TV/Movies Megathread

[KRonn]

I've been watching a new show "Counterpart" with JK Simmons as one of the lead characters. He plays two characters, each from a different sister Earth. That there's the two Earths or dimensions is mostly a government secret on both sides, but the two sides cooperate on mutual interest issues. We also see other people from both Earths at times, such as a woman who is an assassin on one side and a musician on the other. Both sides cooperate to try and stop her. So far it's a pretty good show, unique, different.

[Liep]

RIP Jóhann Jóhannsson

[Eddie Teach]

Mindhunter. A bit of a slow starter, but by the end of the season I was hooked.

[Savonarola]

The BBC got out the poison pen and dipped it in the well a few time for their review of the final "Fifty Shades" movie:  Fifty Shades Freed is a Total Disaster

Fifty Shades Freed is so unarousing that it could be used as therapy in a sex addiction clinic.

everything else drifts by with so little structure or intrigue that it might as well be a montage, too.

they seem to have been aiming for the will-sapping vapidity of a Kardashian reality TV show overseen by Tommy "The Room" Wiseau.

[Iormlund]

I've been watching a new show "Counterpart" with JK Simmons as one of the lead characters. He plays two characters, each from a different sister Earth. That there's the two Earths or dimensions is mostly a government secret on both sides, but the two sides cooperate on mutual interest issues. We also see other people from both Earths at times, such as a woman who is an assassin on one side and a musician on the other. Both sides cooperate to try and stop her. So far it's a pretty good show, unique, different.

Started watching this one after reading your post. Quite like it so far. Thanks.   

[KRonn]

I've been watching a new show "Counterpart" with JK Simmons as one of the lead characters. He plays two characters, each from a different sister Earth. That there's the two Earths or dimensions is mostly a government secret on both sides, but the two sides cooperate on mutual interest issues. We also see other people from both Earths at times, such as a woman who is an assassin on one side and a musician on the other. Both sides cooperate to try and stop her. So far it's a pretty good show, unique, different.

Started watching this one after reading your post. Quite like it so far. Thanks.   

  I'm liking it more and more, should be quite interesting to see where the story line goes.

[Admiral Yi]

I've been streaming Wonder Woman while I work out.  This is not a very good movie.  One super hottie + standard slo mo wirefu + retarded story line.

I'm also guessing it was not a huge hit in Germany.

[Gups]

I've been streaming Wonder Woman while I work out.  This is not a very good movie.  One super hottie + standard slo mo wirefu + retarded story line.

I'm also guessing it was not a huge hit in Germany.

I can't understand why it was reviewed so well.

[Liep]

I've been streaming Wonder Woman while I work out.  This is not a very good movie.  One super hottie + standard slo mo wirefu + retarded story line.

I'm also guessing it was not a huge hit in Germany.

I can't understand why it was reviewed so well.

First of I think it's because DC had made horrible movies and then made one that didn't suck. Secondly, it was directed by a woman and starred a woman. The reason must at least be found outside of the movie it self, because I agree that it wasn't good at all.

[Duque de Bragança]

The BBC got out the poison pen and dipped it in the well a few time for their review of the final "Fifty Shades" movie:  Fifty Shades Freed is a Total Disaster

Fifty Shades Freed is so unarousing that it could be used as therapy in a sex addiction clinic.

everything else drifts by with so little structure or intrigue that it might as well be a montage, too.

they seem to have been aiming for the will-sapping vapidity of a Kardashian reality TV show overseen by Tommy "The Room" Wiseau.

Now that's unfair for Tommy Wiseau, who gave us a so-bad-it's-good bonafide classic movie, something 50 Shades of whatever will not ever be! 

[Eddie Teach]

But do you think Wiseau would have worked his "magic" if he was trying to direct a Kardashians episode rather than being a grand auteur?

[Savonarola]

King Kong, Skull Island (2017)

How many times have you found yourself thinking: "sure "Apocalypse Now" is a fine movie, but what it really needed was a big monkey"?  Fear not, gentle reader, Hollywood has heard you and has made big monkey Apocalypse Now.

(Unfortunately Samuel L Jackson plays the Kurtzesque role; it would have been B-movie gold if Kong had.)

While the film draws inspiration from Princess Mononoke, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Godzilla, The Lost World and Apocalypse now, at heart it's a slasher movie.  With the changes in our culture in the past thirty years it isn't as obvious who dies and in which order as it once was.  Of course the white chick [spoiler]lives[/spoiler]; but does the Asian chick? [spoiler]Yes, Girl Power![/spoiler] If there are multiple black actors instead of one token can some of them live? [spoiler]Yes, in fact two do.  Hollywood has gone all progressive in the BLM era.[/spoiler] 

The film is set in the immediate aftermath of the US involvement of the Viet-Nam War.  That was a little depressing since it was the year after I was born.  It's now the romantic past age of mystery; similar to the 30s in the Indiana Jones movies.  (In fact the movie is set 45 years ago; exactly the same amount of time as the setting of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1936) and the year it was released (1981).)

[Savonarola]

Now that's unfair for Tommy Wiseau, who gave us a so-bad-it's-good bonafide classic movie, something 50 Shades of whatever will not ever be! 

Yeah, I agree.  I've only seen the original Fifty Shades movie; but I think that having Tommy Wiseau direct it would have been a major improvement.

[KRonn]

"How many times have you found yourself thinking: "sure "Apocalypse Now" is a fine movie, but what it really needed was a big monkey"?  Fear not, gentle reader, Hollywood has heard you and has made big monkey Apocalypse Now."

I saw Kong Skull Island and while it was ok, it was kind of over the top or something or tried too hard. [spoiler] When they first encounter Kong and he's knocking down the helos, the pilots just keep flying close to Kong regardless of having seen their comrades get easily slammed down. And Jackson is do determined to pursue and kill Kong when they've actually found an amazing place which instead should maybe be researched and explored. I like Samuel L. Jackson but I kind of felt he was too much or too big for this role. [/spoiler]

[Habbaku]

The Onion's video review of Fifty Shades is the best yet.