TV/Movies Megathread

[11B4V]

Easier to buy than the same claim by 11B. 

Sorry, never seen Mad Men. Unsure what claim you mean.

[11B4V]

Is Battle:LA enjoyable as a popcorn flick? It got awful reviews but surely you can't fuck up aliens destroying LA that badly.

It won't make you want to gouge your eyes out.

I thought it was pretty good. 

Horrid. Each to his own.

As did I.  Apparently the Marines were heavily involved in making the movie, so the actions on the on-screen Marines are much more realistic than in most of these movies and it kinda feels like a recruiting spot for the Marines at times.

Better that than The Pacific or Docs on Phantom Fury..eh.

[Eddie Teach]

Sorry, never seen Mad Men. Unsure what claim you mean.

The one about landing every chick you ever set your cap on.

[11B4V]

Sorry, never seen Mad Men. Unsure what claim you mean.

The one about landing every chick you ever set your cap on.

??

[Josquius]

TWD, what a weird episode.

[spoiler]Yeah. The villains aren't really all that villainy (except the apparently good doctor). Which is a nice change.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]
They are running an indentured servant dystopia where the good doctor arranges for another doctor to be killed so he cant be replaced.  [/spoiler]

[spoiler]As I said, except for the doctor.
The whole setup they've got there.... it really isn't outright evil. They're not cannibals, they're not murdering soldiers to try and keep power and performing odd experiments on walkers.
They're the most ambiguous major villains we've had. As you say more of a dystopia than bad, bad, bad.[/spoiler]

[Malthus]

Oh yeah, I also watched The Wicker Man 74 (A) and The Haunting (B+, A+ cinematography, but Marty Scorsese? Turns out he's a puss).

See the classic Nick Cage version.

Not the bees!!!! 

[celedhring]

The original Wicker Man gets a lot of deference, but there's a lot of unintentional hilarity in it too, to be frank. Naked Britt Ekland is truly hot, but that scene is a huge WTF

[Valmy]

Easier to buy than the same claim by 11B. 

Sorry, never seen Mad Men. Unsure what claim you mean.

The claim Berkut just made about a character in the show in the post PW was responding to.  That he gets every woman he comes across.  So...that true for you?

[CountDeMoney]

Crossover with another blogger, I did some old slasher movies, and it was fun:

He uses less comma splices.

Black Christmas (1974).  The real genesis of the modern slasher film, not the inferior Halloween.  Sorority girls are terrorized by CDM.  Police procedural elements mix with horror movie tropes, and it's pretty damned good.  A young Margot Kidder sighted and ogled.  Olivia Hussey is the Final Girl.  Features a great, depressing twist and the line, delivered by Ms. Kidder: "Darling, you can't rape a townie."  B+

You mention that walking lollipop, but you fail to mention Dave Bowman?  Some Kubrick fan you are.

[Malthus]

Just for fun, was watching some early Betty Boop shorts on Youtube.

In the first two I saw, the humour mostly derived from (1) surrealism; (2) Jazz; (3) drug references; and (4) attempted rape.   

I can see why the censors in the 30s had a problem with this ...

[celedhring]

Dragged myself up to episode 6 of Leftovers. I liked episode 6.

Seems to me these "one shot" episodes centered on supporting characters are the best; might be because I find the central conflict really dull.

[Ideologue]

The original Wicker Man gets a lot of deference, but there's a lot of unintentional hilarity in it too, to be frank. Naked Britt Ekland is truly hot, but that scene is a huge WTF

It's my new favorite horror musical.

Oh, Mal, I've seen the remake. "HOWDITGETBURNED?"

Money: I wasn't male gazing at Keir Dullea, though to his credit he is appropriately 1970s fit and thin.

[CountDeMoney]

I have some movie recommendations for you from the '80s, Ide.  Can't remember if I sent them your way before.

Brainstorm with Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood (in her last film), Louise Fletcher, and Cliff Robertson.  I may have recommended it to you once before, but it's a bit ahead of its time. 
Gloria, 1980--the original one.  Gena Rowland rocks in it.  A John Cassavettes production.
In light of your recent John Frankenheimer kick, two with Roy Scheider: 52 Pick Up with a fucked up Clarence Williams III, and The Fourth War, where Roy Scheider and Jurgen Proctnow fuck with each other on the Czech border at the end of the Cold War.

Ide, instead of burning what few Millennial brain cells you have left, have you followed up on any of these?

Brainstorm is just begging for your review.

[Sheilbh]

The original Wicker Man gets a lot of deference, but there's a lot of unintentional hilarity in it too, to be frank. Naked Britt Ekland is truly hot, but that scene is a huge WTF

I find that with 90% of British films from the 70s. Something happened.

Apropos of nothing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN_g2aHK878

[Ideologue]

52 Pick.Up is def in.my Netflix queue.