TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

Orange is the New Black is really well made.  Binging my way through that, Weirder Things and Shameless episodes I missed should hold me for a while on Netflix.  And help get that Last Jedi taste out of my mouth.

[Josquius]

A weird thought.
I was born in the mid 80s.
For me, the original Star Wars films have always existed. They were made in the distant past, they've existed since time immemorial, they're untouchable cornerstones of my childhood.

The prequels on the other hand...are a modern thing. I was well into my mid-teens when they came out. They're crappy modern cashgrabs that shat on my childhood.

Yet. There is just 16 years between Return of the Jedi and Phantom Menace.

Phantom Menace came out 20 years ago.

I'm not sure what this means. Beyond my being old. But it just seems wrong. Like the thing about Cleopatra vs. the ipod and the pyramids.

[viper37]

It took me 3 viewings to accept that Phantom Menace was a piece of shit. The emotional impact of "New Star Wars!" was too much for me at that age. I'm much crankier now. Then I went to a fourth screening because I promised my mother I would take her to it, and then a fifth because there was sex involved.

Clones and Revenge of the Sith I've only watched twice. Clones is bad and boring, but ROTS is actively ridiculous.

Incidentally mom wanted me to take her to The Last Jedi and I refused  I told her that she would genuinely hate it.

The first time, my friend and I were completely drunk.  It didn't seem so bad, especially the duel in the end.  The second time, I still liked the duel, but got annoyed real fast by Jar Jar.  The 3rd time... I was trying to rationalize wether a bad SW movie is better than no SW movie?

By the 8th, I think I'd prefer no new SW movies.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't get the Last Jedi hate.

[Valmy]

I don't get the Last Jedi hate.

It is boring, tedious, non-sensical, and has depressing and nihilistic themes.

[mongers]

I don't get the Last Jedi hate.

It is boring, tedious, non-sensical, and has depressing and nihilistic themes.

So not unlike Languish.

[Admiral Yi]

None of the battles are cool, Leia in Outer Space is retarded, the casino sequence is all deus ex, Commander Hothead jumping all over the bridge DEMANDING ANSWERS  is retarded, Luke and Whatshername staring at their navels at End of the Universeville is boring as shit, Kylo and Whatshername's Jehdi instant messaging just goes on and on.  And the video game tie-in is too blatant.

[Admiral Yi]

Orange is the New Black is really well made.

"Pensatucky." 

[Valmy]

I don't get the Last Jedi hate.

It is boring, tedious, non-sensical, and has depressing and nihilistic themes.

So not unlike Languish.

Huh. Now that you put it that way I guess I should be surprised I didn't like it.

[crazy canuck]

Years and Years - new HBO series based in London with the premise of a near future dystopia caused by Trump winning in 2020.  Still not sure if I like it.  Some parts are just too uncomfortably plausible to be an enjoyable watch.

[Eddie Teach]

Sure, blame us for the UK going down the shitter. 

[garbon]

I think CC is being a bit inaccurate when he says the events of the series start because Trump won in 2020.

[Savonarola]

Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

Documenatary of the most influential film never made.  Alejandro Jodorowsky set out to make Dune in the early 70s, but was ultimately stymied due to lack of funding.  He had quite a cast ensembled; Salvador Dali was to be the emperor, Mick Jagger as Feyd-Rautha, Orson Welles as Baron Harkonnen (a role Orson may not have been born to play; but one that he worked for years to achieve the physique for), David Carradine as Duke Leto and Gloria Swanson as the reverend mother of the Benne Gesserit.  He also assembled the team of artists that would go on to do the design for "Alien," and had gotten Pink Floyd to agree to do some of the soundtrack.

The problem was that Jodorowsky has the Erich von Stroheim personality.  His twelve year old son was slated to be Paul Atreides; so he had him study martial arts six hours a day for two years in order to become Paul Atreides.  No studio wanted a film over two hours; he insisted on a fourteen hour film.  It didn't work out any better for Alejandro than it did for Erich, (it probably worked out better for von Stroheim, at least "Greed" and parts of "Queen Kelly" got made,) and Jodorowsky spends a great deal of time lamenting the business aspect of Hollywood.

Jodorowsky assembled a detailed story board of his movie which he submitted to every studio.  They may or may not have pillaged it for their own big budget science fiction movies.

I don't know whether this film would have been brilliant or unwatchable.  A 14 hour El Topo or The Holy Mountain sounds excruciating; but everyone who saw the storyboard and had Jodorowsky describe it thought it was brilliant.

[crazy canuck]

I think CC is being a bit inaccurate when he says the events of the series start because Trump won in 2020.

In what way? The show starts after the 2020 election and the backdrop of all the shit that occurs in the world.  [spoiler]Fast forward to President Pence in episode 2[/spoiler]

[viper37]

The Predator (2018).

It is not the worst movie I have ever seen, that is the best thing I can say about this movie.
I still have 10 minutes 'itl the end of the movie. I'll make it.  Somehow.

I don't really get this movie, I don't get anything of the non sensical plot.  Nothing really makes sense, from the soldier's actions, to the US govt actions, to the Predators' actions.  And after playing with what he considers a toy, an 11 years Asperger boy now has a better understanding of the tech than the guys working on it for 3 decades.