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The rumors of my death have been slightly exaggerated.

I took some time off from writing on here for no good reason and I owe none of you any explanation whatsoever so shut up. ;-[]

Anyway, where was I…

Robocop

Go ahead and skip this one.  Really disappointing.  The cast was solid.  Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) is a really good choice to play…  really any white male.  The guy is some sort of Scandinavian something but he can play anything.  Sam Jackson as Bill O’Reily (not kidding), Michael Keaton as a jobsish ceo of OCP, Omar from The Wire as Lewis (… whatever), Gary Oleman as the scientist dude, and Rorschach as the weapons tech expert who thinks Robocop is a pussy; all that sounds interesting all by itself.

But it’s not.  In the post Iron Man world, the tech itself isn’t as eye catching as it was in the 80’s no matter how much cleaner it looks.  Instead of gleeful social commentary or an interesting plot with an interesting villain (Red would rule these pussies, no worthy gangsters) the movie’s purpose is anti-drone.  Which I would have no problem with in a good movie.  I understand the issue, but that’s no excuse for a boring movie.  So compared with the original, the new film is slicker, less funny, and way boring. Skip it.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

I admit to a possible bias here because I have loved each of Wes Anderson’s films so far.  This one was no different.  Ralph Fiennes plays M. Gustav a(n) famous(infamous) concierge at the Grand Budapest located in the fictional eastern European Republic of Zubrowka.  Many of the hotel’s wealthier regulars seem to visit because they are enchanted by Gustav, who is as an eclectic and beautiful a personality as any Wes has portrayed to date.  Amid the rumblings of the beginnings of World War 2, Gustav is implicated in the murder of one of his wealthy admirers (who left him a priceless painting in her will).  Gustav must prove his innocence while escaping an assassin (Willem Dafoe).  Those of you who are familiar with Anderson will know the indescribable tone of his work; it  abounds here.  Fans and non fans will enjoy this film.  I loved it.  Laughed my ass off.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Marvel studios has been doing a pretty kick ass job with Captain America.  It’s easy to make Cap stupid.  They do it in his comics ALL THE TIME.  I think a good deal of credit goes to Chris Evans who is killing it being nice without acting like Superman (read lame).  This film had me from the opening.  Showing Cap and Widow and Crossbones (not yet but he will be) assaulting a ship (on the water, don’t know why I had to specify that but it felt necessary) was pretty awesome.  The Algerian mercs who they were fighting were lead by Batroc!!!  If you know who that is you read Punisher in the 90’s.  They even gave a little shout out to his colors.  It’s the little things that nerds appreciate.  But the movie is also good.  They take elements of the Winter Soldier story from the comics and combine them with kind of a 70’s conspiracy thriller vibe.  Good thing they have Robert Redford in the movie.  They also introduce Falcon (Anthony Mackie) in a non stupid way (harder than you would think).  The titular Winter Soldier is a Super soldier similar to Cap created by Hydra who is still secretly active.  All kinds of good action here.  I enjoyed the film.

Amazing Spiderman 2

This sucked.  A quick google search will reveal a bunch of hacked Sony emails that shed a little light on why they suck at things.  (They are actually considering doing a 21 Jumpstreet Men In Black team up, not joking) But this film is really stupid.  It covers a whole bunch of the same ground as the Toby MacGuire series and tries to set the stage for the Sinister Six but dammnit it sucks.  Electro comes off as a half assed Dr. Manhattan with less motivation.  The joke is that Andrew Garfield is actually a pretty good Spiderman.  But the movie was so bad I honestly forgot most of it.  Most of the preview material came from the epilogue which made me laugh but Sony needs to just let the property revert back to Marvel.  Swing and a miss.

Godzilla

Fuck this movie.  Instead of being a radioactive monster, Godzilla is the God of Balance who wakes up because we accidentally woke up a couple prehistoric beetles and must fight them to redress the balance.  SHUT THE FUCK UP. Ok so the plot was stupid, we don’t need it this is a Godzilla movie, let’s see some giant things fight!  The movie is actually a bit light on that as well.  So…   Ugh.  Especially in a post Pacific Rim world there’s not near enough smash in this thing.  So again, fuck this movie.

22 Jumpstreet

Loved it.  Nothing here except funny.  Worth a watch.  Channing Tatum is just better than we all thought.  Actually so is Jonah Hill.

How to Train Your Dragon 2

A letdown.  Plot’s not as well thought out as the first one, not as funny, music isn’t as epic.  Your kids will like it probably but meh.

X-men: Days of Future Past

The only reason Fox doesn’t get more shit (and they still catch a good deal of shit) for fucking up this awesome property is because of how badly they aborted the Fantastic Four.  And I’m a larger hater of the FF but I hate Captain America mags too and Marvel Studios can still spin that shit.  It’s not that hard.  This new X-men is waaaay better than any of their Wolverine films.  Which I guess isn’t saying much.  I liked it better than First Class.  Still not saying a whole lot.  Since this is a time travel joint, they used it to retcon alot of the Ratner stuff.  Which is good.  I like Fassbender as Magneto.  Too bad they can’t cast someone else as Wolverine…  Anyway the movie is pretty good.  Wolverine in the future (where mutants have been all but hunted out) is able to time travel (in his own body, it’s very zen) to the 70’s to prevent a murder that kicks off the pogrom.  The action is… medium.  I enjoyed the film overall.  Rumor is that there will be a film where they fight Apocalypse in the 80’s.  I’ll see that.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

This is an Empire Strikes Back level sequel.  Caeser, Maurice, Koba et al are all back.  They’ve established a society that’s, frankly, adorable.  The humans have not fared so well.  Humans come into contact with the smart apes when they attempt to resurrect a hydro electric facility in the forest.  There are peaceful and violent factions in both the human and ape communities and their leaders attempt to navigate the situation.  The effects are so subtle you won’t even notice them.  Caesar for President. This movie is awesome.  See it.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Parts of this movie are good (Splinter fighting, elevator freestyle) but it’s mostly shitty.  Shredder is waaaaaay over the top.  The brothers are decently done but all the human characters are offensive.  The fighting was ok but frankly the 1990 version was better in every single way.  A lot better.  Not mandatory viewing.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Hoo boy!  If you didn’t know Chris Pratt from Parks and Rec, you fucking know him now.  This may be Marvel Studios best film so far.  And it continues to be amazing how well (content) Marvel can do with a relatively obscure property while Fox continues to ruin Wolverine.  Chris is a normal human (or is he) who was abducted by aliens in the 80’s.  He’s something of a space thief now and he double crossed his crew to steal what ends up being an infinity stone.  He is arrested, makes common cause with a giant tree, a talking squirrel, a UFC fighter, and a star trek green chick in prison.  Hy-jinks ensue.  Bradly Cooper brilliantly voices Rocket the squirrel, Vin Diesel is the giant tree (it walks), Dave Batista plays a green version of himself, and Zoe Salenda plays yet another hot alien.  The movie is wonderfully framed by a late 70’s soundtrack (all from a cassette Chris’s mom gave him before she died and he was abducted) and besides being irreverently funny and containing good action, is suprisingly sweet.  I’m sure this made a billion dollars.  Good stuff.  Good cameos: Michael Rooker as Yondu, Josh Brolin as Thanos, Seth Green as Howard the Duck.  Mandatory viewing.

Big Hero 6

Disappointing.  I’m just not a fan of Disney Animation.  First, in their short, Feast, they outline for the record the ways that Pixar is better Disney than Disney.  I thought after Wreck it Ralph that they’d gotten their shit together.  Ralph wasn’t half bad.  Frozen, frankly, sucked.  To clarify, I’m a story guy.  I don’t care how good the soundtrack of a movie is if it’s empty bullshit.  Yeah yeah they’re kids movies.  Bambie was a kids movie.  They shot his mom in the face in the opening credits.  A movie can be a kids movie and still be awesome.  Anyway I was intrigued that Disney was running with an obscure Marvel property here.  (the comic is a Tokyo super hero team) I note they did not include the dude who was created in the nuclear fire of Hiroshima.  A kid and his robot (originally a healthcare provider repurposed as a hero) are the main characters.  And the robot is admitedly charming.  But the plot goes nowhere.  They didn’t put as much effort into the plot as into the main characters and it shows.  There’s about 15 minutes of funny, 20 of cute and the rest is a challenge to remain awake through.  Swing and a miss.

Interstellar

They’ve been trying to make this movie for 10 years.  Spielberg and physicist Kip Thorne started developing it literally 10 years ago.  When Dreamworks switched from Paramount to Disney it lost it’s director.  Then Jonathan Nolan was brought in to firm up the screenplay around 09.  He convinced Paramount to have his brother Chris direct.  Which is just awesome.  I’ve never seen a Chris Nolan film that wasn’t a little amazing.  And…  This one is a home run.  (The Royals make one world series and all my idioms go baseball) In the future earth is suffering.  There is a disease that is slowly destroying our ability to grow food.  The last remaining standout is corn (everyone eats corn everything).  Matt McConaughy is a former astronaut and engineer (careers not really called for at the moment) who (like everyone else) is subsistence farming corn.  His family receives a mysterious message (seemingly from a ghost) that ends up being coordinates.  When he investigates this he discovers a secret NASA like operation.  They are investigating alternate worlds for man to live on while at the same time trying to discover how to manipulate gravity so as to be able to mass transport earth’s population through space.  They had sent out 9 investigators through a recently discovered ‘wormhole’ to 9 different planets.  They have received signals from 3 of them.  McConaughy is drafted into a mission to find a new world for mankind.  Along with several secret missions he of which he is at first unaware.  This film is PHENOMENALLY exciting.  And sad.  And happy.  And funny.  NASA has a couple intelligent androids that almost steal the show.  They seem awkward until they need to move quickly, then you see how what seems like a stiff design is actually rather ingenious.  And they’re pretty funny.  Kind of the anti HAL.  I LOVED this movie.  I loved the depressing future earth that teaches kids the moon landings were fake because they need everyone to be farmers, I love the robots, I love the wormhole, I love the hard truths of realitivity.  It is an amazing film.  It is why we go to the movies.  See it.  Now.

At a certain point in the very near future we’ll try to solve global warming and overdo it.  Not Highlander 2 over do it, more north of the wall over do it.  2nd ice age and all that.  A trillionare model train enthusiast saw this coming and (it should be noted that there is a world spanning train track at this point; no stops in China or India so it’s lightly plausible) maintains survivors and their offspring on a gigantic (really) perpetually moving train.  If the train stops everyone will freeze.  I guess.  They can build a perpetually moving train but not a static heater and walls…

A pause here to note that I can’t think of any reason it has to be on a train other than various metaphors at play.  I have no objection whatsoever to this, I just notice that some viewers’ suspension of disbelief works for indie flicks but is absent for Pacific Rim.  Racists.

Anyway, people who bought a place on the train, and their offspring, are near the front of the train and it goes from 1st class near the front to charity near the back.  The viewer isn’t aware of how the upper classes live as we begin the movie in the charity section.  The poor get delivered bars of (just disgusting) shiny black protein at irregular interviews.  It’s not a happy existence.  The train authority also occasionally steals children from them.  No reason is given.  Chris Evans and others are plotting revolt.  They study and observe the timing of the authority’s appearances and plot.  They are also getting secret messages from somebody near the front of the train with helpful information.

On the appointed day, they go for it.  They wedge the door of their compartment open and make the next one and wedge that too.  Off and running.  They want more….  Well they want to not be oppressed.  Those in authority on the train…  object.  The ensuing fighting is pretty awesome.

Visually this movie is fairly amazing.  In one scene light and its lack are utterly jaw dropping.  Once things get going the intensity keeps increasing.  You will be surprised.  Plot wise there are some similarities to The Matrix (good ones, calm down).  I really liked this movie and there really hasn’t been anything like it.  I haven’t read the graphic novel on which it is based, but it’s in French so I probably never will.  But great flick.  Mandatory viewing.

I never watched the TV show this movie is based on.  The way I understand it was that the character is kind of a one man A-team.  In that he’s living under an assumed name, was a covert something or other back in the day, and helps people who need it.

The movie is roughly the same I think, except it’s more of an origin story.  At the outset Denzel is working at Lowe’s helping a co-worker shed some weight so he can qualify for a job (presumably an upgrade) as a security guard.  Denzel’s a bit of an insomniac and can nightly be found reading a novel at a 24-hour diner.  Where he’s quasi befriended an underage prostitute (trying to help her too, but more in a friendship capacity).  He ostensibly stays out of her business until she ends up hospitalized after a beating from her pimp.  He then attempts to purchase her freedom from the Russian pimp.  The pimp rudely refuses the offer.  Denzel’s character has had light OCD the whole movie and you can tell he’s tightly wound (think sober version of Man on Fire) and he gleefully flies off the handle.  The pimp has a rough night.  And Denzel seems to acquire a taste for more forcefully helping people.  And so the film goes from there.

I liked the movie but it was kind of…  Well sober Man on Fire.  The violence is solid but it kind of peaks in the first sequence.  The following action never quite reaches the coolness of the first encounter.  He also kind of Sherlock style plans out some of the violence beforehand, but that kind of hurts the tone as director Antione Fuqua is going for serious and some of the moves are a tad far fetched.  They’d play better as spontaneous.  Now that I think on it I haven’t liked anything Fuqua has done since Training Day.  So this is better than his usual stuff.

The Russian troubleshooter (called in to find out what happened) could have been a pretty awesome bad guy but isn’t really given anything to do other than react to phone calls and get shot.  Well, that’s not true he does deliver one epic ass beating.  But I think this film suffered from the Superman problem.  Denzel’s character is often too omnipotent in his abilities.  Not that there isn’t some cool shit in the film, because there is.  But one is only moderately concerned about the eventual outcome.

Fun but not at all mandatory viewing.  I hear tell there may be a sequel.  Hopefully with some more competent antagonists.

By the way, Carl, the movie was made in ’85 it’s not part of the title.

Anyhoo, I was put on to this film by a young lady with Mike Tyson’s taste in tattoos.  However, she seems to know good movie.

The film has an interesting production history.  It was Terry Gilliam’s directorial follow up to Time Bandits (kind of weird how I hadn’t seen it now that I think about it).  Gilliam’s original cut was 142 minutes long and Universal (the US distributor) was concerned about the length and the dark ending.  The Universal chairman wanted large recuts and a happier, more consumer friendly ending.  Gilliam refused, and as release was delayed. Gilliam took out a full page ad in Variety urging the release of the original version.  He also conducted private screenings without the studio’s approval which resulted in a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for best picture.  This resulted in the film’s release in 1985.  You following me Carl?

The film is part dystopian 1984ish future part darker Secret Life of Walter Mitty.  Dash of Monty Python.  Note: I have not seen the Walter Mitty film, I refer to the short story.  Jonathan Pryce plays a low level bureaucrat in a society that is seemingly run by incompetent bureaucratic automation.  He doesn’t really give a shit about anything and his free time is spent fantasizing about flying around the countryside and a rather specific looking blonde.

In other parts of the sprawl (read William Gibson fuckface) massively overarmed police seize a man suspected of terrorism.  He dies under torture.  But it wasn’t the right man.  Somebody somewhere misspelled his name.  So the G took and killed the wrong man.  This causes something of a headache as the system can’t admit to a mistake but they have to refund the money they charged the family for the arrest (common practice, arrests cost money).  When Pryce decides to deliver the money in person to solve the problem he sees a real version of the woman from his dreams.  While trying to help her he inadvertently becomes a terror suspect.  Abject chaos ensues.

The film has the tone of a comedy except when it doesn’t.  The times it doesn’t will catch you off guard.  I happened to be eating when I watched this and I had to quit early on when Pryce was speaking to his mother while she was getting cosmetic surgery.  Robert De Niro pops up as a guerrilla handyman.  When Central Services (repair bureaucracy) fucks up Pryce’s AC, De Niro pops up to fix it.  It seems like he’s some sort of freedom fighter but he just wants to fix what’s broken.  It was him the cops were looking for when they killed the wrong man thus setting this whole thing in motion.

This is a must watch.  Just don’t eat during it.  Great ending.  Also, now that I’ve seen this I understand better what Sucker Punch was going for.  Failed at it but I understand the ambition better now.  But yeah, Ox signs off.  Give it a download.

If you’d told me last year that I’d enjoy a movie about legos as much as a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters, I would have shaved your head and locked you in my trunk for punishment.  I mean I’m busy, I can’t punish you right this second.

I enjoyed the shit out of this film.  Attend:

There are two types of people when it comes to legos:  Those who follow the instructions, and those who gleefully ignore them.

Lord Business (Will Farrell) opens the film by defeating Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman) and stealing the kragle (an ultimate weapon).  Vitruvius then prophicizes a special will come to defeat Lord Business and the kragle.  We don’t know who the special is or what the kragle is, but this opening scene cracked me up and was matched by the rest of the film.

Lord Business rules the world (did I mention that everything in this world is legos because that’s important) and demands everything proceed according to strict instructions.  He is secretly opposed by Master Builders who can create anything they want from the lego environment and wouldn’t follow instructions to save their lives.

Emmet is a Fry-like character just plugging away in gleeful obscurity until he accidently comes across The Piece of Resistance.  This is a relic that can destroy the kragle.  Lord Business finds out and trys to kill him.  Emmet is rescued and helped by the Master Builders whose ranks include Vitruvius, Batman, Gandalf, the ninja turtles, Abraham Lincoln, Wonderwoman, the 2002 NBA all-stars, a hybrid unicorn/cat, Superman, Dumbledore, Shakespeare, Green Lantern, and a Ron Swanson cyborg pirate.  Not joking at all.

The film is gleefully insane, funny, and really good.

I’m not completely sure this movie was good.  I think it was, but I’m still not sure.  However I do know one thing:  It was in-FUCKING-sane.

This movie was a true story.  Jordan Belfort is a real person.  Stratton Oakmont was a real company.  I read Jordan’s autobiography, which is even more insane than the movie.  But I digress.

The movie is framed almost as a companion piece to Goodfellas.  We have the same almost gleeful narration by the main character.  Who’s not at all repentant.  He’s sorry he got caught.  Good old Marty Scorsese and writer Terrance Winter (Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire) give us a powerful narrative and sneakily call all of us out.

Jordan rises in the financial industry by 1st pushing penny stocks as if they were good investments (the commission on them is 50% as opposed to 1% on stocks traded on the NYSE or other actual exchanges), then having established his company, using his traders to push stocks he wants (and secretly owns) thereby driving up their value, then finally by secretly taking ownership stakes in companies before taking them public.

He commands absolute loyalty from his employees (followers) by being open handed with his ill gotten gains and creating a highly pornographic workplace.  I’d almost want to work there but I’d either overdose or get the clap inside 3 weeks.

His rise is meteoric and so is his fall.  But the real problem is us.  What do we do when we hear his story?  We want to learn how he did it.  So we can strike it rich.  After Marty calls Jordan out for being a piece of shit, he calls us out for letting him.

Jordan lost all his money and family and went to jail.  He sold out all his loyal employees to the FBI.  But he wrote a book about what he did that sold a metric shitload and he travels around the world being paid multi-thousands of dollars per appearance to teach people how to sell (manipulate).  Most of us want to be like him.  I mean not me, I’m a pillar of morality.

But, like in Goodfellas, we don’t really care about the tragic fall.  We’re in it for the sex, drugs, and rocknroll.  After watching the movie, I really really want to have a quaalude.  There’s a scene involving several ludes that have a “slow fuse” that is immediately classic.

Jonah Hill is actually an actor folks.  He showed us in Moneyball and confirms it here.  He holds his own with heavyweights.  He plays the worst human being most of us have ever seen.  And frankly, it’s hilarious.

Jon Berenthal (Walking Dead) gives a great turn as Jordan’s drug dealer.  His character is also probably the best salesman in the movie.  But he doesn’t need Wall St, he makes too much money with quaaludes.

And Margot Robbie.  Good God she’s great in this film.  1) the aussie absolutely nails the bay ridge accent.  2) She’s hot as all hell.  3) Besides her looks she is an absolute seductress.  And apparently and aspiring dominatrix (the character not the real girl, outside of my brain anyway).  And even if all that weren’t true, she’s a very talented actress.

Enjoy this carnival ride of debauchery.  Try and catch the point but it’s not necessary for enjoyment.

I was like: Oh sweet fuck, they’re rebooting Tom Clancy for the 85th time.

Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and now Chris Pine.

I was fully prepared to skip this one as it wasn’t even made from a Clancy novel.  They were using the character Jack Ryan in a story they made up.  Yawn.  Then I saw that Kenneth Branagh was directing it.  That changed EVERYTHING.

He was in the movie as well, but that doesn’t mean shit.  He has acted in Wild Wild West and Harry Potter 2.  He’ll ACT in a piece of shit.  But he doesn’t DIRECT pieces of shit. Thor could easily have been an effeminate clusterfuck.  He directed the shit out of that.  I think Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most cumbersome plays.  With easily his worst female lead.  However I LOVE Branagh’s film version.  All 4 hours of it.

He has given us a pared down basic spy thriller.  Nothing mind blowing, but a very tight thriller.

It’s actually kind of the plot of Debt of Honor, or at least the financial attack part.  Japan is traded out for Russia, and Branagh himself plays the villain.

Chris Pine plays Jack Ryan who is at a point in his life we’ve really only heard referenced in books.  Although moved up in time.  We see him as a marine, how he injured his back, how he met Cathy, and how he was recruited by the CIA.  He is supposed to be an analyst.  Well kind of, he’s a CIA plant in a Wall St trading house on the lookout for terrorism financing.  I’m pretty sure the CIA isn’t allowed to have domestic operations but whatever.

So when Branagh’s evil Russian oligarch initiates his financial war, Jack is well placed to help.  So spymaster Kevin Cotsner makes him go to Russia to investigate.

Fairly simple plot, very well executed.  It’s no Tinker, Tailor but it’ll do.

I’m pretty sure this film was a terrorist attack on Japan.

The revenge of the 47 ronin (actual event) took place in Japan at the start of the 18th century. It is a true story.       

Basically a group of samurai were left leaderless (masterless samurai are ronin) after their lord Asano Naganori was compelled to commit ritual suicide for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka. The ronin avenged their master’s honor by killing Kira, after waiting and planning for almost two years. In turn, the ronin were themselves obliged to commit suicide for committing the crime of murder.  Numerous fictional accounts of this event exist in Japanese literature as censorship laws used to forbid depiction of actual events.  However historical records accounting the event still exist.

Anyway, this is an attempt to tell the story as a fantasy.  That is to tell it in a fantasy Japan with monsters, demons, elves and the like.  However you cut it, this film is fucking horrible.  I have no issue with the premise.  The tale, while true, has grown into legend and legends lend themselves to fantasy.  But why have fantastical elements if you tell the story with no imagination and make it boring as fuck.

They add a half caste (half European) character in Keanu Reaves.  I, unlike many don’t have an issue with this.  Keanu is not the problem with the movie.  The movie is the problem with the movie.  It’s just boring.

The tatooed Dutch fellow who had his own character poster was in the film for about 38 seconds.

Kira is in league with demons but it is unclear why or who benefits.  And the demons are boring.

Keanu is raised by non-human monks.  It is unclear who they are or if they cast Keanu out or why they help him later or what they want or who they are.  And they’re boring.

One of the ronin hates Keanu.  It is unclear why nor does it have anything to do with the plot.  And it was boring.

This movie is an abortion.  Skip it.

David O Russel is putting together a fairly admirable track record.  Especially in the last few years.  We’ve had The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, and now this fine piece of Amy Adams Sideboob.

Her little (although it’s not like I don’t want to see them) tits are almost a supporting character in the movie.  But that’s in keeping with the theme of the film.  She and Christian Bale are con artists in the 70’s in the tri-state nasal accent area.  And they keep you looking  at a certain spot.  Literally and figuratively.  The audience is a mark and while we’re distracted by ginger tits or even seemingly relevant plotlines they’re robbing us blind.

Bradley Cooper is a FBI agent who busts the pair for fraud.  He then enlists them to entrap congressmen and other luminaries.  Whether or not the persons of interest would have broken the law without Bradley’s nudging is anyone’s guess.

Jeniffer Lawrence plays Christian’s wife.  I’d call her the comic relief except it’s not laugh funny.  She’s also pretty hot in this.  She’s chosen to go through life in a deliberately ignorant fashion and has the, not charm exactly, but something to pull it off.  It’s not just sex appeal, something to do with the promise of co-dependence/submissiveness.  Can’t put my finger on the particular flavor.  You know you shouldn’t engage her but you can’t help it.

Also, fans of Boardwalk Empire will recognize Jack Huston playing a mobster again.  But he has two eyes in this one.

I’ll spare you any more plot details as that’s really half the fun in this one.  David was not slacking off.  Enjoy.