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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Syt

Oops, my bad. I didn't know Mads had a brother.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Sheilbh

Quote from: Liep on May 14, 2014, 05:05:00 AM
In a comedy? That's highly irregular.
I've not seen any Danish comedies - except the segments on Eurovision :ph34r:

But I love Lars :contract:
Let's bomb Russia!

Ed Anger

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Savonarola

Wolf's Blood (1925)

Deep in the dark Canadian woods two logging companies are at odds.  One company, the Consolidated, starts shooting the loggers from the Ford company.  The foreman, a brawny, strapping lad, sends for the owner and a surgeon.  The owner, a cantankerous anti-Semite... oops, wrong Ford company, this one is led by a lithe twenty year old woman.  She and her fiance, a surgeon, travel into the Canadian wilderness.  The owner is smitten by the foreman, but hesitant to act on her desire.  The foreman is badly beaten by loggers of the other company.  The surgeon, in order to save him gives the foreman a transfusion of wolf's blood (Canadian medical science for the win!)  But, as every graduate of McGill College of Medicine can tell you, when you give a man a transfusion of wolf's blood he becomes a werewolf.  Hilarity ensues when one of the loggers of the rival company has his throat ripped out by a wolf; but perhaps not everything is as it appears.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

jimmy olsen

It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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1 Karma Chameleon point

Syt

Immortals. C+

The story is none too exciting, pretty much run of the mill and rushed at times (don't expect an accurate retelling of Greek mythology here, or a deep message), but this being a Tarsem Singh movie, the visuals are interesting, as you would expect. The stylized pseudo-Greek designs feel more like a stage production, and so does some of the production quality. I think "high budget, stylized classical stage play with CGI to match" would be the best description. In all it created a very unreal, almost dreamlike feeling, which worked pretty well for me, though (YMMV).

The performances range from decent to serviceable. I liked Henry Cavill much better in this one than in Man of Steel. John Hurt does a decent minor part, and Mickey Rourke as the heinous villain is clearly having a lot of fun with his role. I would have liked more Stephen Dorff, though.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Ideologue

The real problem with Immortals is that it ranges from visually stunning to unbelievably boring and static.  The plot doesn't help.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Valmy

Quote from: Malthus on May 13, 2014, 04:25:29 PM
Ask and you shall receive ...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/10/frozen-let-it-go-disney-hit-adolescent-lgbt-anthem?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

The cold never bothered LGBT kids?  Does being LGBT make you prefer cold weather?  That does explain San Francisco.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

garbon

Quote from: Valmy on May 14, 2014, 02:44:40 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 13, 2014, 04:25:29 PM
Ask and you shall receive ...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/10/frozen-let-it-go-disney-hit-adolescent-lgbt-anthem?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

The cold never bothered LGBT kids?  Does being LGBT make you prefer cold weather?  That does explain San Francisco.

Yes, I famously love cold weather...
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

San Francisco- cold. Boston- cold. New York- cold.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

The Brain

Quote from: garbon on May 14, 2014, 02:46:05 PM
Quote from: Valmy on May 14, 2014, 02:44:40 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 13, 2014, 04:25:29 PM
Ask and you shall receive ...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/10/frozen-let-it-go-disney-hit-adolescent-lgbt-anthem?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

The cold never bothered LGBT kids?  Does being LGBT make you prefer cold weather?  That does explain San Francisco.

Yes, I famously love cold weather...

Can I touch your nipples?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Malthus

Quote from: Valmy on May 14, 2014, 02:44:40 PM
Quote from: Malthus on May 13, 2014, 04:25:29 PM
Ask and you shall receive ...

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/10/frozen-let-it-go-disney-hit-adolescent-lgbt-anthem?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

The cold never bothered LGBT kids?  Does being LGBT make you prefer cold weather?  That does explain San Francisco.

Well, the animated sequence *does* feature a glam make-over ...  :hmm:  :P
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

Cold weather gives you an excuse to wear fabulous scarves.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Valmy

Quote from: Malthus on May 14, 2014, 02:51:48 PM
Well, the animated sequence *does* feature a glam make-over ...  :hmm:  :P

Yeah.  Having magical ice powers gives you hair/make up/dress powers to. 
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Ideologue

You can also created sapient life forms out of snow.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)