TV/Movies Megathread

[Syt]

That wasn't the director.

Huh. Thought he was. Anyways, yes - I know that his accent is real. I'm saying it didn't work well with this character, but it may also have been the whiny/high pitched voice. His henchmen (also South Africans) sounded much better.

[Jacob]

So hey, they're going to make a World of Warcraft movie. They're shooting it in Vancouver too: http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/08/world-of-warcraft-filming-vancouver/

[Eddie Teach]

I predict it will suck. WoW's lore is lame.

[Ideologue]

The really heinous thing about the WoW movie is not that it's being done but who's doing it: Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code).  Instead of doing the oft-talked-about sci-fi noir Mute, or at least something else worthy of his talents, he's stuck doing this.  It makes me want to vomit on Hollywood's face.

[Savonarola]

Beneath the 12 Mile Reef (1953)

Set in the brutal and shadowy world of the sponge fishing industry on Florida's gulf coast; this action adventure story concerns two rival factions.  There are the Greeks out of Tampa Bay who's grounds have been mostly exhausted and the WASPs out of Key West who harvest in the Everglades.  The WASPs (or Conches) keep the Greeks out of the 'Glades by violence if necessary.  The only place with bountiful sponges outside the glades is the 12 Mile Reef but, as the scion of the Greek family (Robert Wagner) says, "No one has been to the 12 Mile Reef since it killed my brother."  The WASP family has a beautiful daughter (Terry Moore) and in a farm fresh plot twist she and Robert Wagner fall in love; but she has a jealous and possessive would be boyfriend (Peter Graves.)

There's a fight with a giant octopus as well.  I don't think you could make an underwater adventure film in the 1950s without some sort of battle with a giant cephalopod.

Even the advertisements for the film boast the films anamorphic lens and CinemaScope.  The gorgeous cinematography and the score by Bernard Herrmann do distract from the mundane plot.

[Malthus]

The really heinous thing about the WoW movie is not that it's being done but who's doing it: Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code).  Instead of doing the oft-talked-about sci-fi noir Mute, or at least something else worthy of his talents, he's stuck doing this.  It makes me want to vomit on Hollywood's face.

But they already made a WoW movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRgNOyCnbqg

[Savonarola]

Martyrs of the Alamo (1915)

A Texan "Birth of a Nation" directed by DW Griffith's underling Christy Cabanne (in fact the film is subtitled "The Birth of Texas.")  The film opens with Santa Anna (an inveterate drug fiend who takes part in SHAMEFUL orgies, according to the title cards) occupying San Antonio.   The Mexican army mostly just mills about and lusts after white women.  Santa Anna orders the Texans guns seized.  (That was obviously a bad idea; the American Revolution began because General Gage ordered weapons seized and that was in Massachusetts, imagine how the Texans are going to take it.)  The Texans outwit the Mexicans though and hide their guns.  Then Santa Anna leaves, the Americans (who all wear coonskin caps ) seize a positively baroque looking Alamo and the battle is on.

Unlike most Alamo film this continues on to the Battle of San Jacinto so the film has a happy ending (well not for the Mexicans, but they weren't the target demographic.)  This film also depicts the survivors of the Alamo being executed, which, I understand, was a controversial view at the time the film was made.  The true Texan, of course, never surrenders.  The battle scenes are well done; the non-battle scenes not so much.

[Ideologue]

Santa Anna had shameful orgies and killed Texans?  He's a Goddamned American hero.

[The Brain]

The Texans outwit the Mexicans though and hide their guns. 

Where did they hide them?

[Savonarola]

The Texans outwit the Mexicans though and hide their guns. 

Where did they hide them?

Under a loose board in the floor, Mexicans never think to look there. 

[Ideologue]

The Texans outwit the Mexicans though and hide their guns. 

Where did they hide them?

Under a loose board in the floor, Mexicans never think to look there. 

Fucking Yojimbo Maneuver.  "THE DOOR WAS LOCKED THE WHOLE TIME OMG WHERE IS HE?" "CHECK OUTSIDE."

[crazy canuck]

Beneath the 12 Mile Reef (1953)

Set in the brutal and shadowy world of the sponge fishing industry on Florida's gulf coast; this action adventure story concerns two rival factions.  There are the Greeks out of Tampa Bay who's grounds have been mostly exhausted and the WASPs out of Key West who harvest in the Everglades.  The WASPs (or Conches) keep the Greeks out of the 'Glades by violence if necessary.  The only place with bountiful sponges outside the glades is the 12 Mile Reef but, as the scion of the Greek family (Robert Wagner) says, "No one has been to the 12 Mile Reef since it killed my brother."  The WASP family has a beautiful daughter (Terry Moore) and in a farm fresh plot twist she and Robert Wagner fall in love; but she has a jealous and possessive would be boyfriend (Peter Graves.)

There's a fight with a giant octopus as well.  I don't think you could make an underwater adventure film in the 1950s without some sort of battle with a giant cephalopod.

Even the advertisements for the film boast the films anamorphic lens and CinemaScope.  The gorgeous cinematography and the score by Bernard Herrmann do distract from the mundane plot.

I used to watch that movie on TV when they had Saturday at the movies on the Networks.

[crazy canuck]

So hey, they're going to make a World of Warcraft movie. They're shooting it in Vancouver too: http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/08/world-of-warcraft-filming-vancouver/

If they shot this one near my house (like all the other movies that come to Vancouver and need forrest scenes) I will try to get you guys some pictures of the elven women.

[Sheilbh]

Hunger Games.
1- Better than it had any right to be.
2- When did young adult fiction become dystopian snuff-fests?

[Ideologue]

Hunger Games.
1- Better than it had any right to be.