TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

Right, I'm going to make a panegyrical movie about the life and times of Reinhard Heydrich, officer, gentleman and all-round fun bloke.

I'd like to watch that.

[Norgy]

Order the Blu-Ray edition, get free leather coat.

[Ed Anger]

[Ed Anger]

I still think David Warner played the best Heydrich. discuss.

[Norgy]

Remember the movie "Fatherland" with Rutger Hauer? Based on the novel by Robert Harris. If it was one novel that deserved better, it was that one.

I've seen a few Heydrichs, a couple of Höss versions and a few Hitler. "Downfall" had Hitler nailed to how I imagine he was. Heydrich would be a demanding role to fill. Not only are you a former navy officer with a dishonourable discharge, you are supposedly the epitomy of Arian Ûbermenschklichkeit, a Gestapo chief, a genius at espionage and yet manage to get killed by a couple of Czech partisans.

[Ed Anger]

a genius at espionage and yet manage to get killed by a couple of Czech partisans.

We all have off days.

[Syt]

Well, one of the girls certainly drank the Kool Aid. And the Jewish lad experienced both German and Polish anti-semitism in a magnificient twofer after escaping.
I imagine it'd be hard to make a drama about the human perspective of Dirlewanger or the likes.

I think the Poles filed a protest at that representation of their valiant partisans.

[Syt]

Remember the movie "Fatherland" with Rutger Hauer? Based on the novel by Robert Harris. If it was one novel that deserved better, it was that one.

I've seen a few Heydrichs, a couple of Höss versions and a few Hitler. "Downfall" had Hitler nailed to how I imagine he was. Heydrich would be a demanding role to fill. Not only are you a former navy officer with a dishonourable discharge, you are supposedly the epitomy of Arian Ûbermenschklichkeit, a Gestapo chief, a genius at espionage and yet manage to get killed by a couple of Czech partisans.

I thought that Kenneth Branagh did a good Heydrich.

The best Goebbels I've seen was irritatingly played by a German comedian in a dramatization of the Stauffenberg assassination and coup attempt (which was better by a mile than that Tom Cruise flick).

[Norgy]

My off-days generally have less fatal consequences, but okay.
"Ferris Heydrich's Day Off" - a fusion of history and comedy. Czech subtitles optional.

[Norgy]

Remember the movie "Fatherland" with Rutger Hauer? Based on the novel by Robert Harris. If it was one novel that deserved better, it was that one.

I've seen a few Heydrichs, a couple of Höss versions and a few Hitler. "Downfall" had Hitler nailed to how I imagine he was. Heydrich would be a demanding role to fill. Not only are you a former navy officer with a dishonourable discharge, you are supposedly the epitomy of Arian Ûbermenschklichkeit, a Gestapo chief, a genius at espionage and yet manage to get killed by a couple of Czech partisans.

I thought that Kenneth Branagh did a good Heydrich.

The best Goebbels I've seen was irritatingly played by a German comedian in a dramatization of the Stauffenberg assassination and coup attempt (which was better by a mile than that Tom Cruise flick).

Branagh was a good Heydrich. The movie as a whole was a major disappointment.

[The Brain]

Ann-Margret documentary on TV. She's such a great woman.

[Tonitrus]

My off-days generally have less fatal consequences, but okay.
"Ferris Heydrich's Day Off" - a fusion of history and comedy. Czech subtitles optional.

Better yet, a post-Czech partisan film comedy, "Weekend at Heydrich's"

[Ed Anger]

Vikings season 2 fulfilled my gore boner.

[spoiler]and for Spellus, Donal Logue bites it hard[/spoiler]

[Queequeg]

Vikings season 2 fulfilled my gore boner.

[spoiler]and for Spellus, Donal Logue bites it hard[/spoiler]

GOD DAMN WHY DID I LOOK AT THE SPOILERS!

[Ed Anger]

I'm still shocked I know how to use the spoiler button. Damn new fangled thingamabobs.