TV/Movies Megathread

[Darth Wagtaros]

Bad Santa.  Fucked up, but still funny. 

[FunkMonk]

    

[crazy canuck]

Looks cool, and I can actually hear what they are saying now.  Sounds like they fixed the problem with all the whispering in the first movie.

[Josephus]

So I just came back from seeing Napoleon. I'm glad I went. Yeah, it's not a perfect movie, and I can do without Josephine all together, but otherwise it's OK. A good 3 out of 5. The battle scenes are good, especially Austerlitz and Waterloo where [sp] Napoleon loses [/sp] . The movie felt rushed, they tried to get a lot in, and in so doing, didn't really explain too much. I can see a casual viewer being lost from the get go.
But it was fine.

[Valmy]

    

I cannot wait. It is going to be awesome.

[Valmy]

So I just came back from seeing Napoleon. I'm glad I went. Yeah, it's not a perfect movie, and I can do without Josephine all together, but otherwise it's OK. A good 3 out of 5. The battle scenes are good, especially Austerlitz and Waterloo where [sp] Napoleon loses [/sp] . The movie felt rushed, they tried to get a lot in, and in so doing, didn't really explain too much. I can see a casual viewer being lost from the get go.
But it was fine.

I found the idea of Napoleon riding into battle swinging his sword kind of hilarious.

But yeah a decent movie. I hoped it would be great and get people excited and interested in Napoleon, but I don't think that movie is going to do that.

[viper37]

[celedhring]

The scenario looks a bit ridiculous (Texas and California alliance? ). But it's Alex Garland, I've got season tickets for anything he does and I'm sure everything will make sense somehow (or that it won't matter that it doesn't).

[Josquius]

I guess Texas-California helps show "The government turned baaaad" to both sides rather than just being a offend half the country piece?
At least that's what I'm guessing is the plot?

[Tamas]

Is it about: state rights?

[viper37]

The scenario looks a bit ridiculous (Texas and California alliance? ). But it's Alex Garland, I've got season tickets for anything he does and I'm sure everything will make sense somehow (or that it won't matter that it doesn't).

That was my first reaction too.

Then I figured, if they made it a South-Carolina-Texas alliance, it might hit too close to home for comfort and some people would scream bloody murder about giving wrong ideas to the wrong people.

I can't say I was impressed by Ex Machina, way too predictable, and I didn't like Annihilation.
Dredd was awesome though.

[Jacob]

I think it's more of a marketing alliance. If you have Californian and Texan stereotypes in the film, you have a decent chance of appealing to most demographics in the US domestic market.

[Syt]

Cheers, Season 3, the first 3 episodes. AKA the ones where Frasier joins the cast.

He's so young. I mentioned before that I didn't watch Cheers much previously, and I know that his character on that show and on Frasier has some differences (with retcons/discrepancies that they handwaved away in Frasier). But I love that his eloquence is firmly established right from the start.

Also, Christopher Lloyd is on the double episode that ends Season 2.

So, this is him in 1984:



And a year later in 1985:



I never realized he was made to look older(?) in Back to the Future?    

[HVC]

Good old man neck makeup

[Syt]

Good old man neck makeup

He went through a transition between the two shots: