TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I'll let you know how Lone Ranger is, dude.

BREAKING: it was lame.

I just knew Disney would fuck it up.

More like Gore Verblinski, who is a dull and rather inept filmmaker, financial success notwithstanding.  Disney is a big ol' company, anyway.  They put out of a ton of great stuff, and even under the castle banner, things have been fine when they lucked into hiring a hypercompetent auteur like Joe Kosinski (and thanks to God from the Polish people for Gore V. not being the only high-budget filmmaker whose name ends in "ski").  Bruckheimer is the more blameworthy party here, because he should have known better.

The problem with Disney is that it can only follow the money, so not knowing better they gave the Pirates director a ton of it: and a better Lone Ranger movie could have been made with half, if not a tenth, of the pile of cash he burned to make this semi-turd of a film.

It's pissing me off more the more I think about, what a completely wasted opportunity it was.  The skeleton of an excellent film is there, and I've already refilmed a good quarter-hour of key scenes' worth in my head, which is what I expect a few ten million people are going to be spending their idle minutes doing this weekend.  But they probably needed another director and definitely--direly--needed a punch-up writer.  Some kind of Whedonesque figure could have saved The Lone Ranger, but the call was never raised.

[Admiral Yi]

The Lone Ranger is a pretty stiff and white bread character.  I'm not sure how you could turn it into a good movie.

[CountDeMoney]

effete East Coast elite principles

Define and explain.

[Ideologue]

The Lone Ranger is a pretty stiff and white bread character.  I'm not sure how you could turn it into a good movie.

You could have him played by Tom Cruise.

[Barrister]

The Lone Ranger is a pretty stiff and white bread character.  I'm not sure how you could turn it into a good movie.

Dark Knight-ize him.  Give him a troubled backstory and conflicting motivations.

[Admiral Yi]

Dark Knight-ize him.  Give him a troubled backstory and conflicting motivations.

And have him shoot the shit out of some quasi-innocent people?  I could see that.

[Ideologue]

effete East Coast elite principles

Define and explain.

It's alliterative.

:p

Adherence to naive belief in the efficacy
Of Lockean principles (name checked here)
in a Hobbesian world.
Inability to abandon due process, when due process is boring and lame.
Too much law school.

[CountDeMoney]

Adherence to naive belief in the efficacy
Of Lockean principles (name checked here)
in a Hobbesian world.
Inability to abandon due process, when due process is boring and lame.
Too much law school.

Wilsonhater.   

[Ideologue]

The Lone Ranger is a pretty stiff and white bread character.  I'm not sure how you could turn it into a good movie.

Dark Knight-ize him.  Give him a troubled backstory and conflicting motivations.

Give him basic competence and maybe a hint of masculinity. Also helpful.

[The Brain]

The Lone Ranger is a pretty stiff and white bread character.  I'm not sure how you could turn it into a good movie.

Dark Knight-ize him.  Give him a troubled backstory and conflicting motivations.

Give him basic competence and maybe a hint of masculinity. Also helpful.

Make him more pro-active and in your face, a hip-hop surfer. And rastafari him about 10%.

[Liep]

Just finished Hannibal. Who would've thought Mads Mikkelsen would end up being a creepier and more vicious version of Hannibal than Anthony Hopkins? Great season all around.

[Eddie Teach]

I just wish he would enunciate more. Kinda hard to understand him at times.

[Liep]

I guess I'm used to the accent.

[CountDeMoney]

Just finished Hannibal. Who would've thought Mads Mikkelsen would end up being a creepier and more vicious version of Hannibal than Anthony Hopkins? Great season all around.

Yeah, he totally blew away that role.  Fantastic job.  And as vicious as he is, his mindfucks are just as incredibly subtle.
I don't keep track of television awards, but he's earned his share.

[Ideologue]

The Lone Ranger is a pretty stiff and white bread character.  I'm not sure how you could turn it into a good movie.

Dark Knight-ize him.  Give him a troubled backstory and conflicting motivations.

Give him basic competence and maybe a hint of masculinity. Also helpful.

Make him more pro-active and in your face

I enjoy the reference, but yes, exactly that.