TV/Movies Megathread

[Tonitrus]

Can someone please tell me why I'm watching The Running Man?  LOL

I don't do requests...




But seriously, the Running Man is one of Ahnulds great "bad" movies.

And MCA is HOTT in this one.

[Josephus]

Anyone watch/watching The Fall with Gillian Anderson? She'll always be Scully to me.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Major Payne is on right now.  ONE TUBBY TUBBY   

Anyone watch/watching The Fall with Gillian Anderson? She'll always be Scully to me.

Yeah, watched that on Netflix a few weeks ago.  I liked it. 

[CountDeMoney]

Anyone watch/watching The Fall with Gillian Anderson? She'll always be Scully to me.

I thought she did great in Hannibal;  didn't even recognize her at first.

[Josephus]

Anyone watch/watching The Fall with Gillian Anderson? She'll always be Scully to me.

I thought she did great in Hannibal;  didn't even recognize her at first.

She hasn't changed very much.

[Admiral Yi]

Vera Drake, sweet hearted English home abortionist in the 1950's.  Very sad story.

[Queequeg]

Anyone watch/watching The Fall with Gillian Anderson? She'll always be Scully to me.

I thought she did great in Hannibal;  didn't even recognize her at first.

She hasn't changed very much.

Damn right.  That woman has some impressive combination of skillful plastic surgery and awesome genes. 

[Ideologue]

Still wanna know how a B+ is a pan, Spells.

[Ideologue]

Btw, dude, if you want the two Kurosawa Sanjuro movies on BD at a decent price, which I do, B+N is selling the two-disc set for $35.

[MadImmortalMan]

Anyone watch/watching The Fall with Gillian Anderson? She'll always be Scully to me.

I thought she did great in Hannibal;  didn't even recognize her at first.

I just saw her in Shadow Dancer. Good flick. She was a blonde.

[frunk]

Finally watched Upstream Color.  Much like Primer it makes a single unusual change in the world and lets it play out in weird ways.  Unlike Primer the consequences are a lot easier to follow, what with not involving time travel.  I could describe it, but why take away the fun. 

It's on Netflix Instant, definitely worth checking out.

[Sheilbh]

Vera Drake, sweet hearted English home abortionist in the 1950's.  Very sad story.

Great, great film by Mike Leigh.

[Ideologue]

Finally watched Upstream Color.  Much like Primer it makes a single unusual change in the world and lets it play out in weird ways.  Unlike Primer the consequences are a lot easier to follow, what with not involving time travel.  I could describe it, but why take away the fun. 

It's on Netflix Instant, definitely worth checking out.

I liked it too, but found it far more difficult to get into than Primer, because even though Upstream Color about a vastly different subject matter and themes, Carruth went ahead and made Primer again.  Critics were quick to jump to its defense as "challenging" without understanding how it's challenging.  It's not intellectually challenging, it's aesthetically challenging you to try to connect with these characters, pitting your natural empathy against vignettish editing and the emotional distance Carruth maintains from his characters (despite being one of his characters) at all times.

But yeah, totes recommended nonetheless.

[frunk]

I liked it too, but found it far more difficult to get into than Primer, because even though Upstream Color about a vastly different subject matter and themes, Carruth went ahead and made Primer again.  Critics were quick to jump to its defense as "challenging" without understanding how it's challenging.  It's not intellectually challenging, it's aesthetically challenging you to try to connect with these characters, pitting your natural empathy against vignettish editing and the emotional distance Carruth maintains from his characters (despite being one of his characters) at all times.

But yeah, totes recommended nonetheless.

It's a similar style in that the perspective is over the shoulder, but I wouldn't call them the same film.  In one you have an unreliable narrator who is in control of their own faculties with a situation that is rapidly going out of control, and in the other [spoiler]you are witnessing the destruction and recreation of a woman's personality under the assault of external experiences and feelings that she doesn't understand[/spoiler].

It's a significantly more emotional movie than Primer, and I didn't have any trouble connecting with the main characters.  Any distance was driven by [spoiler]the characters' struggle to cope with a completely alien assault on their minds, without the filmmaker resorting to "visualizing" that struggle beyond what was generating the strange and unusual feelings[/spoiler].

[Ideologue]

Well, okay.  I can buy that.  I still feel like their scenes together were often cut short, or cut oddly, in a way that kept the audience's (well, my) distance.

I really, really, really want to see the new documentary Blackfish about the death by orca of one of SeaWorld's trainers, and the associated scumminess of capturing and caging killer whales.  But of course it's not coming to SC, and is not available as a VOD.  It is out on DVD on Aug 26... in Britain.

Of course, I came to know of it by way of the cocktease trailers that show in Columbia's quasi-shitty arthouse theater when I went to go see The Way, Way Back (playing at a Regal across town, mind, so that's a slot that could have been used for also-previewed, also-not-scheduled Blue Jasmine.* )

*Though that's a little less annoying since afaik that's getting a release of, like, 6 theaters, I think confined to the NYC/LA markets, and maybe Chicago.  Still bothersome.