TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

Watched a tiny bit of The Amazing Spider Man.  Terribly miscast lead.

[CountDeMoney]

Watched a tiny bit of The Amazing Spider Man.  Terribly miscast lead.

Really? I thought he was marginally better than Shia or Toby or Elijah or whatever FLOM did the franchise series;  I felt he had the Peter Parker wisecracking motif down better.

[Admiral Yi]

Really? I thought he was marginally better than Shia or Toby or Elijah or whatever FLOM did the franchise series;  I felt he had the Peter Parker wisecracking motif down better.

I thought he would start stabbing the shit out of some lady in a motel shower any second.

[Eddie Teach]

I'm not familiar with the Peter Parker of the comics, but Maguire's casting fit in well with the character as written in the movies.

[Eddie Teach]

Oh, last night I was flipping through channels and found myself thinking that Yi was right, Rachel McAdams has really lost something. Then I realized I was looking at Jennifer Garner. 

[CountDeMoney]

I'm not familiar with the Peter Parker of the comics, but Maguire's casting fit in well with the character as written in the movies.

THEN YOU JUST DONT KNOW THE CANON MAN

[Neil]

Random Hearts.  The worst.

You're just saying that to agitate me.  It won't work.

I'm just saying, you shouldn't sneer at Ide.  Everybody likes some things that totally fucking suck.  Some things that are the worst things ever put to film.  Some things that take every rule about pacing and maintaining the interest of the audience, and gleefully defy them in the name of proving that Harrison Ford's time as a leading man was over.

[Neil]

Watched a tiny bit of The Amazing Spider Man.  Terribly miscast lead.

Really? I thought he was marginally better than Shia or Toby or Elijah or whatever FLOM did the franchise series;  I felt he had the Peter Parker wisecracking motif down better.

Yeah, he could crack wise, but any scene where he wasn't wearing a mask?  It was like watching Michael Cera try and stammer his way through the impersonation of a human being.

[Admiral Yi]

Whenever Seedy gets to sassy about a matter of taste I just play the Tiny Dancer card.

[Ideologue]

Days of Thunder C-

This I can agree with. Boring and forgettable.

Top Gun has a "more nuanced message" anyway.

Aw, you do read them.

[Ideologue]

The establishment of shit movie taste is quite easy.

What do you think of Traffic & Mulholland Dr?

If you answer anything else than : #1 & #2 worse movie you have ever seen, you have shit taste.

LOL, Fox, you're a good guy, but I'm guessing the number of movies you've seen is roughly "a dozen" if Traffic and Mulholland Drive* are the worst you've ever seen.

Try Battle Royale II: Requiem, for example, or After Last Season, or, hell, Batman and Robin, and tell me it's better than any Steven Soderbergh movie.  Though at least if you'd said The Girlfriend Experience, I could get on board somewhat.  What you think that movie will be and what that movie is a gulf too great for most to bridge, and even if you do bridge it, it still pretty much sucks out loud.  Actually, extremely quietly.  What garbage.

Also, Traffic: is actually pretty damned good.  Aish if I recall.  It's an unbeatable market force, man.

*David Lynch is largely unfamiliar to me, unfortunately.  Iirc, the only Lynch movies I've ever seen are The Elephant Man (which was great) and Dune (about on par with Oz, worth watching once but not very good).  One of these days I'll get around to correcting this omission.

[Razgovory]

I went to the theater to see Traffic, and the sound didn't work for the first half the of movie.  Is it better when the sound works properly?  I only had a vague idea what was going on.

[Admiral Yi]

I went to the theater to see Traffic, and the sound didn't work for the first half the of movie.  Is it better when the sound works properly?  I only had a vague idea what was going on.

It's a weak movie.  Benicio was good but the rest of the flick was pretty flat.

[Razgovory]

Now that I think about it, it does seem odd that I sat through a movie where the first half sounded like a phone modem connection.  I remember contacting the staff and they said it was suppose to be like that, so I thought the movie just wasn't very good.

[CountDeMoney]

Whenever Seedy gets to sassy about a matter of taste I just play the Tiny Dancer card.

Your hip inside references known only to you frighten and confuse me.  Is that a crack at Cameron Crowe movies?  WKRP in Cincinnati?  Asian chicks?