TV/Movies Megathread

[Queequeg]

He's a fucking Replicant. He's dead in a handful of years. Same with Sean Young.

[garbon]

I agree lame though the Forbes article I read was a bit hysterical. No one should ever hear anything about casting till officially announced! Celebrities will be shamed into doing shitty indie projects!

[Sheilbh]

I agree lame though the Forbes article I read was a bit hysterical. No one should ever hear anything about casting till officially announced! Celebrities will be shamed into doing shitty indie projects!

Hopefully some shitty indie projects will successfully shame Shia LaBeouf away.

[celedhring]

If Prometheus is any indication this will probably suck. But Scott is still an amazing director when working from a good script. Or even just one that doesn't completely suck.

[jimmy olsen]

See?  I didn't ruin anything.

It would have been better if you hadn't spoiled it! 

[garbon]

I agree lame though the Forbes article I read was a bit hysterical. No one should ever hear anything about casting till officially announced! Celebrities will be shamed into doing shitty indie projects!

Hopefully some shitty indie projects will successfully shame Shia LaBeouf away.

I think the best treatment would be if we all ignored him.

[celedhring]

Went to visit some friends who have a little girl that demands to watch Frozen 24 hours a day, so I finally saw it.

I agree with most people on here, it's pretty average. Not bad, but not really great either. I actually like Tangled better, but I think that film's humor appeals more to adults.

[Savonarola]

I saw a collection of shorts from Christie Studios; which is mostly famous for making films that focused on situation comedy rather than destructive slapstick (though they did make some films like that as well.)  The collection also included some shorts of the early sound era; those were awful.  The more I see of short comedy films from that era, the more I'm impressed by Hal Roach.  Somehow his company could make comedy when no one else could.

Like most small studios Christie went bankrupt in the early 1930s.  They suffered both from the damage of the introduction of sound as well as  the depression.

[Syt]

The Alamo (1960). Good movie, that manages to create a surprising amount of sympathy for pro-slavery rebels against legitimate government authority.

B-

[The Brain]

Santa Reno.

[Eddie Teach]

Ender's Game. Book was better.

[Ideologue]

Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack (2001).  Hard to believe that this is 1)a film by Shusuke Kaneko, the man behind the Heisei Gamera trilogy and the Death Note live action adaptations, all of which range between "really good" and "fucking great, and 2)that it is a beloved entry into the Godzilla franchise.  On both counts, the reason this is hard to believe is that GMK is pretty actively atrocious, and possibly the worst Godzilla movie I've ever seen (bar, perhaps, Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, and with the caveat that I've never seen the two Minilla pictures).

Like most of the Millennium series of Godzilla pictures, this is a one-off direct sequel to the '54 film, with no continuity with any other film.  Godzilla has returned to destroy Japan.  He is opposed by Guardian Monsters, a grab-bag of repurposed Toho classics: Baragon (last seen in Frankenstein Conquers the World), Mothra, and King Ghidorah.

Plagued throughout by marginal human drama, dodgy turn of the century CGI, unlovely monster design, the decisions to remove the idioscyncratic personality from Mothra and to turn Ghidorah into a hero, and a story based on outright and extremely stupid magic (Godzilla is the embodiment of Pacific War dead--no, really), the only thing GMK has going for it are a few well-staged (if often poorly-composited) monster fights, although even those wind up undermined by the complete lack of rules the shift into fantasy brings.  Overall, it's a pretty terrible film.

C

[jimmy olsen]

Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack (2001).  Hard to believe that this is 1)a film by Shusuke Kaneko, the man behind the Heisei Gamera trilogy and the Death Note live action adaptations, all of which range between "really good" and "fucking great,

I bet you can't wait for his next film!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89j3ei6vr4s

[jimmy olsen]

Went to visit some friends who have a little girl that demands to watch Frozen 24 hours a day, so I finally saw it.

I agree with most people on here, it's pretty average. Not bad, but not really great either. I actually like Tangled better, but I think that film's humor appeals more to adults.

Frozen had a dick size joke and a bestiality joke. I don't remember Tangled going that far.

[The Brain]

Dick size isn't a laughing matter.