TV/Movies Megathread

[Scipio]

Comrade Detective

Interesting concept (show pretending it is a lost 80s show from Communist Romania with English dubbing) and there's some laughs around how they portray Americans. Not sure though how well it will hold up for more than one episode.

It's pretty amazing.

[Josephus]

Finally saw Dunkirk. Amazing.

Interestingly, before the movie, they showed a preview of Darkest Hour, a movie with Gary Oldman portraying wartime Churchill. So I got to hear the "we shall never surrender" speech twice.

On a completely different topic...I need Languish help.

So my buddy and I driving back from Dunkirk were talking about war era movies we've seen in our youth. I remembered an old movie, likely late 80s or early 90s. It was Russian. All I remember is a young girl in it and a ball of light that floats around. It was about a Russian Civil War hero, who's being stalked by secret police during the Stalin purges. Does it ring a bell. English version may very well have the word "light" or "sun" in the title.

[Tonitrus]

So my buddy and I driving back from Dunkirk were talking about war era movies we've seen in our youth. I remembered an old movie, likely late 80s or early 90s. It was Russian. All I remember is a young girl in it and a ball of light that floats around. It was about a Russian Civil War hero, who's being stalked by secret police during the Stalin purges. Does it ring a bell. English version may very well have the word "light" or "sun" in the title.

Probably...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_by_the_Sun

Edit: Reminding myself with the trailer from Youtube, I'd say definitely it.

[viper37]

Saw Hateful Eight.  Weakest Tarantino movie.

[Josephus]

So my buddy and I driving back from Dunkirk were talking about war era movies we've seen in our youth. I remembered an old movie, likely late 80s or early 90s. It was Russian. All I remember is a young girl in it and a ball of light that floats around. It was about a Russian Civil War hero, who's being stalked by secret police during the Stalin purges. Does it ring a bell. English version may very well have the word "light" or "sun" in the title.

Probably...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_by_the_Sun

Edit: Reminding myself with the trailer from Youtube, I'd say definitely it.

That's it! thanks

[The Brain]

I was watching Calvary on the telly. Not enough horses. Anyway, in the middle of the big showdown scene the screen goes black. Just that one channel. 25 minutes later it flickers to life and I'm in the middle of an NCIS episode. Thanks Obama!

[Savonarola]

Wind River (2017)

Third in Taylor Sheridan trilogy about the modern American frontier (along with Sicario and Hell or High Water); this is a thriller about a rape and murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.  The film might have worked better they had gone the "In the Heat of the Night" route and made one of the leads a native (especially since the mystery's resolution isn't all that interesting.)  Instead it's more along the lines of a Jack London story where the land itself is a character.

I didn't know The Scarlet Witch was Mary-Kate and Ashley's kid sister.

[Ed Anger]

Lincoln. Yes, I am late in watching it. Even though it was a talkie movie with no bang-bang, I enjoyed it.

[Duque de Bragança]

Chuck Norris vs Communism (2015)

VHS bootlegs of voice-overed capitalist movies  in 1980's Romania subvert Ceaucescu's regime.
There is even a Godfrey Ho ninja movie inside.
80's nostalgia certainly beats Ostalgia. 

[The Brain]

Lincoln. Yes, I am late in watching it. Even though it was a talkie movie with no bang-bang, I enjoyed it.

No bang-bang? You're so busted, Yi.

[Syt]

Watched Thin Red Line on Netflix

I also notice that they added the Ford/Capra/Huston WW2 propaganda movies. <3

[CountDeMoney]

Watched Thin Red Line on Netflix

I love how that movie gets some people torqued all the fuck up.

[mongers]

Watched Thin Red Line on Netflix

I love how that movie gets some people torqued all the fuck up.

Indeed, it's as if your not allowed to portray the chaos and confusion of war, but only the seamless progress of grand strategy.

[Admiral Yi]

Indeed, it's as if your not allowed to portray the chaos and confusion of war, but only the seamless progress of grand strategy.

It's not as if I have first hand experience, but that movie to me is about quivering and emoting for the sake of quivering and emoting, not the chaos and confusion of war.

[mongers]

Indeed, it's as if your not allowed to portray the chaos and confusion of war, but only the seamless progress of grand strategy.

It's not as if I have first hand experience, but that movie to me is about quivering and emoting for the sake of quivering and emoting, not the chaos and confusion of war.

Seems we're both confused about the nature of war.