TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

I didn't care much for season 4 of Sherlock. It's definitely become a bit too self-indulgent and videofarty. The cast is still very watchable though.

[celedhring]

American Crime Story - Despite the great reviews I have always hesitated about watching this, since I really don't care much for the subject matter. But it is really well done, with great performances, and it managed to capture my interest despite the fact I already know the ending. 

[Oexmelin]

Raoul Peck, "I am not your negro".

Must-watch documentary about James Baldwin. Amazing. Only words heard are Baldwin's own, and his analysis remains, alas, remarkably pertinent. 

[11B4V]

I didn't care much for season 4 of Sherlock. It's definitely become a bit too self-indulgent and videofarty. The cast is still very watchable though.

Agree. Worst series so far.

[KRonn]

The Expanse S2 off to a good start.

Agreed

  Good show. [spoiler] First episode introduces a possible new threat to everyone, all sides friend and foe. [/spoiler]

[Josquius]

Arrival-  Heard great things.
It was thoroughly meh.
[spoiler]I expected some cool linguistic challenge with the aliens having a interest world view, something like in Embassy Town. But no. Its cliched non linear time nonsense. Mixed with a stupid unnecessary bubbling under romance/idiotic decision to have a kid doomed to suffer. [/spoiler]
Nice to see something somewhat new attempted with scifi movies at least

[CountDeMoney]

   Yes, spoilers indeed.

[Ideologue]

Spoilers for Arrival and Nocturnal Animals in the following question: [spoiler]Is Amy Adams pro-life?  Arrival's the carrot, making a big deal about how awesome it is to have a kid with cancer or whatever who dies before they even become properly human, while Nocturnal Animals is the stick, beating Adams' character with shame, in part for having had an abortion years earlier.[/spoiler]  It's weird, but I guess we'll have to wait till it happen again; twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern, and all.

[Ideologue]

To be frank, the more I think about Silence the more it's growing on me. Certainly deserved a BP nod given the stuff that got one.

If it wasn't so... goddamn... long... and slow... but it certainly packs a punch when it matters. Scorsese is just too good. And the basic conflict the film portrays is compelling.

Another possible reason why this hasn't been bigger in religious circles is that while the film features plenty of Christian martyrs... most of them are Asian. 

Now that I've seen it, I totally understand why it didn't hit big with the Dumbassed Christian audience--after all, it explicitly hates the Dumbassed Christian audience.  It's probably too austere for even the Normal Christian audience to really embrace it.  Really, it's one of those movies that wasn't made for anybody except for its makers.  Naturally, I loved the shit out of it.  It took me a couple of days, though--that seems to be the commonest refrain in positive notices of the film.  I walked out of it thinking 7/10.  But eventually I realized it was one of the best movies of the whole year.

And yeah, if motherfucking Arrival was going to get one, it definitely deserved a BP nom.

[jimmy olsen]

To be frank, the more I think about Silence the more it's growing on me. Certainly deserved a BP nod given the stuff that got one.

If it wasn't so... goddamn... long... and slow... but it certainly packs a punch when it matters. Scorsese is just too good. And the basic conflict the film portrays is compelling.

Another possible reason why this hasn't been bigger in religious circles is that while the film features plenty of Christian martyrs... most of them are Asian. 

Now that I've seen it, I totally understand why it didn't hit big with the Dumbassed Christian audience--after all, it explicitly hates the Dumbassed Christian audience.  It's probably too austere for even the Normal Christian audience to really embrace it.  Really, it's one of those movies that wasn't made for anybody except for its makers.  Naturally, I loved the shit out of it.  It took me a couple of days, though--that seems to be the commonest refrain in positive notices of the film.  I walked out of it thinking 7/10.  But eventually I realized it was one of the best movies of the whole year.

Could you explain in a theological way what you mean?

[Ideologue]

It's a movie about the sin of living out a persecution fantasy (even in the midst of an actual persecution), and having the arrogance to believe that suffering for being a loudmouth for one's faith is necessarily as meaningful as the suffering of the Christ, especially if the suffering falls mostly upon other people.  In other words, it's for good Christians, not Evangelical Trump voters; put even more simply, it's a movie that revolves around the insidious temptation of pride.

It's also a movie about a AA-league holocaust, and it has no truck with the Tokugawa Japanese repression; but this is mostly scene-setting.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't think you're grasping the whole "Christianity =/ Catholics" disconnect, particularly within the Jesuit context.

I mean, you're from the South; the only thing they hate more than niggers down there are Catholics. Figured you of all people would already understand that.

[Ideologue]

I don't think you're grasping the whole "Christianity =/ Catholics" disconnect, particularly within the Jesuit context.

I mean, you're from the South; the only thing they hate more than niggers down there are Catholics. Figured you of all people would already understand that.

This is, like, fifty years out of date.  At least in the South, the anti-abortion movement has made an alliance between Catholics and Protestants, at least in broad enough terms that they don't want to refight the Wars of Religion anymore.

But yeah, respecting the differences, it's "for" Catholics, in that Catholics have theology and ethics, whereas American Protestants do admittedly only tend to have guns and ropes.

[Ideologue]

P.S.: I think this election has proven that there is nothing Southerners hate more than black people.  Not even shithead New Yorkers; not even Russians.

[Josephus]

P.S.: I think this election has proven that there is nothing Southerners hate more than black people.  Not even shithead New Yorkers; not even Russians.

close tie with gays though.