TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

What happened with Tilapia?

Cal said he thought it was a tasty fish, Larch said he had peasant tastes: vendetta.

Tilapia is pretty bland unless you cook it properly.

[Ed Anger]

The Tilapia incident:

(In the fud thread)

Me: I had tilapia
larch: Durrrrrrrrr, unsustainable fish! Durrrrrrrrrrrr I SMART EURO, YOU DUMB AMERICAN
Me: LOL Wut?
Larch: whoops, wrong fish. Mea Culpa
Me: lol.

[Ed Anger]

That is how I remember it.

[CountDeMoney]

Sounds about right, though.

[Admiral Yi]

In the which thread?

[garbon]

This one.

http://languish.org/forums/index.php/topic,7737.0.html

[Savonarola]

I saw the "Great Performances" production of "King Lear" with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2008.  Ian McKellen was Lear.  This productions, strangely, solves the problem of what happens to the jester by having him hanged by Cornwall's men just after Cornwall has been dragged from stage.  I think the intent was to give Lear's line "And my poor fool has been hanged" a double meaning, but I think that makes it even more confusing.

Gandalf does a great job as Lear, of course.  He even has the perfect hair and beard for the role.   

[Ideologue]

So, I watched Forbidden Planet again the other night and I'm in the middle of writing it up, and I was considering Louis and Bebe Barron's "electronic tonalities."  (TFP's is the first electronic score in film history.)  What I find so interesting is not just how musically weird it is, but formally also: how it bleeds into actual, diagetic sound and becomes unified with it at many points in the movie, from the actual Krell music to the roar of the Id Monster and the sounds of the klystron relays.  Is there anywhere else where a score is used in this or an equally weird fashion?  To define it, I guess I'd call it "are there any other movies where sound effects become music, or vice-versa?  The only one I can think of is The Amazing Spider-Man 2, where Hans Zimmer et al's score becomes a diagetic, visually-represented song that Peter Parker even comments on (he hates it).

I mean, there's dicking with sound, like Gravity (apropos of nothing, after about nine months' of thought I realize that the opening scene is as an effective piece of sound editing as it is a complete bullshit piece of sound editing), but nothing comes to mind where this kind of diagetic/non-diagetic hide-the-ball occurs to the same extent with the score, except perhaps in unapologetic musicals.

Well, either way, it's a really rad score.  It almost wasn't, though: it's a good thing that test audience was the right crowd for the Barrons' work, or else it would've been replaced or heavily supplemented by a more traditinal, instrumental score.

[The Larch]

That is how I remember it.

Yup, that was it. 

[The Minsky Moment]

What happened with Tilapia?

Pairs nicely with Albarino so clearly an error by larch.

[Liep]

The Leftovers pilot. Woah. I'm intrigued.

[dps]

So, I watched Forbidden Planet again the other night and I'm in the middle of writing it up, and I was considering Louis and Bebe Barron's "electronic tonalities."  (TFP's is the first electronic score in film history.)  What I find so interesting is not just how musically weird it is, but formally also: how it bleeds into actual, diagetic sound and becomes unified with it at many points in the movie, from the actual Krell music to the roar of the Id Monster and the sounds of the klystron relays.  Is there anywhere else where a score is used in this or an equally weird fashion?  To define it, I guess I'd call it "are there any other movies where sound effects become music, or vice-versa?  The only one I can think of is The Amazing Spider-Man 2, where Hans Zimmer et al's score becomes a diagetic, visually-represented song that Peter Parker even comments on (he hates it).

I saw an old British horror movie spoof where a team was investigating house that was alleged to be haunted.  At one point, a couple members of the team are moving down a corridor while ominous music plays.  At the end of the hallway, they open a door to find another member of the team sitting there in his underwear playing the ominous music on a cello.  It was a funny scene (and unfortunately, about the best scene in the movie).

That was just a one-off joke, though, and not how the score was used in the rest of the film.

[Malthus]

I'm deliberately late to the party, but right now I am quite enjoying True Detective on DVD. 

The ambiance of this series should provide quite a boost for tourism to Louisiana and East Texas! 

[Eddie Teach]

Three Colors: Red. I liked it.

[Valmy]

Three Colors: Red. I liked it.

The lady in it was hot.  I could never figure out why she kept visiting the old guy.  Probably the whole point of the movie there or something