TV/Movies Megathread

[lustindarkness]

Star Wars clip reel from ComicCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTNJ51ghzdY

Between Mad Max and SW7, will we see a renaissance of practical effects and sets in blockbuster movies (still with plenty CGI, but not for every fricking thing where feasible)?

I hope so. There have been a few movies lately that use CG to enhance practical effects and Fury Road is a perfect example of it. The last Mission Impossible I believe, and Fast and Furious movies use CG to make their practical effects work.

[Eddie Teach]

August: Osage County. Very depressing.

[mongers]

First episode of 'The Last Kingdom', it was all right, seemed reasonable faithful to the book,from what I remember of it.

[celedhring]

Well, Terminator Genisys was every bit as terrible as I expected. Not much to say, really.

[Admiral Yi]

Hey Celery:  watched some documentary last night about some Spic's attempt to film Dune.

Alejandro Fodorosky?  Todorosky?

Dude came across as a brilliant mad man.  What do you think about this dude and his filmmaking?

[katmai]

Hey Celery:  watched some documentary last night about some Spic's attempt to film Dune.

Alejandro Fodorosky?  Todorosky?

Dude came across as a brilliant mad man.  What do you think about this dude and his filmmaking?

oy vey

[Admiral Yi]

Fuck you you snoring fuck.

[Duque de Bragança]

Hey Celery:  watched some documentary last night about some Spic's attempt to film Dune.

Alejandro Jodorowsky? 

Dude came across as a brilliant mad man.  What do you think about this dude and his filmmaking?

Fixed before Celery answered! I have to watch the documentary about Dune as well, loved Jodorowsky's psychedelic movies such as Holy Mountain.

[celedhring]

Hey Celery:  watched some documentary last night about some Spic's attempt to film Dune.

Alejandro Fodorosky?  Todorosky?

Dude came across as a brilliant mad man.  What do you think about this dude and his filmmaking?

I have seen that doc. Jodorowsky's Dune would have been wonderfully trippy. Not hard to beat what we got instead.

Jodorowsky is a cult avantgarde filmmaker (and writer, poet, etc... renaissance man). El Topo is a legendary film, but certainly you need to dig his style. He's very big on surrealism and esoterism. When I was a kid my parents bought me the comic books he wrote (the Incal series, with art by Moebius). I didn't understand half of it but I thought they were brilliant.

[Josephus]

So just watched the Star Wars trailer and yeah got a bit hard.

My only reservation is that on the other hand it looks a bit like a remake of the original Star Wars with a woman replacing Luke and new evil dude replacing Darth Vadar.

[Syt]

Heh. Some episodes of Street of San Francisco are on YouTube. :stone: :heller:

[celedhring]

Today at the gym I watched a Martin Lawrence/Tim Robbins comedy from the 90s (my cardio sessions are pretty long nowadays...), "Nothing to lose". It was pretty bad, but it reminded me of how smokin' Rebecca Gayheart used to be.

[Josquius]

I saw something odd yesterday.  A drama series where Sean bean plays a cia guy....and he does kinda tone down his accent....a little.

[Syt]

Trailer for Jaws 19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl092whRLlI

[celedhring]

Murphy's War. Peter O'Toole plays a survivor of an U-boat attack in the Orinoco river during the closing stages of WWII. He becomes obsessed by exacting retribution and sinking the U-boat at all costs. The setup is pretty gripping - the sinking of O'Toole's boat at the beginning of the film is a pretty striking scene, but the film becomes quite tedious and labored. It's not bad, but it never quite works.