TV/Movies Megathread

[mongers]

Watched a road trip across Wales from north to south, including lots of roads I used to drive on when I lived there. 

They went stopped at the town I lived in, I'd forgotten how nice it was and how common it is for Welsh houses or shops to be painted in bright colours*.


* Unlike here were it tends to be plain brickwork or regional stonework.

[viper37]

Sicilian vampire

Equal part Goodfellas, equal part Dusk 'til Dawn.   So says the tagline.  IMDB score isn't too low, so I got curious.

The movie runs at 2:30, with the ads.  The Dusk 'til Dawn part begins at the 2:20 mark and ends by 2:25.  I must have yawned because I missed the Goodfellas part.

It might be one of those movies so bad it's good... well, not really.
It's just awful and boring.  No punchy dialogue, except some italian and italian looking guys swearing.  Maybe that was the Goodfellas part?

½*/5.

[fromtia]

Any excitement fellows, for Villeneuves Dune movies? I loved Arrival and Sicario. Really loved them as pieces of film making. I thought Bladerunner 2049 was tremendously beautiful but sort of hated the writing. Overall though a great director. The cast that's being assembled seems very strong and there's talk of two movies, sort of 'Fall of House Atreides" and "Mu'addib".

[Habbaku]

I'll be at Villneuve's Dune on opening night. Even if it's a complete failure, it'll be a gorgeous failure.

[Iormlund]

That's what I think of Lynch's take on it. A gorgeous, beautiful mess.

[Oexmelin]

Any excitement fellows, for Villeneuves Dune movies? I loved Arrival and Sicario. Really loved them as pieces of film making. I thought Bladerunner 2049 was tremendously beautiful but sort of hated the writing. Overall though a great director. The cast that's being assembled seems very strong and there's talk of two movies, sort of 'Fall of House Atreides" and "Mu'addib".

Same. I was ambivalent towards Blade Runner 2049's writing - but mostly because of the concessions it made to current Hollywood tropes (the badass female assassin, the somewhat lazy socio-economic message conveyed through dialogue rather than scenery, the setting up a sequel). 

[viper37]

(the badass female assassin,

What was the role of Zhora Salome in the first movie?

[Sophie Scholl]

Titans - I watched way too much Castle to buy Detective Ryan as the big bad. 

Anyway, I'll watch season 2. The show has potential when they don't try to be too emo, and it certainly feels different to the rest of the DC TV fare.

Now I hope Doom Patrol turns out decent, it's one of my favorite comic books.

Uh oh.  I watched a lot of Castle as well and plan on watching Titans.  The DC Universe streaming channel is great in my opinion.  Stargirl is the one I'm really looking forward to as I'm a big JSA fan.

[fromtia]

Same. I was ambivalent towards Blade Runner 2049's writing - but mostly because of the concessions it made to current Hollywood tropes (the badass female assassin, the somewhat lazy socio-economic message conveyed through dialogue rather than scenery, the setting up a sequel).

I was really bothered by the conspicuous "bad guys" that the original movie didn't have. I liked how ambivalent the first film was. By all accounts it was originally intended to be much worse, having Pris (or possibly Zhora) be a child care specialist hiding in a closet terrified before being offed by Deckard. But achingly beautiful none the less.

[fromtia]

(the badass female assassin,

What was the role of Zhora Salome in the first movie?

Some sort of Space-Stripper Kung-Fu Death Squad Hotstress.

[fromtia]

That's what I think of Lynch's take on it. A gorgeous, beautiful mess.

Yes I love it. A magnificent dumpster fire. Shoots for the stars, misses, misses the moon, explodes the neighbors parked minivan.

Jodorowsky describing it is wonderful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ7YZXeI54s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZKcW9OGoU

[Admiral Yi]

Dune might be an unfilmable book.  But I look forward to the effort.

[garbon]

Jessica Jones and Punisher finally got the chop.

[dps]

Dune might be an unfilmable book.  But I look forward to the effort.

It would probably be best done as a TV mini-series, I think, though a LotR-type set of movies makes some sense, too, but there's so much in the book that is exposition or internal monologue, I'm not sure how you'd make a good film out of it.

[Admiral Yi]

It would probably be best done as a TV mini-series, I think, though a LotR-type set of movies makes some sense, too, but there's so much in the book that is exposition or internal monologue, I'm not sure how you'd make a good film out of it.

In addition to all that inner dialogue there's all the abstract, mystical enlightening power of spice.  How do you film that?  And the action scenes.  Desert hardened fedayeen beat the shit out of previously invincible Saurdaukar...how?  The Lynch version worked around that problem by introducing retardo sound guns, which undercut a major plot point of the book.