TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Finally watched the final episode of Hell on Wheels. I wonder if that's it for the show...sort of running out of ideas now that they sort of settled in Cheyenne. I liked this season, though it meandered a lot around different story lines. Over all though definatley one of AMC's most under rated shows. Far better than Mad Men post season 3.

[11B4V]

Finally watched the final episode of Hell on Wheels. I wonder if that's it for the show...sort of running out of ideas now that they sort of settled in Cheyenne. I liked this season, though it meandered a lot around different story lines. Over all though definatley one of AMC's most under rated shows. Far better than Mad Men post season 3.

One more season (5) it will have.

[Queequeg]

Finally watched the final episode of Hell on Wheels. I wonder if that's it for the show...sort of running out of ideas now that they sort of settled in Cheyenne. I liked this season, though it meandered a lot around different story lines. Over all though definatley one of AMC's most under rated shows. Far better than Mad Men post season 3.

Mad Men's later seasons are vastly superior. 

[Solmyr]

Iron Sky 2 teaser trailer
Putin dance
Jesus attack

This is... going to be awesome.

[celedhring]

Iron Sky 2 teaser trailer
Putin dance
Jesus attack

This is... going to be awesome.

Hum, their crowdfunding campaign isn't looking too good.

[Josephus]

Finally watched the final episode of Hell on Wheels. I wonder if that's it for the show...sort of running out of ideas now that they sort of settled in Cheyenne. I liked this season, though it meandered a lot around different story lines. Over all though definatley one of AMC's most under rated shows. Far better than Mad Men post season 3.

Mad Men's later seasons are vastly superior.

Disagree. Found the first seasons interesting, but after the "set in the sixties" wore off, I found it was getting annoying.

[Viking]

So I need to know. Why do I like the stuff that's made for Justin Bieber fans? Does this mean the golden age of TV drama series is over?

Seeing that you turn your nose up at quality shows like Hell on Wheels and Manhattan, I'd suggest it's a personal failing. 

And like I mentioned to Josq, it's fucking December. Everything's on hiatus so people can travel and watch crappy Christmas specials.

This is what I've been watching the last three months.

Watched the first episode of Hell on Wheels: It pandered to every single Confederate stereotype, my inner Seedy rejected it on those grounds. Plus, the revenge didn't feel as righteous as the count of montecristo like Revenge itself. The Hero was a bad guy in my mind, the whole show felt like it was written by Jubal Early.

Way off base and short sighted. You cant really determine the substance of a show let alone a  main character in one episode.

Well it is, in the absence of recommendations, that's precisely how I do decide what I want to watch. I watch one episode, the episode usually designed to show people what the show is about and who the characters are. I note you didn't give a recommendation. 

[Grey Fox]

Finally watched the final episode of Hell on Wheels. I wonder if that's it for the show...sort of running out of ideas now that they sort of settled in Cheyenne. I liked this season, though it meandered a lot around different story lines. Over all though definatley one of AMC's most under rated shows. Far better than Mad Men post season 3.

Mad men is doing better now but HoW was rating higher for season 1.

I find mad men to have way bigger ratings aura than its actual ratings.

[Grey Fox]

So I need to know. Why do I like the stuff that's made for Justin Bieber fans? Does this mean the golden age of TV drama series is over?

Seeing that you turn your nose up at quality shows like Hell on Wheels and Manhattan, I'd suggest it's a personal failing. 

And like I mentioned to Josq, it's fucking December. Everything's on hiatus so people can travel and watch crappy Christmas specials.

This is what I've been watching the last three months.

Watched the first episode of Hell on Wheels: It pandered to every single Confederate stereotype, my inner Seedy rejected it on those grounds. Plus, the revenge didn't feel as righteous as the count of montecristo like Revenge itself. The Hero was a bad guy in my mind, the whole show felt like it was written by Jubal Early.

Way off base and short sighted. You cant really determine the substance of a show let alone a  main character in one episode.

Well it is, in the absence of recommendations, that's precisely how I do decide what I want to watch. I watch one episode, the episode usually designed to show people what the show is about and who the characters are. I note you didn't give a recommendation.

While I think you should stick with the show & go thru atleast season 1. I totally agree with you ep1 of HoW was a big load of revisionist racist bullshit.

[Eddie Teach]

You're both 'tards.

[11B4V]

So I need to know. Why do I like the stuff that's made for Justin Bieber fans? Does this mean the golden age of TV drama series is over?

Seeing that you turn your nose up at quality shows like Hell on Wheels and Manhattan, I'd suggest it's a personal failing. 

And like I mentioned to Josq, it's fucking December. Everything's on hiatus so people can travel and watch crappy Christmas specials.

This is what I've been watching the last three months.

Watched the first episode of Hell on Wheels: It pandered to every single Confederate stereotype, my inner Seedy rejected it on those grounds. Plus, the revenge didn't feel as righteous as the count of montecristo like Revenge itself. The Hero was a bad guy in my mind, the whole show felt like it was written by Jubal Early.

Way off base and short sighted. You cant really determine the substance of a show let alone a  main character in one episode.

Well it is, in the absence of recommendations, that's precisely how I do decide what I want to watch. I watch one episode, the episode usually designed to show people what the show is about and who the characters are. I note you didn't give a recommendation.

While I think you should stick with the show & go thru atleast season 1. I totally agree with you ep1 of HoW was a big load of revisionist racist bullshit.

Guess I missed that.

[Eddie Teach]

Wings of Desire. Young Hitler is an angel who wishes to be human so he can woo a trapeze artist and so people will hear him when he gives the order to invade Poland. It was awesome. Peter Falk plays himself, except that he is also a former angel and can sense the presence of other angels. Cool soundtrack, with cameos by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Crime and the City Solution. Also, the Berlin Wall.

[Admiral Yi]

Smart move to keep the actual order to invade Poland off screen.  Maintained a more empathetic vibe.

[Eddie Teach]

Aye. Also, wearing a ponytail instead of a tiny mustache made him seem more sensitive.

[Ideologue]

Now, Bob le Flambeur isn't, and that's been sitting in my house for maybe... 70 days?  What's worse is that I know they don't have a lot of copies of it, so I'm probably dicking some French movie enthusiast out of his disc.

Now that's some interesting French noir by Melville. Seminal work I'd say. 

I tried to watch Le Samourai once, but the disc was broken.

I did watch Bob le Flambeur.  The credits go something like "Un film de MELVILLE," which surely isn't pretentious at all.   Also, famous pulp author/public embarrassment August le Breton (Rififi) helped write the dialogue.  But the dialogue really isn't that great, which means that it's quite likely it was Jules Dassin and Renee Wheeler who made Rififi crackle.

On the plus side, it is mildly less misogynistic than Rififi, in that it doesn't involve the torture of a woman in the first ten minutes of the film nor a musical number, by a woman, celebrating their abuse.  Indeed, the hero, Bob, upbraids a pimp for his behavior.  So that was nice.

But even so, guess what?  It's another French heist film [spoiler]with no heist.[/spoiler]  Instead, like Hands Off the Loot, it's another endless hangout movie set in Montmartre featuring an aging hood and his buddies and his enemies and their women, who are more-or-less personality-free prostitutes by any other name.  [spoiler]Then here's an all-too-long anticlimax that isn't handled as deftly as it could have been.[/spoiler]  But, sure, I liked it okay.

I liked Asphalt Jungle and League of Gentlemen and Topkapi and Cruel Gun Story and maybe even Grand Slam better, though.  (Grand Slam has the misfortune of going terribly off the rails in its twist ending.)  As for The Killing and Rififi--shit, it's unnecessary to even compare 'em.

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