TV/Movies Megathread

[Razgovory]

I been watching "Falling Skies" off Amazon Prime.  Almost finished the second season.  It's really losing my interest, though.  The series is lazy, and the focus on the world's most baddass family (minus mom), is getting dull.

Things I notice:

Despite lack of running water and constantly living on the run, all the women except one have access to a stylist.

If 90% of the population were killed you'd think people would find more dead bodies lying around.

Early on they discovered how to make "mech" bullets, which are made of metal that has can pierce alien robot armor  but has such a low melting point that it can melted down over a bunsen burner.

The Aliens come in several types.  The most common are big robots and ugly little foot soldiers who have six legs.  The ones with six legs are never given guns.  That seems like a major oversight.

The Aliens have very limited air support.  The heroes drive a convoy 500 miles to some other town and they aren't immediately hit by bombs from the sky.  In fact, they are never hit by bombs from the sky.  The aliens do know where they people are, since they chase the convoy most of the way.

They give guns to 9 year boys but rarely to people over the age of 40.

You'd think they would run into more humans even if they wiped out 90% of the population in the beginning.

How do they know that 90% of the population was wiped out?

They raid a lot of armories to get weapons, but oddly a lot of it is soviet made.

The aliens have robots, but for some reason feel the need to have slaves.

They claim to be part of a regiment, the 2nd Mass, but only had 100 fighters from the very beginning and were only commanded by a captain.  There is never a 1st. Mass

Despite living in an apocalyptic alien infested world someone mows the lawn for most of the houses.

[11B4V]

Good report and exactly why I didn't even finnish the first season. I was expecting better.

[Josquius]

No dead people- they explain it with neutron bombs. After herding them together usually.

But yes. The show... It started quite decently. But then totally changed direction for the second series. Still ok.... But totally changed again for the next series!
Every series they throw away most of what they were doing in the last and try and do something very different. With little in the way of bridging in between.
I have lost interest

[celedhring]

Yeah, at some point it seemed they were aiming for Walking Dead with aliens, which would've been cool, but as Raz pointed out the whole world is so pathetically implausible you end up don't giving a damn.

[Syt]

Moonrise Kingdom

During watching I realized that I was watching it to the day 50 years after the supposed events of that movie. Which might make you think I'm an obsessive Wes Anderson fanboy. However, this was the first movie of his that I watched. It was fun and very sweet. 7.5/10

Tucker and Dale vs Evil

Starts out really funny, subverting all kinds of horror movie tropes. About half way through it switches to adhering to horror clichés, and it becomes decidedly "meh." Alan Tudyk is great as always. 6.5/10.

[Norgy]

I been watching "Falling Skies" off Amazon Prime.  Almost finished the second season.  It's really losing my interest, though.  The series is lazy, and the focus on the world's most baddass family (minus mom), is getting dull.

Things I notice:

Despite lack of running water and constantly living on the run, all the women except one have access to a stylist.

If 90% of the population were killed you'd think people would find more dead bodies lying around.

Early on they discovered how to make "mech" bullets, which are made of metal that has can pierce alien robot armor  but has such a low melting point that it can melted down over a bunsen burner.

The Aliens come in several types.  The most common are big robots and ugly little foot soldiers who have six legs.  The ones with six legs are never given guns.  That seems like a major oversight.

The Aliens have very limited air support.  The heroes drive a convoy 500 miles to some other town and they aren't immediately hit by bombs from the sky.  In fact, they are never hit by bombs from the sky.  The aliens do know where they people are, since they chase the convoy most of the way.

They give guns to 9 year boys but rarely to people over the age of 40.

You'd think they would run into more humans even if they wiped out 90% of the population in the beginning.

How do they know that 90% of the population was wiped out?

They raid a lot of armories to get weapons, but oddly a lot of it is soviet made.

The aliens have robots, but for some reason feel the need to have slaves.

They claim to be part of a regiment, the 2nd Mass, but only had 100 fighters from the very beginning and were only commanded by a captain.  There is never a 1st. Mass

Despite living in an apocalyptic alien infested world someone mows the lawn for most of the houses.

Good and accurate review. I found it so incredibly bad I could not stop watching, hoping that Tom Mason at some point would get a bullet through the head. But no.

[Josephus]

Hearing good things about Empire. What's the vote here, on Languish?

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, at some point it seemed they were aiming for Walking Dead with aliens, which would've been cool, but as Raz pointed out the whole world is so pathetically implausible you end up don't giving a damn.

Well at least they copied the notion that a very dedicated lawn mower survived.

[Norgy]

The lesson: People who mow their lawns will survive TEH APOCALYSPE!11

People who don't end up as willing alien helpers or fodder for the undead.

[celedhring]

Focus. Fun harmless con movie. Not the best, not the worst. Plus, Margot 

EDIT: great soundtrack, btw.

[garbon]

Hearing good things about Empire. What's the vote here, on Languish?

Great soap opera.

[viper37]

Scorpion King IV.
With Ellen Hollman (Spartacus) and Viktor Webster (every Canadian tv show for the last 20 years).

I was expecting a bad movie, and it was worst than I thought.  Elle Hollman got to show off her Spartacus training a couple of times, but that's about it.  It tries to be funny, à la Hercules, and fails, and there's zero drama in this.

While I'm in a mood for the worst of Hollywood, I'll try to watch Jupite Ascending tonight.

[Darth Wagtaros]

The Great Outdoors.
Because it is the last weekend of the Summer.

[Ideologue]

Apocalypto.  9/10.  I wish Mel Gibson were stable.

[Berkut]

Been watching Sons of Anarchy. Not too bad.

Was very sad when Aryan nation guy's daughter was killed though. She was crazy hot.