TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

Netflix is grouping Breaking Bad apparently with Shrek, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs etc.

Some weird algorithm stuff at work there.
They figure when you're in the mood for breaking bad you're also in the mood for a kids film?

[Legbiter]

And my mother wants me to take her to see it, thinking it's some kind of fun Norse epic and because Kidman is in it. I'm trying to talk her out of it...

The main character is a traumatized beserker killing machine...

[Legbiter]

So we are talking the viking version of the Green Knight or...?

From what little trailers and such I've seen I was honestly expecting more a silly TV Vikingsesque thing.

Much, much weirder. Visceral, raw and violent. There's a casual scene where Amleth's warband herds those too young or too old to be sold as slaves into a thatch-roofed house, they shut the door and burn everyone inside. The scene reminded me of Come and See.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Over the past few days I've binged Seasons 3-6 of The Expanse. SPOILERS to follow (still no spoiler tags ).

Just wondering: did you read the books? (if you haven't yet and you find the time you should give them a shot)

I've been working my way through the series at a leisurely pace but I've got to say that they have adapted the source material very well to the small screen. Not perfectly (that's not possible anyway) but it gets close enough imho.

[Syt]

I have a box of them in the basement. Never use them 

I'll probably get rid of them whenever we move

Similar, though I might remove them even earlier. I thought about digitizing them, but TBH, I can't be bothered, esp. since most of the collection were impulse buys, thinking, "I might watch this. Eventually. Maybe."

Well, I'm holding on to my discs for now. Mostly because disposing of them would probably cost another EUR 50 tomorrow when the city workers arrive. If I decided to watch any of them I'd have to hook up my PS4 to a computer screen, though. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Well, I'm holding on to my discs for now. Mostly because disposing of them would probably cost another EUR 50 tomorrow when the city workers arrive. If I decided to watch any of them I'd have to hook up my PS4 to a computer screen, though. 

The horror! 

[Syt]

Over the past few days I've binged Seasons 3-6 of The Expanse. SPOILERS to follow (still no spoiler tags ).

Just wondering: did you read the books? (if you haven't yet and you find the time you should give them a shot)

I've been working my way through the series at a leisurely pace but I've got to say that they have adapted the source material very well to the small screen. Not perfectly (that's not possible anyway) but it gets close enough imho.

I asked for recommendations on them in the books thread but got no response. I got an enthusiastic one via Twitter, though. They've since gone on my reading list for right after finishing two other books.

[Josquius]

I half watched a film called Metal Lords about a kid who is in a metal band at high school. Very low stakes stuff about middle class kids living it up. Ticks a lot of design by algorithm boxes. But some funny bits and good music.

[celedhring]

Somebody put a lot of effort into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B90ic2iKDo&t=1s&ab_channel=Corridor

The Batman trailer with all characters replaced by their 1960s show equivalents*. 


*Except Julie Newmar

[Malthus]

Somebody put a lot of effort into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B90ic2iKDo&t=1s&ab_channel=Corridor

The Batman trailer with all characters replaced by their 1960s show equivalents*. 


*Except Julie Newmar

I would unironically watch this, if it was a whole movie! 

Bring back Adam West - the *real* Batman! The one who dances!

[Syt]

Great episode of Better Call Saul. My one complaint is that the two main story threads (cartel infighting vs Jimmy becoming Saul Goodman we know from Breaking Bad), unless they intersect, tend to go at very different speeds a lot of the time, with one going into overdrive, while the other is slower and less tense. The last two episode suffered from that IMO, but it might more be that with one thread being extremely tense, switching to the less high stakes one just increases the tension.

[Syt]

From Twitter - philosophers seen in the class room scene in Starship Troopers.



From top to bottom:
Nietzsche (no surprise )
Aristotle
Spinoza
Hannah Ahrendt (bit of a surprise there )

[viper37]

From Twitter - philosophers seen in the class room scene in Starship Troopers.



From top to bottom:
Nietzsche (no surprise )
Aristotle
Spinoza
Hannah Ahrendt (bit of a surprise there )

so... this movie venerates very smart people?  That's pretty cool!

[grumbler]

so... this movie venerates very smart people?  That's pretty cool!

Those are clues that the movie is a spoof.  You want to see some funny stuff, go back and find the debates between the "it was Nazi propaganda" types and the "goof, it was a spoof" types.

[CountDeMoney]

Uh. Yes please.

Nicolas Winding Refn and Ed Brubaker team up for inevitably stylish crime series:
http://www.avclub.com/article/nicolas-winding-refn-and-ed-brubaker-team-inevitab-249973?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing

Well, this could be fantastic. Brubaker is one of my favorite funnybook writers, and Refn can be decent when providing pretty pictures to a good story.

Holy fuck, Too Old To Die Young is an achievement.  Morally reprehensible characters you cannot always bring yourself to despise, with dialogue and pacing that is maddeningly deliberate, soaked in pornographic hyperviolence and surreal absurdism.

There's only two ways to go with this Amazon Prime series: love or hate. You will be the viewer that either finds it hypnotically stunning or pretentiously self-indulgent, and you probably already know who you are on that spectrum.

I finished it 2 weeks ago, and it's still bouncing around in my head.