TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Anyone here watch Silo or read the wool books?  I first found the books years ago by popular review on kindle and enjoyed them.

I think the TV series has an opportunity to make the prequel storyline about the Senator interesting given current events.  Although in the books it was the democrats who built the Silos.

I read and enjoyed the first book, because the author was so good at creating characters.  It suffered from the fact that the author hadn't much bothered to think out his world-building before he wrote his series of short stories, and it broke emersion for me to read about the oil fields of Atlanta that the silo was tapping for raw materials, the iron mines, etc.

I couldn't finish the second book because it just amplified, in my mind, all of those incongruities. I just couldn't suspend disbelief.

Fair points. I forgot that the novels were intitially short stories, put together later in book form. And it shows. The author didn't have a mapped out plan as to where it was going. Which is why the TV series may be better.

[Bauer]

Anyone here watch Silo or read the wool books?  I first found the books years ago by popular review on kindle and enjoyed them.

I think the TV series has an opportunity to make the prequel storyline about the Senator interesting given current events.  Although in the books it was the democrats who built the Silos.

I read and enjoyed the first book, because the author was so good at creating characters.  It suffered from the fact that the author hadn't much bothered to think out his world-building before he wrote his series of short stories, and it broke emersion for me to read about the oil fields of Atlanta that the silo was tapping for raw materials, the iron mines, etc.

I couldn't finish the second book because it just amplified, in my mind, all of those incongruities. I just couldn't suspend disbelief.

The books certainly require some suspension of reality but are a fun ride if you can do so.  The TV show has the silos using geothermal energy.

[Bauer]

I have watched both seasons, should I still read the books?

Also who the fuck are you, Bauer?

Can't really answer that for you but i thought they were a fun sci fi mystery/adventure.  Season 2 on the show started to diverge.

Also, I used to post here many many years ago and thought of rejoining to post on politics and what not.

[Tamas]

I have watched both seasons, should I still read the books?

Also who the fuck are you, Bauer?

Can't really answer that for you but i thought they were a fun sci fi mystery/adventure.  Season 2 on the show started to diverge.

Also, I used to post here many many years ago and thought of rejoining to post on politics and what not.

[grumbler]

I have watched both seasons, should I still read the books?

Also who the fuck are you, Bauer?

Can't really answer that for you but i thought they were a fun sci fi mystery/adventure.  Season 2 on the show started to diverge.

Also, I used to post here many many years ago and thought of rejoining to post on politics and what not.

Congrats on having the lowest post count/day of any active members. 

Hope you stick around.  We need some fresh viewpoints. We've worn each others' viewpoints down to viewnubs.

[Syt]

Since I'm waiting for Bob's Burgers S15 to come to Disney, I've been rewatching S1 of Star Trek Lower Decks. I had completely forgotten about some of those episodes or plots. Though with the hindsight of the full character arcs some of it is slightly less crazy in hindsight, like sweet innocent Tendi suddenly managing to take out a whole bunch Romulan guards in bad-ass fashion.

[Syt]

Seeing "Mid-Century Modern" is coming to Disney here next month.

Summary: "After an unexpected death, three best friends--gay gentlemen of a certain age--decide to spend their golden years living together in Palm Springs, where the wealthiest one lives with his mother."

The premise sounds familiar. 

Seems to be decently rated, though, and it has Nathan Lane who I love, so I'll be sure to check it out.

[Josquius]

I'm enjoying last one laughing on amazon.
A weird foray into the sort of show you'd expect on TV for them.
It's weird though. Everything about the show is so very disconcertingly American. All the fake drama and flash....
Yet it's all these British comedians I know well with nary a yank to be seen.

[Josephus]

So I'm watching this AMC show, Dark Winds, a series about Navaho police. George RR Martin snd Robert Redford are co executive producers.  So season 3 episode 1 has them play cameos. They are in a jail cell in the Navajo police station playing chess. Martin is staring at the board for a long time. Redford says to him: "George! Make a move! The whole world is waiting". 😁

[grumbler]

So I'm watching this AMC show, Dark Winds, a series about Navaho police. George RR Martin snd Robert Redford are co executive producers.  So season 3 episode 1 has them play cameos. They are in a jail cell in the Navajo police station playing chess. Martin is staring at the board for a long time. Redford says to him: "George! Make a move! The whole world is waiting". 😁

I loved the books in that series, but unfortunately don't do AMC.

[Admiral Yi]

I just rewatched Ferris Beuler's Day Off.  I had previously watched a commentary on the movie Downfall and it's portrayal of narcissism, so I was primed.  It struck me that Ferris is a narcissistic asshole. 

I mentioned it to my roommate, who is from Chicagoland, hence duty bound to defend John Hughes, and he said he had seen a Hughes interview in which he explained Ferris' actions as sacrifice to save his friend Cameron.

This is the Downfall commentary.  Obviously extremely relevant to the current age.  In fact I think Trumpism is best understood as the allure of narcissism.

[Norgy]

The Führerbunker seems like full of competent personnel compared to the White House.

[Duque de Bragança]

I guess that's why Trump wanted generals like Hitler had. 
Later, Trump denied saying that that, of course.

[Sophie Scholl]

Babylon 5 is back on Amazon Prime for free. I know folks were mentioning they wanted to know where to watch it a short time ago when it surfaced in discussions here. 

[Syt]