TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

La La Land. I thought it was... okay? I guess I must be out of tune with the world since I don't get why everybody is creaming over this. The story is pretty insubstantial, the musical numbers are fine but there's actually pretty few of them... I guess from time to time people like movies where Hollywood says how wonderful it is to be in Hollywood.

Both leads are really charming, I'll give you that. But the whole YOU HAVE TO GIVE UP LOVE TO BE GREAT!!!!! theme worked far better in Whiplash. Here's so shoehorned into the glossy and sugary romance between them that I get the feeling that Chazelle really has an issue with that.

[Eddie Teach]

I feel: vindicated. 

[Josephus]

I watched the first two episodes of The Young Pope 

Based on reviews, and CC's comments earlier, I was expecting a lot more surrealism...but after that crazy dream sequence early on, it swiftly moved into a fairly normal narrative style. Liking it a lot.

[garbon]

La La Land. I thought it was... okay? I guess I must be out of tune with the world since I don't get why everybody is creaming over this. The story is pretty insubstantial, the musical numbers are fine but there's actually pretty few of them... I guess from time to time people like movies where Hollywood says how wonderful it is to be in Hollywood.

Both leads are really charming, I'll give you that. But the whole YOU HAVE TO GIVE UP LOVE TO BE GREAT!!!!! theme worked far better in Whiplash. Here's so shoehorned into the glossy and sugary romance between them that I get the feeling that Chazelle really has an issue with that.

Yes, I thought it was fun but no idea why so many awards.

[crazy canuck]

I watched the first two episodes of The Young Pope 

Based on reviews, and CC's comments earlier, I was expecting a lot more surrealism...but after that crazy dream sequence early on, it swiftly moved into a fairly normal narrative style. Liking it a lot.

The narrative part is not that compelling.  [spoiler]The first few times he makes it clear he is his own man are interesting - then it just gets repetitive.  The homily was anticlimactic for that reason [/spoiler]

[Capetan Mihali]

So that's what you've been up to.  Watching movies.

Like every other non-practicing lawyer on Languish, I'm now a film critic.   No, I've just been doing my thing but posting here has felt like too much of a struggle, for some reason, probably the fall-out of the election.  Maybe I'll get involved a little more once DJ Trump is firmly ensconced in the White House.

[Admiral Yi]

Death to Berniebots!

[Capetan Mihali]

[Josephus]

I watched the first two episodes of The Young Pope 

Based on reviews, and CC's comments earlier, I was expecting a lot more surrealism...but after that crazy dream sequence early on, it swiftly moved into a fairly normal narrative style. Liking it a lot.

The narrative part is not that compelling.  [spoiler]The first few times he makes it clear he is his own man are interesting - then it just gets repetitive.  The homily was anticlimactic for that reason [/spoiler]

[spoiler]]I liked the homily. Yes you knew he wasn't going to use his Secretary of States...but I, anyway, did not know where he was going to go with it, and how he turned it into the rant of a meglomanicac.[spoiler][/s] I'm liking it so far.

[Grey Fox]

Death to Berniebots!

You don't like cheap weed & cool stripclubs?

[Admiral Yi]

Death to Berniebots!

You don't like cheap weed & cool stripclubs?

wut?

[Duque de Bragança]

Elle -- Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous.  So happy I caught it before its theatrical run here ended. 

Isabelle Huppert is a legend in her own time, and her whole career is just a gift she's given to cinema.  While there other great performances in the film, it feels impossible to imagine another actress even taking this role, let alone doing such a job with it.

Against all odds, the news that "Paul Verhoeven made a rape movie" turned out to be very good, indeed.   Though I still can't believe he seriously tried to make it in the US first. :xd: I can just imagine the looks on the faces of the A-list Hollywood actresses as they read the synopsis before throwing it in the garbage.  Vive la France.

Not the first rape movie for Verhoeven [spoiler]Flesh + Blood[/spoiler]. 

[Capetan Mihali]

Not the first rape movie for Verhoeven [spoiler]Flesh + Blood[/spoiler]. 

Hmm, never heard of it.  Is it worthwhile?  I guess anything by Verhoeven is, just to understand his unique and consistent, if sometimes bewildering, aesthetic.

[viper37]

Les Beaux Malaises will soon be available on Netflix all over the world.  Likely subtitled from its original french, even for the European snobs

Quebec's finest humour, in my opinion.

Close to a sitcom, with a real comic playing his own role in his semi-fictitious day-to-day live.  3 seasons, plus a soon to be aired 90 minutes special.
It follows the live of Martin Matte and his (fictional) wife and two children.  Some pretty funny moments in there.  Highly recommended for those who understand french, for the others, well, maybe the subtitles will be funny.

[The Minsky Moment]

I do like DDA an awful lot, though.

*Gasp*  Stop the freakin' presses!