TV/Movies Megathread

[crazy canuck]

Woman King, good movie - great battle scenes.  No sugar coating the slave trade.

[Josquius]

Thor love and thunder.
I'm really not sure what to make of it.
Ragnarok ruled. This... It's just so amazingly stupid. And it's hard to tell where it's intentionally so and where it's just bad. It delves into almost spoof territory at times.
And I get that it's style is the whole 80a hair metal album cover thing, but not getting why guns and roses feature so heavily. That's a different thing.
And the goats and so much else make no sense.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Thor love and thunder.
I'm really not sure what to make of it.
Ragnarok ruled. This... It's just so amazingly stupid. And it's hard to tell where it's intentionally so and where it's just bad. It delves into almost spoof territory at times.
And I get that it's style is the whole 80a hair metal album cover thing, but not getting why guns and roses feature so heavily. That's a different thing.
And the goats and so much else make no sense.

Wasn't great.  Wasn't terrible but it was a let down.

[HVC]

Latest house of dragons episode changed some stuff around to make it more dramatic in comparison to the book, but wasn't too far off and still a good viewing.  The Green Party made its inauguration  into the story line. Really liking this show.


*edit* although the time jump and new replacement actors next episode might be jarring.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Finale of Cobra Kai.  It was good.  A cool ending to a cool series.  I don't really care about the proposed prequels and such.  With few exceptions prequels are boring to me, when they aren't just annoying.

[viper37]

Finale of Cobra Kai.  It was good.  A cool ending to a cool series.  I don't really care about the proposed prequels and such.  With few exceptions prequels are boring to me, when they aren't just annoying.

The proposed prequel has nothing to do with the series, IIRC.

[Eddie Teach]

A GoT wedding with only one death is considered a dull affair, no?

[HVC]

Woman King, good movie - great battle scenes.  No sugar coating the slave trade.

The movie us now getting significant backlash against the white washing (black washing?) Of the very active role of the Dahomey in the slave trade.

[Valmy]

Yeah Dahomey was a slave economy with a military whose biggest job was to capture people to sell to Euros which was the main source of the kingdom's wealth.

That seems like a pretty dark thing to explore so I can see why they would prefer to focus on the more romantic aspects. But if they did leave that out how is that "no sugar coating the slave trade"?

[The Brain]

Dr. Sleep. What ever happened to the kid from The Shining? OK, but of course no way near The Shining. The bad gal is played by a Swede, which is nice. Also, idea for movie: Dr. Poop. Man with special gifts finds calling as orderly at constipation clinic.

Robert the Bruce. The Bruce is down on his luck and needs help, history lesson. I wouldn't say it's a horrible movie, but with a title like that you kind of expect at least a partial biopic, which this is not. A better title would have been "The Croft", or "Loyalty", or something. Bonus: you get to hear a 14th century Scottish hero talk about peeling potatoes.

[viper37]

Yeah Dahomey was a slave economy with a military whose biggest job was to capture people to sell to Euros which was the main source of the kingdom's wealth.

That seems like a pretty dark thing to explore so I can see why they would prefer to focus on the more romantic aspects. But if they did leave that out how is that "no sugar coating the slave trade"?

An African kingdom is depicted as a willing participant in the slave trade and fighting white people who tell them it's really bad to enslave other human beings and they shouldn't be doing it.

You do not understand why this creates some modicum amount of controversy online?

[frunk]

Cyberpunk Edgerunners is surprisingly enjoyable.  The animation is cheapo old school, but it's stylish, well executed, and 3 episodes in the story has me hooked.

[Valmy]

Yeah Dahomey was a slave economy with a military whose biggest job was to capture people to sell to Euros which was the main source of the kingdom's wealth.

That seems like a pretty dark thing to explore so I can see why they would prefer to focus on the more romantic aspects. But if they did leave that out how is that "no sugar coating the slave trade"?

An African kingdom is depicted as a willing participant in the slave trade and fighting white people who tell them it's really bad to enslave other human beings and they shouldn't be doing it.

You do not understand why this creates some modicum amount of controversy online?

I am sure it does. But it is what happened after all 

But of course the anti-slavery actions of the British Empire was utilized in its Imperial expansion in Africa so if you need to have bad white people you can still have that while saying the facts.

[Zoupa]

I've avoided House of the Dragon but I just watched these 4 episodes and wow, and it's really really good.

Surprised that you and others think that. Average IMO. Some good acting. Some pretty poor acting. Storyline seems a bit random and not very interesting. Dialogue OK but nothing like as good as early GoT with no humour. It's fine and I'll probably watch to the end but I hope it improves.   

Spot on. Raenyra is not a particularly good actress, that teenage queen marginally better. Daemon is always a hoot.

The main problem for me is that so far the storyline is very very "meh". It's also oh so serious all the time.

[HVC]

They also have Ralph Fiennes nephew playing the evil portuguese character thus denying a hard working portuguese actor a job