TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Vice was very hit and miss, too, mostly miss. Adam McKay struck gold with The Big Short, but the whole social farce thing isn't totally working.

[Eddie Teach]

Monger, if we ever have a date, we should most definitely not go to a movie.  Never.

Interesting hypothetical.

[celedhring]

Took my mom to West Side Story. It's well done, but besides the latino cast the movie doesn't really add much and it's a pretty straightforward remake/readaptation.

I feel they should have Bazluhrmanned it because the story is so twisted and over the top - I mean, María fucks Tony right after he kills her brother - but then again, Luhrmann already did this story (with gangs and latino actors, too).

[Razgovory]

Monger, if we ever have a date, we should most definitely not go to a movie.  Never.

I'm about half way and the satire is dismal.  They take swings at the oddest collection of targets and miss big on every one.  For example morning shows.  Yes, they're cheerful and lightweight, HA HA HA HA HA, but what do they have to do with a planet killing comet?

Don't know how they got such an all star cast for this dog, but Merryl's last movie was a bit of a dog too.

My brother strong-armed my mom into watching this and she hated it.  Made her feel sad.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I liked Hawkeye.  It was fun.

[mongers]

Is 'Rumble Fish' worth a viewing?

[Admiral Yi]

Haven't seen it.

[Berkut]

Monger, if we ever have a date, we should most definitely not go to a movie.  Never.

I'm about half way and the satire is dismal.  They take swings at the oddest collection of targets and miss big on every one.  For example morning shows.  Yes, they're cheerful and lightweight, HA HA HA HA HA, but what do they have to do with a planet killing comet?

Don't know how they got such an all star cast for this dog, but Merryl's last movie was a bit of a dog too.

My brother strong-armed my mom into watching this and she hated it.  Made her feel sad.

Its a movie that is just a rather ham handed allegory for COVID. It has its moments, it isn't nearly as bad as Yi amkes it out, but overall it misses more than it hits.

[Eddie Teach]

Just the trailer is enough to know it's an unfunny satire.

[Syt]

Watching a video review of The Living Daylights. I wasn't aware that in 1987 Bratislava was actually in of Vienna.

(The shot is at Währinger Gürtel, the building on the right is the Volksoper. Still not as weird as seeing the Vienna subway in Firefox.)

[Josephus]

Don't Look Up. Had its moments, but somewhat overlong. May have worked better as a 2 minute SNL sketch.

[Sheilbh]

Its a movie that is just a rather ham handed allegory for COVID. It has its moments, it isn't nearly as bad as Yi amkes it out, but overall it misses more than it hits.

I think it was actually written before covid but filiming had to be pushed back because of it.

It's really weird film critics are pretty negative on it, but loads of journalists seem to love it It's a very big divide.

[mongers]

Haven't seen it.

[Languish]

I watched half of it, but didn't like it because it was shot in a video -like B&W rather than the correct film B&W.

[/Languish]

[Josephus]

Monger, if we ever have a date, we should most definitely not go to a movie.  Never.

I'm about half way and the satire is dismal.  They take swings at the oddest collection of targets and miss big on every one.  For example morning shows.  Yes, they're cheerful and lightweight, HA HA HA HA HA, but what do they have to do with a planet killing comet?

Don't know how they got such an all star cast for this dog, but Merryl's last movie was a bit of a dog too.

My brother strong-armed my mom into watching this and she hated it.  Made her feel sad.

Its a movie that is just a rather ham handed allegory for COVID. It has its moments, it isn't nearly as bad as Yi amkes it out, but overall it misses more than it hits.

I thought more it was about how reluctant we are to pay attention to climate change than COVID; but I could see the COVID allegory too.

[Razgovory]

It's a  climate change allegory.  However Covid has proven that nothing will be done about climate change.  You can't expect people to make sacrifices to stop a doomsday scenario in 60-90 years in the future if you can't get them to be inconvenienced slightly to save their lives own RIGHT NOW.