TV/Movies Megathread

[Capetan Mihali]

They're showing Lawrence of Arabia at the downtown theater on Friday night!   And I've never seen it before, so that's something to look forward to.

I watched Snatch last night.  It was a fun movie.

[Ed Anger]

They're showing Lawrence of Arabia at the downtown theater on Friday night!   And I've never seen it before, so that's something to look forward to.

Don't take your hummus and cottage cheese there.

[Capetan Mihali]

They're showing Lawrence of Arabia at the downtown theater on Friday night!   And I've never seen it before, so that's something to look forward to.

Don't take your hummus and cottage cheese there.

[Ed Anger]

A Languish meme is born.

[Syt]

The local movie museum has a retrospective on 1970s political thrillers from France/Italy. 

[Admiral Yi]

They're showing Lawrence of Arabia at the downtown theater on Friday night!   And I've never seen it before, so that's something to look forward to.

Perfect movie for an olde schoole big screen.

[Admiral Yi]

p.s.  If you need to tinkle, wait for the in-movie intermission.

[Josephus]

Decided to catch American Hustle tonight.  Meh.  Watchable with some good performances, but not worthy of the praise I've seen lavished upon it.  Worth a redbox/netflix/rental, but I wouldn't say droop the price of a ticket on it.  The music is fantastic at the very least.

Thought the music was the best thing about it really

[derspiess]

If you're not going to watch Reds, at least watch Because of Winn-Dixie.

I like to watch Reds before I go to the range.

[viper37]

Turn should begin the same day as Game of Thrones season 4, April 6th.  Looks promising.

[Savonarola]

I consulted a list of pre-Code films, and, duh, it was Tarzan and His Mate.

Tarzan rides a rhinoceros in one scene - a first for film. The rhino, Mary, was imported from the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany. Weismuller did the scene himself, sustaining only minor scrapes to sensitive places from Mary's rough hide.

Way off, though.  It was 1934.

That's the best of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films; Maureen O'Sullivan's nude swimming is an added bonus.   

[Savonarola]

The Penalty (1920)

This is Lon Chaney's breakout film.  He plays a man whose legs were needlessly amputated as a boy, which drove him to a life of crime.  Now, as the ruler of the underworld of San Francisco's Barbary Coast he plans revenge.

The movie is a melodramatic pot boiler (based on a novel by Gouverneur Morris, who also wrote "The Ace of Hearts," the movie version would be Chaney's next big hit.)  It doesn't matter, though, Chaney is the sole reason to see this film.  He ties his legs up and walks on his knees in order to portray the amputee.  He hobbles around on cut down crutches, and climbs up and down ladders with just his arms.  He manages to make his visage twisted and evil, (in fact he models for a sculpture of Satan in one of the films many sub-plots) but then changes it to tranquil when his character plays the piano or discuses art.  It's an amazing performance.

The film plays upon the fears of America right after the First World War; Chaney's characters plan is to have all the malcontent foreign workers riot in the suburbs.  In the imagined scenes as he's describing his plan they gun down police officers.  While the police are busy there he'll loot downtown.  It's also a gritty film by the standards of the day, there's a dope fiend, an on screen murder of a prostitute and a nude model (though you can only see her bottom.)

[CountDeMoney]

If you're not going to watch Reds, at least watch Because of Winn-Dixie.

I like to watch Reds before I go to the range.

Yeah, Annie Hall with her hair pinned up makes me want to shoot stuff, too.

[viper37]

I quite like Intelligence.  Pretty good show, imho.

[garbon]

I tried watching Chozen. Gay white rapper, sure why not?

It was very painful.