TV/Movies Megathread

[Malthus]

Get a chance, watch the additional material on the Dr. Stranglove DVD, has a lot of stuff about that on it.

Heh, I should get that. It's been years since I've seen Dr. Strangelove.

[CountDeMoney]

Ending hasn't changed.

[Syt]

George C. Scott was rather miffed about Dr Strangelove's final cut. He wanted to play his character much more serious and disagreed with Kubrick on the direction. Kubrick made a compromise with him - each scene, Scott would rendition in 3 different versions: very subdued, very over the top, and middle of the road. Kubrick then used the over the top performances.

Scott later came around to liking the movie as is.

[The Minsky Moment]

It was adapted from a (serious) novel with a very similar plot to Fail Safe. Actually, Kubrick and the author sued the authors of Fail Safe and it was settled out of court.

IIRC the whole purpose of the lawsuit was to delay the Fail Safe release (which worked)

Personally I think they are different films with different messages that succeed in their own way, although Strangelove is obviously the greater.

[Syt]

Fail-Safe also had a 2000 remake. It was performed live:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235376/

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, yes it was.

[Ed Anger]

Valkyrie

It put a little Heil in my step.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm thinking of happier times.  Like before I saw that movie.

[Ed Anger]

I rather liked it. But Otto Remer does make me tingle in my pants.

[CountDeMoney]

It was OK.  Goofy ass Nazis.

[Admiral Yi]

The Revenant is on HBO GO.  Definitely worth another look.

[celedhring]

Started watching Luke Cage on Netflix. So far so good. It's certainly slower paced than Daredevil or Jessica Jones, but they aim for more realism. If you take Luke's superpowers out of he equation, there's (so far) nothing about this show that seems comic-booky. I'm loving the canvas of black culture too, and I don't mean that in an empty SJW way, it's really engaging. You got a superhero clobbering henchmen to Wu Tang Clan music, endless dialogues about NBA history, Crispus Attucks being a weirdly central figure to the story... it's refreshing.

Mike Coulter is a powerful presence too. And I don't mean that in the sense that he's built like a friggin' brick shithouse. The guy carries this show with the same ease he rips lamp posts.

[Admiral Yi]

The Revenant is on HBO GO.  Definitely worth another look.

The Saving Private Ryan of frontier movies.

[celedhring]

The Revenant is on HBO GO.  Definitely worth another look.

The Saving Private Ryan of frontier movies.

In what sense? 

Amazing battle scene at the beginning, slightly downhill from there even if solid throughout?

[Admiral Yi]

In what sense? 

Amazing battle scene at the beginning, slightly downhill from there even if solid throughout?

30 minutes of acid trip intensity then some reasonable shit after.