TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Pornos? Mads Mikkelsen did Valhalla Rising and he still gets roles.

[Admiral Yi]

In last night's Shameless episode (I'm going to stop bothering with calling it Shameless: US because the UK version seems to have disappeared and the US version has eclipsed it) Flip has a chick bunkie.  She's pretty cute too.

Any of you recent/current college kids seen this?  I figured it was just a writer's affection.

[garbon]

In last night's Shameless episode (I'm going to stop bothering with calling it Shameless: US because the UK version seems to have disappeared and the US version has eclipsed it) Flip has a chick bunkie.  She's pretty cute too.

Any of you recent/current college kids seen this?  I figured it was just a writer's affection.

That's not his roommate but his roommate's girlfriend. Actually roomie is a chubby nerdish fellow.

[Admiral Yi]

Asoka

[Ideologue]

Computer Chess (2013).  It's the early 80s and nerds are programming computers to play chess against each other.  Boring fucking garbage with non-actors, a non-plot, and a great deal of non-sense.  Yet it was a minor indie darling, because critics suck.

D+

Gangster Squad (2013).  It's the late 1940s and Josh Brolin is a good cop with a penchant for ultra-violence and a hard-on for fighting crime.  It's occasionally overreaching, all but admits that it's a derivative work, and the artistic betrayal of the excised theater shootout sequence leaves a nasty taste in your mouth, but the rest of the movie washes it clean, and in the final analysis it is an entirely enjoyable noir romp.  Yet it was reviled, because, again, critics suck.

B+

Enough Said (2013).  Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a massage therapist, begins a relationship with James Gandolfini, a fatbody slob, but accidentally acquires his ex-wife, Catherine Keener, a bitch, as a client; the latter woman's war stories poison the relationship, but can they still find a way to love each other?  Tune in and find out, I guess.  This is a tender romance between middle-aged folks who find it hard to love and even harder to trust their own feelings, and it's as reasonably real and touching as it is, ultimately, pretty low impact entertainment.  I liked it okay.  So did everybody else, because critics are, like broken clocks, occasionally if accidentally accurate.

B

[LaCroix]

In last night's Shameless episode (I'm going to stop bothering with calling it Shameless: US because the UK version seems to have disappeared and the US version has eclipsed it) Flip has a chick bunkie.  She's pretty cute too.

Any of you recent/current college kids seen this?  I figured it was just a writer's affection.

what, rooming with girls? i've had female roommates on two separate occasions. three occasions if you include roommates' girlfriends staying over 24/7

[Ideologue]

Oh, and White House Down (2013).  It had its moments.  8,220 of them, which is about 1,500 too many.  Neither terrible nor particularly good, I suppose I did laugh at it quite a bit.

C+

[Admiral Yi]

what, rooming with girls? i've had female roommates on two separate occasions. three occasions if you include roommates' girlfriends staying over 24/7

Room mates, not apartment mates?  In a dorm, assigned by the school?

[Tonitrus]

Watching Hunt for Red October in honor of current events.  The political officer killed near the beginning is named Putin. 

[LaCroix]

Room mates, not apartment mates?  In a dorm, assigned by the school?

oh, roommates in a dormitory. i've never heard of a school that did that

[Admiral Yi]

Fascinating.

[Sheilbh]

Heathers

[garbon]

Heathers

Why do you have to be such a mega bitch?

[Sheilbh]

Because I can be 

[garbon]

what, rooming with girls? i've had female roommates on two separate occasions. three occasions if you include roommates' girlfriends staying over 24/7

Room mates, not apartment mates?  In a dorm, assigned by the school?

Actually Stanford does have some housing/dorms that allow for that for sophomores and up (basically you picked it). I believe those always have two rooms though.

Just found it: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/drupal/housing//apply/gender-neutral-housing