TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Dolph is so great.

[Josephus]

Walking Dead [spoiler]I like that this season, or half season, they seem to be aiming at the fact that the group is finally really getting dispirited. There's a general sense of "Fuck it, we're done for no matter what we do." Which is how I would expect them to react at some point. they've seen many potential havens, the prison, Terminus, this gated community, etc. and none of them worked. There hope for a cure in Washington was fake.
One thing that pissed me off...when we saw Tyresse in his grave, he didn't seem to have a gash in his forehead...surely someone stabbed his brain, no?[/spoiler]

[Sheilbh]

Snape's important scenes in chronological order:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bradesposito/poor-snape#.uskLEEwjP


Going to go and re-read the books and re-watch the films now.

Introduced my flatmates to the Alan Partridge movie 

[Eddie Teach]

Walking Dead [spoiler]when we saw Tyresse in his grave, he didn't seem to have a gash in his forehead...surely someone stabbed his brain, no?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I thought Rick shot him?[/spoiler]

[viper37]

One thing that pissed me off...when we saw Tyresse in his grave, he didn't seem to have a gash in his forehead...surely someone stabbed his brain, no?[/spoiler]

I noticed it too.

[Ideologue]

Blind bought John Wick today and, also, because I saw it on sale, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.  It was impossible for the former to live up to all its hype (not just Neil's, but, like everybody's), although it is at least very, very, very good.

The latter I'm really sorry I missed back in the day--along with this and The LEGO Movie, it places Lord and Miller as the greatest directorial team in animated feature films since Clements and Musker.  (For those unaware, that's the Disney directors who did Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, and, um, a couple of other movies that I won't bother listing. )  I supposed their involvement would make it good, but it is outright superb, right behind The LEGO Movie itself and is on the very short list of the best animated film of the 00s.  I only say it's not because I still need to catch up with, er, Up.

[Martinus]

So is "Boyhood" actually worth watching or is this movie just a gimmick?

[celedhring]

So is "Boyhood" actually worth watching or is this movie just a gimmick?

It has some really poignant stuff in it, although to me the boy's story wasn't too interesting. What grabbed me was the parents' stories as they age. The boy's story becomes more boring as he grows old, imho, a collection of episodic cliches (ah, his first beer, ah now he does pot, ah the first girlfriend dumps him). But everything involving adults is pretty great. I guess that makes it 50/50.

[Fate]

So is "Boyhood" actually worth watching or is this movie just a gimmick?

Yeah. It's certainly the best movie of the year. My top five being #1 Boyhood, #2 Whiplash, #3 A Most Violent Year, #4 Dear White People, and #5 Wild.

I guess the boy's storyline was especially interesting to me since I know and/or have lived at a lot of the specific locations where he had his experiences. I grew up in Houston (where the father lives), went to college at UT Austin (they go visit UT, hike at Pedernales Falls, and his mom lives in San Marcos), and I've been to Alpine quite a few times and spent a lot of time hiking and camping in Big Bend National Park (that's the location of Sul Ross University where he ends up at college and the final scenes are filmed at Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend).

[Ideologue]

So is "Boyhood" actually worth watching or is this movie just a gimmick?

It has some really poignant stuff in it, although to me the boy's story wasn't too interesting. What grabbed me was the parents' stories as they age. The boy's story becomes more boring as he grows old, imho, a collection of episodic cliches (ah, his first beer, ah now he does pot, ah the first girlfriend dumps him). But everything involving adults is pretty great. I guess that makes it 50/50.

Yep.  Boyhood's a B.

[Ideologue]

That said, the first drunk husband is pretty great.  "I DON'T LIKE SQUASH!" *smash*

[celedhring]

Yeah, everything involving grownups is the pretty great in the movie. The problem with the film is that they burn stages so quickly that they can't really develop anything that happens to the boy, because they are covering so much in 3 hours. So most of his stuff ends up feeling like vignettes unless it's related to the other characters that can stay in the picture throughout: his parents.

[Grey Fox]

Saw the trailer for Straight Outta Compton, the NWA biopic.

I'm into it.

[Martinus]

JON NO. 

[Valmy]

JON NO. 

Sorry man.  But now you know how I felt with Craig Kilborn left.