TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Re-watched Margin Call - very good film, better than I remembered. Although I think they could have done more with Demi Moore.

[Syt]

Shower thought on Pluribus - a few episodes back Carol brought the original painting Belladonna by Georgia O'Keefe into her home. Obviously, Bella donna is Italian for pretty woman, and belladonna is a deadly poison ... kind of how she takes in Zosia who is "fuckable" (Carol's words not mine ) but also has the ultimate goal of assimilation.

I'm probably overanalyzing.

[crazy canuck]

That's good Syt

[mongers]

'Game Changers' I think on amazon is interesting, charts the development of video games from the earliest arcade machines through to the first consoles, starting episode is about classic board-games to set the scene for where games went next.

Interesting for the interplay between US and Japanese companies in the early days, Atari FTW. 

[Josquius]

Yeah, it's a sign of how different the world is really that they might as well have been different planets back then.
Honestly as much as the current globalksed system obviously has advantages, I have huge nostalgia for the old days when someone could be mega famous in Yorkshire but totally known outside, where you had singers who were just the local version of foreign artists as there was a niche there, and so on.
And obviously yes. The pure untainted showa Japan of my dreams.
Hell.
Just in the 4 years between me leaving Japan and going back to visit the number of foreigners and level of English had shot up.
Though obviously yes very well a silly thing to say, you're not stuck in traffic you are traffic and so on.

[Admiral Yi]

Re-watched Margin Call - very good film, better than I remembered. Although I think they could have done more with Demi Moore.

You want more on why the character was bad at her job?

[Sheilbh]

Depends what you mean by bad at her job

But I just think she's good in it and under-utilised.

[Admiral Yi]

Depends what you mean by bad at her job

She was poor at managing risk.  She was head of risk management.

[crazy canuck]

Depends what you mean by bad at her job

She was poor at managing risk.  She was head of risk management.

Actually, she was very good at what she did.  She understood the risk.

That is what makes her such a compelling character. She knew what she was doing had enormous risk and she went with it because the money was too good.

She exemplifies everything that was wrong and is now wrong with the system we have built

[Tamas]

I thought the movie very heavily implied that she and the other executives warned the top or at least discussed the risk and decided / was told to go ahead anyways.

Iirc when she and her math guy stays alone with Spacey he starts on a "I told you so" tirade that gets interrupted by the Mentalist re-entering the room.

[Admiral Yi]

She also added "perhaps not as forcefully as I should have."

Whatever narrative you or I choose to attach to Demi and Jeremy's discussion of risk, the fact remains that in the movie, Jeremy takes drastic action after listening to Spock but not after listening to Demi.

[mongers]

Re-watched Margin Call - very good film, better than I remembered. Although I think they could have done more with Demi Moore.

Is this an old enough film that I can watch it?

[Admiral Yi]

I think I've seen it on youtube free.  But those come and go.

[mongers]

I think I've seen it on youtube free.  But those come and go.

I've a couple of stream services, but no I meant in terms of me being a laggard regarding watching recent / 21st century films.