TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I watched The Killing Game.  Didn't like it.

Oh, wait!  I realized I do have a favorite Voyager episode: Tsunkatse.  The Rock!  Jeff Combs!  J.G. Hertzler!  Deathmatches!  YES.

[Martinus]

You guys remember titles of Star Trek episodes? I barely remember the plot. Fucking nerds.

[Ideologue]

Meanwhile, Martinus masturbates to Game of Thrones, a non-nerdy production about elves or somesuch shit.

[celedhring]

That "real-life" events comment probably means the historic events depicted in the series like Reagan's assassination attempt or the SDI. But I really wonder how realistic is the show, regarding what we know of KGB's operations within the US at the time.
And yeah, Stan's character feels more forced than the others, but Emmerich pulls it off, imho.

We will probably never know that. However it is not a new concept....see Telefon(1977) w/ Chuck Bronson and Lee
Remick.

I have seen Telefon. It's great.

Regarding the reboot Trek films. I find the first one entertaining enough, if you forget the old movies and *don't* try to make much sense of the plot. The second one is a cinematic con: it looks like they are making a movie, and there's people talking and stuff on screen, but actually there isn't a movie.

[celedhring]

A teaser advertising the teaser of Ant-Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ent7BoDR1yE

[11B4V]

Fury: ? I dont know what to think of it.

[Sophie Scholl]

The Search for General Tso.  Interesting little documentary about the origin of General Tso's Chicken.  It also doubles as a short history of Chinese immigration and influence on American culture.  I rather enjoyed it.  It certainly isn't deep or overly insightful, but it was informative and answers the old questions of was there a General Tso and where did the dish come from.

[Tonitrus]

Infantry: at your favorite Enterprise.

DS9's gotta be Way of the Warrior.  Probably the best space battle in Trek (film or TV), it also represented a real technical leap.  Plus, it had a scope such as had been rarely seen in Trek... and really only previously in DS9.  (Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast is probably my nos. 2, or 2 and 3 if I need two slots.)

TNG's All Good Things, but The Inner Light is up there.  Best of Both Worlds often tops such lists, but I've found the Borg's absolutely atrocious information security doesn't escape me now like it did back in the 90s.

Can't really speak to Voyager or Enterprise.  I don't know if I've ever seen a particularly great episode of either.  Scorpion probably would be my favorite of what I've seen.

For DS9, I figured there'd be more love for "In the Pale Moonlight". 

[Syt]

Also: The Siege of AR-558

[Ideologue]

Infantry: at your favorite Enterprise.

DS9's gotta be Way of the Warrior.  Probably the best space battle in Trek (film or TV), it also represented a real technical leap.  Plus, it had a scope such as had been rarely seen in Trek... and really only previously in DS9.  (Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast is probably my nos. 2, or 2 and 3 if I need two slots.)

TNG's All Good Things, but The Inner Light is up there.  Best of Both Worlds often tops such lists, but I've found the Borg's absolutely atrocious information security doesn't escape me now like it did back in the 90s.

Can't really speak to Voyager or Enterprise.  I don't know if I've ever seen a particularly great episode of either.  Scorpion probably would be my favorite of what I've seen.

For DS9, I figured there'd be more love for "In the Pale Moonlight". 

It'd be in my top five.

You know what bothers me about Pale Moonlight?  Sisko never mentions any guilt for killing the two bodyguards.  I'd feel a lot worse about them than Vreenak.  That guy was a dick.  Those guys were just doing their jobs.

[Josephus]

I liked the one where Crusher is on the ship alone and the ship starts shrinking upon itself.

A few others too. STNG was the best of the lot.


The only thing that ruined it was the guest supporting actors.

Crusher's boy. Worf's boy. Troi's Mom.

[celedhring]

I used to watch a lot of TNG when I was a teen, but for some reason I really can't remember many particular episodes. It's all a shapeless magma of techno babble, Data being smarmy and Crusher being insufferable, with some cool stuff with Borgs in between.

The "I, Borg" episode is the one I remember indelibly.

TOS I have fresher memories, favorite eps are "The Menagerie" and "City on the Edge of Forever". Honorable mention to "Where No Man Has Gone Before" for being the first Star Trek episode I ever saw.

[Admiral Yi]

Grand Budapest.  I liked it, but I'm not sure how much.

[Ideologue]

Cel: James R. Kirk.   (Now that's nerdy.)

Yi: you loved it.

Infantry: when you can, I'd like to know what you decided on Fury.

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Unprofessonal film reviews, including one that attempts to answer Cel's assertion that the European stuff in Inside Man was no big deal:

Coherence (2014).   I don't know if anyone ever really asked why Twilight Zone episodes were customarily only 25 minutes long, but if they did, they have a definitive answer now.  And, as a bonus, their answer is really, really fucking ugly!  D

Earth to Echo (2014).   An effervescently sweet little piece of boilerplate, and only mildly undermined—surprisingly—by its found-footage conceit.  B+

Inside Man (2006).   The ne plus ultra of the heist genre.  A+

The Imitation Game (2014).  89% of a really good movie!  B+

Deathtrap (1982).  Between Rope and Grand Piano, there was Deathtrap.  A+

[Duque de Bragança]

Need more space Nazis.

Yep, surprised nobody mentioned Patterns of Force (german dub really help in parts as well).