TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

[spoiler]His crippled daughter sees the aforementioned world in regular color though.[/spoiler]

Right, sure, but what does this reveal? What do I now know that I didn't before?

[Zoupa]

SO after bailing on Handmaid, I binged on a show I had PVR'd about six months ago. Escape from Danemorra. Now THAT's good television. Well worth it.

Loved that show. Good call.

[Savonarola]

I've had that sitting ready to watch for going on a decade now Even when I went through a Russian cinema fad and loved the game I couldn't bring myself to tackle it.

Heh, I wouldn't recommending watching this as your first Tarkovsky film.  I think it would be best to watch his first three films in order (Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev and Solaris) in order before trying to tackle Stalker.  (There's a film in between Solaris and Stalker called "Mirror", I haven't seen it so I don't know if this would help or not.)

The only Tarkovsky film CB had seen was "Ivan's Childhood;" she was mighty perplexed by this one.  (Solaris and Andrei Rublev are in the Netflix queue, but both have long wait times.)

[Savonarola]

[spoiler]His crippled daughter sees the aforementioned world in regular color though.[/spoiler]

Right, sure, but what does this reveal? What do I now know that I didn't before?

[spoiler]The closing scene of the film is the daughter moving glasses with her mind; you didn't know that she could do that before that scene.  You do know that there's something unusual about the daughter beforehand because the one shot that focuses on her previously is done in color, while every other shot outside the zone is done in sepia tones.[/spoiler]

[Savonarola]

The Matrix (1999)

Robots were created to serve mankind; but then the robots take over!   Will mankind learn in time?   

Sorry, it's hard to believe that this film is 20 years old; on the other hand watching it again it does look peak 90s especially with the Nokia banana phones everywhere.  We saw this on the big screen; before the show they have on a pretentious film critic to introduce the movie.  This time he praised Keanu Reeves for his wide range of roles.  At the time he had played Ted (Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and sequel), Ted on a bus (Speed), Farmer Ted (A Walk in the Clouds), Vampire Hunter Ted (Bram Stoker's Dracula) and Theodore Logan, Attorney at Law (Devil's Advocate.)  This time, Ted in the computer world, Keanu really had to expand his acting range and he nails it moving effortlessly from  to  .  On a scale of 1 to 10 I rate his performance a "Woah."



On the other hand Cowboy Curtis's zen take on Obi-Won Kenobi is great; that's one of high points of the movie.

I've been reading up about the costuming in Star Wars films; Lucas wanted costumes that told you about the character at a glance.  I think the Matrix scenes in this film follows that line of thinking; you can tell Carrie-Anne Moss is a tough chick with just one look at that PVC get-up, or that Laurence Fishburne is a mysterious figure with that long billowing cloak, or that Hugo Weaving is a sinister Federal Agent.  I read that the sunglasses were all custom designed to reflect the character's, well, character.  I'm not sure how well that succeeded, but Morpheus's pince-nez sunglasses are really cool.   

[The Minsky Moment]

Some good scene-stealing from Eddie Moscone in that one as well.

[Duque de Bragança]

Pretentious film critic sucked indeed arse by not mentioned Keanu's turn as Quebecker goalie in Youngblood, Pointbreak or even My own private Idaho though the last one is problematic as Keanu shows some real acting. 

[garbon]

I've started watching The Boys. First episode was good.

[mongers]

I found the Clooney directed 'Catch-22' rather good.

[Admiral Yi]

I found the Clooney directed 'Catch-22' rather good.

Jesus, Russian bot post.

[Admiral Yi]

no, that was me being high and not reading well. 

[Admiral Yi]

20th time watching Hoosiers and I still spritz like Old Faithful.

[Sophie Scholl]

I've started watching The Boys. First episode was good.

I've heard nothing but good things.  I'm definitely looking forward to it.

[garbon]

I've started watching The Boys. First episode was good.

I've heard nothing but good things.  I'm definitely looking forward to it.

I watched a few more episodes () and its great. It's interesting seeing the side of the vain, money grubbing superheroes and the people who oppose them.

I was unaware of the comics until watching the show though.

[Sophie Scholl]

I watched a few more episodes () and its great. It's interesting seeing the side of the vain, money grubbing superheroes and the people who oppose them.

I was unaware of the comics until watching the show though.

Nor was I till I read someone's comments about their issues going up in value due to it being a solid rendition.  Depending on what I think of it, I may try to track them down at some point.  The dirty superhero concept was played well in the comic Powers by Bendis and Oeming in the early aughts.