TV/Movies Megathread

[garbon]

(of which there are a few, a fact I only point out to forestall CountDeKilljoy bitching about nothing):

Oh, bullshit.  I always bitch about something.

Amateur.

[Ideologue]

(of which there are a few, a fact I only point out to forestall CountDeKilljoy bitching about nothing):

Oh, bullshit.  I always bitch about something.

Amateur.

Garbon: bitching formalist.

[celedhring]

Daredevil's trailer for the trailer for the series to be released in April.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3yXDFvybA

I'm actually looking forward to this.

[Ideologue]

Oh, yeah, meant to say I watched Roan Inish like twenty years ago.  I remember it being sweet, but I barely remember it at all.

[celedhring]

Oh, yeah, meant to say I watched Roan Inish like twenty years ago.  I remember it being sweet, but I barely remember it at all.

It's pretty sweet to be frank, the issue is that the film is really slow and most dramatic and exciting stuff happens in flashbacks, which involve characters that don't appear in the "main" story. So it all feels like people talking about times where life was more mysterious and interesting, and the English weren't there to fuck up things. Which is sorta the point of the film, but it makes the actual plot a bit bland and boring. But it's well directed, Sayles creates a feeling of the uncanny with very few elements and a budget that probably amounted to a couple bags of crisps.

I wonder why Sayles disappeared from the face of Earth after the 90s. Lone Star and Passion Fish were great.

[Malthus]

(of which there are a few, a fact I only point out to forestall CountDeKilljoy bitching about nothing):

Oh, bullshit.  I always bitch about something.

Amateur.

Garbon: bitching formalist.

I think is is more a Zen thing.

Don't just bitch about something; be the bitch.

[garbon]

(of which there are a few, a fact I only point out to forestall CountDeKilljoy bitching about nothing):

Oh, bullshit.  I always bitch about something.

Amateur.

Garbon: bitching formalist.

I think is is more a Zen thing.

Don't just bitch about something; be the bitch.

[Jacob]

I wonder why Sayles disappeared from the face of Earth after the 90s. Lone Star and Passion Fish were great.

Apparently he's still producing films, but I guess they don't catch peoples eyes as much. Most recently:

Amigo (2010) - set during the Philippine–American War - and Go for Sisters (2013).

[Sheilbh]

The celebrities in this years Comic Relief Bake Off are (for Brits) actual celebrities

Dame Edna Everage, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders, Lulu, Jonathan Ross, Zoella, Gok Wan, Abbey Clancy   , Sarah Brown, David Mitchell, Michael Sheen, Jameela Jamil, Victoria Wood, Alexa Chung, Chris Moyles and Kayvan Novak

[Ideologue]

Michael Sheen is an actual celebrity.

Edna Everage?  What, does she hail from Lake Woebegone?

[Ed Anger]

Michael Sheen is an actual celebrity.

Edna Everage?  What, does she hail from Lake Woebegone?

I'd take Michael Sheen to Yankee Candle.

[Eddie Teach]

Michael Sheen is an actual celebrity.

Edna Everage?  What, does she hail from Lake Woebegone?

She's a famous drag queen.

[Sheilbh]

Not a drag queen

Edit: For Ide, Dame Edna, the greatest Australian:

[Eddie Teach]

Ok, female character portrayed by a man.

[garbon]

Michael Sheen is an actual celebrity.

I do believe he noted "for brits" but still Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumely are certainly known internationally. The latter was even recently in a well known film!