TV/Movies Megathread

[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?

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?

Duque, thanks for that review.

Bit late, but Do what the 1958 film, I think it was stood the test of time and doesn't glorify the participants much.

[CountDeMoney]

ok

Bright

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

I saw that, and the first thing I thought of was

https://youtu.be/d4aGxG-SBSE

[11B4V]

ok

Bright

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

I saw that, and the first thing I thought of was

https://youtu.be/d4aGxG-SBSE

Ha. Same here and my other half went, "huh". Youngins, what can ya do.

[Eddie Teach]

Are you in the Ed Anger club?

[Tonitrus]

ok

Bright

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

I saw that, and the first thing I thought of was

https://youtu.be/d4aGxG-SBSE

I was wondering if it was going to have Dunkelzahn, the VITAS plague, and the Native American Nations.

[11B4V]

Are you in the Ed Anger club?

No, not that old. 

[Ed Anger]

Are you in the Ed Anger club?

No, not that old. 

Ahem.

[CountDeMoney]

For anybody that watched TV in the DC area in the last 40 years, Channel 4's Jim Vance was always there until now.  Cancer, 75 years old.






Was around for so long, Willard Scott had hair.

[crazy canuck]

I highly recommend seeing Dunkirk on the big screen.  Its more about the experience than the story.

[Liep]

https://twitter.com/stranger_things/status/888893272860610560

The trailer for Stranger Things season two is very well made.

[CountDeMoney]

You know, maybe you wouldn't have had to worry about shit from other dimensions if you listened to more Syncronicity and Purple Rain, and less of that bullshit Thriller.

[Josquius]

Midnight Special-   Strange  style, even beyond the sound track put me in mind of an 80s movie. Overall just too dark, it's a frequent problem I have with films, I can't think of one film set at night that  I enjoyed. Maybe Alien could sort of count?...Terminator...? But no...they're different. Its this poor lightning that annoys.
It tries to be two kinds of film at once, a mystery sci-fi, fantasy thing and a cool thriller, guys on the run from the law. They don't gel. Would have been better divided into two films, doing each part properly.

[viper37]

Spiderman: Homecoming

Best Spiderman movie so far.  Tried&true formula from Marvel (under license from Sony).  It works.  Predictable in many places, but it works damn well.

[Drakken]

I highly recommend seeing Dunkirk on the big screen.  Its more about the experience than the story.

I concur, it was a great IMAX experience, easily the best of 2017 so far.

However, I am not sure I am comfortable with Nolan's artistic choices. [spoiler]I felt like in a war "horror movie", with the unseen Germans acting like an invisible slasher villain. We never see the enemy, except in the air with the (few) Luftwaffe piecemeal attempts to attack the ships and the beachhead. Even at the end, the Germans are blurry and faceless. They also go out of the way to mention they are Germans the least possible. Water was more of a threat to the British than the Germans ever were, even on the beach, which feels very odd.[/spoiler]

[Admiral Yi]

Just watched about 2/3 of Hacksaw Ridge.  This is one of the weirdest movies I have seen in a long time.  It's stylized Christian pacifist propaganda.

New Spiderman plays a Seventh Day Adventist conscientious objector who enlists during WWII in the hopes of serving as a medic, over the objections of his father Agent Smith, who served in WWI and is haunted by his experience (which is the reason he beats his wife).

New Spiderman shows up at basic training and is greated by Vince Vaughn doing Trent from Swingers doing Gunnery Sargent Hartman.  He gets yelled at.  He gets punished with KP duty.  He gets beat up.  He gets court martialed.

Eventually he ends up on Okinawa, where he and the boys climb a rope net up a cliff.  Then John Woo explosions and gymnastics are combined with Saving Private Ryan chunks of meat and Guadalcanal Diary choreography.  After they blow up the bunker they charge the Japs and get into a big fist fight.  At the bar fight i said I can't watch this anymore.