TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Minions. For ages 2-4.

[Tonitrus]

Caught the season 2 openers for Killjoys and Dark Matter - both were solid and I am looking forward to how these seasons progress.

Dark Matter has evolved nicely.  Killjoys is still very, very good.

Methinks it is really starting to drag lately.  Interest is fading fast.

[celedhring]

Pixels - pretty bad, although I am ashamed to admit I laughed to a few jokes here and there (although the film is disappointingly non-outrageous compared to other Sandler stuff)

I loved how they created a fictional 80s videogame so they could find a way to insert a hottie female videogame character in the flick, since there isn't any 80s classic with one. Gotta take care of what's important.

[celedhring]

Café Society - latest Woody Allen Jewish nerd fantasy were his surrogate putz manages to bed both Kristin Stewart and Blake Lively in the same flick. It's moderately entertaining, but the dialogue is pretty just there for an Allen flick. There's the odd great quote though, particularly liked the scene on Jewish (non)belief in the afterlife. Better than all the stuff he's made since Blue Jasmine (which was great) but rather average in the great scheme of things.

[garbon]

Not Since You - Pretty heavy handed rom com mostly starring the sidekicks of various tv shows. Still fairly enjoyable as it has an unconventional end.

I Could Never Be Your Woman - Watching late 30-something Paul Rudd play a character who is 29 who pretends to be a high schooler on tv who is sleeping with late 40-something Michelle Pfeiffer who is playing a 39 year old character? Yeah it was about as weird as that sounds - well maybe weirder as there was someone playing mother nature who would show up as an invisible friend of Pfeiffer throughout the film.

Ghost - Finally saw this one! Molly, you in a danger, girl! is probably the only memorable thing about this. For some reason I thought this was a movie where the lead had sex with the ghost but clearly that was not the case.

[celedhring]

Ghost - Finally saw this one! Molly, you in a danger, girl! is probably the only memorable thing about this. For some reason I thought this was a movie where the lead had sex with the ghost but clearly that was not the case.

The pottery scene is what everybody thinks when they think of Ghost, so I bet it gets people confused since he's still not dead in it.

[celedhring]

Rewatched a bit of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", and reflected on how impossible would it be in today's corporate climate to have a film that features Donald Duck and Daffy Duck together (plus dozens of other cameos from Disney/WB/King Features characters). Corporate suits all over the place would have a stroke.

Great film btw.

[The Larch]

Rewatched a bit of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", and reflected on how impossible would it be in today's corporate climate to have a film that features Donald Duck and Daffy Duck together (plus dozens of other cameos from Disney/WB/King Features characters). Corporate suits all over the place would have a stroke.

Great film btw.

Apparently already back then negotiations to have characters from both WB and Disney were gruelling and lots of details had to be agreed, like Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse having the same exact amount of screen time and script lines in order to have both parties to agree to allow them to be featured.

And it's indeed a great film. It's mind-boggling that they were able to pull it off technically in 1988.

[Josephus]

Saw an old 1968 film on TCM the other day called Marooned. About a manned space flight that couldn't come back home. Good cast, and pretty well done for its time. Kinda like Apollo 13.

[celedhring]

Rewatched a bit of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", and reflected on how impossible would it be in today's corporate climate to have a film that features Donald Duck and Daffy Duck together (plus dozens of other cameos from Disney/WB/King Features characters). Corporate suits all over the place would have a stroke.

Great film btw.

Apparently already back then negotiations to have characters from both WB and Disney were gruelling and lots of details had to be agreed, like Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse having the same exact amount of screen time and script lines in order to have both parties to agree to allow them to be featured.

And it's indeed a great film. It's mind-boggling that they were able to pull it off technically in 1988.

The cartoon characters are so well integrated... the lightning on the toons is stupidly detailed, reflecting the same light sources of the "real" set they're supposed to be in. Shadows shift on them as they move... That must have been some grueling work before the age of CGI. Amazing.

[CountDeMoney]

Because America just isn't on edge enough as it is, ABC's been throwing more lighter fluid on the fire and shoving promos of its new series down everyone's throat every chance it gets.

[CountDeMoney]

And it's indeed a great film. It's mind-boggling that they were able to pull it off technically in 1988.

You know what's mind-boggling?  Being unable to escape it at every turn in 1988. 

[CountDeMoney]

Saw an old 1968 film on TCM the other day called Marooned. About a manned space flight that couldn't come back home. Good cast, and pretty well done for its time. Kinda like Apollo 13.

A quietly effective little disaster film, yeah.  Definitely a precursor of things to come.

[celedhring]

And it's indeed a great film. It's mind-boggling that they were able to pull it off technically in 1988.

You know what's mind-boggling?  Being unable to escape it at every turn in 1988.

Nah, you won't convince me that you hate Roger Rabbit.

[CountDeMoney]

Nah, you won't convince me that you hate Roger Rabbit.

Somewhere in early 1989, I was Roger Rabbitted out and really couldn't give two rat fucks as to whether he was framed or not, despite the gift of Jessica Rabbit to cartoon porn artists and drag queens across the world.