TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Lately I've been watching a lot of old episodes of what's my line. Wonderfully twee and posh old school Americana

Oh I love it - that can send me down a rabbit hole in YouTube for hours. It's basically exactly what I think of when I think of Americana.

[HVC]

Lately I've been watching a lot of old episodes of what's my line. Wonderfully twee and posh old school Americana

Oh I love it - that can send me down a rabbit hole in YouTube for hours. It's basically exactly what I think of when I think of Americana.

The cat!

[grumbler]

Lately I've been watching a lot of old episodes of what's my line. Wonderfully twee and posh old school Americana

My uncle appeared on that show.

He was a space suit salesman.

[garbon]

Tried watching The Duchess with Katherine Ryan. Blech.

[Syt]

Trailer for the new season of The Mandalorian:

https://youtu.be/eW7Twd85m2g

[Duque de Bragança]

Haven't seen Barb Wire.

It's all right, it's just a B-movie with some worthwhile moments.

[Eddie Teach]

Warrior Nun. Better than I expected.

[Admiral Yi]

Haven't seen Barb Wire.

It's all right, it's just a B-movie with some worthwhile moments.

The opening credits with her tits hanging out are pretty good then it goes straight to shit.

[viper37]

The rest of Viper's list is far more questionable, with the Dawn of the Dead remake branded as "better" as the most stupid of the list. Yay, zombies running!  Italians did it before. 

I can't remember the zombies running in this movie... You sure you're not confusing with World War Z?

Not to mention i prefer a kitsch Batman (1966) over the pompous Nolan adaptations, though the latter are always better than Schumacher's movies, at least the last one.

Much prefer the Nolan versions to anything that came before.

Not to mention the list confuses remakes with new adaptations.

That is essentially the same.

PS: worst remakes list would be probably more interesting and funnier.

Yeah, but not everyone has your patience for watching bad movies

[viper37]

And labelled a bunch of movies that were not remakes as remakes. 

Nope.  All of them are remakes, unless you want to apply an extemely narrow view of "remake" just to be pedantic.  But that would be so out of character coming from you that it can't be possible

  Yeah, whatever.  Pretend that they are remakes if you want, it still doesn't make them remakes better than the originals.

Well, if you have a weak spot for constant, annoying singing and b&w movie, it just shows your age.

It's not my age that tells me that a movie with a 93 rating on Rotten Tomatoes (1991 Lion King) is better than the 53% on (your fav, the 2019 remake).

Comparisaons on an aggregator site for movies made way before the site existed aren't exactly reliable.

It's not just my weak spot that shows that the original Magnificent Seven (88% on RT, selected for the US National Film Registry) is better than your preferred 2016 remake (64% rating, no film registry).

I never said that.  The Magnificent Seven (the original US one) is a remake of the Seven Samurai.  And I much prefer the US western edition to the original one in b&w.
But as I said, I totally understand that some people would prefer the original japanese one.  I just grew up watching westerns and James Bond movies with my dad, so a western has more of an appeal to me.  It ain't reational by anyway, but then again, there's not much rationality in art.
Also, the latest King Kong wasn't too bad.

[Duque de Bragança]

Yeah, but not everyone has your patience for watching bad movies

You have it as well. You just think they are good, that's the difference whereas I go for the so-bad-it's-good variety. 

[Razgovory]

I saw a few clips of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones on YouTube.  Christ, I remembered they were bad, but not this bad.  Also the battle scenes look like they are cut scenes from a Play Station 3.

[Duque de Bragança]

I saw a few clips of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones on YouTube.  Christ, I remembered they were bad, but not this bad.  Also the battle scenes look like they are cut scenes from a Play Station 3.

Playstation 3? That's being very generous. More like a contemporary console such as a Playstation 2, Gamecube or Xbox (480p mode activated).

[celedhring]

Phantom Menace was one of the first big profile movies shot in digital and it really shows. The coloring looks really fake.

[grumbler]

Comparisaons on an aggregator site for movies made way before the site existed aren't exactly reliable.

  This is simply claiming that movie reviewers were not "exactly reliable" before the advent of Rotten Tomatoes, which might be the dumbest argument I've ever read on Languish.  That's the only reason why such a comparison would not itself be reliable.

I never said that.  The Magnificent Seven (the original US one) is a remake of the Seven Samurai.  And I much prefer the US western edition to the original one in b&w.
But as I said, I totally understand that some people would prefer the original japanese one.  I just grew up watching westerns and James Bond movies with my dad, so a western has more of an appeal to me.  It ain't reational by anyway, but then again, there's not much rationality in art.
Also, the latest King Kong wasn't too bad.

So you don't know how to make an argument.  I would argue that The Magnificent Seven was not a remake of The Seven Samurai, though clearly heavily influenced by it (including the moral).  it was a different type of movie with a different emphasis.  But, even if you want to argue that it is a remake, you cannot just give the title of a movie that has, in fact, actually been remade, and assume that people know that you are referring to the 1960 movie being a remake of a 1954 movie with a different name, filmed in a different country in a different language.   

Arguing which of TSS and TMS being the better movie is going to depend on whether you prefer the blockbuster-movie format (TMS) or the character-building format (TSS).  They aren't really very comparable.