TV/Movies Megathread

[Berkut]

Its mostly over-rated, honestly.

Yeah, compared to all of the other well written, high production value shows out there. 

That may have been the best story I've ever seen told on television.

[Phillip V]

'Westworld' Website Hints Elsie Survived And Reveals The Year

http://www.slashfilm.com/westworld-year-is-elsie-alive/

[katmai]

So should I check out westworld?

[Eddie Teach]

Berkut said it's overrated.

[Admiral Yi]

There certainly are a lot of internal inconsistencies you have to overlook to enjoy it.

[Habbaku]

Elaborate.

[Berkut]

Berkut said it's overrated.

Berkut was kidding.

[Eddie Teach]

Moot question for me anyway, until someone in my family reups HBO. 

[LaCroix]

There certainly are a lot of internal inconsistencies you have to overlook to enjoy it.

I think you can rationalize, rather than overlook, most of the internal inconsistencies

unless you mean hardcore robot science like [spoiler]how bernard could teach/program robots beyond what he was programmed to do[/spoiler], etc.

[mongers]

Berkut said it's overrated.

Berkut was kidding.

Damn, and I took you seriously. 


Besides found it on a Sky Atlantic supscription package.

[mongers]

Sad news, Peter Vaughan, one of those good but largely overlooked character actors, has died.

Probably best know to you as Maester Aemon of the Night's Watch in 'Game of Thrones'.

Obituary: Peter Vaughan
6 December 2016

Actor Peter Vaughan, who has died aged 93, seldom played leading roles.

But in a career lasting seven decades he became an ever-present figure on stage, screen and television.

He cut his teeth in the theatre where he specialised in police officers, secret agents and excelled in roles as the menacing villain.

But he gained a wider audience with his TV roles, notably in the sitcoms Porridge and Citizen Smith and drama series Our Friends in the North.

Latterly he was in the hugely successful Game of Thrones series, in which he played elderly, blind Maester Aemon of the Night's Watch.
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Full obituary here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27604406

The obituary notes he was such a powerful presences as a villain, that in the very popular TV comedy drama 'Porridge' his crime boss is a well remembered character, despite appearing in only three episodes.

[crazy canuck]

There certainly are a lot of internal inconsistencies.

Care to share?

[Savonarola]

Thor (2011)

The greatest white supremacist film since "Birth of a Nation". 



Kenneth Branagh was an inspired choice to direct this; it does play out a bit like a Shakespeare play, complete with an aged king, rival brothers, deceit and manipulation.  The problem is that Thor's only character trait is his chiseled abs (and Padme's only trait is that see really, really likes Thor's chiseled abs.  Not that I blame her, but at some point Kenneth should have told her to put her tongue back in her mouth.)  Loki is a far more interesting, and far more complex character; unfortunately the movie focuses on Thor. Still, in his quest to learn humility, Thor teaches us a valuable lesson; that white people are better than everybody else, especially frost giants.   

[Berkut]

Berkut said it's overrated.

Berkut was kidding.

Damn, and I took you seriously. 


Besides found it on a Sky Atlantic supscription package.

Sorry, I had been gushing about it earlier, so I thought my kidding would be obvious.

It is outstanding. Story wise, better than Game of Thrones, IMO. Doesn't have the scope of GoT, of course.

[garbon]

Cel, I just saw this re: the discussion about Lucille from AD and Mallory from Archer.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/facts-about-archer-thatll-make-you-say-holy-shitsnacks?utm_term=.nqQxDQpG9#.rk8K9LPgp

6. The first person cast on the show was Jessica Walter, because Malory was described as "like Jessica Walter from Arrested Development."

According to Thompson, the team sent out a casting notice that described Malory as being just like Jessica Walter. "Jessica's agent called us and asked if we would like the actual Jessica Walter, and we instantly jumped at the chance to work with her," Thompson says in The Art of Archer.

Thompson credits Walter for the rest of the show's cast, as he claims it was "so much easier" to get other actors on board when they could say that Walter was attached.