TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Watched Star Wars the Force Awakens again, third time is just as good as the first time.

Movie is out on Blu-Ray in 2 days.  Totally buying it, and getting the younger two (who I didn't take to the theatre) to watch it.

How old's your youngest? Like three? I say he (she?) will get bored.

[crazy canuck]

Watched Star Wars the Force Awakens again, third time is just as good as the first time.

Movie is out on Blu-Ray in 2 days.  Totally buying it, and getting the younger two (who I didn't take to the theatre) to watch it.

How old's your youngest? Like three? I say he (she?) will get bored.

Or scared.  Not sure I would want a three year old watching people die.

[Barrister]

Watched Star Wars the Force Awakens again, third time is just as good as the first time.

Movie is out on Blu-Ray in 2 days.  Totally buying it, and getting the younger two (who I didn't take to the theatre) to watch it.

How old's your youngest? Like three? I say he (she?) will get bored.

The littler ones will come and go from the screen.  Watch the action, wander off and play when it gets boring.

They haven't been scared yet by any of the other movies.

[lustindarkness]

National Geographic, The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, episode one. Very interesting, well done. Looking forward to watching the rest.

[viper37]

Eh, maybe the Sunset Invasion was really successful in that story.

Do you think they bought Incan torpedo boats for the invasion?

[viper37]

Watched Star Wars the Force Awakens again, third time is just as good as the first time.

Movie is out on Blu-Ray in 2 days.  Totally buying it, and getting the younger two (who I didn't take to the theatre) to watch it.

How old's your youngest? Like three? I say he (she?) will get bored.

My goddaughter is loving Star Wars, the old trilogy.  She constantly wants to watch it and she knows all the characters by heart.  I tried to convince her aunt to give her a Leia haircut, but I was rejected

[viper37]

The dark booding tone of the movie is the one thing which I found most wrong.  If there was ever a chance to make a fun, action packed extravaganza of a superhero movie it's The Fantastic Four.  They're far closer in spirit to the science explorers of Star Trek The Original Series than they are to The Dark Knight.

I never thought of it that way, but now that you mention it, yeah, it's true the original comic had similar themes to TOS.

[viper37]

If she doesn't get tied up by the Hun at least twice in her upcoming film I'm going to be very, very disappointed.   

CountDeMoney!  Sort de ce corps! 

[jimmy olsen]

Fantastic Four (2015)

I knew you wouldn't disapoint!

Glad to see it's as bad as I thought

Happy to oblige.

Here's a spoiler review from the Atlantic that gives a blow by blow account; it's a great deal more entertaining than the actual movie.  (A lot of reviews of the movie take pains to point out that The Thing has no penis.  Why can't we just accept The Thing for who he is?  )

The dark booding tone of the movie is the one thing which I found most wrong.  If there was ever a chance to make a fun, action packed extravaganza of a superhero movie it's The Fantastic Four.  They're far closer in spirit to the science explorers of Star Trek The Original Series than they are to The Dark Knight.

Marvel is the only studio that can stomach making light hearted superhero movies and do it well. DC and Fox are just doubling down on the grim darkness, and aside from Batman it just doesn't work.

[Savonarola]

Marvel is the only studio that can sboth tomach making light hearted superhero movies and do it well. DC and Fox are just doubling down on the grim darkness, and aside from Batman it just doesn't work.

I may have to see more Marvel film then, since the last two superhero movies I saw (Batman V Superman and Fantastic Four) didn't give me a lot of confidence in the genre.

[katmai]

Good job picking the two worst Sav

[celedhring]

He should be watching Green Lantern, Baffleck's Daredevil, Wolverine Origins, or the original FF4 flicks. That would surely endear him to the genre?

[Savonarola]

Good job picking the two worst Sav

It's a gift.   

[viper37]

Marvel is the only studio that can sboth tomach making light hearted superhero movies and do it well. DC and Fox are just doubling down on the grim darkness, and aside from Batman it just doesn't work.

I may have to see more Marvel film then, since the last two superhero movies I saw (Batman V Superman and Fantastic Four) didn't give me a lot of confidence in the genre.

If this can't convince you that Marvel makes good movies, nothing will! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ixEHDWqrzI

[Malthus]

To my mind, the superhero genre is basically absurd, puffy entertainment originally for adolescents of all ages, and playing with that absurdity makes for the best superhero movies.

There is only limited room for flipping the script and writing grim tragedies in this genre that take themselves super-seriously.  Too much of that sucks the fun right out of the concept.