TV/Movies Megathread

[Duque de Bragança]

Damn, I wish I didn't gift my old PS3 to my brother right now 

Buy another one, they're cheap and probably more reliable than your old model.

[The Brain]

Shelter. Homeless junkie befriends her homeless stalker and displays a sense of entitlement that would make a millenial blush. Like many contemporary artsy movies it's way too slow and I got through it on pure willpower. Not essential viewing.

[Barrister]

Shelter. Homeless junkie befriends her homeless stalker and displays a sense of entitlement that would make a millenial blush. Like many contemporary artsy movies it's way too slow and I got through it on pure willpower. Not essential viewing.

And the Lesbian sex quotient?

[The Brain]

Shelter. Homeless junkie befriends her homeless stalker and displays a sense of entitlement that would make a millenial blush. Like many contemporary artsy movies it's way too slow and I got through it on pure willpower. Not essential viewing.

And the Lesbian sex quotient?

Right. Sorry.

[spoiler]Note: there is no lesbian sex.[/spoiler]

[Barrister]

Much better.

[The Brain]

Tiger. Aging boxer starts perving on young woman boxer at the club, and learns both the cost and rewards of passionate love. I liked it, but I may be biased. The tone of the movie appealed to me, and I liked the ending. Notes: the movie is in Foreign. The chick is hot. There is no lesbian sex.

[Legbiter]

There is no lesbian sex.

[Eddie Teach]

There is no lesbian sex.

Dude, spoilers!

[The Brain]

There is no lesbian sex.

Dude, spoilers!

I weigh a number of factors very carefully when I decide if information on lesbian sex in a movie should be considered a spoiler or not. I abhor gratuitous spoiler tags.

[jimmy olsen]

East of Eden (1955)

The novel has the same issue when brought to screen as "Wuthering Heights;" it's a multi-generational novel, so one generation usually gets cut.  In "Wuthering Heights" it's almost always the first half of the novel that gets brought to screen (the story of Katherine and Heathcliff (it's no my-y-yth)).  In this case its the last part of the novel.

If Elia Kazan hadn't been a friend of John Steinbeck; this probably wouldn't have been brought to the screen at all. Steinbeck was notoriously touchy, but he was willing to trust Kazan's interpretation.  The does feature a lot of Kazan's weird diagonal angle shots, but it also has James Dean, so it does balance out.  This was Dean's first movie, and the only one he released in his lifetime (and Dean almost managed to torpedo his Hollywood career by refusing to attend the premiere.)

Dean was reportedly a difficult actor to work with; but Kazan's other big discovery was Marlon Brando, so he knew how to work with difficult.  James Dean's performance is electric; reined in just enough not to be annoying.

I prefer West of Eden

[Eddie Teach]

Odd use of the smilie to denote a preference for pulp fiction to classic literature.

[mongers]

I seem to be the only person still enjoying 'Versailles' now in it's third and final series.  :-(

[jimmy olsen]

Odd use of the smilie to denote a preference for pulp fiction to classic literature.

Nerd smile seems to me the appropriate one to proclaim interest in geek topics.

This seems like the more literay smile.

[Syt]

Apparently the latest outrage over a reboot is She-Ra where some yokels say she's not feminine and sexy enough anymore.

https://www.vox.com/2018/7/18/17585950/she-ra-redesign-controversy-netflix

[...]

The latest subject of such outrage is She-Ra, the princess of power, twin sister to He-Man, and fixture of 1980s Saturday morning cartoons. And what's the reason for this newfound and previously undiscovered pot of anger? In short, She-Ra is being reinvented and rebooted for a younger audience — and in the process, a certain contingent of fans have grown very angry that she is now, in their eyes, less sexy than she used to be.

It's yet another example of a vocal fandom seething with seemingly irrational demands and the latest chapter in an ongoing debate about how female superheroes look.

[...]

Not sure what's sadder: that there's apparently a vocal group of (middle-aged?) men whose ideal woman is a children's cartoon character from the 80s, or that instead of, you know, not watching a show they don't like they feel the need to lash out like this.

I learned from the debate, though, that J.M. Straczynski was one of the co-writers for the original She-Ra.

[Syt]

For comparison - old vs. new.