TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Finally caught up on the second season of Titans, the first was a guilty pleasure of mine. It's one of those shows that manages to be great and terrible at the same time.

I enjoyed the first a lot. But just completely fail to get into the second.
Their idea to end on a cliff hanger failed.

It gets better later into the season, but the first episodes are a bit of a drag yeah.

[Berkut]

Slogging through Season 4 of Community is a bit of a chore. Could it be possible to care any less about a story arc than I care about Chang at this point?

[The Larch]

Slogging through Season 4 of Community is a bit of a chore. Could it be possible to care any less about a story arc than I care about Chang at this point?

Season 4 is the one without Harmon, right? It's easily the worst Community season. It gets better in the 5th, with Harmon back.

[frunk]

Slogging through Season 4 of Community is a bit of a chore. Could it be possible to care any less about a story arc than I care about Chang at this point?

There's a couple of episodes toward the end that are good, but the rest suck.  If it gets too hard skip it and go to 5.

[Eddie Teach]

The worst Community season is the one made for Yahoo.

[The Brain]

The Ninth Gate showed up on my Netflix. I haven't seen it in years, might watch it again. I liked the Call of Cthulhu vibes ("old books! yay!").

[Valmy]

The Ninth Gate showed up on my Netflix. I haven't seen it in years, might watch it again. I liked the Call of Cthulhu vibes ("old books! yay!").

I love that movie.

[celedhring]

I've decided to finish off the pandemic Netflix megabinge with some superhero shows I had pending.

Black Lightning... is pretty good.

[crazy canuck]

Finished Spaceforce, I ended up really enjoying it.

[Sophie Scholl]

I've decided to finish off the pandemic Netflix megabinge with some superhero shows I had pending.

Black Lightning... is pretty good.

I really enjoyed the first season. I've been meaning to catch up on it.

[Eddie Teach]

The Wicker Man(1973). Surprising amount of musical numbers for a horror film. Britt Ekland had nice tits. No bees.

[Josquius]

Series 1 of His Dark materials - its pretty good. Though I'm sad at how frequently you get scenes with nary a daemon in sight. They seem to forget that part when convenient. I guess the scene with snakey guy saying we don't always have our daemons in show was to cover for this budget restriction. Not that it should have been much of a budget issue to have a few household animals knocking about.

[Eddie Teach]

Ready or Not. Pretty good, the end was kind of silly though.

[celedhring]

Series 1 of His Dark materials - its pretty good. Though I'm sad at how frequently you get scenes with nary a daemon in sight. They seem to forget that part when convenient. I guess the scene with snakey guy saying we don't always have our daemons in show was to cover for this budget restriction. Not that it should have been much of a budget issue to have a few household animals knocking about.

Shooting with real animals is a nightmare.

I enjoyed the show. The adaptation feels a bit by the numbers at times, and it hits a few false notes (Lin Manuel Miranda is horribly miscast and although I understand why they did it I don't quite agree with [spoiler]their choice to show the parallel "real" world ahead of when it's done in the books[/spoiler]). But Ruth Wilson is really fantastic as Ms. Coulter, and it's a reasonably faithful adaptation of the books - and the books are way too good to produce an uninteresting show if you do that. All in all, can't wait for season 2.

[Josquius]

I thought Lee was pretty good. Though not the big mustachioed texan of the book iirc?

On animals... Getting them to do stuff is a nightmare. But I don't see how having a dog or something just hanging out in the background would be that much of an issue.

On s2 I read they were finishing up filming of the final episode when corona shut things down.