TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

The Pit and the Pendulum is one of my favorite horror films. I even shot an alternative credits sequence for it when I was at film school, as a class exercise

[celedhring]

The Corman-Poe films are great.

There's actually some notable talents involved in those. Richard Matheson of all people wrote several of them, for starters. Imho the best thing they have going for them (besides Vincent Prince and great art design) is how they capture the fact that Poe stories have preciously little plot, and they are far more introspective and obsessive affairs than narrative ones. A lot of other lesser Poe adaptations just make up more plot to fill in the space of a feature length movie, and it just dilutes their essence imho.

[Syt]

Watched the first episode of Sherlock. That was rather entertaining. 

[crazy canuck]

Watched the first episode of Sherlock. That was rather entertaining. 

You are in for a very entertaining ride.

The only problem is they have made so few episodes to date.

[Josquius]

The Family- Odd film. American mafia family gets relocated to rural France, where everyone speaks excellent English. Has De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones despite being a bland no name film.

[crazy canuck]

The Family- Odd film. American mafia family gets relocated to rural France, where everyone speaks excellent English. Has De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones despite being a bland no name film.

I enjoyed it up until the time it turned into just another gangster shoot em up movie.  Before that it seemed like it was going for an interesting twist but then about mid way the director seemed to say to himself "wait a minute - this is a mob movie" but not a very good one.

[Ideologue]

The Family- Odd film. American mafia family gets relocated to rural France, where everyone speaks excellent English. Has De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones despite being a bland no name film.

It's not. It's Luc Besson. It also sucks a fair amount.

[viper37]

The Family- Odd film. American mafia family gets relocated to rural France, where everyone speaks excellent English. Has De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones despite being a bland no name film.

It's not. It's Luc Besson. It also sucks a fair amount.

Yeah, only the preview was good.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Gave that new show Scorpion a chance. Waste of 10 minutes. 

I knew as soon as the first promo spot was done that the show was going to be horrible.  I;m unusually hard on "techy" media, though.

[viper37]

Stalker.
New cop show.  Nothing really new and inventive here, something I must have seen a dozen times already.

Blue Bloods
I watched one episode of the show at my friend's place, and I totally don't get the hype.  Again, not much here, basic cop show except the family are all cops.

[Ed Anger]

I liked the Family. I liked the GoodFellas bit.

[11B4V]

Ran through the first season of Homeland on season two now.

Very good
Other than Claire Danes' charcter. Only low point of the show. Reminds me of that loopy cunt from Zero Dark Thirty.

[mongers]

Is the De Niro and Travolta film 'Killing Season' worth a viewing?

Given the rage-hate for it on IMDB from Serbian/Balkan reviews, I'm minded to give it a go. 

[Admiral Yi]

Haven't seen that one but it does seem Travolta has had a lot of duds in his second act, since Pulp Fiction.  Like all of them.

[Ideologue]

Haven't seen that one but it does seem Travolta has had a lot of duds in his second act, since Pulp Fiction.  Like all of them.

Broken Arrow.