TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

  Gays and their gender roles are so reactionary.

[Sheilbh]

Surely Banderas was a bottom.

Gays and their gender roles are so reactionary.

Gays are

[MadImmortalMan]

Netflix for some reason suggests me a lot of G+L movies. I have discovered they are largely formulaic. Not much conflict.

Girl's boyfriend is a jerk. Girl finds other girl and discovers lesbian romance. Boyfriend is a complete asshole beyond what could possibly be expected from a real life person, so there is both lack of accountability for ending it and and moral justification. Girl goes to Mexico with other girl.

I can see it normally, but when they are all exactly the same it's a bit questionable.

[Sheilbh]

Many gay films are an excuse for soft-core porn. Don't know about lesbian films.

Wolf Hall still outstanding

[Martinus]

Many soft-core porn films actually masquerade as gay films. See: Dante's Cove.

[celedhring]

Neill Blomkamp to direct new Alien movie:

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/new-alien-movie-confirmed-at-fox-with-director-neill-blomkamp-1201436551/

Should be interesting.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Netflix for some reason suggests me a lot of G+L movies. I have discovered they are largely formulaic. Not much conflict.

Girl's boyfriend is a jerk. Girl finds other girl and discovers lesbian romance. Boyfriend is a complete asshole beyond what could possibly be expected from a real life person, so there is both lack of accountability for ending it and and moral justification. Girl goes to Mexico with other girl.

I can see it normally, but when they are all exactly the same it's a bit questionable.

Sounds just like everything Lifetime has ever made.

[Admiral Yi]

Banderas is the prettier one, the younger one, the poorer one.  He is the nurturing, mothering one.

How often is a sugar daddy a bottom?

[Martinus]

How often is a sugar daddy a bottom?

I would say 50/50.

[Valmy]

How often is a sugar daddy a bottom?

I would say 50/50.

I think I see the pattern there.

[Martinus]

Nah, I think it's just your hetero mind trying to find a "who is the woman in this relationship" pattern where there is none, really.

The thing about gay relationships is that power dynamic is always negotiated between partners - that is not to say partners are always equal in all things, but this does not fall neatly in the same way it does in most heterosexual relationships.

For example, in a sugar daddy/twink relationship, the sugar daddy may be the dominant party in terms of money and status, but may be the submissive party/bottom in terms of sex. And then, of course, the "bottom" may actually be sexually dominant (hence the term "power bottom"). And then there are relationships where both partners are versatile.

[Malthus]

Ahem.

I caught the opener of a new miniseries about spies in WW2 called "X Company". My kid saw the ads for it, was interested.

It was really, really bad ... my nine year old was pointing out the basic plot holes and impossibilities.  I honestly think he could have written a better basic plot. Yet it is getting good reviews.

What went wrong? Well, the premise is good - Camp X was a real spy-training facility in Ontario, and following the careers of spies trained there seems like an excellent notion for a series.

However, it just seems like they don't trust in the historical material. The first episode had the spies acting in a small French village. The opening scene is of the spies frantically tapping away on their radio, hidden in a church, to ask for instructions ... and you see the receiver of that transmission - back at Camp X. Which is in Ontario (from Carl: "isn't that in North America, a long way from France?"). Turns out why they are frantic is this - they have learned that the Nazis planned to wipe out the whole village, Ledice-style, for supporting the resistance. They want instructions to kill all the Nazis in the village to stop that (from Carl: "Won't the Nazis just send some more soldiers to kill everyone?") ... and so it went. Apparently, in this world, the Atlantic Ocean doesn't exist - at the end, after all the action, you see our spies - flown out of the village, having successfully killed all the Nazis - back at Camp X, still wearing their battle-stained clothes.

[Martinus]

Stop trying to derail the gay sex thread, Malthus.

[Ed Anger]

Canadian TV: 

[Grey Fox]

Canadian TV: 

Half of the American shows are filmed in Vancouver.