TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Saw an ad for the new Magnificent Seven movie. It dawned on me that one is a remake of a remake. Hollywood is outdoing itself.

Last of the Mohicans is a remake of a silent era movie

No, it's a book adaptation.

1/3 movie, 1/3 book and 1/3 Michael Mann from what I remember.

[mongers]

Watched 'Gravity' followed by John Carpenter's 'The Thing' interesting double bill.

[CountDeMoney]

Watched 'Gravity' followed by John Carpenter's 'The Thing' interesting double bill.

At least you cleansed the palate, and don't have a sour taste of stupid in your mouth.

[11B4V]

The Revenant: A-

[Ideologue]

Watched 'Gravity' followed by John Carpenter's 'The Thing' interesting double bill.

At least you cleansed the palate, and don't have a sour taste of stupid in your mouth.

Wait, which one's the stupid one?  Is it Gravity, or is it the one where Wilford Brimley glues together helicopter parts into a spaceship with his leftover oatmeal and insulin?

I mean, The Thing's awesome, but if we're talking great movies that accidentally slice their hands open with just one awful part, it and Gravity are practically next-of-kin.

(Also, it's in the short story, I know.  The short story is not all that great.)

[celedhring]

Does Gravity have an awful part? It just has lots of very average ones. The movie is visually dazzling, yeah, but so thin.

[Ideologue]

The thinness is a strength; it's a movie about whether being alive, in and of itself, has any value in the first place.

The stupid part, presumably, is the hallucination, that hammers you over the head with Ryan Stone's case of the Dead Daughter Sads.  I mean, that would be my choice, anyway.

Also, "visually dazzling" is synonymous with "greatest piece of experiential cinema ever made," right?

[CountDeMoney]

The thinness is a strength; it's a movie about whether being alive, in and of itself, has any value in the first place.

 

The stupid part, presumably, is the hallucination, that hammers you over the head with Ryan Stone's case of the Dead Daughter Sads.  I mean, that would be my choice, anyway.

Awww, that was the sweetest part.

Also, "visually dazzling" is synonymous with "greatest piece of experiential cinema ever made," right?

Needed more Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay slo-mo patriotic montages.  With incredibly uncomfortable close-ups.  To Aerosmith.

[Josephus]

Fear the Walking dead. I dunno, getting bored with it.

Also, I find the "put walker blood over your body and mix with the walkers" a bit over-used in this series. In the original, you get the sense you need a lot of the blood and guts to the point that you feel sick. In this one, it's almost like someone can synthesise it and problem over.

[viper37]

I quitted after the 2nd episode of this half-season.

[Malthus]

I saw Hell or High Water on the weekend. I liked it, a lot: it is a very simple film on one level, but it brought a real weight to bear on the actors, who were all excellent. A heist/crime film, or a contemporary Western - has elements of both - but more than anything, a sort of portrait of a society in the process of disintegration.

Though it certainly offers a rather negative view of Texas. 

[Liep]

Rewatching Community. Great show.

[viper37]

As I expected:
http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/09/14/star-trek-discovery-premiere-delayed-until-may-the-world-weeps

[MadBurgerMaker]

Rewatching Community. Great show.

I've been binge watching this too. 

[The Minsky Moment]

The thinness is a strength; it's a movie about whether being alive, in and of itself, has any value in the first place.

I wouldn't go that far, but it's fair to say that with the one exception you mentioned, it doesn't have pretensions to be more than what it is.  It draws in your attention, moves the action along, and for the most part doesn't get sidetracked.  Very nicely done.  And with a svelte 90 minute runtime that other action directors would be advised to take note of.