TV/Movies Megathread

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And that is with them shooting a new 40 min ending to the film

Well, they brough in Lindelof, so it's not like another outcome was possible.

Oh man.  When I remembered it was Marc Forster directing (hooray for Quantum of Solace, and fuck the people that bafflingly disliked it but did like Casino Royale and/or Skyfall ), I was a little more enthusiastic about going to see it, then you tell me this.  That guy is a human tumor.

WTF? Actually why am I surprised that you'd be happy with a film that resolves around the tension of water rights in Bolivia.

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Watching In the Loop. Weird seeing this after having watched The Thick of It and Veep. Actors from both casts (though obviously Veep is really the progeny after this) playing different characters apart from Peter Capaldi. Trippy.

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I'm assuming this is to my first post.

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Skyfall , what a pile of shit. When are they changing up the franchise? None of Craig's Bonds has been any good and Eva Green the only memorable Bond girl. And what was up with the new Q? Aren't they 20 years late with that joke? Generally the whole thing was riddled with boring cliches about old > new, in the end I rooted for Bardem to shoot M. Speaking of Bardem, he is a fucking chameleon, wow.

You liked it?

Pay him no mind.
You are, with reservations, right.

I did like it.

Can type now.

I never wrote a review for Skyfall because I didn't know how the fuck I felt about it.  It's a beautiful movie, and often that's (more than) enough.  Maybe if it'd gone for zany, I wouldn't have cared that its plot was 100% premium bullshit, or about the fact that the titular "Skyfall" refers to a GODDAMN HOUSE and the movie involves APPROXIMATELY ZERO space lasers OR space bases (or even commandeered drones, which is what I actually thought it might be about, and which would have furthered that whole "sometimes you need an man with a gun" thing which is not highly developed, along with the "James Bond is getting old" theme which is, ala Dark Knight Rises, practically stillborn insofar as it has no bearing on the film after they bring it up).  And there are some zany bits, particularly with Bardem, but it wasn't zany enough.  Maybe they needed him to be more gay?  That would have helped.

Also, the whole bizarre stable time loop thing with references to super-old Bond movies having occurred yet also not yet to occur--that was weird.

Quantum of Solace was way better.  That's not that damning, I guess, since Quantum was way better than almost all of the thirteen or so I've seen, except Goldfinger, Goldeneye, and the edited version of Moonraker with no speedboat chases instead of two that exists only in my mind.  But Quantum's like an A and Skyfall is like a C+.  (Quantum is the Temple of Doom of new Bond, disliked by many and shortly to be reevaluated by smart people; problem is new Bond has no Raiders and no Crusade, and not even a Skull. )

That said, I guess I can see liking it.  It's got some pretty great parts, that fail to form a coherent whole.  Sometimes that's okay, just not here.

[katmai]

Just came back from cautionary tale of the scourge that is Canadian Jews in Hollywood aka This is the End

Malthus must be stopped!!!!

[Ideologue]

And that is with them shooting a new 40 min ending to the film

Well, they brough in Lindelof, so it's not like another outcome was possible.

Oh man.  When I remembered it was Marc Forster directing (hooray for Quantum of Solace, and fuck the people that bafflingly disliked it but did like Casino Royale and/or Skyfall ), I was a little more enthusiastic about going to see it, then you tell me this.  That guy is a human tumor.

WTF? Actually why am I surprised that you'd be happy with a film that resolves around the tension of water rights in Bolivia.

You're so elite that you're no longer dependent upon water now?

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And speaking of Marc Forster, Quantum of Solace was way better.  That's not that damning, I guess, since Quantum was way better than almost all of the thirteen or so I've seen, except Goldfinger, Goldeneye, and the edited version of Moonraker with no speedboat chases instead of two that exists only in my mind.  But Quantum's like an A and Skyfall is like a C+.  (Quantum is the Temple of Doom of new Bond, except new Bond has no Raiders and no Crusade, and not even a Skull. )

I was almost okay with being like, guys lay off Ide for his movie reviews but then you say something like that.

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And that is with them shooting a new 40 min ending to the film

Well, they brough in Lindelof, so it's not like another outcome was possible.

Oh man.  When I remembered it was Marc Forster directing (hooray for Quantum of Solace, and fuck the people that bafflingly disliked it but did like Casino Royale and/or Skyfall ), I was a little more enthusiastic about going to see it, then you tell me this.  That guy is a human tumor.

WTF? Actually why am I surprised that you'd be happy with a film that resolves around the tension of water rights in Bolivia.

You're so elite that you're no longer dependent upon water now?

Water in Bolivia? Wake me up when I'm supposed to care.

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Look, it could be worse.  It could've been a typewriter in Turkey.

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And anyway the point of that movie isn't the threat, though I disagree and thought it was most excellent--not every villain has to be Hugo Drax or Auric Goldfinger, and the weaselly French guy in Quantum is at least as good as the weaselly French guy in Casino--but Bond being in emotional pain and Camille Bontes accepting his friendship but being sort of disgusted by him.  It's not often ten seconds can make a movie, but her reaction when he tries to kiss her is pretty good.  Also there's building made out of rocket fuel!  I don't think that was up to code.

[katmai]

Than heavens Ide has law degree to fall back on.

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Than heavens Ide has law degree to fall back on.

Something like that.

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Than heavens Ide has law degree to fall back on.

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Look, it could be worse.  It could've been a typewriter in Turkey.

Truly the only settings for the best films.