TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

The OA has been cancelled after two seasons. I always had a strange relationship with this show, it's the kind of show I *should* like (weird sci-fi with heady themes and plenty of twists) but for some reason I never got into it.

[garbon]

The OA has been cancelled after two seasons. I always had a strange relationship with this show, it's the kind of show I *should* like (weird sci-fi with heady themes and plenty of twists) but for some reason I never got into it.

I forgot to finish watching the 2nd season. But then I found it not as compelling as the first

[mongers]

'Darkest Hour' - great performance by Oldman, but much of the 'history' seems suspect to me.

Also contains one of the worst jaw-droppingly bad scenes I've seen in years.

[Malthus]

'Darkest Hour' - great performance by Oldman, but much of the 'history' seems suspect to me.

Also contains one of the worst jaw-droppingly bad scenes I've seen in years.

The subway scene, am I right? 

But yeah, Oldman's performance was great.

[Tamas]

Maybe because Oldman's performance was hyped to high heavens by the time I got around seeing it, but I thought the only one giving a stellar performance was his makeup artists. Didn't convince me at all.Seemed very un-Churchill like.

[Maladict]

'Darkest Hour' - great performance by Oldman, but much of the 'history' seems suspect to me.

Also contains one of the worst jaw-droppingly bad scenes I've seen in years.

The subway scene, am I right? 

The subway scene was horrific.
However, most people I've spoken to about it thought it was the best scene in the movie, some are even people I respect(ed).

[celedhring]

The subway scene was very cringey indeed. The movie isn't very good anyway, but these "great man" oscar bait biopics rarely are. I do think Oldman was great in it though, but I admit not being *that* familiar with Churchill mannerisms.

[Malthus]

Maybe because Oldman's performance was hyped to high heavens by the time I got around seeing it, but I thought the only one giving a stellar performance was his makeup artists. Didn't convince me at all.Seemed very un-Churchill like.

I enjoyed his performance, but I have no idea how true to Churchill it was.

[Savonarola]

Tron (1982)

Yes, the plot is preposterous, the acting is sometimes wooden (especially Cindy Morgan, but even Jeff Bridges sometimes sounds like he's reading cue cards), and the writers sometimes come across as though they're trying to show the kids that they're hip, they're with it; but what a world they created.  It's held up well for a special effects movie released over 35 years ago.

The academy at the time refused to nominate them for best special effects because they considered using computers cheating.  In fact most of the effects were practical, since computers were so limited at the time.  My favorite effect is what gives Tron it's distinctive look: the actors are filmed in black and white and then their energy was hand tinted in.  In the very early days of silent films they would hand tilt frames to make "Color" films; only they'd have to hand tint ever print.  (This was in the Kinetoscope days, later films, like the Bal Masque scene in "Phantom of the Opera" or the triumph scene in the original "Ben Hur" used actual two-tone color film.)

[Josephus]

'Darkest Hour' - great performance by Oldman, but much of the 'history' seems suspect to me.

Also contains one of the worst jaw-droppingly bad scenes I've seen in years.

The subway scene, am I right? 

The subway scene was horrific.
However, most people I've spoken to about it thought it was the best scene in the movie, some are even people I respect(ed).

What was it about this scene you didn't like? Yes, it was fanciful and didn't happen, but apparently Churchill did have a habit of escaping from Whitehall and chatting with men on the street

Winston Churchill often disappeared from Downing Street or the Cabinet War Rooms and appeared somewhere in London, where he would talk to the public and find out what they were thinking. However, there is no record of him ever doing this on an underground train.

[Eddie Teach]

The OA has been cancelled after two seasons. I always had a strange relationship with this show, it's the kind of show I *should* like (weird sci-fi with heady themes and plenty of twists) but for some reason I never got into it.

I think it reached a natural end point; another season would feel tacked on.

[Duque de Bragança]

 

Tron also has of one of Michael Dudikoff's first appearances on film. Yes, the American Ninja. 

[Maladict]

What was it about this scene you didn't like? Yes, it was fanciful and didn't happen, but apparently Churchill did have a habit of escaping from Whitehall and chatting with men on the street

Just the Hollywood-type sentimental nonsense. Terrible acting from the extras, the utterly unconvincing dialogue and mostly the scene being so jarringly out of step with the rest of the movie.

It was even worse than the glider Spitfire in Dunkirk.

[Valmy]

The subway scene was very cringey indeed. The movie isn't very good anyway, but these "great man" oscar bait biopics rarely are. I do think Oldman was great in it though, but I admit not being *that* familiar with Churchill mannerisms.

I mean I wasn't there, but I found it hard to believe it was that universal of a sentiment to fight to the death among the British public. Was it just good luck? If Winston had just happen to be sitting next to some more cowardly civilians would he have just surrendered?

[Maladict]

I mean I wasn't there, but I found it hard to believe it was that universal of a sentiment to fight to the death among the British public.

I doubt it was ever there at all*. As it was never really tested, I guess we won't know.

*not singling out the Brits, it's just not a common sentiment among any large population.