TV/Movies Megathread

[LaCroix]

manga isn't a proper noun 

[Eddie Teach]

Manga is just as tainted as anime. 

[Savonarola]

Cat People (1942)

A great B-Horror movie; this one had a budget so constricted that the director had to reuse the set from "The Magnificent Ambersons" and could only put the "Monster" in the shadows.  The director (Jacques Tourner) puts this to good use, though and makes an atmospheric, psychological horror film. 

The story concerns a young Serbian woman who is convinced she'll turn into a monstrous cat if she becomes angry, jealous or if she is ever intimate with a man (rawr!).  She gets married anyway and her husband puts up with this for awhile, but falls in love with his office assistance.

The term "Lewton bus," describing a build up of tension only to be broken by something harmless, comes from this film.  Val Lewton was the producer, and the technique is used a couple times in the film; the first time uses a bus.

[Tonitrus]

Lucy certainly wasn't hot, but I wouldn't call her unattractive.

I wouldn't call her unattractive either.  I called her not attractive.  There's a slight difference between the two and I think I'm on the right side of it.  You never thought to yourself, "Lucille Ball, there's a real looker."

Susan Pleshette

Totally agree.  There's no way Bob Newhart is getting within 100 mile radius of that cooter in real life.

Wait...isn't most of the continuity of the Slavic world based on extremely HOTT ladies hooking up with mostly mediocre to ugly schlobs?

[garbon]

Lucy certainly wasn't hot, but I wouldn't call her unattractive.

I wouldn't call her unattractive either.  I called her not attractive.  There's a slight difference between the two and I think I'm on the right side of it.  You never thought to yourself, "Lucille Ball, there's a real looker."

Susan Pleshette

Totally agree.  There's no way Bob Newhart is getting within 100 mile radius of that cooter in real life.

Wait...isn't most of the continuity of the Slavic world based on extremely HOTT ladies hooking up with mostly mediocre to ugly schlobs?

Price of tea in China?

[lustindarkness]

There seems to be a good modern day western I have missed or it was not as good as it seems and I don't remember it. I'll have to watch it.

Unforgiven (1992), Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/

Deficiency corrected, finally made the time to watch it. Excellent movie, just excellent.

But you didn't take the time to deconstruct Eastwood over the course of his career first.  Pfft.

It's what the fucking movie is about, for Christ's sake.  It's not exactly subtle.

You asked why I hadn't seen it yet, and that was why.  So I'd have the context in the genre.  Fuck.

I expect to see at least 2000 words when you review it. I won't read it, but I will count the words.

[Neil]

I like Ide's reviews.  Sure, I don't always agree with him, but I enjoy the thought processes that go into them.  I think that's because we have similar interests, even if he's a bomber weirdo instead of a noble, dignified naval warfare adherent.

[Ideologue]

I just don't like you very much, though I normally don't try to let that bleed into my posting here.

Um, okay.  Fine, I guess.

[CountDeMoney]

But you didn't take the time to deconstruct Eastwood over the course of his career first.  Pfft.

It's what the fucking movie is about, for Christ's sake.  It's not exactly subtle.

You asked why I hadn't seen it yet, and that was why.  So I'd have the context in the genre.  Fuck.

And how'd that turn out?  Did you discover the true meaning of the "Western as film", as opposed to the "Western as film" definition?

[Ideologue]

There seems to be a good modern day western I have missed or it was not as good as it seems and I don't remember it. I'll have to watch it.

Unforgiven (1992), Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/

Deficiency corrected, finally made the time to watch it. Excellent movie, just excellent.

But you didn't take the time to deconstruct Eastwood over the course of his career first.  Pfft.

It's what the fucking movie is about, for Christ's sake.  It's not exactly subtle.

You asked why I hadn't seen it yet, and that was why.  So I'd have the context in the genre.  Fuck.

I expect to see at least 2000 words when you review it. I won't read it, but I will count the words.

That's all I ever asked.

[Ideologue]

I like Ide's reviews.  Sure, I don't always agree with him, but I enjoy the thought processes that go into them.  I think that's because we have similar interests, even if he's a bomber weirdo instead of a noble, dignified naval warfare adherent.

Thank you.

I wonder what I did to the Austrian.

[The Brain]

Elysium. Meh. I'm all for movies that don't have a clear good/bad conflict, but you have to make the audience care at least a little bit about whether people on screen succeed or fail. This poster did not care.

[Ed Anger]

Elysium. Meh. I'm all for movies that don't have a clear good/bad conflict, but you have to make the audience care at least a little bit about whether people on screen succeed or fail. This poster did not care.

Matt Damon eats Ben Affleck's poop.

[Admiral Yi]

Hysteria.  Young, handsome doctor gives society women the monkey finger to cure their "hysteria"  in Victorian England.  Invents vibrator.

Maggie Gyllgenhall looked like a bucket of hell in that Batman movie, but pretty good here.

[katmai]

2 Guns-
Reminded me of something Tony Scott would have made.
Enjoyable time killer with Eddie James Olmos and Bill Paxton as the heavies to Denzel and Marky Mark's heroes.