TV/Movies Megathread

[grumbler]

Nice. Have you tried Tale of Two Wastelands that ties together FO3 and FNV? If so, how is it?

And confirming the No-Bark theory would be hilarious. (It's not quite Darth Jar-Jar levels, though )

I played TTW for a while, and it worked great.  Then, it stopped working and no amount of troubleshooting seemed to fix it. 

[Syt]

That sucks.

[Bauer]

Alien Earth has been great so far

I've seen ads for this one, though I'm just not being drawn to it.
Had it come out 10 years ago I'd be all over it. But Covenant just killed interest in Alien for me, that was such a terrible film, up there with the Matrix sequels for dissapointment.
I've not seen Romulus yet.

Romulus was pretty good I thought.  Like you I wasn't high on the franchise after covenant but Romulus and alien earth are both pleasant surprises.  They seem to focus more on the human society than the aliens which makes sense as we've seen a lot of the xenomorph at this point.

I still hope there's a conclusion to the engineers storyline too.

[celedhring]

I don't know. Romulus was competently made and enjoyable, which is not that common these days, but at the same time a pretty shameless melange of all the previous Aliens (even Resurrection which I think absolutely nobody liked when it came out but it's old enough to be nostalgia too).

Haven't got around to watch Alien Earth, but I trust that Hawley will throw some curveballs into the whole mythos.

[Savonarola]

The Decline of Civilization 2 The Metal Years (1988)

It's hard to watch this without concluding that Osama bin Laden did have a point.  I think you could still play this at Al Qaeda recruitment parties.

 

This is the late 80s LA Metal scene in all its excess and big hair.  The high points are Chris Holmes (of W.A.S.P.) completely bombed out of his mind in a swimming pool discussing groupies while his bemused mother watches and the hot tup scene where the guy from Odin says he's going to kill himself if he doesn't become as big as Robert Plant or Jim Morrison (fortunately he didn't kill himself.) 

This was the music that was big when I was in high school and some of my friends thought this was great.  I didn't see it at the time.  Today the sexism is stunning and most of the acts (and groupies) come across like a parade of bozos.  There are a few exceptions, Ozzy is in it; he's interviewed while making breakfast the way Darby Crash was in the first Decline movie.  He's endlessly entertaining, all you need to do is point the camera in his general direction and you'll have a movie.  Alice Cooper is in it as well; he comes across as quite a bit smarter than most of his peers. 

Guns and Roses was supposed to be in it but backed out at the last minute.  It's probably for the best (for them) that they did, but I would have liked to have heard what they had to say when they were just on the verge of breaking.  (They do play "Under my Wheels" with Alice Cooper over the end credits.)

The director, Penelope Spheeris, was given the opportunity to direct "Spinal Tap," but didn't think heavy metal was funny.  I don't think she thought this movie was funny either; fortunately her editors saw the humor in this. 

[Bauer]

Took my son to see superman and was pleasantly surprised.  I liked the tone change from man of steel - felt like adolescent innocent fun which we don't get a lot of in movies these days.

[Tamas]

Alien Earth has been great so far

I've seen ads for this one, though I'm just not being drawn to it.
Had it come out 10 years ago I'd be all over it. But Covenant just killed interest in Alien for me, that was such a terrible film, up there with the Matrix sequels for dissapointment.
I've not seen Romulus yet.

Romulus started out very promising but then they HAD to draw the whole Prometheus/Covenant black goo nonesense into it and utterly ruin it.

[Bauer]

I saw a fan theory (or leak) that the engineer storyline is supposed to end up showing them as being genetically engineered super humans who are sterile.  They reproduce by seeding plants then using the goo to evolve the population into engineers.  So the black goo nonsense of Romulus may have been foreshadowing to that story's conclusion.

My guess is that the studio cut out significant parts of Prometheus to stretch the story out. 

[Josquius]

I really liked Prometheus. It was a good setup....which was then fluffed.

[crazy canuck]

I really liked Prometheus. It was a good setup....which was then fluffed.

Same

[Bauer]

Prometheus was good, I liked the mystery.  And fassbenders performance as David was awesome.  It just felt unfinished or that something was cut out.  I never really got why the engineers wanted to destroy earth and how the team leaped to that conclusion so quickly.

[Josquius]

I've just learned there's a thousand versions of Ghosts popping up around the world. I've heard of Australian, German, Greek, and Spanish.
The French one looks even moreso than the American one like they just redid the British scripts:

[celedhring]

Still remember the Spanish version of "Married... With Children". I wish I didn't.

[Syt]

Still remember the Spanish version of "Married... With Children". I wish I didn't.

Same for the German one - it didn't last long, fortunately (and Married with Children was already well established at that point). I didn't watch the German take on The Office (Stromberg), though that one seems popular - but it launched in 2004 before even the US version.

[Syt]

Rather fascinating is the spread of Till Death Us Do Part which spawned All In the Family in the US or Ein Herz und eine Seele in Germany. The German version was fairly transgressive for its time and largely did its own thing, though the dad was of course a xenophobe right-winger (who often used verbiage not too far removes from nazi jargon, and he had served in the war), and the left-wing socialist son was actually from East Germany (his parents visited in one episode during the 1974 World Cup). The show (and in Austria the counterpart Ein echter Wiener get nicht unter) still have a cult following after 50 years.