the psychotic mastermind, in Michael Mann’s story of a cab driver forced to drive around and assist a hitman through one night of work across Los Angeles. There’s no drug business but there is more duality, lies, manipulation and towering criminal persona than you can shake a stick at.

The confined space that the lead duo finds itself in, like Breaking Bad’s RV, pushes the pair of actors to create the biggest fireworks out of their characters’ dialogue and dynamic. And sparks do fly. Foxx was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at that year’s Oscars, losing to Morgan Freeman but going on to win Best Actor for Ray that same night.

4 Good Time

Josh and Benny Safdie’s whirlwind crime spree through New York is very reminiscent of Breaking Bad’s DIY, think-on-your-feet perspective of serious crime. Robert Pattinson creates another protagonist so bad that you can’t help but be impressed. His amateur bank robber will do anything to protect his brother and the entire city becomes a playground, or battlefield, in his mission to avoid the cops and get paid.

It’s rare to see a protagonist as devoid of morality as Pattinson's is in anything, let alone a feature film. The realism not only accentuating this but, like Breaking Bad, creating a world where the sharp turns in the story seem all the more genuine and incredible.

RELATED: 10 Facts Behind The Making Of Breaking Bad

3 Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time

Yoon Jong-bin’s chronicling of a particularly corrupt moment in South Korea’s history serves as a fascinating character study that, like Breaking Bad, highlights how the biggest forces in the volatile world of crime are often the wannabes. 

Choi Min-sik provides a Bryan Cranston-esque icon for the era with his performance as a minor customs official with aspirations of criminal kingpinery. His character’s mixture of impressive ingenuity and utter buffoonery demonstrating a range of emotion and dedication to the performance that feels once in a lifetime level good. 

2 A Prophet

Being mostly set in prison doesn’t make Jacques Audiard’s modern crime epic feel any less far-reaching. Like Breaking Bad, it’s bursting with intelligent tricks to make its world feel more real whilst never letting that world feel predictable. Sudden bursts of intense, almost bizarre, violence can inject themselves into the monotony of day to day life at any moment.

From a prison cell, Tahar Rahim’s nobody finds his way in a vast underworld of warring factions, cultures and languages in modern France. As Breaking Bad does, A Prophet serves as much as a time capsule as it does as entertainment.

1 Sicario

If you took all of the tensest, most violent moments from Breaking Bad, condensed them and dialed up their cinematic features into overdrive, then you’d get something like Sicario. Denis Villeneuve’s brief glimpse into the deepest, darkest recesses of the criminal underworld that stretches across nations and governments, is a web of manipulation and swift, ruthless, actions. 

Fans of Dave Porter’s pulse-pounding score in Breaking Bad’s crisis scenes will enjoy Jóhann Jóhannsson’s intensely ominous magnum opus from Sicario. With legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins, similarly, outdoing himself to stunningly convey a world of limitless deception and almost religious evil within the US/Mexico drug trade.

NEXT: 5 Characters We Hope To See In The Upcoming Breaking Bad Movie (And 5 Who Can Stay Away)

source https://screenrant.com/breaking-bad-great-crime-movies/

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What’s on TV Friday: ‘El Camino’ and ‘Little Monsters’

What’s Streaming

EL CAMINO: A BREAKING BAD MOVIE (2019) Stream on Netflix. Over the course of its five seasons, “Breaking Bad” transformed the character Jesse Pinkman from a dewy-eyed, small-time drug dealer into a hardened (if also penitent) desperado. The series began with Jesse (played by Aaron Paul) joining forces with Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a New Mexico high school chemistry teacher who starts cooking and distributing crystal meth to pay for cancer treatment. The last time we saw Jesse — after the drug empire the pair built together had collapsed — he was a scarred man speeding into the night behind the wheel of a stolen Chevrolet El Camino. This sequel, an epilogue of sorts from the series’s creator, Vince Gilligan, picks up the story from there. “It’s a chapter of ‘Breaking Bad’ that I didn’t realize that I wanted,” Paul said in a recent interview with The New York Times. “And now that I have it, I’m so happy that it’s there.”

THE PARTS YOU LOSE (2019) Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. In a curious bit of timing, “El Camino” isn’t the only movie out right now that casts Aaron Paul as a criminal. The actor also stars in this thriller, which was released in theaters last week and is available to rent digitally. Paul plays an injured fugitive who is taken in by a young boy on a snow packed North Dakota farm. The boy, Wesley (Danny Murphy), nurses him back to health as a way of escaping from his mean father (Scoot McNairy) and bullying that he faces because he is deaf.

LITTLE MONSTERS (2019) Stream on Hulu. A petting zoo becomes a playground for the undead in this zombie comedy. The story follows Dave (Alexander England), a wannabe rock guitar player who volunteers to chaperone his nephew’s kindergarten field trip to up his proximity to Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o), a dedicated teacher with a penchant for entertaining students with a ukulele. Unfortunately for the class but fortunately for anybody who enjoys the idea of watching Nyong’o terminate monsters in creative ways, the petting zoo is descended upon by zombies. Nyong’o is “easily the best part of this feeble Australian horror comedy,” Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote in her review for The Times. “Miss Caroline never loses her cool and steadfastly dispatches the lurching attackers,” Vincentelli added. “By the end, she looks like Mary Poppins after a post-apocalyptic Tough Mudder race — and Nyong’o slays both registers.”

TORN APART: SEPARATED AT THE BORDER 8 p.m. on HBO2. This 40-minute documentary follows two sets of mothers and children who were separated from each other last year after trying to cross into the United States at the southwestern border. Though the families (one comes from Honduras, the other Guatemala) manage to get back together, the film makes clear that the separation takes an emotional toll that continues affecting their lives even after they are reunited.

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I was thinking about that thing you said about the universe. Going where the universe takes you? Right on. I think it's a cool philosophy. I was being metaphorical. It's a terrible philosophy. I've gone where the universe takes me my whole life. It's better to make those decisions for yourself.

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My good friends Badger and Skinny Pete.

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Oh I see where we are on this relationship flashback

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love people being idiots, not even sure Jesse killing those two idiots at the welding place adds to his trauma or not, but he certainly got a little bit of release at someone who was there when he was tortured.

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overkill much?

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Jesse's got a piece of Skinny Pete and Badger with him now wherever he's going.....

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ah the designer theatre chairs.

I see you Boris Vallejo