TV/Movies Megathread

[Berkut]

OK, I shall watch. And judge you all if it is not good.

[Duque de Bragança]

After 22 years I finally watched Titanic.  Beautiful movie that was definitely a passion project.  I enjoyed it thoroughly, but it has a lot of problems when you look beyond the surface.  So many parts have become entwined with pop culture references now that it is strange watching them in their original place.

Sorry, but the 1943 version https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036443, is more interesting without any silly cheesy love plot. 

[crazy canuck]

OK, I shall watch. And judge you all if it is not good.

You are going to judge us regardless 

[Savonarola]

Batman Forever (1997)

I grew up north of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in an area which was transitioning from rural to suburbia.  At the time one of the local Catholic parishes held a Country Ham Dinner every fall; where the attendees were served a nice thick slice of ham.  Well over a thousand people attended; so, at the end of the day, that was an awful lot of ham.  I was reminded of that experience as I watched Tommy Lee Jones's performance in Batman Forever.

(Jim Carey's too, of course, that was ham-tastic as well; but that's true of every Jim Carey performance.)

Joel Schumacher sort-of tries to continues on in the dark, brooding mode of the Tim Burton stories; but also introduces crucial elements like the hard rubber suits with molded nipples.  Now that's cinema.  As a big, dumb popcorn movie it wasn't so bad; it did have enough fun to get it over the finish line (and Nicole Kidman's bedsheet scene get's two thumbs up from me .)

[Sheilbh]

The Running Man

[Admiral Yi]

Peaky Blinders.  On season 2 now.

[Tamas]

Peaky Blinders.  On season 2 now.

Have you had the episode where Churchill is reminiscing about his time fighting at Verdun with the rest of the British army?

[Admiral Yi]

Have you had the episode where Churchill is reminiscing about his time fighting at Verdun with the rest of the British army?

Yup.  Inexplicable.  Tommy talks about being at Verdun in another scene too.

[Syt]

Peaky Blinders.  On season 2 now.

Have you had the episode where Churchill is reminiscing about his time fighting at Verdun with the rest of the British army?

Wait, what?

[Tamas]

Peaky Blinders.  On season 2 now.

Have you had the episode where Churchill is reminiscing about his time fighting at Verdun with the rest of the British army?

Wait, what?

Yes. I stopped watching then and there. It was the final proof that their realism starts and ends at the costumes. Ridiculous.

[Eddie Teach]

Wikipedia says Churchill did serve on the front in between government gigs.

[Tamas]

Wikipedia says Churchill did serve on the front in between government gigs.

there were no Brits anywhere near Verdun, let alone Churchill. He did serve on the front but at a completely different place (and time).

[Josquius]

Could never get into Peaky Blinders. My mother raves about it though.

[garbon]

Wikipedia says Churchill did serve on the front in between government gigs.

there were no Brits anywhere near Verdun, let alone Churchill. He did serve on the front but at a completely different place (and time).

Doesn't strike me as anything more egregious than what they did on shows like the Tudors.

[Duque de Bragança]

Wikipedia says Churchill did serve on the front in between government gigs.

there were no Brits anywhere near Verdun, let alone Churchill. He did serve on the front but at a completely different place (and time).

Doesn't strike me as anything more egregious than what they did on shows like the Tudors.

Damning with faint praise.