TV/Movies Megathread

[Liep]

Your Honor.


It's great. 10 out of 10 Cranstons.

[Malthus]

Your Honor.


It's great. 10 out of 10 Cranstons.

This is on my want to see list!

[Eddie Teach]

I re-watched Lynch's Dune. Glorious 80s cheese. And Patrick Stewart!

I get that it's disappointing to those who feel the book deserved the LOTR treatment. I'm not sure it can be done.

[crazy canuck]

I re-watched Lynch's Dune. Glorious 80s cheese. And Patrick Stewart!

I get that it's disappointing to those who feel the book deserved the LOTR treatment. I'm not sure it can be done.

Some of us are upset it did get the LOTR treatment, in the bad green slime of death solves everything and makes all the sacrifice meaningless kind of way.  The movie got the main plot points wrong, and that ending 

I would be happy with a movie that tried to stay with the material in the books.

[Admiral Yi]

I get that it's disappointing to those who feel the book deserved the LOTR treatment.

What does this mean?

[Eddie Teach]

Fully fleshed out.

[The Brain]

Started on I Am the Night. I am entertained and the chick is hot.

[The Brain]

Outlaw/King. In pre-Renaissance Faire times famous slashie Robert "The Bruce" Bruce fights the perfidious English, with mixed success. Pretty damn meh, but in a nod to history the Scots aren't played by smurfs in schoolgirl outfits. As a sign of how far we've come as a society the English main enemy commander is not portrayed as being a pathetic loser because he is gay, but just as a pathetic loser period. Since it is a Netflix medieval movie the enemy commander has to thrash around in the mud to drive home how much of a frightened weakling he is, unlike the manly man-man hero.

[Savonarola]

Traffic in Souls (1915)

A ring of pimps is on the loose in New York City!    They kidnap innocent young maidens just arrived from Northern Europe, naïve new arrivals from the country, and city girls at such so-called "Innocent" amusements such dance halls and candy shops; forcing them into a life of that most shameful trade!    Even the upper crust of the city is involved in the abductions!    Hide your wife!  Hide your daughters!  New York is the devil's city.   

The gilded age was, in many ways, much like our own.  There was enormous wealth inequality, corporations played an outside role in government, technology brought about many changes in society and there was an over-abundance of white bourgeois people who knew what was best for the poor.  One of the progressive causes immediately before the First World War was the growth in urban prostitution.  This was John Rockefeller Jr.'s pet project; and his commission concluded that the rise was due to poor working conditions and wages for women and the high rent (plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose) in New York City.  The film industry, of course, was going to have none of that^1., and instead made a number of lurid^2. "White slavery" pictures where an all powerful gang controlled the prostitution trade, kidnapped innocent (Protestant, white) women and the solution is always a last minute rescue.

"Traffic in Souls" follows this formula.  It is notable for it's scenes of New York; especially an immigrant crowd getting off the Ellis Island ferry and the then newly opened Penn Station.  It's also notable for showing a number of (then) high tech gizmos, like the Dictaphone and the overhead projector. 

1.)  For the most part, Lois Webber did make a number of films that tackled the subject of the working conditions of women.
2.)  By the standards of time; today you'll find more sex and violence in a deodorant commercial than in this film.

[The Brain]

Girl, Interrupted. Frodo Baggins is sent to a mental institution and hangs out with a Who's Who of young actresses of the era. It's good, I liked it. I like that the problem is [spoiler]mental illness and neighboring issues, and not evil doctors[/spoiler].

[viper37]

Traffic in Souls (1915)
"White slavery" pictures where an all powerful gang controlled the prostitution trade, kidnapped innocent (Protestant, white) women and the solution is always a last minute rescue.

I think I've seen many movies like that in the 80s.
What did you say about change?

2.)  By the standards of time; today you'll find more sex and violence in a deodorant commercial than in this film.

[mongers]

'News of the World' Tom Hanks anti-channels John Wayne. Worth a viewing as it's rather good.

[Darth Wagtaros]

The Watch has been good. Once you separate it from the books. 

[Habbaku]

Which I can't, so I won't bother. 

[Sheilbh]

Finally got around to watching I May Destroy You.

As good as everyone was saying.