TV/Movies Megathread

[Sophie Scholl]

I absolutely love Willow and am super excited for the series. I had the toys, the super hard NES game, and spent way too many quarters on the amazing arcade game. Sorsha was definitely an early moment of, "Do I want to be her or be with her?" for me. It's just an immensely fun movie in my opinion. I've seen some less than stellar feedback so far, but it hasn't lessened my enthusiasm by much.

[Eddie Teach]

Willow holds up better than most 80s children's movies. Madmartigan and the brownies are hilarious. Sorsha

[The Brain]

I've never seen Willow.

[Admiral Yi]

The soundtrack does not help SAS.

[grumbler]

The soundtrack does not help SAS.

So long as passenger service is good and planes fly on time, people won't care about the SAS sound track.

[Sophie Scholl]

I've never seen Willow.

I think you would enjoy it. It's a fun fantasy adventure with a great cast.

[Valmy]

Willow holds up better than most 80s children's movies. Madmartigan and the brownies are hilarious. Sorsha

That to me is the issue. I didn't really care at all about the plot or the lore or anything. It is just watching Val Kilmer be hilarious and his future wife be super hot and the practical effects which were amazing. It was a wonderful popcorn flic. But a new series will not have 1980s Val Kilmer (or even 2020s Val Kilmer due to his throat cancer issues) or amazing practical effects.

So it has to be its own thing, it has very little from the 1980s movie going for it. So even if it is great, it probably will be great in a totally different way than the original film was.

[celedhring]

Val Kilmer was actually set to appear but had to pull out because of the threat of Covid + his health.

I watched the second episode and - as somebody with zero attachment to the original material - I found it to be a pleasant light fantasy outing.

[Barrister]

I absolutely love Willow and am super excited for the series. I had the toys, the super hard NES game, and spent way too many quarters on the amazing arcade game. Sorsha was definitely an early moment of, "Do I want to be her or be with her?" for me. It's just an immensely fun movie in my opinion. I've seen some less than stellar feedback so far, but it hasn't lessened my enthusiasm by much.

I feel like Willow is one of those things where I am just slightly too old to really go in for hard-core nostalgia.  It came out in 1988, so I was 13.  I remember going to see it in the theatre, I enjoyed it, but I'm not foaming at the mouth to see a sequel.

[Oexmelin]

A bit disappointed so far; will watch episode 2 based on the word that it is better. But the character building, expedited in 20 minutes, seemed lazy and cliche. I really dislike when fantasy builds on tropes from suburban America ("but MOOOM, ugh, you're the WORST. "Go to your room, young lady" "I am NOT my dad"). It's especially jarring when mixed with the tropes and cliches of fairy tales. 

[Sophie Scholl]

I feel like Willow is one of those things where I am just slightly too old to really go in for hard-core nostalgia.  It came out in 1988, so I was 13.  I remember going to see it in the theatre, I enjoyed it, but I'm not foaming at the mouth to see a sequel.

Totally understandable. I was 6 when it came out in theaters, though I don't think I saw it till it the VHS release. It holds one of those strange places in my heart though. I shared a lot of the same interests with the other kids in my neighborhood, but Willow was one that was kind of uniquely mine. Others liked it, but probably no more than any other popcorn movie release. I never read the sequel book (prequel? I honestly don't recall) that George Lucas and Chris Claremont of X-Men fame collaborated on if memory serves. I may try to track it down and give it a quick read if I end up enjoying the series.

[frunk]

I saw Willow when I was 15, and over the course of its run in the local dollar cinema I think I saw it three times.  It was a combination of seeing it with different people and it being a cheap local source of air conditioning.

I liked it enough but can't say it left me with a strong impression.

[Eddie Teach]

I really dislike when fantasy builds on tropes from suburban America ("but MOOOM, ugh, you're the WORST. "Go to your room, young lady" "I am NOT my dad"

Are those particular to America? 

[Barrister]

So, umm, I don't know if the movie is going to be any good, but you owe it to yourself to check out the trailer for Cocaine Bear.  The most honest movie title since Snakes on a Plane.

Just bananas.

[Valmy]

I really dislike when fantasy builds on tropes from suburban America ("but MOOOM, ugh, you're the WORST. "Go to your room, young lady" "I am NOT my dad"

Are those particular to America? 

No. Only to suburban America.