TV/Movies Megathread

[katmai]

It is on Netflix so gonna have to be watching it on that.

[The Larch]

It is on Netflix so gonna have to be watching it on that.

Release date is early next year, IIRC.

[CountDeMoney]

Prolific Hollywood producer Richard Zanuck has died aged 77, suffering a heart attack at his Beverley Hills home.

Dick Zanuck, as most people called him, was best known for his work on films such as The Sound of Music, Driving Miss Daisy and Jaws.

Son of Hollywood royalty, he became the youngest studio head in history when he took over 20th Century Fox aged 28.

His friend Steven Spielberg called him a "cornerstone of the film industry".

Dick Zanuck's parents were the legendary movie mogul Darryl Zanuck and actress Virginia Fox.

After his father made him 20th Century Fox's head of production, the younger Zanuck went on to oversee the release of some of the era's classics, including The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

He went on to run his own production company after several big-screen musicals for Fox flopped and his father fired him, spending most of his career as an independent producer.

Zanuck collaborated with Steven Spielberg on the blockbuster Jaws and several other films.

"He taught me everything I know about producing. He was one of the most honourable and loyal men of our profession and he fought tooth and nail for his directors," Mr Spielberg said in a statement.

His 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy won four Oscars, including best picture for Zanuck and his wife and collaborator Lili Fini Zanuck.

In his later years, Zanuck collaborated closely with director Tim Burton on a number of fillms, including Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland.

The BBC's Peter Bowes in Los Angeles says Zanuck's sudden death deprives Hollywood of one of its most revered filmmakers.

[Neil]

Stallone's kid died.

[CountDeMoney]

Scream 7 or 19 or something is on.  I want a Hayden Panettiere RealDoll.

[Josquius]

Snow White and the Huntsman- Nice effects but so freaking obvious what was going to happen all the way through. Thoroughly meh. The only people who liked it were the gay guy, the otaku and the trendy girl with a strange like for Kirsten Stewart. No, not the start of a joke.

[CountDeMoney]

Rutger Hauer in Hobo With A Shotgun.  What. The. Fuck.

[Habbaku]

Rutger Hauer in Hobo With A Shotgun.  What. The. Fuck.

That movie was full of ossum.

[mongers]

Rutger Hauer in Hobo With A Shotgun.  What. The. Fuck.

Yeah, I saw that quite recently; guess it's been released and my reaction was the exact same as yours. 

[Admiral Yi]

Which movie was it that paid Rutger Hauer in Twinkies and Ho Hos?  Dude went from an unstoppable sex machine in Blade Runner to The World's Fattest Dutchman in like two years.

[CountDeMoney]

Rutger Hauer in Hobo With A Shotgun.  What. The. Fuck.

Yeah, I saw that quite recently; guess it's been released and my reaction was the exact same as yours.

I'm glad I'm doing other things while it's on, so the last 90 minutes of my life aren't a total waste.

Rubber comes on afterwards.  Now THAT'S a movie! 

[MadImmortalMan]

Metroland


Emily Watson spends an entire movie making a complete chump out of Christian Bale. The End.

Sorry Batman.

[Maladict]

Watched Paths of Glory yesterday. What a great movie.
Nice touch to air it on the 14th, too.

[Syt]

Trainspotting. Watched it in "English" for the first time. Not nearly as bad as I feared it might be.

[Malthus]

The curse of the axe

It's Huron site, Mantle, the biggest village to be found so far, in Ontario, dating to the pre-contact period, between 1450-1500.  About 2000 people lived there and since 60% of their diet was composed of corn/maze, it means there was roughly 80km2 of farmlands around the village.   Of significant notice is the presence of an iron axe, wich has been traced back to the Basque country in Spain.  It was probably a left over by Basque sailors in Newfoundland, and picked up by indians who divided it in pieces and traded it.

Fascinating

Freaky thing to discover in a Toronto suburb.