TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

No Sharknado?

[celedhring]

No Sharknado?

Never found "intentionally bad" movies fun.

[Ed Anger]

I watched London Has Fallen Today 

I had lunch with at my brother's and we have this weird bonding tradition of watching the dumbest action movies possible.

I liked it. Lots of pew-pew.

[Admiral Yi]

Fucking Danny McBride on Alien Covenant??  WTF were they thinking?

[Josquius]

Thor Ragnarok, despite its somewhat stealthy release and the suckiness of the Dark World.... Was surprisingly good, even despite the lack of Earth bound action.
Feels like there's a Hulk  film missing though.

[The Brain]

The Square (2017)

A Swedish film that seems to be a wonderfully wicked satire on the art world.  The plot deals with an installation; a square on ground with the words "The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it we all share equal rights and obligations. " on a plaque next to it.  With such a banal work the museum's media group struggles to promote it.  They comes up with a novel way to promote the film, a Youtube video called "Blonde homeless beggar girl child explodes in the square."  I wont' give away what happens in the video; but it's one of the funniest things I've seen in film.

The director said that the film is actually about toxic masculinity.  I guess it could be.  To me most of the protagonists problems seem to stem from the fact that he's a colossal weenie.  In the moment of catharsis our protagonist experiences personal growth by becoming an even bigger weenie.  So I gather that, like the Buddhist quest for enlightenment, the quest to become a weenie can never truly be fulfilled; you can always be a bigger weenie.

The director has said that Jews run Hollywood, and that it's easy to win an Oscar by making a movie about WW2 or the Holocaust.

[Eddie Teach]

It's not Mel Gibson, is it?

[The Larch]

So, nobody cares about the Oscars here? 

[The Brain]

So, nobody cares about the Oscars here? 

I just posted about them.

[Eddie Teach]

So, nobody cares about the Oscars here? 

I'd like to know who the Habsy winners are.

[Berkut]

Did I see that the best picture went to a movie about a woman who falls in love with a fishman?

[The Larch]

Did I see that the best picture went to a movie about a woman who falls in love with a fishman?

Basically, yeah. Guillermo Del Toro's "The Shape of Water".

[Scipio]

Did I see that the best picture went to a movie about a woman who falls in love with a fishman?

Basically, yeah. Guillermo Del Toro's "The Shape of Water".

AKA Splash!

[Savonarola]

So, nobody cares about the Oscars here? 

I saw Kobe won one; I didn't realize that the #MeToo movement was already over.



I didn't see any of the Splash remake or "Three Billboards".  I did see the majority of the documentaries; Icarus was a good choice.  (Was that Netflix's first winner, or have they won something before?)  I saw the majority of the animated features as well; Coco was the best of what I saw.  I didn't think much of "Remember Me" from Coco; I would have picked "This Is Me" from "Greatest Showman."

[celedhring]

I haven't seen Shape of Water yet. Going tomorrow. Haven't seen Call Me By Your Name or the Phantom Thread either, I'll eventually catch them on domestic release.

3 Billboards is fun, but didn't think it was nothing more than Tarantino-lite. McDormand makes the movie though, not surprised she won.

Dunkirk was a visual feast, but didn't think it had much going for it character or story-wise, so certainly not a "best movie" candidate in my eyes. Wouldn't have begrudged a best director win (again, haven't seen SoW yet).

I loved Get Out, although I think the ending was the weakest part of the film. Glad it got recognition though, great horror is hard to find these days.

Darkest Hour was a formulaic Hollywood biography, and usually the lead is the only thing that can make those movies bearable to me. Oldman succeeded in that. Incidentally, I'd love if they made a Churchill movie/series about his non-WWII times. I.e. His ups and downs during WWI are great material.

Coco is awesome.

I think that covers most of the front-runners. The awards were pretty split which matches my perception of the candidates (again, there's a few I haven't seen yet).