TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

I... I can see! It's a miracle!!

[celedhring]

Latest what we do in the shadows: [spoiler]RIP The C-man[/spoiler]

I couldn't imagine a Colin-centric episode to be so much fun. 

And this week it's the Mark Hamill episode! 

It was awesome 

[The Brain]

Lady Macbeth. Young hot Victorian wife is trapped and bored. I ended up liking it. I like movies that stay focused and short (I can enjoy broad long movies as well, but there is a beauty in sticking to the specific core tale you want to tell and leave out any distractions).

[The Larch]

Latest what we do in the shadows: [spoiler]RIP The C-man[/spoiler]

I couldn't imagine a Colin-centric episode to be so much fun. 

And this week it's the Mark Hamill episode! 

It was awesome 

Already watched it?  I'll try to catch it tonight.

[celedhring]

It's my Thursday morning routine: breakfast with What we do in the shadows!

[The Larch]

It's my Thursday morning routine: breakfast with What we do in the shadows!

Sounds like a great plan, although I prefer my vampire sitcoms at night. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Sam Peckinpah 

It pleases me that both Cross of Iron and Bring me the head of Alfredo García have rised in estimation over the years, when I graduated they were considered minor works of his. They are my two favorite films of Peckinpah after Wild Bunch.

I did not know you graduated in the '70s.   

Osterman Week-end, with the whole video surveillance aspect, ages well, despite being a terminal Peckinpah.

Hey Duque have you had a chance to watch that 'Survivors' episode yet? 

Now that the lockdown is over, the running gag is...

Not yet (over).

[Josephus]

Cross of Iron ... best intro credits for a WW2 movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sqwkpiFg4c

I remember seeing that a long time ago. I'd love to see it again. Trouble is since the death of video stores, it's hard to come across old films like this.

[Duque de Bragança]

Cross of Iron ... best intro credits for a WW2 movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sqwkpiFg4c

I remember seeing that a long time ago. I'd love to see it again. Trouble is since the death of video stores, it's hard to come across old films like this.

That's pretty damning.  So legal streaming stops at 1980 or 2000 movies or what?
It's as old as Star Wars. Mind you, it's impossible to get a standard HD copy of the unadulterated version 1977 version as well.

I have it on blu-ray, but it should not be that hard to find online a physical copy.

[Barrister]

Okay, so let me try to unpack a few things about The Good Place, and its finale, after several hours to mull it over

[spoiler]I think the show runners maybe kind-of had an idea where they were going with this one, but no I went and read an interview where they said "We had an idea for season 1.  Which looking back at it, seems like why they always came back to the same basic idea of people who don't know what's happening, and can they try to be good.  Season 1: main character arrive in The Good Place.  Season 2: main characters get their memories wiped, still in the Good Place.  Season 3: main characters go to earth with their memories wiped, but same basic format.  Season 4: main characters get their memories, but now new characters don't know what's happening.  Which is probably why they figured they couldn't milk it for another.

Which kind of explains why certain decisions that made sense when it happened (Jason hooking up with Janet, Janet creating Derek) didn't really make any long-term sense as the show went on.  IMO.

I get that they liked looking at these issues through more of a lens of moral philosophy, and not religion, but in particular by the end it was kind of unavoidable.  So whats with immortal beings vs humans?  Where did the immortal beings come from?  We see Tahanni get a job as an architect - does that mean humans can become immortal beings, or perhaps that (since humans can live in the afterlife for eternity) that there's no difference between the two?

And I'm not completely sold that you'd just get bored with eternity.  There are literally an infinite number of things to do.  There was a comment about Shakespeare going through the door, and that his new plays aren't as good as his originals.  Sure, after a while, just writing plays would probably be boring.  But why couldn't Shakespeare write novels?  Slam poetry?  William Shakespeare's latest EDM track?

Or Chidi is so bored he starts reading Da Vinci Code, having read all the good books.  But new books would still be written, both on earth and in TGP.

But that might not be a very satisfying ending.

Oh, and a slight detour.  I know this is almost certainly a function of budget, but despite them spending hundreds (or thousands) of years in the fake TGP, whenever they return to earth it's always the present day.  We know time has moved on (Blake Bortles is no longer the Jags QB).  And in general, nobody on the show ever shows any curiosity about what's happening on earth.

And the very end... so when Eleanor goes through the door, her spirit breaks up into little balls of light.  I thought it was going to make a swerve to re-incarnation (since there have been several buddhist influences on the show), but no she becomes - a good deed?  And somehow she can hear Michael's greeting to her?
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[Josephus]

Cross of Iron ... best intro credits for a WW2 movie?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sqwkpiFg4c

I remember seeing that a long time ago. I'd love to see it again. Trouble is since the death of video stores, it's hard to come across old films like this.

That's pretty damning.  So legal streaming stops at 1980 or 2000 movies or what?
It's as old as Star Wars. Mind you, it's impossible to get a standard HD copy of the unadulterated version 1977 version as well.

I have it on blu-ray, but it should not be that hard to find online a physical copy.

Netlfix is a waste of time for any old movies, I find. Yeah I can buy it. Amazon.ca has it for $40. Think I'll pass.

[Barrister]

Yeah, all the streaming services are crap for any movies earlier than the 80s or so (except: Disney does have its old movies out there).

You'd have to think the rights to a lot of those oldies could be had for a song, but no, nothing.

[Josquius]

Captain Fantastic. Quite a good film  I do like how they show both sides of the argument to have their pros and cons with neither being the hero nor the villain.
The ending doesn't really make sense. Seems quite shoe horned in to have the clichéd incident but what comes afterwards is... Eh? And the son who oddly gets into all the top unis despite never going to interviews.... Just doesn't go to any? Eh?
Christ Viggo Mortensen looks damn weird when clean shaven.

[Admiral Yi]

I remember seeing that a long time ago. I'd love to see it again. Trouble is since the death of video stores, it's hard to come across old films like this.

Have you tried renting on Youtube?  They have shitloads of movies.

[celedhring]

Started a rewatch of Mandalorian. I don't think I have ever rewatched a show so close to its original run. But after 2 months of hermit life I'm really running out of shows to watch, and Mandalorian is just so much fun.