TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Saw a very good kid's movie (with my kid): Kubo and the Two Strings. Really beautiful animation. A somewhat dark storyline, may be scary for younger kids.

Several friends of mine took their young-ish kids and they seemed allright. They are raving about the movie, will surely check it out once it comes out on video.

[Malthus]

Saw a very good kid's movie (with my kid): Kubo and the Two Strings. Really beautiful animation. A somewhat dark storyline, may be scary for younger kids.

Several friends of mine took their young-ish kids and they seemed allright. They are raving about the movie, will surely check it out once it comes out on video.

It's well worth a view. Though it is definitely a movie that gains from the big screen, I think.

By "young kids", I mean 6 or so; my 10 year old had no problems with it. 

[celedhring]

Saw a very good kid's movie (with my kid): Kubo and the Two Strings. Really beautiful animation. A somewhat dark storyline, may be scary for younger kids.

Several friends of mine took their young-ish kids and they seemed allright. They are raving about the movie, will surely check it out once it comes out on video.

It's well worth a view. Though it is definitely a movie that gains from the big screen, I think.

By "young kids", I mean 6 or so; my 10 year old had no problems with it. 

My friends (who are in my age range) have all 4-6 year old kids. A sticking reminder of my celibacy 

[Eddie Teach]

Very rare to see a movie with a bard as the main hero.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Season 3 was unwatchable.

It was already unwatchable midway through season 2, but I powered through.  The timing of world events and the glaring fuckups on how some of the procedural shit went down totally turned me off.

[Liep]

The Shallows, so it's not just ogling at a scantily clad Blake Lively it's also a hate crime on sharks, story telling, Mexicans, physics, plausibility, but she is wearing just a bikini for basically the entire movie: C-

[garbon]

the glaring fuckups on how some of the procedural shit went down totally turned me off.

Oh, yeah, of course. Just the worst.

[Sophie Scholl]

Saw a very good kid's movie (with my kid): Kubo and the Two Strings. Really beautiful animation. A somewhat dark storyline, may be scary for younger kids.

Did you see it in 3D?  It is one of those movies which looks like it would be worth the extra price (and now drive since I've waited so long to see it).

[CountDeMoney]

In common use I've never heard it in the negative sense, as logical as it may be. Always positive. As said maybe a british thing.

Weird because I just checked a couple British dictionaries and they note it as used to describe something as negative. One entry did have as an intensifier (hellishly expensive) but then that's also a negative.

"Terrific" used to be a negative adjective.  Now it's fucktastically positive.  Shame, that.

[11B4V]

Rewatch of Star Farce: The Farce Awakens. C

Capt America: CW B+

Free State of Jones:B-

[CountDeMoney]

Rewatch of Star Farce: The Farce Awakens. C

I think she's kinda hot.

[11B4V]

Rewatch of Star Farce: The Farce Awakens. C

I think she's kinda hot.

She is, but Mr JJ no imagination Abrams gets the C.

[11B4V]

Star Wars: The Assburgers Awaken 

[CountDeMoney]

She is, but Mr JJ no imagination Abrams gets the C.

Yeah, that's a real shame about JJ "We'll reboot it, and make it even more Star Trekky!" Abrams.

I think Michael Bay couldn't done a better original job storyline-wise, but that would involve an entire different set of war crimes.

[CountDeMoney]

Speaking of Star Trek, try to catch the new documentary on Smithsonian, "Building Star Trek";  really fascinating look on what they did for sets back then at the big television studios.  Such cheap pieces of shit.    The guy at the Smithsonian trying to restore the big ship model just shakes his head..."it's all wood and glue, with more glue holding it together..."

They even interviewed the guy--an intern at UCLA at the time, now a professor there, imagine that--who participated in the disposal of the sets, including the Enterprise bridge, when the show was cancelled:  straaaaaight out the back, and into the dumpsters    What wasn't hauled off was taken over to UCLA film school's production shop, and cannibalized for student film projects all throughout the 70s and into the 80s.  Said there could very well be a piece or two there still, you just wouldn't know what slat of pressboard came from Star Trek, or some other show.

It truly pains me to think of the bridge of the Enterprise used in student projects.  To know that such priceless works of Americana, used in a final exam for some snot-nosed little shit that probably went on to manage a Stuckey's....well, it just smacks of date rape.