TV/Movies Megathread

[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?

[Josephus]

This may get some of you hard. Alt-US history by GoT guys

http://www.avclub.com/article/game-thrones-showrunners-developing-alternate-hist-258306?

[viper37]

Interesting.  But if the Confederates did secede, I don't see how it can be called a "Third civil war".

[Grey Fox]

Interesting.  But if the Confederates did secede, I don't see how it can be called a "Third civil war".

You assume that it is a USA vs CSA conflict.

[Savonarola]

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.

Even John Ford had some duds.

[viper37]

Interesting.  But if the Confederates did secede, I don't see how it can be called a "Third civil war".

You assume that it is a USA vs CSA conflict.

Ah, yes.  I figured it'd be another war between the Federates and Confederates, not Federates vs Federates.

[Ed Anger]

I let the twins watch Deadpool. Got fucking sick of hearing "our friends have seen it". A little naughty but dammit, they aren't nuns. The did giggle at Ryan Renyolds butt. My wife giggled too. HOW MATURE.

Fuck it, I was seeing worse shit at their age.

[CountDeMoney]

And so the cycle continues.

DADDY SAID ITS OK TO HIT WHORES

[Ed Anger]

You don't get a vote, non-breeder.

[CountDeMoney]

You're tracking your carbon footprint all over my carpet.

[Ed Anger]

You're tracking your carbon footprint all over my carpet.

It's YUGE

[Gups]

The new planet of the apes film. OK but too long and not up to the standards of the first two.

[11B4V]

  ok

Bright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXA87t0_3I0

[celedhring]

I'm up to Handmaid's Tale ep. 4 - fantastic so far. Elizabeth Moss of Mad Men fame is amazing in this, plus the visuals and directing are unnerving yet at the same time intimate - you become really close to the main character and her ordeal.

Only "but" is that the flashbacks where they attempt to explain how the US becomes the Christian version of Iran are pretty unconvincing - these kind of premises are sometimes best left unexplained.