TV/Movies Megathread

[11B4V]

Gonna give Tin Star a watch.

[Admiral Yi]

Watching La La Land.  Entertaining so far.

Syt you big homo if you're lurking; it's all about the chick from Superbad you have a boner for so you should check it out.

[Eddie Teach]

She's done several better movies than La La Land.

[Admiral Yi]

Name one in which she's the center of every frame.

[celedhring]

Zombieland-Easy A was the apex of her hotness imho.

[The Brain]

Saw 2001 in 70mm in a big theater. It was pretty damn cool.

[CountDeMoney]

You guys really need to watch Ken Burns' documentary on the Vietnam War.  Tonight was Episode 1.

[Barrister]

You guys really need to watch Ken Burns' documentary on the Vietnam War.  Tonight was Episode 1.

I had no idea such a thing existed.

Yes, yes I do need to watch it.

[Eddie Teach]

I've seen Platoon and Full Metal Jacket, isn't that enough? 

[Tonitrus]

You guys really need to watch Ken Burns' documentary on the Vietnam War.  Tonight was Episode 1.

It is good so far, but the jumping ahead just to include random anecdotes from U.S. veterans (the anecdotes from the Vietnamese seem to fit the time-flow better) is an unusual, and unnecessary, directorial choice and feels quite forced.

[CountDeMoney]

It is good so far, but the jumping ahead just to include random anecdotes from U.S. veterans (the anecdotes from the Vietnamese seem to fit the time-flow better) is an unusual, and unnecessary, directorial choice and feels quite forced.

You might have to get used to that.

The brilliant, infuriating, boring, hypnotic Ken Burns documentary The Vietnam War

Quite frankly, I didn't expect to see Tim O'Brien in the first episode, either.  But when you think about it, don't all documentaries kind of interject their interview material everywhere, rather than keeping things strictly chronological?  Then again, maybe that explains Tim O'Brien.

[Tonitrus]

I dunno...I thought Burns' The Civil War kept the chronology fairly well...consider the multiple theaters. 

In this...they're just non-sequiturs.  It's as if some network exec said "OMG, we need veterans in it right away, or either people will get bored quick, or think we're slighting the veterans by just showing a bunch of sub-titled Vietnamese and over-greyed politicos right out of the gate.

But then, I understand the production and perspective will be vastly different when looking at the history of a war where pretty much everyone involved is dead (the ACW), versus one where the influence of those who lived through it is still very present.

[Tonitrus]

Episode 2 of the The Orville.

Still not getting any better.  The characters are (with a couple exceptions) actually pretty promising...but, shamefully, there are way too many anachronisms for the sake of (mostly) lame humor...and this is keeping the show at having the depth of a deflated kiddie pool.  It will be lucky to make it past season one, or even to the end of it.

[Eddie Teach]

Seth McFarland is obnoxious enough as a cartoon.

[Gups]

Been binging Gomorrah, Italian made gangster series set in Naples. Superb.