TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Truly a man ahead of his time.

[FunkMonk]

This guy regularly gets dumpstered on Twitter and it's quite amusing 

[celedhring]

Mission Impossible 6 is indeed awesomely ridiculous or ridiculously awesome, somewhere in between. 

[FunkMonk]

Mission Impossible 6 is indeed awesomely ridiculous or ridiculously awesome, somewhere in between. 

It's like they cranked it up to 11, stood back, and said, "That's not enough. Crank that fucker to 100."

[celedhring]

Me watching the film, around two hours in: "Ok, this was great fun, but I guess it must be over now"
MI6: "Hold my beer"

The last 30 minutes are simply ludicrous 

[Syt]

That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/alf-tv-reboot-works-at-warner-bros-1131450

'ALF' TV Reboot in the Works at Warner Bros.

[The Brain]

Sweet.

[Savonarola]

Alphaville (1965)

Once again the cold hand of science is foiled by love  (); but really I blame the engineers who built Alpha 60.  You can't have your super computer explode when it's exposed to paradoxes; that's just fundamentally poor design.



I'm not a huge fan of Goddard; but this does have its moments.  I liked that they're obviously in mid-60s Paris, but pretend that it's the distant future (or maybe not so distant, as the protagonist claims to be a veteran of Guadacanal.)  Also I thought a newspaper called Figaro-Pravda was clever.

[KRonn]

Looking forward to the new season of Better Call Saul. Begins soon, next week or two. 

That's a fun show, a take off from Breaking Bad. I didn't know how it would do but it's been a fun and dramatic show. Great characters and multi-faceted story line with some of the same characters from Breaking Bad as it's based on the time before BB.

[Syt]

I'm currently rewatching Frasier, and this old tweet showed up in my timeline. It made me chuckle.

[Duque de Bragança]

Also I thought a newspaper called Figaro-Pravda was clever.

Typical Mao fan boys stuff from the '60s. Figaro = right-wing = USA
Pravda = USSR = untrue communism, unlike Mao 
See la Chinoise for more of that with Brezhnev-Kossygin put on the same level as LBJ.

[Syt]

I liked that they're obviously in mid-60s Paris, but pretend that it's the distant future

Well, there's also that movie about the Battle of Little Big Horn that was filmed in 1970s Paris with all actors wearing period appropriate (I.e. 19th century) costumes. 

[Duque de Bragança]

I liked that they're obviously in mid-60s Paris, but pretend that it's the distant future

Well, there's also that movie about the Battle of Little Big Horn that was filmed in 1970s Paris with all actors wearing period appropriate (I.e. 19th century) costumes. 

Not all actors, [spoiler]when Custer arrives at the train station, extras have 1970s clothing.[/spoiler]. It's also shot on one of the biggest eyesores of Parisian urban planning back then (destruction of Baltard's Central Market)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Touch_the_White_Woman!

[The Brain]

After Porn Ends. Documentary that portrays a number of x-pornstars from various generations. What got them into porn, what was porn like for them, and how is life after porn? Decent. Note: [spoiler]there is some lesbian sex.[/spoiler]

[Syt]

Not all actors, [spoiler]when Custer arrives at the train station, extras have 1970s clothing.[/spoiler]. It's also shot on one of the biggest eyesores of Parisian urban planning back then (destruction of Baltard's Central Market)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Touch_the_White_Woman!

Yes, and it also brings together the main actors (Piccoli, Tognazzi, Noiret, Mastroianni) from La Grande Bouffe which was filmed a year earlier. It was an interesting time in Italo-French film making.