TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

The "street slang" in Luke Cage wasn't heavy, but I had to rely on subtitles in some parts too.

[Maladict]

Just saw Captain Fantastic in the cinema, very good film even if the ending was a little meh.
Viggo Mortensen in one of his best performances.

[11B4V]

Star Trek Beyond B+

[garbon]

I'm only as far as [spoiler]Cottonmouth getting owned by his cousin.[/spoiler]

Yeah, the characters/cast are actually interesting.

Yeah, that's where the show starts to come apart a bit imho.

I'll see / oh you deleted the rest of that post. And then re-wrote.

I do think they need to quickly resolve the [spoiler]reluctant hero angle. We've seen that too many times and there is nothing compelling here about it. Seemed ridiculous when Cottonmouth had only just in this episode threatened to expose him. We already know Shades had told Cottonmouth his story.[/spoiler]

They get rid of that angle. I'm actually interested in hearing your thoughts about the rest of the season, since they go for a very charged [spoiler]BLM/cops are racists metaphor which I'm still undecided whether is heavy-handed and opportunistic, or timely and relevant[/spoiler]. Probably a bit of both.

So I'm only as far as [spoiler]the episode where Mariah gets every one fired up at the club about how black people are being hurt by cops trying to find Cage. For what it is worth thus far, it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Cops are roughing up black folk, so what we want to do is put stronger weapons in their hands in order so that they will only focus on super powered people?[/spoiler].

I'll have to see how the rest pans out.

[Josquius]

Star Trek Beyond -   not quite generations bad but bad.

[Sophie Scholl]

Just saw Captain Fantastic in the cinema, very good film even if the ending was a little meh.
Viggo Mortensen in one of his best performances.

I rather enjoyed that.  Viggo is definitely one of my favorite actors working today.

[celedhring]

Hell or High Water - two brothers start a bank robbing spree against the bank that's about to foreclose on their dead mother's mortgage, Jeff Bridges plays the old Texas Ranger tracking them down. Pretty great little thriller with a nice Western vibe. It's from the same writer as Sicario, and you can see it clearly. His next film (Wind River) is another southern border story and I'm certainly looking forward to it now.

[Malthus]

Hell or High Water - two brothers start a bank robbing spree against the bank that's about to foreclose on their dead mother's mortgage, Jeff Bridges plays the old Texas Ranger tracking them down. Pretty great little thriller with a nice Western vibe. It's from the same writer as Sicario, and you can see it clearly. His next film (Wind River) is another southern border story and I'm certainly looking forward to it now.

I saw Hell or High Water, I thought it was great. A nice modernization of the Western, playing with the tropes in a way that did them justice.

Now, if only those brothers (or their lawyer) had heard about "bridge financing" ... 

[HVC]

I don't think they could afford to buy a bridge, they were already foreclosed on.

[Malthus]

I don't think they could afford to buy a bridge, they were already foreclosed on.

"Bridge financing" = a short term high interest loan from another source to avoid such things as foreclosure.

[spoiler]Given that they had a guaranteed 50K a month income from the property and the amount of the loan was less than that, it ought to have been a synch to obtain - rather than, say, robbing multiple banks for petty cash. Of course, then there would not have been a movie.  [/spoiler]

[viper37]

[spoiler]Given that they had a guaranteed 50K a month income from the property and the amount of the loan was less than that, it ought to have been a synch to obtain - rather than, say, robbing multiple banks for petty cash. Of course, then there would not have been a movie.  [/spoiler]

I could see that working, in some circles, as low budget independant movie.  The struggle of two brothers as they navigate through modern finance to avoid foreclosure on their property while facing the society's prejudice and acceptance toward their lifestyle (one is gay crossdresser, the other a devout muslim recently arrived from Syria).  Instant success for 1000 people all across the country.  A gazillion ton of free govt money and tons of interviews on CBC radio and ICI.

[celedhring]

Regarding Hell or High Water, I was a bit more skeptical about [spoiler]the trick to exchange the money for casino chips in order to launder it. I mean, these guys come and exchange several thousand in petty cash. That should raise some eyebrows surely?  [/spoiler]

About it being a modern Western, my favorite moment was indeed when [spoiler]they rob the last bank, a gunfight ensues with the very armed local population, and they end up being chased by a posse in pick up trucks.[/spoiler]

[Liep]

I had to give up on Independence Day 2 as it was just too bad.

[Malthus]

Regarding Hell or High Water, I was a bit more skeptical about [spoiler]the trick to exchange the money for casino chips in order to launder it. I mean, these guys come and exchange several thousand in petty cash. That should raise some eyebrows surely?  [/spoiler]

About it being a modern Western, my favorite moment was indeed when [spoiler]they rob the last bank, a gunfight ensues with the very armed local population, and they end up being chased by a posse in pick up trucks.[/spoiler]

For the modern Western thing, I also liked [spoiler]the whole cowboy-and-Indian thing they had going on - both with the native "sidekick" of the marshal, and the Comanche - something like "the name Comanches have for other people is 'enemy'. What does that make you?" - "I guess that makes me a Comanche" [/spoiler]

Overall, I thought it was very well done. 

[celedhring]

Regarding Hell or High Water, I was a bit more skeptical about [spoiler]the trick to exchange the money for casino chips in order to launder it. I mean, these guys come and exchange several thousand in petty cash. That should raise some eyebrows surely?  [/spoiler]

About it being a modern Western, my favorite moment was indeed when [spoiler]they rob the last bank, a gunfight ensues with the very armed local population, and they end up being chased by a posse in pick up trucks.[/spoiler]

For the modern Western thing, I also liked [spoiler]the whole cowboy-and-Indian thing they had going on - both with the native "sidekick" of the marshal, and the Comanche - something like "the name Comanches have for other people is 'enemy'. What does that make you?" - "I guess that makes me a Comanche" [/spoiler]

Overall, I thought it was very well done.

Yeah, it was also very tidily tied into the film's main theme. It's one of those scripts where there really aren't many moving parts but everything just falls into place. All in all a very good film.