TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Jack Ryan. Reminds me of Homeland. Better than the Chris Pine movie.

[Josquius]

I've been watching Jack Ryan too. It is quite good. Like a less silly Homeland.

[Duque de Bragança]

Rambo Last Blood

More like John Rambo, with all the gore that entails. Rambo goes Punisher but we are far, fortunately, from the MCU.
I still miss Colonel Trautman and can't help thinking the [spoiler]revenge plot[/spoiler] is pretty generic.

Supported by the ministry of Tourism and Cinema Fund

[spoiler]Visit Portugal Pic Portugal[/spoiler]


CGI was not too obnoxious except [spoiler]the final explosions hardly believable.[/spoiler]

[crazy canuck]

Rambo Last Blood

More like John Rambo, with all the gore that entails. Rambo goes Punisher but we are far, fortunately, from the MCU.
I still miss Colonel Trautman and can't help thinking the [spoiler]revenge plot[/spoiler] is pretty generic.

Supported by the ministry of Tourism and Cinema Fund

[spoiler]Visit Portugal Pic Portugal[/spoiler]


CGI was not too obnoxious except [spoiler]the final explosions hardly believable.[/spoiler]

People still come to Hope BC to see the sites where the first Rambo was filmed.  Some chance this will be a draw for tourists who might not otherwise come.

[viper37]

Can one of the Kebeckers tell me how common the family name Tremblay is?  I noticed one of the actors had that last name (I'm guessing Julian) as did a stripper I talked to in Montreal.

Smith.

[PRC]

Rambo Last Blood

More like John Rambo, with all the gore that entails. Rambo goes Punisher but we are far, fortunately, from the MCU.
I still miss Colonel Trautman and can't help thinking the [spoiler]revenge plot[/spoiler] is pretty generic.

Supported by the ministry of Tourism and Cinema Fund

[spoiler]Visit Portugal Pic Portugal[/spoiler]


CGI was not too obnoxious except [spoiler]the final explosions hardly believable.[/spoiler]

People still come to Hope BC to see the sites where the first Rambo was filmed.  Some chance this will be a draw for tourists who might not otherwise come.

I drove through Hope recently and stopped at the visitors centre to use the facilities as it were.  The place was jam packed with Rambo paraphernalia.  The local tourism council has gone all in on the association.

[Duque de Bragança]

Rambo Last Blood

More like John Rambo, with all the gore that entails. Rambo goes Punisher but we are far, fortunately, from the MCU.
I still miss Colonel Trautman and can't help thinking the [spoiler]revenge plot[/spoiler] is pretty generic.

Supported by the ministry of Tourism and Cinema Fund

[spoiler]Visit Portugal Pic Portugal[/spoiler]


CGI was not too obnoxious except [spoiler]the final explosions hardly believable.[/spoiler]

People still come to Hope BC to see the sites where the first Rambo was filmed.  Some chance this will be a draw for tourists who might not otherwise come.

I drove through Hope recently and stopped at the visitors centre to use the facilities as it were.  The place was jam packed with Rambo paraphernalia.  The local tourism council has gone all in on the association.

Not surprising, but this Rambo movie was shot in Spain and Bulgaria, not Portugal. 

[The Brain]

The Deuce, third season. One episode in and Maggie hasn't taken her clothes off.

[Sheilbh]

A Bigger Splash. Surprisingly explicit early 70s semi-fictionalised account of David Hockney going through a break-up. Deliberately awkwardly acted by Hockney and his real friends. I feel like I get more out of the Hockney pictures of that era, like A Bigger Splash, than that it's worthwhile on its own. But interesting, the pool and water scenes are beautiful and it is an interesting side of queer 70s film-making.

Archipelago. A very formally beautiful film of deliberately framed shots of the types of washed colours that middle class families still paint their walls: greys, unobtrusive greens, duck egg. About a very middle-class family going on holiday to the Scilly Isles as a goodbye for the son, with a painting teacher and a cook, and making each other miserable, and, as this is family, knowing how to make each other miserable. A gorgeous to look at kitchen sink drama for the Waitrose family.

[Eddie Teach]

The Deuce, third season. One episode in and Maggie hasn't taken her clothes off.

Demand your money back.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Rambo complains about young people and kills them.

[Josephus]

The Deuce, third season. One episode in and Maggie hasn't taken her clothes off.

You need to wait till episode three.

[Savonarola]

I've started watching "Bojack Horseman."  Thus far the description of J.D. Salinger as: "A man whose inspired millions of English teachers, eighth graders and the occasional assassin" is my favorite line.  Who knew John Hinckley and Mark David Chapman could inspire such joy? 

The indulgent self-pity really gets tiresome in that series.

It isn't something I could binge watch; but I do find a lot the jokes funny.  To lighten things up I usually follow it up with the telenovela "Teresa" about a poor Mexican girl who will do anything, including wearing tight, low cut dresses which display her ample bosom and long legs, in order to escape her life of poverty.  (Though, to be fair, it's not yet as wacky as Televonela Mexico usually is.  Thus far only one character has had his parents assassinated by hit men.)

[viper37]

The trailer for Midway looks visually impressive, has anything done by Roland Emmerich.  However, there is this claim, might be explained in context, that the Americans are sending "two dozen planes against all of the Japanese naval force"... uh, I thought this was a major engagement of the war?  This makes it look like the battle of the Death Star trenches... 

Also, I'm unsure of some the of acrobatics depicted, like sending your aicraft in a vertical climb until it stops climbing and then letting it fall to pick up the stick and evade/surprise your ennemy... It sure looks stunning on screen, but wouldn't that carry the risk of of an uncontrolled spin in a WWII fighter aircraft?

Of course, I'm sitting here, debatting an Hollywood's blockbuster accurate depiction of battle...

[Berkut]

Yeah, I saw some trailers and was immediately annoyed.

I guess as long as it isn't as historically stupid as Pearl Harbor it will be something of an improvement, but the entire Midway myth of vastly outnumbered Americans bravely flying to defeat the invincible IJN Navy is annoying and lame.

Also, the trailer included the trope of "If we don't stop them here, they will soon be landing in Portland" stupidness, IIRC.