TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Love Death Robots. It's very uneven, and I'd say the strike rate for me has been under 50%, but since the episodes are so short, even the terrible ones go quickly. And there are a few very good ones.

Be prepared that some of them are pretty neckbeardy (i.e. lots of sex, gratuitous female nudity and various incel fetishes)

I was amused to see one of the writers was very much a Polish history fanboy--"John Sobieski" being one of the character names and "Sikorski Works" being the producer of Lucky 13.

Lucky 13 was one of my favorites.

The other ones I liked: Zima Blue, Good Hunting, Beyond Aquila Rift (the fanservice gets a bit embarassing there, but it's a good twilight zone-ish story), the Yogurt One (great parody of the benevolent AI trope), and the Friendly Hand (I wish Gravity was more like that  )

The others I found middling to bad. But as said, the good thing of the format is that even those don't overstay their welcome.

I liked Three Robots and thought the yogurt one was the worst of the lot. Well, maybe not as bad as the junkyard one.

Aquila Rift- friendliest spider ever?

[celedhring]

I thought the junkyard one was one of the worst of the lot (close tie with the cyberpunk chase one, which was a pointless excuse for T&A). So at least we can agree on that. 

[celedhring]

Now that I subscribed back to HBO I have a lot of new shows to go through. Started watching Legion, which I have read lots of good things about, and it's from the same guy as Fargo, which I find amazing. Yet for some reason I can't bring myself to like Legion. It's quirky, and I love these kind of puzzle stories, but for some reason it's not clicking on me. Maybe it's because I can't bring myself to like the characters, I feel like the show gets lost in the puzzle and quirk without giving me good reasons to care for the people in it. Anyway, it's interested me enough to finish it, but I'll consider so far a mild disappointment.

[Savonarola]

The Foo Fighters Back and Forth (2011)

I still think of The Foo Fighters as "That new band by Nirvana's Drummer;" even though they've now been around for a quarter century (eighteen years longer than Nirvana lasted.)  This rockumentary (what an awful neologism) covers the highs and (mostly) lows of the Foo Fighters.  It is interesting to see the band's (and especially Dave Grohl's) growth from a Nirvana clone (they hardly could have been anything else in 1994) to establishing their own identity as a rock band, to their acoustic work and experimentation.  The high point is at the very end where Dave Grohl admits that the band name is stupid and says he wishes that he had spent more time on that.

[Tonitrus]

"Upstart Crow"

A BBC period sitcom on William Shakespeares home life/work troubles.

Now normally, I would expect a period sitcom to be terrible...but this is actually quite good.

[Eddie Teach]

Now normally, I would expect a period sitcom to be terrible...but this is actually quite good.

Blackadder, Hogan's Heroes, Happy Days, The Wonder Years...

[mongers]

Now normally, I would expect a period sitcom to be terrible...but this is actually quite good.

Blackadder, Hogan's Heroes, Happy Days, The Wonder Years...

"Upstart Crow" is worth adding to that list, it's very good. 

[Liep]

This looks like a lot of fun

https://youtu.be/HZ7PAyCDwEg

Good call to get rid of Vin Diesel.

[garbon]

This looks like a lot of fun

https://youtu.be/HZ7PAyCDwEg

Good call to get rid of Vin Diesel.

Get rid? Like how he's going to be in the next one in 2020?

[jimmy olsen]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/allison-macks-keith-raniere?utm_term=.bcYX42b2pE#.rmexprarRN

Allison Mack, a 35-year-old actor best known for playing Chloe Sullivan on Smallville, is believed to have been part of a cult in which women were pressured into acting as sex slaves.

Keith Raniere was arrested on Sunday in Mexico for allegedly creating a master-slave cult within the facade of a self-help organization called NXIVM (pronounced "nex-e-um"). In a federal criminal complaint, authorities alleged he manipulated and entrapped women into "master-slave" sexual relationships, forcing them to follow strict diets and respond to his call at all hours of the night.

She plead guilty

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/allison-mack-of-smallville-pleads-guilty-in-nxivm-sex-trafficking-case/ar-BBVJEu7?ocid=spartanntp

[Liep]

So Endgame is pretty good closure.

[dps]

This looks like a lot of fun

https://youtu.be/HZ7PAyCDwEg

Good call to get rid of Vin Diesel.

Remember when the franchise was about illegal street racing?

[Tamas]

This looks like a lot of fun

https://youtu.be/HZ7PAyCDwEg

Good call to get rid of Vin Diesel.

Remember when the franchise was about illegal street racing?

"Dominik" has become one of the most popular boy's name for newborns in Hungary the past several years. A journalist claimed he researched it and it was on the top spot in years when a Fast and Furios movie was released.

[The Larch]

This looks like a lot of fun

https://youtu.be/HZ7PAyCDwEg

Good call to get rid of Vin Diesel.

Remember when the franchise was about illegal street racing?

It's been a while since it became a completely over the top action heist franchise, though.

AFAIK Vin Diesel and others from the original cast got really mad at Dwayne Johnson because of this movie, accusing him of taking over the franchise.

[viper37]

This looks like a lot of fun

https://youtu.be/HZ7PAyCDwEg

Good call to get rid of Vin Diesel.

Remember when the franchise was about illegal street racing?

It's been a while since it became a completely over the top action heist franchise, though.

AFAIK Vin Diesel and others from the original cast got really mad at Dwayne Johnson because of this movie, accusing him of taking over the franchise.

the 5th one was on the fence.  6th and 7th were just plain silly over the top action flicks.