TV/Movies Megathread

[Scipio]

It is a beautiful movie and one of my all-time faves as well.  The historitards despise it, though.  But they're the same idiots that think Apocalypse Now is about the Vietnam War, too.

It came out right after Saving Private Ryan, so it was unfairly compared to that. SPR was a good movie in its own right, but it was nice having a movie like The Thin Red Line where its themes weren't spoon-fed to the audience.

WUT I HALF TO THINK AT THE MOVIES WTF IF THIS CRAP

Yeah, my buddy in the Army is such a Historitard about the South Pacific, he tosses Thin Red Line in with fucking Windtalkers and Pearl Harbor.  Can't win that debate with him at all.

Worst adaptation of a James Jones novel.  Ever.

[Sheilbh]

I remember going to see The Fountain, thinking from the trailers that it might be a kinda cool, lost-in-times sort of thing.  It was more like watching a bad acid trip.

Great soundtrack though.

Yeah.  It's got moments where it's very pretty too.

[Josephus]

I liked Thin Red Line.

[Josephus]

2 hour Mad Men on tonight. The killing next Sunday. Game of Thrones soon. Sunday's are getting busy.

[11B4V]

Minority Report: not bad

[CountDeMoney]

Minority Report: not bad

Not bad?  It was awesomeness.  An excellent chaser, and a great example of the question of law enforcement or scientific ethics in film.

[frunk]

Minority Report: not bad

Not bad?  It was awesomeness.  An excellent chaser, and a great example of the question of law enforcement or scientific ethics in film.

I liked it too, although the ending was a little weak.  A nice, dark, dystopian finish would have fit the movie as a whole much better.

[11B4V]

Minority Report: not bad

Not bad?  It was awesomeness.  An excellent chaser, and a great example of the question of law enforcement or scientific ethics in film.

Deviated a little from the original short story. Again, I would recommend it.

[CountDeMoney]

I liked it too, although the ending was a little weak.  A nice, dark, dystopian finish would have fit the movie as a whole much better.

Then that would've eliminated the triumph of the human spirit and due process over the non-ethical application of blind science.  It was no Gattaca and certainly no Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but it was a decent treatment on the concept of science applied for society's benefit simply for the sake of science, particularly from a legal/law enforcement/civil liberties perspective.

Could've been much better in this regard, but it is a decent conversation-starter on the topic.

[frunk]

[Then that would've eliminated the triumph of the human spirit and due process over the non-ethical application of blind science.  It was no Gattaca and certainly no Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but it was a decent treatment on the concept of science applied for society's benefit simply for the sake of science, particularly from a legal/law enforcement/civil liberties perspective.

Could've been much better in this regard, but it is a decent conversation-starter on the topic.

Well, I suppose if you want the human spirit to triumph...

[katmai]

I liked Thin Red Line.

Then you are either gay or a flipican.

[Sheilbh]

Watching Homeland on Channel 4 week by week.  Gets better and better.  I like not watching massive binges which is how I normally go for TV shows (sat through 4 hours of Breaking Bad at the weekend  ).

[Admiral Yi]

Watched the Mad Men season opener last night. 

Did the red headed hottie really put on 300 pounds or is she swaddled in pillows?

[Josephus]

I'm thinking it's pillows.

[Razgovory]

[Then that would've eliminated the triumph of the human spirit and due process over the non-ethical application of blind science.  It was no Gattaca and certainly no Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but it was a decent treatment on the concept of science applied for society's benefit simply for the sake of science, particularly from a legal/law enforcement/civil liberties perspective.

Could've been much better in this regard, but it is a decent conversation-starter on the topic.

Well, I suppose if you want the human spirit to triumph...

Who doesn't?