TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Asoka.

[Grey Fox]

She on a Canadian daytime tv show recently that was on the kitchen tv at work.

Our collective penises(penii) still hurts for all the tenting that was done.

[Duque de Bragança]

She on a Canadian daytime tv show recently that was on the kitchen tv at work.

Our collective penises (penes) still hurts for all the tenting that was done.

Fixed!

[Eddie Teach]

Does that make you an expert on language or on schlongs? 

[Duque de Bragança]

Rhetorical?

[Duque de Bragança]

Dunkirk (2017)

Survival/War film

Always nice to watch a spectacular 70 mm movie, with mostly practical effects instead of a CGI-crapfest.
Nolan's actors are much better than in The Dark Knight Rises, always a plus. 

The ending is not as powerful IMO as the previous reference movie about the Battle though: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058740 Weekend at Dunkirk.
The latter is a French POV movie, while the former is an Anglo POV movie. I guess this helps explaining the little-seen French during the movie.

Try to catch it in 70 mm or IMAX if you can.

[spoiler]Didn't know the Spitfire was so good at gliding[/spoiler]

[Valmy]

Oh are the French not in Dunkirk? That sucks.

[Duque de Bragança]

Oh are the French not in Dunkirk? That sucks.

Not very much according to the movie. There is one scene though, plus the end recap.

[Valmy]

Well that makes me less excited about the film. But at least they got a mention.

[The Minsky Moment]

Oh are the French not in Dunkirk? That sucks.

They were at Dunkerque

[Savonarola]

The Big Sick () (2017)

An enjoyable Rom-Com about a cross cultural couple; based on the real life courtship of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon.  Kumail Nanjiani plays himself in the movie (and Ray Romano plays Ray Romano, even if he's called something else.)

The female lead is played by Zoe Kazan.  "Kazan" isn't a common last name and, if there's one thing Hollywood loves even more than cocaine or Hillary Clinton, it's nepotism.  So I Googled her and, yes, she is the grand-daughter of the great Elia Kazan.

[CountDeMoney]

Oh are the French not in Dunkirk? That sucks.

I thought that was the whole point originally.  IXNAY ON THE ECRETSAY ANPLAY TO EAVELAY ANCEFRAY

[mongers]

Oh are the French not in Dunkirk? That sucks.

Not very much according to the movie. There is one scene though, plus the end recap.

That's rather disappointing, so instead of re-examining some of the mythology around the evacuation, he's chosen the easy path of building upon it?

What's the big 'undiscovered' truth in the movie, that the RAF actually did a lot of fighting in the skies above beaches?

[Eddie Teach]

So I Googled her and, yes, she is the grand-daughter of the great Elia Kazan.

That reminds me of a film I recently saw: America, America! Kazan was less than great in that case.

[Duque de Bragança]

Oh are the French not in Dunkirk? That sucks.

Not very much according to the movie. There is one scene though, plus the end recap.

That's rather disappointing, so instead of re-examining some of the mythology around the evacuation, he's chosen the easy path of building upon it?

What's the big 'undiscovered' truth in the movie, that the RAF actually did a lot of fighting in the skies above beaches?

The movie has not such ambitions sorry.  An immersive and visceral look into the battle.

Well, to be fair make it two brief scenes with then French. [spoiler]There is something more but it is a major spoiler[/spoiler].
The Belgians are perhaps mentioned in a line at the end but that's all.

The RAF is indeed mentioned, [spoiler]no Hurricanes shown in the movie just alluded once[/spoiler]. This is not on the Battle of Britain movie scale though. Same kind of Bf 109s too.
Well, without spoiling too much, the focus chosen by Nolan does not lend itself for an analysis on the geopolitical or geostrategical scale though characters allude to it a couple of times. Not much dialog, btw. This is not one of the best war movies EVAH but it is more than watchable on the big screen.

The British Dunkirk movie (1958) is broadcast tonight on TV, worth watching?