TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

Studio Ghibli movies will be available on HBO Max.  Damn it.

I might have to subscribe.

I thought they had a long running deal with Disney?

[frunk]

I thought they had a long running deal with Disney?

Disney never held the streaming rights.

[Tonitrus]

Living With Yourself (Netflix series)

Pretty good, I think.

[KRonn]

I've been watching Shameless marathon. Never got into it before but tried watching it. Finding that I like it pretty well, even though everyone in it is a train wreck. Or actually that's part of the draw to it.

[FunkMonk]

First episode of HBO's Watchmen was actually, uh, really good.

Cautiously optimistic, now.

[Tamas]

First episode of HBO's Watchmen was actually, uh, really good.

Cautiously optimistic, now.

Good, it's high time we get a show on superheroes.

[celedhring]

First episode of HBO's Watchmen was actually, uh, really good.

Cautiously optimistic, now.

Is it mother-friendly? Mom likes superhero stuff if it's not too cartoony, and was asking me today if she should check that out.

[Habbaku]

First episode of HBO's Watchmen was actually, uh, really good.

Cautiously optimistic, now.

Good, it's high time we get a show on superheroes.

I can only assume you've never actually read Watchmen.

[Tamas]

First episode of HBO's Watchmen was actually, uh, really good.

Cautiously optimistic, now.

Good, it's high time we get a show on superheroes.

I can only assume you've never actually read Watchmen.

I have. I liked it. I also liked the movie. I know its a different take and its not actual superhero superheroes.

But it IS about superheroes, even if it is a more gritty take on the whole phenomenon instead of, say, taking a detective series and putting a blind superhero as the lead to sell it.

[Malthus]

Gritty deconstructions of the superhero genre are now as ubiquitous as playing the superhero genre straight - maybe even moreso.

It is simply weird how this one aspect of popular culture - the superhero - has taken over so much cultural landscape.

[Malthus]

On another note, I watched Braveheart, that old Mel Gibson Scottish fantasy take on the historical drama, with my son.

We had a great time laughing at the sheer absurdity of it (my son is very interested in history, and the anachronism stew approach to historical fiction in this movie did not escape him).

He likened it to watching a WW2 drama in which Hitler is depicted wearing plate armour and riding a unicorn into battle ...

[Josephus]

Gritty deconstructions of the superhero genre are now as ubiquitous as playing the superhero genre straight - maybe even moreso.

It is simply weird how this one aspect of popular culture - the superhero - has taken over so much cultural landscape.

I blame millennials.

[Grey Fox]

We're (not) sorry.

[celedhring]

I have a lot of writer friends that are taking old projects and repurposing them with superheroes to sell them. It's sad and hilarious at the same time.

[Admiral Yi]

I have a lot of writer friends that are taking old projects and repurposing them with superheroes to sell them. It's sad and hilarious at the same time.

Are these the same projects they previously repurposed with vampires and zombies?