TV/Movies Megathread

[Liep]

Pacific Rim. CGI trash, should've skipped it after that terrible character intro with the umbrella. Besides, Rinko Kikuchi isn't a very good actor, or just suffers from bad-director syndrome. Norwegian Wood sucked monkeyballs. But Hellboy was pretty good. Yeah, it's her.

2 why would the fighter jets fly directly into the stationary monster? out of 10

Also, Charlie Day is the new hope.

[Ideologue]

I thought Kikuchi had, like, the only good dramatic performance in the movie.  Not a lot to work with, though.  My memory keeps getting kinder to Pac Rim, because monsters!!!11, but then I force myself to remember the shitty parts.

[MadImmortalMan]

Some episode of Voyager where Chakotay crashes his shuttle on a planet where people talk from a thesaurus. How many damn shuttles were on that ship, anyway? Can they replicate new ones?

[Ideologue]

Some episode of Voyager where Chakotay crashes his shuttle on a planet where people talk from a thesaurus. How many damn shuttles were on that ship, anyway? Can they replicate new ones?

I think something like 30 crashed.  It was a terrible program.

Finally found the time to finish Grand Prix (1966).  Really concretely set out what Rush was missing: namely, someone you cared about fucking dying.  Probably my favorite character, too.

If that's a little too dark (James Hunt and Niki Lauda being real dudes, who did not die till later, though God knows they took enough liberties with their stories that they could have put Hunt into a tree), it's also because the main three racers, Paul Aron (James Garner), Scott Stoddard (Brian Bedford), and Jean-Pierre Sarti (Yves Montano) are given the opportunity to breathe as characters, and it doesn't hurt that they all are constantly in doubt about whether courting death is worth it.  And for what it's worth, Scott Stoddard's struggle to get back into the driver's seat after his crippling accident seems to last more than a night in the hospital.  (I also liked all their respective love interests, who are actually characters in their own right in this movie.)

Thus, while it's never as densely funny as Rush, and the best racing/effects bits are inferior to the best in Rush (the dummy standing in for ____ when _____ goes through the guardrail is, um, a little noticeable), it's sure a lot more emotionally resonant.

(And Grand Prix is on occasion very funny. Toshiro Mifune, reading his lines phoenetically, says the darnedest things.  I was also amused by someone named J.P. Sart(i) musing on the "absurdity" of his life.  )

B+

[Ed Anger]

Some episode of Voyager where Chakotay crashes his shuttle on a planet where people talk from a thesaurus. How many damn shuttles were on that ship, anyway? Can they replicate new ones?

Space 1999 had that same problem. They just kept bringing Eagles out, even though in every episode, it seemed like one crashed/blasted.

[Sophie Scholl]

Arrow returned tonight.  Great show, and it looks like the cast of superheroes is increasing.  Hopefully they keep it to the same standard as season 1.

[jimmy olsen]

Why?  How many grim Godzilla movies about genocide-by-airpower have there been?  Two, or three, if you count Raids Again and Return of?  (Godzilla 1985, at least, is really not so grim; it has the X-1 and cool lasers.)

And how many demonstrably fun, colorful ones about mind control and aliens and aquamen have there been?  About twenty.

Leaving aside the fact that Gojira '54 started it all, when you get down to it, which set of Godzilla films has fired the imaginations of three generations?  The answer is "the one that has Ghidorah in it."

On the other hand, when you try to be fun and colorful, it's entirely possible to get missteps like Pacific Rim, whereas grim is probably easier and more salable.  So I certainly don't begrudge them.  And I totally saw another monster in there, so that's cool.  I still have some hope it won't be totally joyless.

P.S. I also am glad you posted it though.

Is this more what you had in mind?

[Eddie Teach]

I would see that one.

[Viking]

I would see that one.

+1


Get on with it hollywood!

[Ideologue]

Man, I love Godzilla vs. The Thing, but I can understand if some young Americans were disappointed when it turned out he was fighting a giant moth, then her two caterpillar kids.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Agents of SHIELD isn't terribly impressive so far.

Looking forward to watching Arrow though. 

Star Trek Voyager should never have been made.  It was without any redeeming value. 

[garbon]

Star Trek Voyager should never have been made.  It was without any redeeming value. 

[Grey Fox]

Star Trek Voyager should never have been made.  It was without any redeeming value.

You are so wrong. You are Nazi Germany.

[Darth Wagtaros]

How many Nazi episodes did Voyager have? Or am I thinking of Enterprise?  Seemed like there was a time travel episode every few weeks.

[garbon]

How many Nazi episodes did Voyager have? Or am I thinking of Enterprise?  Seemed like there was a time travel episode every few weeks.

I believe you might be thinking about Voyager's holodeck.

Also apparently nazis or neo-nazis featured in Original, NextGen, Voyager and Enterprise.

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Nazi