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Sophie Scholl

#38970
February 24, 2018, 03:27:23 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on February 23, 2018, 10:10:37 PM
Beast Wars, I loved that.
Same.  The Michael Bay movies though?  *shudder*  There is only only one Transformers movie and it is animated.
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

KRonn

#38971
February 24, 2018, 01:47:43 PM
Walking Dead starts up again this Sunday, second half of the season.  :)  At first I didn't watch that show for probably the first two years. Then I watched a WD Marathon and got into it, watching it from the start. Been hooked ever since.

Habbaku

#38972
February 25, 2018, 04:36:19 PM
Saw Annihilation.

Don't bother.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

garbon

#38973
February 25, 2018, 04:42:55 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on February 25, 2018, 04:36:19 PM
Saw Annihilation.

Don't bother.

Oh no, how come? I'd meant to see that this weekend but then didn't.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

The Brain

#38974
February 25, 2018, 04:47:28 PM
Never got into the Saw franchise.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Habbaku

#38975
February 25, 2018, 05:01:46 PM
Quote from: garbon on February 25, 2018, 04:42:55 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on February 25, 2018, 04:36:19 PM
Saw Annihilation.

Don't bother.

Oh no, how come? I'd meant to see that this weekend but then didn't.

The movie never quite seems to figure out what level of emotional attachment I should have for its leads. The plot is a bit of a mess. The visuals, while impressive at times, are too intermittent to have much of the dazzling effect I think they were intended to.

The ending is, in my opinion, a complete wreck and provides exactly zero closure to any of the prospects that are laid out through the narrative. It takes from the worst pages of Damon Lindelof in that regard.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Habbaku

#38976
February 25, 2018, 05:07:48 PM
Ars Technica has a brief review on it that's pretty spot-on about how I felt:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/02/annihilation-is-a-gorgeous-movie-that-went-terribly-wrong/
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

The Brain

#38977
February 25, 2018, 06:12:45 PM
Ant-Man. I liked it.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

mongers

#38978
February 25, 2018, 07:37:03 PM
'The Take' / 'Bastille Day' - Idris Elba (?) is hamstrung by some of the worst dialogue that I've heard in a long time. The plot has holes as well and the other actors fared even worse with their lines.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

The Brain

#38979
February 26, 2018, 07:13:21 AM
Is Homeland racist? Someone mentioned "the racism of Homeland", and I got curious if it actually is racist or not (I have never seen the show and likely never will).
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

garbon

#38980
February 26, 2018, 08:56:42 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 26, 2018, 07:13:21 AM
Is Homeland racist? Someone mentioned "the racism of Homeland", and I got curious if it actually is racist or not (I have never seen the show and likely never will).

I think one could reasonably make the argument given how white people in the show are generally the CIA and then brown people are either terrorists or unwitting dupes of the CIA.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

The Brain

#38981
February 26, 2018, 09:04:38 AM
Quote from: garbon on February 26, 2018, 08:56:42 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 26, 2018, 07:13:21 AM
Is Homeland racist? Someone mentioned "the racism of Homeland", and I got curious if it actually is racist or not (I have never seen the show and likely never will).

I think one could reasonably make the argument given how white people in the show are generally the CIA and then brown people are either terrorists or unwitting dupes of the CIA.

Thanks!
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

HVC

#38982
February 26, 2018, 09:08:02 AM
Wasn't there something about extras  graffitiing "This show is racist" in Arabic in some scenes? Or am I misremembering.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

garbon

#38983
February 26, 2018, 09:10:29 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 26, 2018, 09:04:38 AM
Quote from: garbon on February 26, 2018, 08:56:42 AM
Quote from: The Brain on February 26, 2018, 07:13:21 AM
Is Homeland racist? Someone mentioned "the racism of Homeland", and I got curious if it actually is racist or not (I have never seen the show and likely never will).

I think one could reasonably make the argument given how white people in the show are generally the CIA and then brown people are either terrorists or unwitting dupes of the CIA.

Thanks!

To be clear, I'm not advancing that argument but I could see how it might have some legs.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

#38984
February 26, 2018, 09:12:51 AM
I was reminded there was a black guy who was a boss in early seasons but then that character is disposed of. Really thinking about it, generally no one comes out looking well on that show. Israelis? Nope. Americans? Nope. Germans? Nope.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
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