TV/Movies Megathread

[katmai]

Learn how to quote filthy atheist quacker.

[Valmy]

Religion is a sensitive subject.  I think I got it.  A long time ago.  

Not really. Nobody is jumping all over Yi for pointing out obvious things. I disagreed with you because you were wrong full stop. You can say correct things about all sorts of subjects, sensitive or otherwise, without me disagreeing.

[frunk]

Finally caught Rogue One.  Quite enjoyed it, although i can't help but think that the writer wanted to prove a point about the Star Wars argument in Clerks.

[CountDeMoney]

Finally caught Rogue One.  Quite enjoyed it, although i can't help but think that the writer wanted to prove a point about the Star Wars argument in Clerks.

I caught it for the first time on Netflix this weekend, too
Struck me as trying to dial the Campbell-Hero-Mythos-Meets-The-Battle-Of-Midway of the original Star Wars to 11 by tossing in D-Day.

[Eddie Teach]

You may be overthinking it just a tad.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm going to cut across the Akagi's axis and try to draw their fire.

[frunk]

I caught it for the first time on Netflix this weekend, too
Struck me as trying to dial the Campbell-Hero-Mythos-Meets-The-Battle-Of-Midway of the original Star Wars to 11 by tossing in D-Day.

That was my biggest complaint, that they dialed it up too much with the [spoiler]big fleet action (and destruction)[/spoiler] at the end.  I would have preferred if it stayed smaller scale and focused which is where the best parts of the movie were.

[Savonarola]

I finished watching the James Burke Documentary "The Day the Universe Changed" from 1986.  The premise is that as science developed mankind's view of the universe and our role in it changed.  At the end of the final chapter he gives a little speech about how the people who went against the grain had a rough time of it (argue with the church and you were a heretic, argue with the state and you were a revolutionary, argue with the educational establishment and you were a fool), but with the computer (and the internet, though he didn't mention that) he expressed hope that many disparate views would be able to arise.  These, in turn, would allow for a broader perspective.  So I thought, "Huh, I guess that didn't work out.  Better luck next time."



I had also attended a lecture a few weeks ago at the Funk Museum; which, despite its name, is a fabric museum.  The curator there compared our modern world to the time when Japan was opened to the west.  So much more information is now available than ever before that radical changes to fashion (from her perspective, but it could be culture or society as well) are occurring.  So maybe the Brexit and the Trump presidency will one day be looked upon as the Satsuma Rebellion is by the Japanese (and maybe one day the Japanese will make an awful film about a Japanese man who goes to England and teaches Theresa May what it means to be British  .  The Last Soccer Hooligan.)

[Barrister]

I caught it for the first time on Netflix this weekend, too
Struck me as trying to dial the Campbell-Hero-Mythos-Meets-The-Battle-Of-Midway of the original Star Wars to 11 by tossing in D-Day.

That was my biggest complaint, that they dialed it up too much with the [spoiler]big fleet action (and destruction)[/spoiler] at the end.  I would have preferred if it stayed smaller scale and focused which is where the best parts of the movie were.

But remember the opening crawl from Ep 4?

It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.

There kind of had to be a space battle of some sort.

[CountDeMoney]

I had also attended a lecture a few weeks ago at the Funk Museum

I went to the Funkmonk Museum once.  A shitload of spreadsheets on papyrus.

So maybe the Brexit and the Trump presidency will one day be looked upon as the Satsuma Rebellion is by the Japanese

"The perfect tweet is a bigly thing. You could spend your life tweetstorming for one, and it would not be a wasted news cycle."

[garbon]

I'm going to be so sad to see Orphan Black end.

[11B4V]

Oasis

Not bad hope it gets picked up.

[CountDeMoney]

I caught it for the first time on Netflix this weekend, too
Struck me as trying to dial the Campbell-Hero-Mythos-Meets-The-Battle-Of-Midway of the original Star Wars to 11 by tossing in D-Day.

That was my biggest complaint, that they dialed it up too much with the [spoiler]big fleet action (and destruction)[/spoiler] at the end.  I would have preferred if it stayed smaller scale and focused which is where the best parts of the movie were.

But remember the opening crawl from Ep 4?

It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.

There kind of had to be a space battle of some sort.

Dudley has a point.

[frunk]

But remember the opening crawl from Ep 4?

It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.

There kind of had to be a space battle of some sort.

Meh, I'm talking about the narrative in this particular movie.  The big fleet battle was a distraction from the action on the ground.  You can have a battle, but it doesn't have to be a big one (I mean it does nowadays because every movie has HUUUGE action scenes).  It could be [spoiler]a few X/Y Wings acting as a distraction to allow Rogue One to escape with the plans before getting tracked down by Vader.[/spoiler]  That makes more sense than the goofy planetary shield thing, which once again plays back into the old and very repetitive tropes of Star Wars.

[CountDeMoney]

The shoehorned ending [spoiler]kinda destroys the whole "If this is a consular ship, where is the Ambassador?" premise of Episode IV.[/spoiler]