TV/Movies Megathread

[katmai]

Watched the first five episode of Arrow...meh

It picks up and gets better.

[Ed Anger]

KFC Bucket Slayer II: Ferguson Hell night

[Ed Anger]

KFC Bucket Slayer III: Tuesday 2.99 Chicken Fried Steak Night

[Admiral Yi]

better stick to your day job....oh wait.

PRAWNED

[Ideologue]

I thought Huntsman depended far too much on the fascination of the viewer with watching Kristen Stewart riding a horse and looking grim.

On the subject of Kristen Stewart however, she did look quite fetching in her boxers in that flick about the space traveling house.

Zathura. I remember watching it for the first time and thinking the sister character was quite hot, then watching the film again several years later (after the Twilight films had already came out) and realizing; "Oh, it's Kristen Stewart!".

Siegebreaker thought the exact same thing, except he was watching Panic Room.

[Kleves]

Fury. A frustrating movie. I really liked a lot of it - [spoiler]the Tiger battle was awesome [/spoiler] - but the ending just went completely off the rails.

[Kleves]

Also, I just watched an episode of Girls und Panzer. It makes for an... interesting contrast with Fury.

[Ideologue]

Fury. A frustrating movie. I really liked a lot of it - [spoiler]the Tiger battle was awesome [/spoiler] - but the ending just went completely off the rails.

You probably missed the point of the movie, then.  You should probably take a knee with Berkut, who is our resident Fury Expert.

[Savonarola]

In honor of All Saint's Day I watched "Murder in the Cathedral" (1951) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FumkQY7T3Z0

It's like the college repertory theater version of TS Eliot's play; a valiant effort, but not a professional piece.  It's and not really a film either, or even a filmed play.  It's more of a filmed recitation of poetry; but what poetry.  I think this is some of the later Eliot's finest verse.

Eliot himself is the voice of the fourth tempter.  The extant version is pared down a bit, and they miss the final chorus of the tempters:

Man's life is a cheat and a disappointment;
All things are unreal,
Unreal or disappointing,
The Catherine wheel, the pantomime cat,
The prizes given at at the children's party,
The prize awarded for the English Essay,
The scholar's degree, the statesman's decoration.
All things become less real, man passes
From unreality to unreality.
This man is obstinate, blind, intent
On self-destruction,
Passing from deception to deception,
From grandeur to grandeur to final illusion,
Lost in the wonder of his own greatness,
The enemy of society, enemy of himself.

[Kleves]

You probably missed the point of the movie, then.  You should probably take a knee with Berkut, who is our resident Fury Expert.

Kind of disappointing as well that [spoiler]a movie that goes out of its way in the beginning to talk about how American tankss are outclassed in combat against German tanks includes a grand total total of one German tank and one tank battle in the entire movie.[/spoiler]

[celedhring]

I thought Huntsman depended far too much on the fascination of the viewer with watching Kristen Stewart riding a horse and looking grim.

On the subject of Kristen Stewart however, she did look quite fetching in her boxers in that flick about the space traveling house.

Zathura. I remember watching it for the first time and thinking the sister character was quite hot, then watching the film again several years later (after the Twilight films had already came out) and realizing; "Oh, it's Kristen Stewart!".

Siegebreaker thought the exact same thing, except he was watching Panic Room.

Shit, I just made the math and I retrospectively fail the Dirty Old Man rule for her in Zathura.

[Admiral Yi]

Dirty Old Man rule is for fucking, not for looking.

[The Brain]

Dirty Old Man rule is for fucking, not for looking.

You don't go to the movies much, do you?

[Josquius]

I've started watching a show called Suits.
I had previously dismissed it as yet another bullshit lawyer show but it is actually pretty good. Gives a nice window into the lawyering world with its "Smart but uneducated in law" lead.

[Martinus]

I watched Maleficent this evening. I liked it. But then I like feminist revisionist fantasy.

To be honest I didn't think it was all that bad either; it's probably the best of all those epic remakes of classic fantasy tales (Alice in Wonderland, Oz, Snow White and the Huntsman, Red Riding Hood) that are popping up lately.

The whole feminist message is hilariously exaggerated though; there's not a single man in that story that isn't either evil or an idiot.

Well, it's not like there were more than 3 male characters in the story to begin with. I liked it as I said but then I am sucker for this new slew of movies. I liked them all and also Frozen and Brave.