TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

To what extent do you guys think Show Hannibal is capable of empathetic relationships?

Zero.

I disagree.  I think it's completely warped, but weirdly it is there.  He's less classically Anti-Social than just completely, totally warped.  Hannibal is kind of a Milton-y Satan; he is fascinated by humanity, and enjoys it, but derives his best pleasure from observing and warping it.

Don't confuse empathic relationships with transactional relationships.

[CountDeMoney]

Saw a midnight showing of "Big Trouble In Little China" last night, walked in without knowing what to expect.  Oh boy.

That's an awesome pick for a midnight showing.  Better than running Rocky Horror for years.

[katmai]

To what extent do you guys think Show Hannibal is capable of empathetic relationships?

Zero.

I disagree.  I think it's completely warped, but weirdly it is there.  He's less classically Anti-Social than just completely, totally warped.  Hannibal is kind of a Milton-y Satan; he is fascinated by humanity, and enjoys it, but derives his best pleasure from observing and warping it.

Don't confuse empathic relationships with transactional relationships.

[Queequeg]

Saw a midnight showing of "Big Trouble In Little China" last night, walked in without knowing what to expect.  Oh boy.

It was weird seeing Kim Catrall before she replaced her entire body with a Ghost in the Shell like total body prosthesis. 

[Queequeg]

To what extent do you guys think Show Hannibal is capable of empathetic relationships?

Zero.

I disagree.  I think it's completely warped, but weirdly it is there.  He's less classically Anti-Social than just completely, totally warped.  Hannibal is kind of a Milton-y Satan; he is fascinated by humanity, and enjoys it, but derives his best pleasure from observing and warping it.

Don't confuse empathic relationships with transactional relationships.

[spoiler]Fuller has gone on record saying that Hannibal has something approaching real friendship feelings for Will.  He views him as one of the few people on earth capable of understanding his psychology and worthy of understanding him.  He's also gone out of his way to make sure he doesn't have to act against Alana, and I think whatever he did to Abigail he did with a degree of reluctance. 

What I love about the second season is that Hannibal's Magus-y psychic driving is working.  Will Graham is stronger, smarter, and willing to go to the dark places that Hannibal wanted him to go to.  This makes him a far more competent enemy, but I think Hannibal really respects him for it.  I love that Hannibal's response to Graham trying to kill him was "Jolly good try, old sport!"[/spoiler]

[Ideologue]

Saw a midnight showing of "Big Trouble In Little China" last night, walked in without knowing what to expect.  Oh boy.

It was weird seeing Kim Catrall before she replaced her entire body with a Ghost in the Shell like total body prosthesis.

[Queequeg]

Saw a midnight showing of "Big Trouble In Little China" last night, walked in without knowing what to expect.  Oh boy.

It was weird seeing Kim Catrall before she replaced her entire body with a Ghost in the Shell like total body prosthesis.

Glad someone appreciated that.

[Admiral Yi]

My favorite midnight movie is still Disney's "The Jungle Book."

[Queequeg]

I've done The Room a bunch of times, introduced it at Chambana's local art theater a few times. 

[CountDeMoney]

It was weird seeing Kim Catrall before she replaced her entire body with a Ghost in the Shell like total body prosthesis.

Between that and Mannequin, that was plenty of whack off material to think about during Iran-Contra.

[CountDeMoney]

Don't confuse empathic relationships with transactional relationships.

I haven't caught up yet with the episodes.   

[Queequeg]

It was weird seeing Kim Catrall before she replaced her entire body with a Ghost in the Shell like total body prosthesis.

Between that and Mannequin, that was plenty of whack off material to think about during Iran-Contra.

Oh, shit, she was in that.  How ironic is it that the actress most famous for being a mannequin would eventually be made out of plastic? 

[Ed Anger]

Saw a midnight showing of "Big Trouble In Little China" last night, walked in without knowing what to expect.  Oh boy.

That's an awesome pick for a midnight showing.  Better than running Rocky Horror for years.

I went to a Rocky Horror midnight show. Bleh.

[Ideologue]

Saw a midnight showing of "Big Trouble In Little China" last night, walked in without knowing what to expect.  Oh boy.

It was weird seeing Kim Catrall before she replaced her entire body with a Ghost in the Shell like total body prosthesis.

Glad someone appreciated that.

It was good.

The hot one was Charlotte.  Miranda comes in second.

Anyway, almost caved to Habbaku's stupid pressure and gave First Avenger a C+, but I resisted.  No, I haven't watched it since last year, but it went off of Netflix Instant.  Great timing, jerks.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) (and also Captain America: The First Avenger [2011] and a dash of Captain America [1990])

If Captain America: The First Avenger gave us half of one of the best superhero films ever made and half of one of the dullest, Captain America: The Winter Soldier can certainly claim to be more even.

First Avenger:  B
Winter Soldier: C+

Long version, super-spoilery:

http://kinemalogue.blogspot.com/2014/04/william-sadler-is-number-one.html

P.S.: for Money--

[The film] has fully three big ideas, any one of which could have easily carried a highly successful superhero narrative.  (And there's even a fourth!  That is, if you count Steve Rogers' ongoing inability to get along in modern life, newly reframed as a metaphor for the difficulties of soldiers returning to the civilian world, instead of as a metaphor for the disappearance of Greatest Generation gentility in the face of hippies.)  All of these ideas are pretty great (although Cap as an old man unable to get kids off his lawn and unsure if he wants them to remains more interesting than a vet who hasn't figured out how to use his points on USAJobs).

[Ideologue]

Actually, I say "spoilery," but there is only literally one real surprise in the film, and that's only because they don't set up that such [spoiler]Mission: Impossible[/spoiler] technology exists, and I don't even mention that scene, being too concerned with my bitching about how a movie called "The Winter Soldier" is in no way, shape, or form actually about the Winter Soldier.