TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Fast and Fabian IV: Delaware Drift

[Razgovory]

Fast and Fabian IV: Delaware Drift

[celedhring]

How do you make something so English in New York?

What do we need a show where George Washington is a modern day Japanese ninja cop in Tokyo?

There's already a Sherlock Holmes procedural set in contemporary New York. That show is decently successful and Fox is blatantly trying to ape the same formula. However Fox seems to forget that a show featuring Sherlock Holmes solving crimes makes sense, since, you know, that's what Holmes does. Graffiti artist, mystery solving King Arthur sounds just stupid.

[garbon]

How do you make something so English in New York?

What do we need a show where George Washington is a modern day Japanese ninja cop in Tokyo?

There's already a Sherlock Holmes procedural set in contemporary New York. That show is decently successful and Fox is blatantly trying to ape the same formula. However Fox seems to forget that a show featuring Sherlock Holmes solving crimes makes sense, since, you know, that's what Holmes does. Graffiti artist, mystery solving King Arthur sounds just stupid.

Yeah when I heard it, I immediately thought of Lucy Liu's latest turn.

[viper37]

How do you make something so English in New York?

What do we need a show where George Washington is a modern day Japanese ninja cop in Tokyo?

will you stop giving them ideas??

[Berkut]

So still watching The Night Of.

[spoiler]I gotta say, this last episode, which I am only half way through, is pushing my bounds of believability. The idea that his lawyer would make out with him in a prison cell, when she has to know there are cameras, is pretty ridiculous.

The idea that she would agree to smuggle drugs into him is just completely ridiculous.

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[Josephus]

So still watching The Night Of.

[spoiler]I gotta say, this last episode, which I am only half way through, is pushing my bounds of believability. The idea that his lawyer would make out with him in a prison cell, when she has to know there are cameras, is pretty ridiculous.

The idea that she would agree to smuggle drugs into him is just completely ridiculous.

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Agreed.

[The Minsky Moment]

Christ, you are an old person, aren't you?  At least CDM has the excuse of his life going incredibly wrong.  I mean, just look at his post.  Dude clearly does not even own a watch anymore.  90 minutes max?  Name me the last blockbuster that was 90 minutes and not named Gravity and I'll give you a fucking cookie.  Hell, find one under 120 and you'll still get a hug.

So you're saying that these plotless, leadenly written and acted blockbusters are also bloated and poorly edited?  Not impressed.  I'll keep the gray hair.

(Also, your "I miss the 70s, movies should be about people talking in brown wood-paneled rooms about issues and feelings" attitude is a pretty straitjacketed way to approach a pretty diverse artform.  Are you sure you wouldn't prefer novels?)

I'm trying to think of a 70s movie that fits that formula and coming up blank.  The closest thing I can think of is the Winslow Boy which was late 90s.

I don't see novelistic as an insult.  The alternative Hollywood now seems to prefer - comic books - loses much and gains little other than spandex.

[The Minsky Moment]

Also: robots are a hype

[Eddie Teach]

There were a lot of great movies made in the seventies but it's a mistake to compare then with today's blockbusters. They had movies like The Towering Inferno, The Exorcist and Superman in that vein.

[11B4V]

PW absolutely agree.

Jaws, Star Wars, Rocky, American Graffiti, God father, Apoco Now, Serpico, Blazing Saddles, 10, were blockbusters in their own right. And I dare say better than the Assburger shit of today.

[Ed Anger]

I liked the Money Pit.

[mongers]

I liked the Money Pit.

Enough about your thing with CdM, allright!

[CountDeMoney]

I liked the Money Pit.

Enough about your thing with CdM, allright!

Exsqueeze me, sir.  I am not a whore.  Much.

[lustindarkness]

To Kill a Mockingbird, it had been years since I watched. Still great.