TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Already.  Dunno how available it is.

[Ideologue]

Is there a version of The Naked City that doesn't have the narration?

[CountDeMoney]

Is there a version of The Naked City that doesn't have the narration?

Press Mute and turn on CC.  Lulz.

[Ideologue]

I actually checked but Hulu doesn't appear to have it captioned.

[CountDeMoney]

You out-derped me.  Drats.

[Sheilbh]

Insomnia.

[Ideologue]

You out-derped me.  Drats.

I bet you think the narration in The Killing is a real fucking coup, too.  Stanley Kubrick thinks you're a joke.

Insomnia.

Which'un.

[CountDeMoney]

Insomnia.

The Robin Williams one, or the good one?

[CountDeMoney]

You out-derped me.  Drats.

I bet you think the narration in The Killing is a real fucking coup, too.  Stanley Kubrick thinks you're a joke.

Sterling Hayden should punch you in front of a hospital.

[Sheilbh]

Insomnia.

The Robin Williams one, or the good one?

The Robin Williams one.

And it's fine. If, as I do, you enjoy Al Pacino's later high-camp work.

[Ideologue]

You out-derped me.  Drats.

I bet you think the narration in The Killing is a real fucking coup, too.  Stanley Kubrick thinks you're a joke.

Sterling Hayden should punch you in front of a hospital.

Edward G. Robinson should strangle you and blame his coworker for it.

Anyway, The Naked City (1948) is a pretty cool detective movie--Jules Dassin sure knows how to make a thrilling set-piece.  Unfortunately, it is all but made an abomination by producer Mark Hellinger's smug asshole of a narrator.  Just cutting out the narration--literally just removing it from the soundtrack--would make it a B+ or maybe even an A, and improve even the "daily routine" scenes it talks over, since Dassin (as you know or should know) is no slouch at more than adequately constructing scenes without dialogue.

B

Also Nolan's Insomnia is great.  Money's nuts.

[CountDeMoney]

Also Nolan's Insomnia is great.  Money's nuts.

Exhibit #4,342 on why you suck donkey dick, and the attendant donkey balls, as a movie reviewer.

[Ideologue]

But imagine if it had smug narration.  It'd be great.

[Sheilbh]

Also Nolan's Insomnia is great.  Money's nuts.

It is. I mean it's no Devil's Advocate, but it's still great.

[mongers]

'Iron Man' - what a piece of juvenile crap.


Is 'Arbitrage' worth a viewing?