TV/Movies Megathread

[Sophie Scholl]

[spoiler]Creepy milking, Leia pulling a Mary Poppins, "Oh shit, why didn't I think to put the ship into hyperdrive earlier?!", Phasma, Snoke, the magical collapse of the Republic, the magical growth of the First Order, I could keep going.[/spoiler]

[Ed Anger]

Nerds

[FunkMonk]

Just came back from The Last Jedi.

While flawed, this movie was definitely better than The Fan Service Awakens and Bored One. The Last Jedi is very different than any other Star Wars movie, so in that regard it can be compared with The Empire Strikes Back and the original Star Wars (though not as good as either). It seemed like Disney let Rian Johnson actually take some fucking risks and he produced something that, while not perfect by any stretch, was certainly memorable, entertaining, and most of all surprising.

BTW this is probably the best acted Star Wars movie since Empire.

[Berkut]

Risks? What risks?

[jimmy olsen]

Just came back from The Last Jedi.

While flawed, this movie was definitely better than The Fan Service Awakens and Bored One. The Last Jedi is very different than any other Star Wars movie, so in that regard it can be compared with The Empire Strikes Back and the original Star Wars (though not as good as either). It seemed like Disney let Rian Johnson actually take some fucking risks and he produced something that, while not perfect by any stretch, was certainly memorable, entertaining, and most of all surprising.

BTW this is probably the best acted Star Wars movie since Empire.

Agreed, though I like Rouge One.

[jimmy olsen]

Risks? What risks?

Do you want spoilers? I don't think this can be answered without them.

[The Brain]

Just came back from The Last Jedi.

While flawed, this movie was definitely better than The Fan Service Awakens and Bored One. The Last Jedi is very different than any other Star Wars movie, so in that regard it can be compared with The Empire Strikes Back and the original Star Wars (though not as good as either). It seemed like Disney let Rian Johnson actually take some fucking risks and he produced something that, while not perfect by any stretch, was certainly memorable, entertaining, and most of all surprising.

BTW this is probably the best acted Star Wars movie since Empire.

Agreed, though I like Rouge One.

Sigh.

[Admiral Yi]

<standard Timmy spelling joke>

[Eddie Teach]

Rouges are overpowdered.

[The Brain]

Rouges are overpowdered.

[CountDeMoney]

Especially gnome rouges.

[Sophie Scholl]

[The Brain]

Been watching the Swedish First Dates. Some good cringin'.

[Josquius]

First They Killed My Father- This is the film whose set I accidentally stumbled upon when I was visiting Cambodia. Except I didn't know it was a film set. It was some sort of communist camp with armed guards who didn't speak English and weren't happy to see me. Scary times.
OK film. Though Killing Fields told much the same story but better, doesn't give too much of a different spin on events.

[jimmy olsen]

Alternative history!

https://www.avclub.com/battlestar-galacticas-ronald-d-moore-is-developing-a-n-1821374606

Battlestar Galactica's Ronald D. Moore is developing a new space drama for Apple

According to Deadline, Ronald D. Moore has signed on to make a big-time space drama for Apple, finally returning him to the big-time space drama genre he revolutionized with the Battlestar Galactica reboot he created and the Star Trek shows he worked on before that (he runs Outlander now, which is significantly more land-based). Apple gave the show a straight-to-series order, and it will reportedly take place in a world in which the space race never actually ended. Deadline doesn't have any other details beyond that, but based on a report about Apple's expectations for its original shows, we can assume that it won't involve any edgy violence or naked stuff.

This is the third original scripted show Apple has picked up, with the first two being Bryan Fuller and Steven Spielberg's revival of anthology show Amazing Stories and the morning show drama starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon. Of course, we still don't know how Apple will distribute these shows, meaning we don't know how or when or if we'll ever be able to see this stuff. For all we know, Apple could just be compiling special content that will be streamed exclusively in its private space station.