TV/Movies Megathread

[Darth Wagtaros]

Question - do you guys still have DVDs? Are you keeping them?

(Might have to move flat and wondering if it's time to get rid )

I have some that I haven't replaced for Blu Rays, yet.  No more DVD collection, but some movies are still on DVD.

Ditto.  I've been slowly digitizing them so they cna be wathced in Plex.  Its a pain in the ass, especially with the TV episodes, to find the correct DVD from the pile.

Plex is a pain in the ass. 

#Team Kodi. 

Seriously, it's something I've thought about but decided not to go for as it's really a pain in the ass to rip all the DVDs & Blu Rays.

Yeah, its been three years now and I'm not much further than when I started. Hah.  

[Josquius]

I just figured kodi out last month... Then not a week later amazon block it from working

[Josquius]

I've been watching Reacher.
It's... Weird.
Sometimes really good. High production values. Great fight scenes (sans guns).
But... It also feels like a satire at times. So hilariously cliche and so very... Conservative. You just know there's millions of guys in rural America getting hard watching this taking it and all its cardboard cliches completely straight.

[Malthus]

I've been watching Reacher.
It's... Weird.
Sometimes really good. High production values. Great fight scenes (sans guns).
But... It also feels like a satire at times. So hilariously cliche and so very... Conservative. You just know there's millions of guys in rural America getting hard watching this taking it and all its cardboard cliches completely straight.

The titular hero is a gigantic former military dude loner who easily mauls mooks with his fists or blasts them with guns, which I guess is conservative, but having the bad guys be corrupt cops and racist Southerners, while one of the good guys is a Black policeman, would probably deflate conservative rural boners somewhat?

[Admiral Yi]

Yeah, I mentioned the Economist review that called him an action hero liberals can love.  He likes women and dogs, etc.

[Eddie Teach]

I've been watching Reacher.
It's... Weird.
Sometimes really good. High production values. Great fight scenes (sans guns).
But... It also feels like a satire at times. So hilariously cliche and so very... Conservative. You just know there's millions of guys in rural America getting hard watching this taking it and all its cardboard cliches completely straight.

/watches Josq take a cardboard cliche completely straight

[celedhring]

Reacher was both good and bad. He loves dogs and hates racists, but then he summarily executes Spanish-speaking baddies like it's a 1980s movie all over again. 

Nonetheless, it's an entertaining show, although it can't hold a candle to the first Cruise movie (Herzog  )

[bogh]

Severance, anybody?
It's pretty Lynchian.

Yeah, we're five episodes in. I enjoy it a lot, but I am afraid that all of the weirdness will just be left hanging, unexplained and ultimately a bit gimmicky. But we'll see how it goes.

It's almost like a blend of "Being John Malkovich" meets "The Office" with a bit of old Terry Gilliam movies inserted.

[Josquius]

The titular hero is a gigantic former military dude loner who easily mauls mooks with his fists or blasts them with guns, which I guess is conservative, but having the bad guys be corrupt cops and racist Southerners, while one of the good guys is a Black policeman, would probably deflate conservative rural boners somewhat?

I haven't seen it all yet. But those things fit.
Black cop- one of the good ones. Meek, harvard educated, white guy in black skin. Helps tick the diversity box and makes you feel good about not being racist without changing ought. Not seeing too much racism around, though the other black stock character barber is a laugh.
The villains - corrupt cops (corruption boo hiss) seem the least of the issues. More is the evil out of towners splashing the cash and the Latino ex military gangsters.

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/watches Josq take a cardboard cliche completely straight

Such as?

[Eddie Teach]

The one I quoted.

[Josquius]

The one I quoted.

I'm enjoying it despite/because of if being silly.
I suspect some enjoy it without getting how silly it is.
Not sure how that equates to me taking it seriously.

[grumbler]

I read one of the Reacher books years ago at the urging of a friend's wife.  She explained the books as being about a character that does all of the stuff you want to tell the characters when watching a TV show or movie:  "Shoot!  Don't listen to his long explanation for why he is a bad guy while the henchmen catch up!" "Don't try to get them to surrender, just take them out!" That's exactly what Reacher does.  He doesn't take prisoners, doesn't count to three, etc.  Like A Clockwork Orange, the ultraviolence is a spoof of violence in fiction: you sort of like Reacher to begin with, but the horror of his worldview starts to change your mind:  he's not a hero, he's just another monster, but one that is on our side and has some limits on the targets of his violence.  The criminals in these books are also ultraviolent.

The show softens Reacher a bit, but not the violence.  It also doesn't have Reacher getting beaten up nearly as much as he wins his fights.  The writing is very good and the cast excellent, so I like it for even though I never even tried to read a second book in the series.

[Eddie Teach]

The one I quoted.

I'm enjoying it despite/because of if being silly.
I suspect some enjoy it without getting how silly it is.
Not sure how that equates to me taking it seriously.

7th

"Millions of guys in rural America..."

[Malthus]

I read one of the Reacher books years ago at the urging of a friend's wife.  She explained the books as being about a character that does all of the stuff you want to tell the characters when watching a TV show or movie:  "Shoot!  Don't listen to his long explanation for why he is a bad guy while the henchmen catch up!" "Don't try to get them to surrender, just take them out!" That's exactly what Reacher does.  He doesn't take prisoners, doesn't count to three, etc.  Like A Clockwork Orange, the ultraviolence is a spoof of violence in fiction: you sort of like Reacher to begin with, but the horror of his worldview starts to change your mind:  he's not a hero, he's just another monster, but one that is on our side and has some limits on the targets of his violence.  The criminals in these books are also ultraviolent.

The show softens Reacher a bit, but not the violence.  It also doesn't have Reacher getting beaten up nearly as much as he wins his fights.  The writing is very good and the cast excellent, so I like it for even though I never even tried to read a second book in the series.

Another aspect of his character, at least from the tv series, is that he's a gigantic bruiser who happens also to be clever.

Everyone expects him to be a dumb thug, because he disassembles opponents with his fists, he's enormous, and he doesn't say much. He deliberately plays on this in the show. 

[Josquius]

"Millions of guys in rural America..."

I've tried to wrap my head about this but I'm failing.
You're assuming what I wrote in that post is the only thing I think defines everyone in America?