TV/Movies Megathread

[Savonarola]

The Valley of the Gwangi (1969)

This is "The Lost World" set in the old west .  The lovely (and overdubbed) Gila Golan works for a struggling wild west show near the US-Mexican border.  She meets her ex, James Franciscus, who wants to buy her horse.  Initially she is cold to his advances, but soon the sparks start to fly.  Then Franciscus and British Paleontologist, Laurence Naismith, discover that Gila has a miniature horse, a remnant from the dinosaur age.  They track the horse back to "The Forbidden Valley," but a blind Mexican gypsy woman warns them they will be cursed.  They discover the lost world in the forbidden valley and, after a padded out fight sequence they bring back an allosaurus.  What would you do if you had an allosaurus?  That's right, they put him in the circus for the viewing pleasure of the Mexican public.  At ten pesos a person soon they'll have enough to buy a hacienda complete with burros; but what if the gypsy-woman was right all along?

There isn't enough enough story here to justify the length of the film; but it's worth seeing for the  Ray Harryhausen dinosaurs.  The battle between the allosaur and an elephant is particularly impressive.

[Tonitrus]

The Valley of the Gwangi (1969)

This is "The Lost World" set in the old west .  The lovely (and overdubbed) Gila Golan works for a struggling wild west show near the US-Mexican border.  She meets her ex, James Franciscus, who wants to buy her horse.  Initially she is cold to his advances, but soon the sparks start to fly.  Then Franciscus and British Paleontologist, Laurence Naismith, discover that Gila has a miniature horse, a remnant from the dinosaur age.  They track the horse back to "The Forbidden Valley," but a blind Mexican gypsy woman warns them they will be cursed.  They discover the lost world in the forbidden valley and, after a padded out fight sequence they bring back an allosaurus.  What would you do if you had an allosaurus?  That's right, they put him in the circus for the viewing pleasure of the Mexican public.  At ten pesos a person soon they'll have enough to buy a hacienda complete with burros; but what if the gypsy-woman was right all along?

There isn't enough enough story here to justify the length of the film; but it's worth seeing for the  Ray Harryhausen dinosaurs.  The battle between the allosaur and an elephant is particularly impressive.

So Michael Crichton stole the story. 

[lustindarkness]

Get Hard, funnier than I expected.
Hercules, not as stupid and bad as I expected.

[jimmy olsen]

I recommend not watching Terminator Genesys.

I disagree.  I'm not sure if the multiple overlapping layers of time travel hang together, but it was a damn fine action movie. Great fights, stunts and action set pieces.

Also, on a minor note the young arnold cgi is absolutely increincredible, the most realistic I've ever seen.

[katmai]

Tainted.

[Syt]

the moat realistic I've ever seen.

What would a Terminator movie be without moats!

[Admiral Yi]

Guardians of the Galaxy.  Expected much better based on the talk here.

[Habbaku]

Guardians of the Galaxy.  Expected much better based on the talk here.

Something something assburgers.

[Ideologue]

I am going to see Magic Mike XXL as part of my new tradition for 4th of July.  The cinema I am going to is going to have a male stripper pre-show to the movie. My lawd!

I'm trying to imagine the newspaper headlines if there was a girl stripper pre-show to a movie.

That's a rather different animal and you know it.

Well, not too different, according to the first Magic Mike.

[Martinus]

So I was going to rent Jupiter Ascending this weekend, but having watched a Honest Trailer and Jeremy Jahns's review, I understand it really sucks. Is it worse than Cloud Atlas?

[Liep]

I thought Cloud Atlas was pretty good.

[Martinus]

I thought Cloud Atlas was pretty good.

Same but there is a lot of people who thought it sucked apparently so I figured out that if I ask people this way and get a response that it is "just as bad", I would watch it.

I'm that smooth.

[celedhring]

So I was going to rent Jupiter Ascending this weekend, but having watched a Honest Trailer and Jeremy Jahns's review, I understand it really sucks. Is it worse than Cloud Atlas?

I'm on this boat too. I fancy watching some sci-fi action, but I wonder if it's as bad as reported.

[Josquius]

Yeah, Cloud Atlas was good. Felt a bit too much of itself and could have done with some more Koreans and less of the more mundane past stories but a nice film nonetheless.

[Martinus]

The problem I have with Wachowskis is that, in terms of "mythos" and socio-politics, they are some of my favourite directors out there - it's just that they could use some help from someone who actually knows how to write screenplays.

But as "artists", they are for me with Pratchett, Gaiman and Greenaway.