TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

podophile

I really, really have to work on my dislexia thing when reading online.

I'm never, ever confused when reading a goddam book, but it always happens when reading on a computer screen.

[Duque de Bragança]

Must be really hard on a cellphone screen I guess.

[Syt]

So this is coming to Netflix:

I mean it looks better than those live action movies we got. But it's also adapting one of my least favorite books.

[Grey Fox]

I think that's why it's a series and not a movie.

[Savonarola]

Bananas (1971)

Woody isn't quite there yet; though this is much better than "What's Up Tiger Lilly?" or "Take the Money and Run."  The problem is that it's more like a Charlie Chaplin film, where the plot exists just to string the funny bits together.  Still those bits are really funny for the most part.  There's a lot more hits than misses.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

So this is coming to Netflix:

I mean it looks better than those live action movies we got. But it's also adapting one of my least favorite books.

not to mention that they've already done it before (partially) in the animated film "Le coup du Menhir". It was mixed together with the album where they have that "seeer" over though.

[Savonarola]

Resynator (2024)

A documentary from the SXSW Film Festival and sort of a stereotype; a young woman goes in search of the truth about her late father and discovers the truth about him complete with a lot of interviews and archival home movies.

I was interested in the film because it billed itself as being about the inventor of an early synthesizer (the young woman's father).  That's kind of misleading, the guy was a contemporary of Tom Scholz rather than Robert Moog; and the thing he invented The Resynator is more akin to an enormous effects pedal rather than a synthesizer.  Still it did have its proponents, Peter Gabriel (who is in the film) ordered several (they were never produced.)  The movie isn't about the technology anyway (Gabriel actually comes out and says this) but about the daughter looking for a father she never knew.

I had always pronounced it Moo-g, but I learned from the film that it's actually Moh-g.  Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if it's actually Andrew Loo-g Oldham or Andrew Loh-g Oldham?