TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

Paging Mono:

If I wanted to watch one of these animes:

- One Punch Man
- Death Note
- Ataque a los Titanes
- Samurai Champloo
- Full Metal Alchemist/ FMA: Brotherhood
- Sword Art Online

Which one should it be? I haven't watched anime in years (or decades?) and I fancy giving it a go. Those are the most popular in Netflix's Spanish catalog.

I've only seen Samurai Champloo out of those ones, and it was great.

[celedhring]

From the makers of Cowboy Bebop, which is the last anime show I watched in full... like 15 years ago. 

[Savonarola]

Samurai Champloo is very good.  The first 2/3 of Death Note is excellent; but then it runs out of steam.  Sword Art Online was okay.  I couldn't get into Full Metal Alchemist.  Haven't seen the rest.

[Savonarola]

Paddington 2 (2018)

A breath of fresh air in a season of self important Oscar bait "Prestige" films.  Paddington is once again living the life of a free-wheeling bear from darkest Peru when misadventure and marmalade come his way.  Hugh Grant gives the performance of his life.  If you have any small children lying around the house, or could rent some for a couple hours, they should enjoy this as much as you will.   

I've seen a couple of reviews that claim this movie is really quite, quite good.  Is this true?

It completely misrepresents railroad operations .



Seriously it was great.  If you like children's movies, you'll like this. 

[jimmy olsen]

Paging Mono:

If I wanted to watch one of these animes:

- One Punch Man
- Death Note
- Attack on Titan
- Samurai Champloo
- Full Metal Alchemist/ FMA: Brotherhood
- Sword Art Online

Which one should it be? I haven't watched anime in years (or decades?) and I fancy giving it a go. Those are the most popular in Netflix's Spanish catalog.

Watch these two

[Admiral Yi]

It completely misrepresents railroad operations .



Seriously it was great.  If you like children's movies, you'll like this.

How does it compare to Ted? 

[mongers]

Finally got around to watch Dunkirk. Liked it quite a bit. It's pretty straightforward in terms of story, and the characters are pretty much non-entities (which is a bit of the point I guess, random people we never learn much about, but still), but visually is gorgeous and the tension is thick throughout. Even though I knew that they rescued pretty much everybody, I was on the edge of my seat all movie long.

I saw it this evening, well done in a lot of places and agree with you about the visuals.  Though I think it missed fired a couple of times.

Id be interest to find and watch the 1957 Norman 'Dunkirk' and see how it compared.

[Admiral Yi]

Fucking C4 motherfucker.

[Savonarola]

I, Tonya (2017)

WHY? WHY? WHY?

This film was put together from the wildly different accounts of all the parties involved.  Tonya was from a rough background; even the most self serving of the narrators make that clear.  This could have easily been a drama/tragedy/Russian novel.  Instead it's a mockumentary and a dark comedy; sort of a white trash Arrested Development.  This approach runs into trouble at the end where Tonya's life falls apart.  You can get laughs out of privation and spousal abuse, but there's nothing funny about 24/7 media coverage.   

They have to do the Black Swan thing here and CGI Margo Robbie's face on an ice skater.  Robbie is athletic (she looks like she could beat up all the other nominees for best actress; something I do hope the Academy considers when voting) but not triple axle athletic.  She's also way too tall to be Tonya Harding; looking at the archival footage at the end it's surprising how short she was.  Otherwise her performance is remarkable.

The didn't film the whacking scene at Cobo Hall (in Detroit where it happened.)  For me that was the film's biggest disappointment.  The film does say something remarkably honest about the media; something that I don't think we'll see again in the Age of Trump.  For me that was the film's biggest delight.

[Liep]

Thor: Ragnarok

Lots of colours, fights, explosions and fun.

[garbon]

I finally saw Atomic Blonde on the plane. Mindless fun.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Nv2R9Acec

This cracked me up.

[celedhring]

Valerian. Bad, but not bad enough to be enjoyable.

[Josquius]

Watching this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIorjslBgJk
A fair point is raised.
How is it that Westerns, a type of film set in a 20 year period in a very specific and minor part of the world, have become such a genre

[celedhring]

Watching this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIorjslBgJk
A fair point is raised.
How is it that Westerns, a type of film set in a 20 year period in a very specific and minor part of the world, have become such a genre

The western genre supplies a bunch of cultural mythology to a nation which 1) has a short story as such 2) happens to be the most influential country when it comes to film.

I.e. roaming cowboy stories are the equivalent of the knight errant stories in other cultures, and we have shedloads of knight errand stories.

There are themes of civilization vs wilderness, personal justice, the foundation of a country... which makes it easy to understand why they resonate in the US psyche.