TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

There's a new series called Glitch.
It's kind of a Australian version of the rather cool French series Revanants - a show about a bunch of random people suddenly coming back to life in a rural town in Savoy.
The French series was all very strange and philosophical. Very mysterious about what these people were, what they were around for, etc...
The Australian version...
"Oy you, naked guy in the graveyard, are you pissed?"
"Nah mate, I've just come back from the dead."
"Oh, alright then, carry on".
Pretty much.
It seems interesting. More merely influenced by the French show than a scene for scene remake like the American version.

[KRonn]

Westworld is very good. As with Battlestar Galactica, we are the villains of the story.

I watched all three episodes via on demand yesterday and so far really liking this show. It should be interesting to see how the story line progresses.

[The Minsky Moment]

There's a new series called Glitch.
It's kind of a Australian version of the rather cool French series Revanants - a show about a bunch of random people suddenly coming back to life in a rural town in Savoy.

Really liked that - esp first season. Revenants.  Netflix streamable IIRC.

[Josquius]

Louis Theroux's Scientology documentary.... not as good as it could have been. But interesting.
There's one moment right at the start where a random woman in a bikini suddenly crashes their interview. Turns out she is called Paz de la Huerta and is a pretty solid real actress.
I can't stop wondering just what the hell that was about.

[Savonarola]

Rin-Tin-Tin The Lone Defender (1930)

Rin-Tin-Tin stars in his first... "Barkie" in this poverty row serial production.  Rin-Tin-Tin's master was jumped by bandits just after striking gold, and the only clues as to where the mine is are Rin-Tin-Tin and his master's watch which is supposed to contain a clue to the mines location.  A number of dull chases ensue throughout as everyone chases after either Rin-Tin-Tin or the watch.  The most egregious chase is near the end where the characters wander aimlessly (and without dialogue) around in what's supposed to be a sandstorm for ten minutes. 

Most of the serial is silent; and the dialogue is stilted.  The series features June Marlowe (Miss Crabtree from "Our Gang") as the love interest and perennial serial star Walter Miller as the notorious bandit The Cactus Kid (or is he really?) who speeks weeth ahn outrhay-joos Meh-shee-kahn aksent throughout the film.

[jimmy olsen]

I'm hearing great things about Westworld. Is it Languish approved?

[Eddie Teach]

Languish hates it.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm not ready yet to put myself in the loving it column.  They're raising interesting questions about consciousness and depending how they get explored it could be very good.  I get bad juju from the [spoiler]hatchet wielding wraith killers.[/spoiler]

Serious drop off in T&A since episode 1.

[HVC]

Watching the first episode of westworld. They sure do like the fly theme 

[CountDeMoney]

Watching the first episode of westworld. They sure do like the fly theme

Decay and disease.

[mongers]

Watched the new Adam Curtis BBC documentary, 'Hyper-normalisation' , a slow burner but worth watching. Available only on BBC iplayer here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam-curtis-hypernormalisation


Though know doubt someone will rip/stream it on youtube soon.

[viper37]

Turns out she is called Paz de la Huerta and is a pretty solid real actress.

Boardwalk Empire

[Savonarola]

Murder (1930)

Alfred Hitchcock's second talkie (after Blackmail) this is obviously a filmed play.  The story is about a murder, a young lady is found near a dead woman, but she doesn't remember anything that just happened.  There's a trial (filled with the usual Hitchcockian psychobabble), she's sentenced to death, but one of the jurors has remorse and sets out to prove her innocence.  At this point the film suddenly turns from a dull filmed play into a Hitchcock thriller; complete with a shocking conclusion.

This is the first film to feature a character narrating his thoughts on film.  Also, since audio-visual synchronization was so primitive in Britain at this point, Hitchcock had to have an orchestra on set to play along as the characters acted.  (Although at this point incidental music was a novelty in any film during this era.)

[Berkut]

Anyone watched "Black Mirror"? CNN did a bit on it...

[frunk]

I've seen the first two seasons and the Christmas special.  Great Twilight Zone style show.  Generally people agree each season consists of one great, one good and one lousy episode although they disagree which is which.

I'm looking forward to season 3.