Interesting statistics about the HBO series Deadwood **NSFW** Warning- This thread has a Wu Rating of 9.6/10
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Originally posted by fpuhan: Is this supposed to be entertaining?
Yes, as a matter of fact- immensely entertaining. This is one of my favorite threads in this forum, and in case you missed it, I'm its creator. Regardless of your feelings about profanity, you seem to be missing something that just about everyone else here knows, and that's that I'll post whatever I Goddamned want, whenever I Goddamned please, and if anyone here doesn't like it, well, that's just too Goddamned bad.
Any more Goddamned questions?
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I tried Deadwood. It was stillborn to me.
As an old girlfriend of mine used to say, your taste is in your mouth.
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March 03, 2019, 06:28 AM
Ronin1069
I’ve never seen an episode, but I absolutely love Westerns; especially now that I find myself playing RedDead2 on XBox.
Still don’t have HBO, but this thread and the discussion about the upcoming movie has me motivated to find this series and watch it post-haste.
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March 03, 2019, 11:12 AM
parabellum
For anyone who might be curious, David Milch explained the rationale for the type and degree of profanity which was used:
The dialogue of this series is nothing short of poetry.
Al Swearengen in the last episode of the series, plotting a deception against George Hearst:
"We show united in the prelude when he’s making his entrance and the fucking like. Comes to viewing the body, I stand for virtue alone. The deception failing, I’ll make a pass at him with my blade. In the aftermath, play the lie as mine, knowing I speak of you in heaven. Others owe thought to the future—their thinking straightforward don’t come that naturally to."
Love it. I love it, most dearly. Oh, but for another season of lines like that. So, brief though it may be, I'm grateful for the film upcoming.
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March 04, 2019, 08:26 PM
Bisleyblackhawk
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Originally posted by Ronin1069: I’ve never seen an episode, but I absolutely love Westerns; especially now that I find myself playing RedDead2 on XBox.
Still don’t have HBO, but this thread and the discussion about the upcoming movie has me motivated to find this series and watch it post-haste.
All seasons are on Amazon Prime...it's a ride! (You will never think about bacon in the same way)
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March 04, 2019, 08:31 PM
Ronin1069
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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:
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Originally posted by Ronin1069: I’ve never seen an episode, but I absolutely love Westerns; especially now that I find myself playing RedDead2 on XBox.
Still don’t have HBO, but this thread and the discussion about the upcoming movie has me motivated to find this series and watch it post-haste.
All seasons are on Amazon Prime...it's a ride! (You will never think about bacon in the same way)
I started yesterday and am 3 epps in already! SO GREAT!
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March 05, 2019, 10:20 AM
highroundcount
You sir have great taste.
I dearly miss the show.
Still laugh my ass off thinking of when Calamity Jane would wake up from being pissed drunk and shout out "CockSucker!"
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March 21, 2019, 01:41 PM
ronnied316
May 31st...
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January 07, 2022, 05:07 AM
parabellum
Revival of an old favorite
January 07, 2022, 10:44 AM
dgshooter
An oldie but a goodie!
January 07, 2022, 12:02 PM
ensigmatic
Had forgotten all about this. Thanks for bumping it, para!
Just added to my list on HBO Max.
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January 07, 2022, 12:09 PM
SIGnified
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Originally posted by parabellum: Revival of an old favorite
Thanks… missed the original.
Agree … fucking poetry in motion; Shakespearean sonnets…
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January 07, 2022, 04:11 PM
Flash-LB
I'm not a prude and believe there's a definite place for profanity, but I watched Deadwood one time and it was like a bunch of teenage boys who have just discovered the holy grail of profanity. It was like profanity for profanity's sake, not for the movie's sake.
Never watched it again.
January 07, 2022, 04:25 PM
SIGnified
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Originally posted by Flash-LB: I'm not a prude and believe there's a definite place for profanity, but I watched Deadwood one time and it was like a bunch of teenage boys who have just discovered the holy grail of profanity. It was like profanity for profanity's sake, not for the movie's sake.
Never watched it again.
Cool story
"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein
January 07, 2022, 05:52 PM
airsoft guy
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Originally posted by Flash-LB: I'm not a prude and believe there's a definite place for profanity, but I watched Deadwood one time and it was like a bunch of teenage boys who have just discovered the holy grail of profanity. It was like profanity for profanity's sake, not for the movie's sake.
Never watched it again.
It's not a John Wayne movie.
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Originally posted by Will938: If you don't become a screen writer for comedy movies, then you're an asshole.
January 08, 2022, 10:38 AM
ensigmatic
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Originally posted by Flash-LB: It was like profanity for profanity's sake, not for the movie's sake.
Nope.
Don't get me wrong: I understand just where you're coming from. The first time my wife and I watched it, I think we got through the first episode and even I, who employs above-average salty language, himself, said "WTH?!?", and passed.
But we kept hearing good things about the series, so, when we could find nothing else to interest us at the time, we decided to see if we could get past the language.
It turned out we could.
Since then I've read some articles about the series. While the exact profanity used in the series isn't period-accurate, the impact on people in our day-and-age is the same impact as the salty language they used back then would've had on people back then. As is, according to historians, the frequency of its use in a place like Deadwood.
See parabellum's post, twelve posts back, for an explanation of why they used the language they did.
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Originally posted by Flash-LB: Never watched it again.
If you can't handle the language you can't handle the language. But you're missing a pretty darn good series.
My wife and I watched the movie, last night. We felt they did a really good job of it.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher
January 11, 2022, 11:57 PM
Merldizzle
San Francisco Cocksucka has stuck with me for some time! Haha
My wife named her uspsa match gun: Trixie And she always reminds me that loopy cun7 had more balls than anyone on that show!
Her practice gun is black and is named after the N General
I haven’t named my guns yet… maybe swedgin and wu would be fitting
January 13, 2022, 12:47 PM
SIGnified
Now all y’all got me rewatching DW … again.
"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein
January 13, 2022, 04:51 PM
rainman64
True story- Back when my ex and I first started dating we watched it together. From episode one, I always called her loopy cunt. As a term of endearment. Through the years she called me cocksucker and I called her loopy cunt. Only in good times. During disagreements I only called her by name.
Today, I find that I am now using cocksucker in many ways.
Work, mainly.
I watch DW every year.
It will be and always has been a poetic story and I find myself quoting it most often.
It surpassed Tombstone for me.
From the git-go I was never offended. But I do find myself wishing Wu lived near me....for working reasons of course.
I believe the fee was 5 dollars?
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January 15, 2023, 09:42 AM
parabellum
Bump for the new year.
January 18, 2023, 07:55 AM
ss9961
Saw this thread bump and immediately had a mental image of Swidgen trying to explain BUMP to Wu. Lots of poking the computer screen and they said cocksucker a lot. Now I need to watch some Deadwood tonight.
