TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

They probably mean: one of the best TV dramas made in the last 10 years which they have actually watched?

(Haven't watched it, so no idea if it's good or not, or how it compares.)

He was supposedly a tv or film critic.

That explains it.

[Eddie Teach]

No good tv dramas, but Ghostbusters reboot was good... /smh

[Savonarola]

The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) (1921)

Victor Sjöström stars and directs this ghost story based on a novel by Selma Lagerlöf (first woman ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature).  At the time the double exposure to indicate a ghostly presence was a rarity (though Lois Weber had done it in "Hypocrites" as far back as 1915); but later it became such a cliché that the film long fell out of favor.  Except by Ingmar Bergman, who watched the film every year, and would cast Sjöström in "Wild Strawberries;" so, yes, it's kind of a downer of a film.  It's sort of a Swedish "It's a Wonderful Life" where a man is shown a series of flashbacks about his life and is ultimately given a chance at redemption.

There's a scene where Sjöström chops his way through a door which would be the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny" scene in "The Shining."  Interestingly enough that scene was intended as an homage to the closet scene in DW Griffith's "Broken Blossoms."

[The Brain]

It's a famous movie in Sweden, but I haven't seen it. Would you recommend it?

[Josquius]

I expect the matrix sequel to lean into some common theories about the red pill/blue pill thing just being different shades of lie. The real world is just a D drive etc...
But then I expected that after 2 and... No.

[grumbler]

Avatar was Pocahontas in Space.  Almost line by line.

[The Brain]

I expect the matrix sequel to lean into some common theories about the red pill/blue pill thing just being different shades of lie. The real world is just a D drive etc...
But then I expected that after 2 and... No.

Hopefully they will double down on human bodies being power plants. I never did understand why they made the premise of the movie so stupid.

[Sheilbh]

No good tv dramas, but Ghostbusters reboot was good... /smh

Looking at your list - with you on Justified and Halt and Catch Fire, especially Halt and Catch Fire - I think it's really good.

Never got along with Breaking Bad for some reason, same for Fargo despite loving the movie. Not watched Ozark.

I really liked GoT - watched it all in first lockdown - but I don't know, I feel like the further I am and looking back the less I think it's that great. I think ending on a bit of a sour-ish note maybe affects how I remember it and because it's more plot driven I feel like that would have an impact on if I went back to re-watch and I don't really want to.

Edit: Oh and actually - early days but I really liked the Witcher.

[Savonarola]

It's a famous movie in Sweden, but I haven't seen it. Would you recommend it?

Yes, it's definitely old fashioned (and some parts of the story seem moralizing) but, to me, that's part of the fun of older films.  It's also a two hour silent film; but it doesn't seem to drag the way some of DW Griffith's epics can.  Technically it's on par with just about anything that came out in 1921.

Of Sjöström's Swedish films I'd also recommend The Outlaw and his Wife (Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru) for its outdoor shots (and I think a better story.)  Of his Hollywood films "The Wind" is well worth seeing (and is considered one of Lilian Gish's best performances); "He Who Gets Slapped" isn't going to be for everyone, but I enjoyed it.

[crazy canuck]

Avatar was Pocahontas in Space.  Almost line by line.

"I see you"  just didnt have the same ring as "let the force be with you"

[Berkut]

I expect the matrix sequel to lean into some common theories about the red pill/blue pill thing just being different shades of lie. The real world is just a D drive etc...
But then I expected that after 2 and... No.

Hopefully they will double down on human bodies being power plants. I never did understand why they made the premise of the movie so stupid.

It really makes no sense at all. There were myriad ways to make it actually make sense, and still work fine. But just as a simple battery? Huh? Why not cows?

[The Brain]

I expect the matrix sequel to lean into some common theories about the red pill/blue pill thing just being different shades of lie. The real world is just a D drive etc...
But then I expected that after 2 and... No.

Hopefully they will double down on human bodies being power plants. I never did understand why they made the premise of the movie so stupid.

It really makes no sense at all. There were myriad ways to make it actually make sense, and still work fine. But just as a simple battery? Huh? Why not cows?

Indeed. It would have been soo simple to have the machines use human brains for processing power, for instance. Or pretty much any other explanation than the one given.

[viper37]

It really makes no sense at all. There were myriad ways to make it actually make sense, and still work fine. But just as a simple battery? Huh? Why not cows?

because they're leftist vegans, duh! They freed all the cows.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I thought it was just a fuck you to their organic enslavers.

[Josquius]

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Indeed. It would have been soo simple to have the machines use human brains for processing power, for instance. Or pretty much any other explanation than the one given.

Apparently they wanted to do that but studio said no.

Though the battery thing is a key bit of evidence for the real world isn't real theory