TV/Movies Megathread

[Valmy]

I look forward to the movie about the Judean People's Front Suicide Squad

[katmai]

Aquaman played by khal drogo. gay fox

[Eddie Teach]

Momoa doesn't look anything like Adrian Grenier. 

[katmai]

And neither of them look like aquaman as drawn in comics.

[Eddie Teach]

They should have gotten Daniel Craig.

[Habbaku]

What's the one in July of 2018?

Aquaman.

[Savonarola]

The Man from Beyond (1922)

Starring the great Harry Houdini; two arctic explorers discover a shipwreck from an earlier polar expedition.  Inside they discover a frozen man (Houdini) whom is still alive when they thaw him out.  They bring him back to civilization, without telling him that a century has passed; and somehow Houdini doesn't notice all the automobiles and electric lights that they didn't have in 1820.  In any event Houdini wishes to be reunited with his fiancée.  The explorer takes him to his brother's house the day of the wedding of his niece who (get this) is the spitting image of Houdini's fiancée and even has the same first name.  Hilarity ensues as the groom has Houdini locked up; (yeah, I didn't see that coming either) but true love, even through the cycles of birth, death and (possibly) reincarnation triumphs in the end. 

[garbon]

Space Station 76

Well, that was rather depressing.

[Eddie Teach]

Blood on the Moon. It was ok, nothing really memorable though.

[Josquius]

Fraggle rock.
Now there's a big media cultural gap between me and Americans of the same age

Why would it be a big cultural gap?  It was a US/UK/Canadian co-production.

Apparently.
I never saw it when I was a kid. You never hear Brits mentioning it. I guess it must have been on tv but it wasn't a big thing at all.
Only heard of it for the first time as an adult via americans.

[Admiral Yi]

Watched a good chunk of "The Cincinnati Kid" the other night.  Steve McQueen is a poker player who ends up in a head to head game (after the amateurs, including Cab Calloway, get chased off the table) of five card stud with the king of the hill, Edward G. Robinson.  Nice eye candy, including Ann Margaret in her imposing prime.

[Admiral Yi]

Just saw Birdman.  First half is energetic, creative, intense.  Second half is draggy and pointless.

[Eddie Teach]

Kingsman. I'm not sure if it's trying to be Bond or Austin Powers, but either way it doesn't quite measure up. There were enough good bits to make it worthwhile, though.

[garbon]

I was not aware of the huge cultural impact of Fraggle Rock.

I'm going to pretend I didn't read that.

I really liked Fraggle Rock, but huge cultural impact?

[Savonarola]

Zhao Yu's Train (2002)

The lovely Gong Li stars in this story about a woman who travels several hours twice a week to visit her boyfriend, a poet.  She befriends and veterinarian and a love triangle begins.  The film is put together in a series of short vignettes shown in no particular order.  This is made worse because Gong Li plays a second character.  For most of the film I was unsure if they were supposed to be the same person, or if that was a different actress and they actually all do look alike ().

The film tries to be poetic, but fails and the director desperately wants to be Wong Kir Wai, but isn't.  It's a awful pretentious art film; avoid.