TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

I think he's gone down the same rabbit hole as comic book writer Frank Miller.

I mean, Snyder directed 300... 

[Syt]

Well, yeah.

[The Larch]

Didn't Miller want to write a Batman comic about him going after Al-Qaeda, and when DC blocked that he invented a new character and wrote it anyway?

[Syt]

Didn't Miller want to write a Batman comic about him going after Al-Qaeda, and when DC blocked that he invented a new character and wrote it anyway?

He did, but he replaced Batman with a more generic character. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Terror_(graphic_novel)

Apparently he's distanced himself from the comic last year. I did watch Linkara's review of the book, and it was pretty cringeworthy. Kinda worse than his All Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder run.

[celedhring]

All Star Batman & Robin felt like a parody at times. It was a hilarious read. "Are you dense? Are you retarded? I AM THE GODDAMN BATMAN!"

[Syt]

All Star Batman & Robin felt like a parody at times. It was a hilarious read. "Are you dense? Are you retarded? I AM THE GODDAMN BATMAN!"

Let's not forget the sadism, mysoginy, and the constant abuse of Diyck Grayson, Age 12.

[frunk]

Russian Doll. Groundhog Day set amongst snooty New Yorkers. Lots of fun.

Just finished this.  It's pretty fantastic.  I don't think they quite stuck the landing, but it was a satisfying ending.

[celedhring]

I loved Russian Doll well enough to finally prompt me to replace "I've got you babe" for "I gotta get up" as my alarm sound.

[celedhring]

Love Death Robots. It's very uneven, and I'd say the strike rate for me has been under 50%, but since the episodes are so short, even the terrible ones go quickly. And there are a few very good ones.

Be prepared that some of them are pretty neckbeardy (i.e. lots of sex, gratuitous female nudity and various incel fetishes)

[frunk]

I loved Russian Doll well enough to finally prompt me to replace "I've got you babe" for "I gotta get up" as my alarm sound.

So, my thoughts on the ending:

Up through the halfway point I thought it was one of the best runs of 4 episodes I had seen,
[spoiler]but I knew they were heading toward the difficult task of wrapping up.  I was fine with them not explaining why this was happening.  It's part of the Groundhog Day/Freaky Friday tradition of minimal explanation of the metaphysics, with only the goal really mattering.  The ending seemed to imply that the two timelines merged or at least converged to a similar outcome, which seems unlikely considering the very different trajectories of the two versions of Alan and Nadia (not to mention Nadia's friends and Beatrice).  I was hoping they would include Nadia's game in the rescue of Alan, with them working together to beat it.

A darker ending would have been the looping versions getting bumped off or disappearing before the timelines merged, leaving the rescued versions to continue.  There was certainly an opening to let the loopers die the way the rescued versions almost did (so looping Nadia falls off the building, looping Alan gets hit by the car).

I don't think each go through spawned a separate timeline, as Nadia theorized, as I think the later ones were missing too much of reality.  [/spoiler]

[frunk]

Love Death Robots. It's very uneven, and I'd say the strike rate for me has been under 50%, but since the episodes are so short, even the terrible ones go quickly. And there are a few very good ones.

Be prepared that some of them are pretty neckbeardy (i.e. lots of sex, gratuitous female nudity and various incel fetishes)

Saw the first episode.  I'm planning to see the others but was happily distracted by Russian Doll.

[Habbaku]

Love Death Robots. It's very uneven, and I'd say the strike rate for me has been under 50%, but since the episodes are so short, even the terrible ones go quickly. And there are a few very good ones.

Be prepared that some of them are pretty neckbeardy (i.e. lots of sex, gratuitous female nudity and various incel fetishes)

I was amused to see one of the writers was very much a Polish history fanboy--"John Sobieski" being one of the character names and "Sikorski Works" being the producer of Lucky 13.

[celedhring]

Love Death Robots. It's very uneven, and I'd say the strike rate for me has been under 50%, but since the episodes are so short, even the terrible ones go quickly. And there are a few very good ones.

Be prepared that some of them are pretty neckbeardy (i.e. lots of sex, gratuitous female nudity and various incel fetishes)

I was amused to see one of the writers was very much a Polish history fanboy--"John Sobieski" being one of the character names and "Sikorski Works" being the producer of Lucky 13.

Lucky 13 was one of my favorites.

The other ones I liked: Zima Blue, Good Hunting, Beyond Aquila Rift (the fanservice gets a bit embarassing there, but it's a good twilight zone-ish story), the Yogurt One (great parody of the benevolent AI trope), and the Friendly Hand (I wish Gravity was more like that  )

The others I found middling to bad. But as said, the good thing of the format is that even those don't overstay their welcome.

[celedhring]

I loved Russian Doll well enough to finally prompt me to replace "I've got you babe" for "I gotta get up" as my alarm sound.

So, my thoughts on the ending:

Up through the halfway point I thought it was one of the best runs of 4 episodes I had seen,
[spoiler]but I knew they were heading toward the difficult task of wrapping up.  I was fine with them not explaining why this was happening.  It's part of the Groundhog Day/Freaky Friday tradition of minimal explanation of the metaphysics, with only the goal really mattering.  The ending seemed to imply that the two timelines merged or at least converged to a similar outcome, which seems unlikely considering the very different trajectories of the two versions of Alan and Nadia (not to mention Nadia's friends and Beatrice).  I was hoping they would include Nadia's game in the rescue of Alan, with them working together to beat it.

A darker ending would have been the looping versions getting bumped off or disappearing before the timelines merged, leaving the rescued versions to continue.  There was certainly an opening to let the loopers die the way the rescued versions almost did (so looping Nadia falls off the building, looping Alan gets hit by the car).

I don't think each go through spawned a separate timeline, as Nadia theorized, as I think the later ones were missing too much of reality.  [/spoiler]

[spoiler]Didn't get the feeling their timelines merge at the end. I think the parade at the end was just a visual metaphor of them being together in some way, despite now being separated forever. I think at the end of the show we are left with two separate timelines where the Nadia and Alan in each of them will be happy, even if the Nadia and Alan that know about what happened won't be together.[/spoiler] But I really haven't done much thought about it or read theories on the web. It's just the feeling I got from the ending.

[Josquius]

I loved Russian Doll well enough to finally prompt me to replace "I've got you babe" for "I gotta get up" as my alarm sound.

So, my thoughts on the ending:

Up through the halfway point I thought it was one of the best runs of 4 episodes I had seen,
[spoiler]but I knew they were heading toward the difficult task of wrapping up.  I was fine with them not explaining why this was happening.  It's part of the Groundhog Day/Freaky Friday tradition of minimal explanation of the metaphysics, with only the goal really mattering.  The ending seemed to imply that the two timelines merged or at least converged to a similar outcome, which seems unlikely considering the very different trajectories of the two versions of Alan and Nadia (not to mention Nadia's friends and Beatrice).  I was hoping they would include Nadia's game in the rescue of Alan, with them working together to beat it.

A darker ending would have been the looping versions getting bumped off or disappearing before the timelines merged, leaving the rescued versions to continue.  There was certainly an opening to let the loopers die the way the rescued versions almost did (so looping Nadia falls off the building, looping Alan gets hit by the car).

I don't think each go through spawned a separate timeline, as Nadia theorized, as I think the later ones were missing too much of reality.  [/spoiler]

[spoiler]Didn't get the feeling their timelines merge at the end. I think the parade at the end was just a visual metaphor of them being together in some way, despite now being separated forever. I think at the end of the show we are left with two separate timelines where the Nadia and Alan in each of them will be happy, even if the Nadia and Alan that know about what happened won't be together.[/spoiler] But I really haven't done much thought about it or read theories on the web. It's just the feeling I got from the ending.

[spoiler]From what I've read the ending was a homage to something common in Mexican (?) movies from back in the day, a big party at the end. At some point the actual story ends and then it just goes into cool visuals for the audience.
What actually happened remains a mystery.
Though given the upbeat nature of the ending I'd imagine some kind of merger. Somehow. [/spoiler]