TV/Movies Megathread

[Valmy]

Oh I thought the spoiler tags were discussing Lava.

[Malthus]

Oh I thought the spoiler tags were discussing Lava.

Lava was an animated short about a volcano seeking true love from another volcano, using "lava" as a pun for "love". Need I say more? 

[Ideologue]

It perpetuates the idea that fat old islands deserve hot young islands upon whom to spill forth their hot fluids. Even so, it's terrible.

[Malthus]

It perpetuates the idea that fat old islands deserve hot young islands upon whom to spill forth their hot fluids. Even so, it's terrible.

It would be criminal of you not to add that line to your review. 

[Valmy]

It perpetuates the idea that fat old islands deserve hot young islands upon whom to spill forth their hot fluids. Even so, it's terrible.

See I was just thinking how lava gives birth to land just as love gives birth to us all. And then you had to go there.

[Berkut]

We're talking Inside Out, which is good.

The worst thing ever was Lava, the short preceding it. There's not really much to spoil about it.

Yeah, that was dumb.

[Berkut]

The Island of Not Being a Baby.

I'm looking forward to the sequel where it turns out [spoiler]giving into Sadness is a signal of weakness and makes society despise you.[/spoiler]

I was gonna say that the bit about [spoiler]Sadness being good for you because it signals others to come and give you unconditional support would not be very comforting to a lot of folks for whom no such support was likely ... [/spoiler]

One of the best laughs was at the end: [spoiler] something like 'Puberty button? What's that for? Oh well, it's probably not important ...' [/spoiler]

I thought that [spoiler]The boy's inside feelings going bonkers when he dropped the water bottle and she handed it back to him[/spoiler] was hilarious.

Also, the parents insides during dinner were great.

[Josquius]

I finished watching Ascension- Well....that got silly. I liked the initial concept of a generation ship launched in the 60s, even the reveal that it was secret history rather than alternate history was OK, [spoiler] but then they revealed it was all some big earth based experiment. Well that's.,...dumb. And destroys so much of the appeal- generation ships are such a sci-fi trope and to actually see a show about one was nice. But no. Its US government conspiracy stuff. A greatly overdone genre if ever there was one.
But no, they didn't stop there, they go off into cliched idiotic ideas about evolution, ending with the magic girl (named Christa, OMG! Its Jesus 2; Vagina Time!) teleporting a guy to an alien planet. That this show hasn't been renewed is fine by me. It was like Lost on steroids.[/spoiler]

[Malthus]

I thought that [spoiler]The boy's inside feelings going bonkers when he dropped the water bottle and she handed it back to him[/spoiler] was hilarious.

Carl, age 9, asking about that scene: "why was that funny, dad?"

Me: "oh, you'll see. You. Will. See."

[Ideologue]

Also, the parents insides during dinner were great.

One's mileage may vary, but that part was film-film-breakingly bad for me.  It recovered eventually, but essentially had to rebuild my trust in its sensibilities from scratch.

[viper37]

I finished watching Ascension- Well....that got silly. I liked the initial concept of a generation ship launched in the 60s, even the reveal that it was secret history rather than alternate history was OK, [spoiler] but then they revealed it was all some big earth based experiment. Well that's.,...dumb. And destroys so much of the appeal- generation ships are such a sci-fi trope and to actually see a show about one was nice. But no. Its US government conspiracy stuff. A greatly overdone genre if ever there was one.
But no, they didn't stop there, they go off into cliched idiotic ideas about evolution, ending with the magic girl (named Christa, OMG! Its Jesus 2; Vagina Time!) teleporting a guy to an alien planet. That this show hasn't been renewed is fine by me. It was like Lost on steroids.[/spoiler]

I feel exactly the same

[Admiral Yi]

Celery, I saw a promo for your buddy's flic.  "Self/Less."

On the one hand I saw it on FXM, which is a nothing channel.  On the other hand most movies don't seem to get any paid publicity these days.

[Ideologue]

Self/Less is Tarsem Singh.  I didn't see the Snow White pastiche he did, but I did see The Cell, The Fall, and Immortals.  1/3.  And the 1 is The Cell.  Not a good track record.

Even so, I like sci-fi, so I'll see it.

[Syt]

I like Tarsem Singh movies - I find them aesthetically very pleasing. Unfortunately, his stories are usually not very good.

[katmai]

Celery, I saw a promo for your buddy's flic.  "Self/Less."

On the one hand I saw it on FXM, which is a nothing channel.  On the other hand most movies don't seem to get any paid publicity these days.

If you actually got out much to theaters, you would be seeing it in front of pretty much any movie in trailers past six months..