TV/Movies Megathread

[garbon]

Now you've got me musing who pitches and who catches.

God damn you to hell.

Oh that comes up in the movie. I assume they do it both ways, but Purefoy tells a group of "straight" men about what it is like to be on the receiving end.  He says that it feels weird at first but then you eventually can't get enough.

[Eddie Teach]

How am I supposed to believe Purefoy as a hard-nosed and morally corrupt general whose only lusts in life are women, conquest and murder when I know that he's been fucking McKidd.

It's called *acting*. If he's any good you should be able to separate the character from the actor/other characters he's played.

[Ed Anger]

Watched Gangs of New York. It was pretty decent, but I can see why it didn't go over as well as you would expect. It was a bit...disjointed? Maybe that isn't the right word.

I enjoyed the frigate firing into the city. The rest of the movie? Not so much.

[Slargos]

How am I supposed to believe Purefoy as a hard-nosed and morally corrupt general whose only lusts in life are women, conquest and murder when I know that he's been fucking McKidd.

It's called *acting*. If he's any good you should be able to separate the character from the actor/other characters he's played.

He has crossed the homo event horizon. There can be no unseeing what should not be seen. 

[Josquius]

Atonement- Worst film eva.

And finished with Boardwalk Empire- One of the best series for a long while.

[Savonarola]

Black Cat (Kuroneko) (1968)

A wonderfully strange combination of classic Noh drama and sex and gore J-Horror.  The film starts with two women (a mother and daughter in law) who are raped and murdered by a gang of samurai in medieval Japan.  They return as ghosts who lure samurai to their doom.  The local lord recruits a Samurai who has recently made his reputation in battle and it turns out the ghosts are the young samurai's mother and wife; thus setting up the inevitable tragedy. 

The film makes use of sparse sets and lighting to create the mood.  The ghosts can fly by wires or do multiple back flips to travel.  There are classic Noh dances that indicate the passage of time and then there are gratuitous boob shots and samurai who have their throats bitten out by women.

[CountDeMoney]

Watched Gangs of New York. It was pretty decent, but I can see why it didn't go over as well as you would expect. It was a bit...disjointed? Maybe that isn't the right word.

In Scorsese's defense, he did edit the living shit out of it.  Left something close to 45 minutes on the cutting room floor.

[Drakken]

Black Cat (Kuroneko) (1968)

A wonderfully strange combination of classic Noh drama and sex and gore J-Horror.  The film starts with two women (a mother and daughter in law) who are raped and murdered by a gang of samurai in medieval Japan.  They return as ghosts who lure samurai to their doom.  The local lord recruits a Samurai who has recently made his reputation in battle and it turns out the ghosts are the young samurai's mother and wife; thus setting up the inevitable tragedy. 

The film makes use of sparse sets and lighting to create the mood.  The ghosts can fly by wires or do multiple back flips to travel.  There are classic Noh dances that indicate the passage of time and then there are gratuitous boob shots and samurai who have their throats bitten out by women.

You'd love Onibaba. Go watch it if you haven't already.

[Lettow77]

 Accidentally just watched six episodes in a row of The World Only God Knows. it isn't particularly good.

I guess i'll finish it.

[Scipio]

Watched Gangs of New York. It was pretty decent, but I can see why it didn't go over as well as you would expect. It was a bit...disjointed? Maybe that isn't the right word.

Another fine movie ruined by Cameron Diaz.

[Berkut]

Watched Gangs of New York. It was pretty decent, but I can see why it didn't go over as well as you would expect. It was a bit...disjointed? Maybe that isn't the right word.

Another fine movie ruined by Cameron Diaz.

huh?

I thought she was fine. Certainly whatever issues that movie had had nothing to do with her or her character. I don't think anyone else in the roll would have made much of any difference at all in fact.

The supporting actors in general were pretty weak though. None of the secondary characters were interesting, or developed.

[The Larch]

Watched Gangs of New York. It was pretty decent, but I can see why it didn't go over as well as you would expect. It was a bit...disjointed? Maybe that isn't the right word.

Another fine movie ruined by Cameron Diaz.

The supporting actors in general were pretty weak though. None of the secondary characters were interesting, or developed.

Daniel Day-Lewis' character would have eaten them otherwise.

[Viking]

Watched Gangs of New York. It was pretty decent, but I can see why it didn't go over as well as you would expect. It was a bit...disjointed? Maybe that isn't the right word.

Another fine movie ruined by Cameron Diaz.

The supporting actors in general were pretty weak though. None of the secondary characters were interesting, or developed.

Daniel Day-Lewis' character would have eaten them otherwise.

Is this the point where somebody makes a milkshake joke?

[Caliga]

Certainly whatever issues that movie had had nothing to do with her or her character.

I thought that movie was just "meh".  I remember being surprised it wasn't better, given the fact that it was a Scorsese film.  IMO he's the greatest living American director.

[Zoupa]

Certainly whatever issues that movie had had nothing to do with her or her character.

I thought that movie was just "meh".  I remember being surprised it wasn't better, given the fact that it was a Scorsese film.  IMO he's the greatest living American director.

It's not like the competition is that fierce.