TV/Movies Megathread

[crazy canuck]

Masters of the Air, this weeks episode was amongst the best ever

[Zoupa]

I can't get into it. I think we've had enough ww2 content.

[Josquius]

I can't get into it. I think we've had enough ww2 content.

We have?

I struggle to think of much at all in recent years.

[The Brain]

Insidious: The Red Door. Father and son struggle with memories of previous instalments. Very good in the genre I think. One weakness though is that the movie has a "magic black person", which seems unnecessary and lazy.

[Josquius]

Saltburn was.... An odd film. Don't quite get why there need be the final murder. But amusing. And some painful nostalgia-rage at the start.

Started masters of the air.
Man those opening credits. So very... Circa 2000. Wretch. Really off putting.

[HVC]

Shogun Trailer looks good. I also like the sassy portuguese (?) Character.

[Threviel]

Did not know about that one, loved the old one. Flaming arrows and torches all around are silly tropes, but the candle numbers seem possible. Looking forward to it.

[HVC]

Gotta light up the night somehow. A pitch black battle is less then appealing as an audience

[Josephus]

Masters of the Air, this weeks episode was amongst the best ever

The best ever? You make it seem like it's been around for ages. 

[Gups]

Shogun Trailer looks good. I also like the sassy portuguese (?) Character.

Started re-reading the novel not knowing there was going to be a new series. Looking forward to it.

Finished Season 3 of the Slow Horse, an above average Brit spy series elevated to excellent by Gary Oldman and season 2 of the criminally underrated Julia with the wonderful Sarah Lancashire.

[Jacob]

This is based on Clavell's book, I assume (since his name doesn't appear in the trailer)?

I remember watching that as a young lad, setting off a long lasting fascination with Japan for me (and about half of the rest of the West at the time, it seems).

Looks like they've added more female fighting bad-assery than the book and the original TV series did - which makes sense given modern audience tastes.

Maybe if it's successful, we'll see a transition from vikings back to samurai as the main flavour of "exotic yet relatable setting for 'historical' sword and honour fantasy".

Where is the series showing?

[Tonitrus]

Looks like an FX series...dunno how that translates to Canadian.

[Jacob]

Started watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom with the boy the other day. We made it about halfway through before we stopped.

I don't think the film holds up - giving the "Star Wars comical/ exotic aliens" treatment to Indians and Chinese falls rather flat - it plays at the same range as Breakfast at Tiffany's + some shallow mysticism. The female lead being annoying-selfish-and-two-dimensional-played-for-laughs succeeds only at being tedious and annoying. I know it's supposed to be pulp, but even so Indiana Jones does not come across as a compelling archeologist.

I wanted to make it to the iconic "swirling swords display and anti-climatic shooting" scene, but we just couldn't care enough about anything that happened. It probably doesn't help that action-adventure pacing in the 2020s is faster than it was in the 1980s.

[Jacob]

Looks like an FX series...dunno how that translates to Canadian.

Hulu.

Looking into it, I can get if for $8/month with ads, or $18/month without. I think if it'd been $8 without  ads I might have sprung for it. Oh well. Might read the books again though - "decently written and relatively plausible historical fiction with plenty of action, some politics, and a little bit of romance" is one of my favourite comfort genres.

[Tonitrus]

I wanted to make it to the iconic "swirling swords display and anti-climatic shooting" scene,

Raiders.