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In Plain Sight
Did anybody catch In Plain Sight on USA on Sunday night?
It's filmed and set here in Albuquerque. It's a pretty standard cop type show. Not my usual thing, but it was interesting seeing how they are using Albuquerque. Lots of it is filmed downtown.
It's filmed and set here in Albuquerque. It's a pretty standard cop type show. Not my usual thing, but it was interesting seeing how they are using Albuquerque. Lots of it is filmed downtown.
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Permalink Reply by Alfredo on -
In my opinion, Breaking Bad is by far the higher quality and more genuine of the two ABQ filmed and set shows...although they are different genres. For the most part I thought Breaking Bad featured a very natural version of Albuquerque, showing both the good and the bad that could potentially exist in this city.
I thought BB also did a nice job of getting a lot of the little details right as well: the drug dealer in the basement being a business graduate from UNM (as opposed to NMU or something), his family owning a furniture store on Menaul (as opposed to some random imaginary street), the wife shopping for expensive jewelry at Gertrude Zachary and even the family drinking a few Santa Fe Pale Ale's at their BBQ.
I always enjoy seeing how the city is used in various scenes in both shows however. It's pretty interesting!
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Permalink Reply by Brendan on -
For people like myself who just aren't willing to pay for cable, you can watch full episodes of In Plain Sight on the USA Network web site. They're available the day after it airs. The actors seem to be getting more comfortable with their roles so it's becoming interesting to watch beyond the "Hey, isn't that at such and so location" factor.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Da Bomb on -
Like Brandon, I don't do cable. There's a cool website (mentioned earlier in this post) called Hulu.com where you can see all the episodes of this show.
There are lots of TV shows and movies that you can watch for free. The other night I watched the "Turkeys Away" episode of "WKRP In Cincinnati".
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Permalink Reply by vashti on -
you can also see full episodes of IPS and other tv shows (old and new) and movies at veoh.com.
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Permalink Reply by Rick James Dean Martin Lawrence Fishburne on -
Personally, I'm still wondering why in "No Country for Old Men" the Desert Sands here in ABQ was passed off as being in El Paso.
Why couldn't they just have the story in big Burque?
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Permalink Reply by The Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space on -
Because it's adapted from a book and El Paso is where that scene happened. I did think it was really weird to see the Desert Sands sign with that little "El Paso" addtion.
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Permalink Reply by Rick James Dean Martin Lawrence Fishburne on
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I know Cormac McCarthy wrote the book, but it seems to me that changing the city from El Paso to Albuquerque wouldn't be too egregious.
Heck, maybe it is...
BTW, are they going to make a movie of The Road?
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Permalink Reply by The Wooden Cow Gallery and Art Space on
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Yes, I heard Viggo Mortenson is going to be in it
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Permalink Reply by Eric Renz-Whitmore on -
Just talked with one of the guys working on the Duke City Shootout about this -- he worked on the shoot out in Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh?!) with Viggo, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron and Guy Pearce.
Said it was going to be good, but dark. Good dark.
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