TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Megantic.

A tv series about the Lac Mégantic rail disaster where a train filled with oil wagons parked in the nearby city of Nantes went loose and derailed in the city centre killing 47 people in the middle of the night.

I'm 3 episodes in.  It's one of the best tv series I've seen made in Quebec, and probably rivals with many American series.

The acting is so good.  I'm used to see boring soaps, but this is extraordinary.   When given good material, our actors can act. 

Some of the special effects about the fire and the train explosion are top notch.  Obviously, not a ton of it, given the limited budget (it's still Quebec), but it's great to see.  You can feel the horror, the despair.

The panic from the train driver, trying to help the firefighters as best as he could, the aforementionned firefighters, mostly volunteers from the small towns surrounding Megantic, totally overwhelmed from the intensity of the blaze, the local construction company trying to organize some kind of civilian defense with construction equipments to save what they could of the city...  I'm stunned.

This being a product of Quebecor, I doubt it'll ever be dubbed for English Canada, but one can only hope. 

[Jacob]

I'd rather watch with subtitles. Where are you watching it?

[viper37]

I'd rather watch with subtitles. Where are you watching it?

TVA.  Tuesday nights, I believe.  I catched up with it with Videotron's on demand service.
Otherwise, I don't think Club Illico is available outside of Quebec:
https://videotron.com/en/entertainment/club-illico/megantic

[The Brain]

The Stepfather (2009). What are you doing stepfather? I can't remember if I ever saw the entire old movie, so can't really compare them. This version has many many gratuitous shots of young Amber Heard in bikini or underwear, to the point where it gets comical.

[mongers]

'Logan Luck' - excellent entertainment, worth a viewing, it was on Netflix.

[mongers]

'Hell or High Water' - excellent western, 10 minutes in I realised I'd seen it a few years ago, but found it worth a 2nd viewing.

'Tenet' on the other hand, meah. 

[celedhring]

'Hell or High Water' - excellent western, 10 minutes in I realised I'd seen it a few years ago, but found it worth a 2nd viewing.

'Tenet' on the other hand, meah. 

Hell or High Water is one of my favorite American films of the 2010s.

A bit of a pity that Sheridan is now just churning out westerns for boomers.

[viper37]

A bit of a pity that Sheridan is now just churning out westerns for boomers.

So, this is what Yellowstone is?  Good thing I've never watched it then!

[grumbler]

A bit of a pity that Sheridan is now just churning out westerns for boomers.

I'm not much of a moviegoer these days.  What does "just churning out westerns for boomers" mean, and how does it differ from "just churning out westerns?"

[celedhring]

Fair enough, probably not much demand for horse operas among people under 60.

He's been writing the Yellowstone franchise. He's making bank like crazy, mind, I can understand.

[Gups]

Despite being Gen X, I like the Yellowstone prequels. But I am a bit of a sucker for westerns.

[Razgovory]

Despite being Gen X, I like the Yellowstone prequels. But I am a bit of a sucker for westerns.

You know who else liked westerns?  Hitler.  And Stalin.

[Tonitrus]

Yellowstone itself is an over-hyped soap opera masquerading as some kind of serious "drama".

[Admiral Yi]

The slutty daughter is pretty hott.

[Sheilbh]

Although all serious dramas (and not just on TV) are basically soap operas (not a criticism)