TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Been rewatching Star Trek:TNG, since I barely remember the early episodes and haven't seen them since.  As a kid, I didn't realize how bad the first season was.... I'm amazed the show didn't get cancelled rewatching them now.   Almost every episode goes like this: something bad happens, none of the adults know what to do, and Wesley Crusher saves the day.

There hadn't been Star Trek on tv for an entire generation AND there was not much sci-fi on tv AND as bad as it was, it was still better than 90% of the stuff out there

[Josephus]

Counsellor Troi in a mini skirt.

Nuff said.

[Hamilcar]

I really enjoyed The Witcher.

Toss a coin to your witcher, o' valley of plenty....

[The Brain]

I recently got the new Alien RPG, so I decided to rewatch Prometheus to refresh my memory on the new crap, and I'm gonna watch Covenant (which I haven't seen). Prometheus is still quite silly, but it was certainly less painful when I knew it would suck going in. I had totally forgot that the [spoiler]birth scene was a MIB tribute: "-Congratulations! It's a... squid."[/spoiler] One thing that's annoying in crappy movies like this is that some obvious stuff like [spoiler]the similarity between God and the Engineers when it comes to changing their mind and killing their creation[/spoiler] cannot be assumed to have entered the writer's radar. In a good movie you could assume that this point was recognized by at least [spoiler]David[/spoiler], but here...? No.

[Hamilcar]

I recently got the new Alien RPG, so I decided to rewatch Prometheus to refresh my memory on the new crap, and I'm gonna watch Covenant (which I haven't seen). Prometheus is still quite silly, but it was certainly less painful when I knew it would suck going in. I had totally forgot that the [spoiler]birth scene was a MIB tribute: "-Congratulations! It's a... squid."[/spoiler] One thing that's annoying in crappy movies like this is that some obvious stuff like [spoiler]the similarity between God and the Engineers when it comes to changing their mind and killing their creation[/spoiler] cannot be assumed to have entered the writer's radar. In a good movie you could assume that this point was recognized by at least [spoiler]David[/spoiler], but here...? No.

It's also heavily influenced by "At the Mountains of Madness"

[Tamas]

Fair warning: Prometheus, which is objectively a terrible movie, is a masterpiece of the cinematic art when compared to Covenant.

[Josquius]

Mars Attacks is in TV. I remember seeing this in the cinema many years ago.
Watching it again though... I wonder. Are they just comically evil villains who claim to come in peace then murder.... Or is the awful translator machine responsible? The general speaks, its translated, then they look shocked. Hmm

[The Brain]

Fair warning: Prometheus, which is objectively a terrible movie, is a masterpiece of the cinematic art when compared to Covenant.

I found Covenant less annoying than Prometheus (just finished it). Of course, doing a whole movie around a [spoiler]Lore/Data[/spoiler] episode is lazy, and as an origin story for the two good Alien movies Prometheus/Covenant is best completely ignored [spoiler](since it cheapens and diminishes the whole Alien thing).[/spoiler]

[Duque de Bragança]

Been rewatching Star Trek:TNG, since I barely remember the early episodes and haven't seen them since.  As a kid, I didn't realize how bad the first season was.... I'm amazed the show didn't get cancelled rewatching them now.   Almost every episode goes like this: something bad happens, none of the adults know what to do, and Wesley Crusher saves the day.

There hadn't been Star Trek on tv for an entire generation AND there was not much sci-fi on tv AND as bad as it was, it was still better than 90% of the stuff out there

Chillax, Wesley Crusher has been insufferable ever since the beginning, not just Season 1 which admittedly was still trying to find its feet. Even the image quality of DVDs was crappy compared to later seasons, a moot point since it was remastered in HD.

[Sheilbh]

Re. The Witcher.

I did enjoy it, but found this helpful as it turns out I had put things in the wrong order
https://www.vulture.com/2019/12/the-witcher-timeline-in-order-chronology-explained.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=vulture

[Habbaku]

Uncut Gems. 10 crippling gambling addictions out of 10.

Also, holy fuck, Julia Fox's ass.

[jimmy olsen]

Uncut Gems. 10 crippling gambling addictions out of 10.

Also, holy fuck, Julia Fox's ass.

Speaking of Star Trek, that goatee Sandler is rocking along with the oscar hype he's been getting makes me fear I've slipped into a terrifying mirror universe.

[celedhring]

Season 4 of The Expanse feels like a lot of treading water until the tail end of the season, where things begin to get interesting and then ends quite abruptly. Not my favorite, but looking forward season 5.

[crazy canuck]

I watched the first episode last night. Not terribly impressed.

And yeah, I really had no idea what was going on, but I just assumed that was intended and it would make sense at some point in the future?

Yeah, the show plays with showing you something and later on give you bits of info to make more sense of it, or add some extra wrinkles to the situation. In particular with the Cintra storyline. But I don't think they are too good at it, the show needs sharper writing.

Second episode is worse than the second imho, but give #3 a chance - I thought that was one of the best in the season. If you don't like that one, you can safely drop the show.

I stopped after the 2nd episode, it somehow felt rushed without really having anything to rush through, maybe it's the editing? I'll try the 3rd.

You should keep going.  It gets quite good.  The first three are confusing but consider it a long prologue to give an anchor in time for later episodes.

[The Brain]

Blumhouse's Truth or Dare: Extended Director's Cut. Totally OK as these movies go, but there's only one lesbian kiss and no boobs.