(1) The verdict Given the promising set up, Deadfall can, at best, be described as a disappointment, squandering the majority of its "Lost World" genre inspirations.
Deadwood
Definition:
(n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
(n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material.
Example Sentences:
(1) "What Deadwood did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in and how that brought its own problems."
(2) I wanted the equivalent of the city slickers, from a very different world, turning up in Deadwood .
(3) For the sake of argument, if Deadwood and Battlestar Galactica were about equal through their first three seasons, why should Deadwood get a pass just because it didn't get a chance to have a disappointing finale?
(4) In theory this is the moment of pure patronage in British politics, the hours when the prime minister can ruthlessly remove the ministerial deadwood and driftwood, alongside the politically awkward or dispensable.
(5) Hill directed the pilot of Deadwood and the miniseries Broken Trail, and has movies such as The Long Riders , Geronimo and Wild Bill to his name.
(6) "You can't exactly sit them down and make them watch Deadwood.
(7) Inevitably, this also requires the retirement of political deadwood, which was traditionally accomplished without too much fuss by putting old hands out to the pasture of the Lords (a manoeuvre Yes Minister described as elevation and castration in one fell swoop).
(8) There are peaks, such as Lovejoy and Deadwood, and there are quieter passages, creatively-speaking, such as the mid-1970s ,when he concentrated on becoming a professional party animal.
(9) The development of America and capitalism has interested him particularly since he started making Deadwood in 2004.
(10) It employs and empties the entire filmic bag of tricks – from high-speed time-lapse montages to wide-open landscapes that are more John Ford than anything a revisionist western like Deadwood could ever allow itself.
(11) Robin Weigert ( Deadwood's Calamity Jane ) gives an ambivalent, sympathetic performance as Abby, a sometime interior decorator living outside New York City with her divorce-lawyer wife of two decades and their two sons.
(12) This man-of-the-people routine is probably the aspect of McShane most prized by audiences, and it can't be a coincidence that his two signature roles have been flipsides of the same roguish persona, one charming ( Lovejoy ), the other infinitely scuzzy (Al in Deadwood).
(13) "Jane had been watching Deadwood and realised what freedom was available now in television as opposed to film, where you've got a lot of ... a producer telling you you can't do this or that, and you have a lot of budgetary restraints," said Lee.
(14) His conversation can be rambunctious and matey, but he has a gentle manner, with none of the menace that fuelled the role for which he is now most admired: the late-18th-century brothel-keeper and bar-owner Al Swearengen in the pungent HBO western series Deadwood .
(15) I started imagining being one of those kids and how I would understand the world.” The setting also fed on Gibson’s own upbringing in small-town South Carolina, the film Winter’s Bone and the HBO series Deadwood , about a lawless town during the Gold Rush.
(16) ‘I’ll catch Deadwood on TV sometimes and be drawn in.