TV/Movies Megathread

[Malthus]

Watching the new Dark Crystal series with the kid. Holy crap is it dark. 

I really wonder how they sold this to the execs. I mean, it's a fantasy - with muppets - featuring some really intense not-suitable-for-children scenes (my boy, now a teen, isn't troubled by that of course).

Example: [spoiler]In one scene, one of the bad guys pisses off the other bad guys, who decide to torture him; so they strap him down, tie a cage to his head, and unleash a scorpion like thing into the cage, which eats his eyeball while he screams for mercy. Miss Piggy this ain't. [/spoiler]

It looks absolutely gorgeous, though. Well worth watching just for the set and creature designs. I'm enjoying it.

[Syt]

Farscape was sci-fi with muppets. Wouldn't exactly call it a kids' show, either.

[The Brain]

Like half the cast of Band of Brothers, or The Wire?

Sometimes their accents shine through slightly. https://youtu.be/XBL2Wq5YjSw?t=13

Like Blackpoole native John Mahoney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjrLyWlCrP8

Yeah. Even professionals slip up sometimes.

[Razgovory]

I thought the original Dark Crystal was creepy.

[Malthus]

I thought the original Dark Crystal was creepy.

I'll have to rewatch it - I saw it decades ago, and don't remember much.

[Barrister]

I thought the original Dark Crystal was creepy.

I'll have to rewatch it - I saw it decades ago, and don't remember much.

I saw it as a kid.  It was indeed dark and creepy.

[The Larch]

My parents took me to the cinema to watch it and had to pull me out because I wouldn't stop crying. 

[Malthus]

My parents took me to the cinema to watch it and had to pull me out because I wouldn't stop crying. 

Oh man - if it is anything like the new series, it is most definitely not for younger children. 

Reminds me of the infamous "Watership Down" scenario - excellent movie, definitely not for younger children, marketed to them anyway, leading to much trauma. It is awesome how many adults still, to this day, mention being traumatized as children by that movie! 

I suspect it is because 'animation = for kids' in most people's minds, particularly when Watership Down came out. Ditto, obviously, with muppets.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah. I loved the original but it may not have been wildly age appropriate. Plus if you've seen the film, you know where the series will end up

Loved them both though.

[Razgovory]

Watching the lacquered corpses of children used as puppets always made me feel uncomfortable.  Don't know why, just does.  I'm weird that way.

[The Larch]

I suspect it is because 'animation = for kids' in most people's minds, particularly when Watership Down came out. Ditto, obviously, with muppets.

Yeah, and even nowadays, when adult animation is not unusual anymore, parents will still try to take kids to movies who are clearly not intended for them just because they're animated.

For instance, I seem to remember that it happened more recently with Seth Rogen and James Franco's "Sausage party", which is pretty obviously filled with adult jokes and sex stuff, and rated R, and just because it's animation parents sitll tried to take kids to watch it.

[HVC]

there's a bunch of traumatizing kids movies. Hell, most of the Disney movies involve parents dying. The Secret of NIMH messed me up as a kid.

[mongers]

Started watching a three part documentary 'What makes a murderer' looking into the biological, environmental and psychological influence on people who murder.

First up Britain's longest serving murderer, his crime carried out in 1975.

"So John you have this label of a murder, how does that feel for you?"

Murderer "I'm quite resentful of that label ...... "

At this point I feel I should turn it off, but I shall persevere.

I'm guessing the notion of human choice isn't going to figure large in the investigation.

Have an hour in, the brain expert says:

"So it's the genes that load the gun and the enviroment that pulls the trigger."

I think I'll give up now.

[Admiral Yi]

The category is greatest motivational pimp speech ever.  The winner is father Boleyn to Anne in the falconry in The Tudors.

[viper37]

The Blacklist has gone full retard with last week's episode.  So sad they had to bring rightwing religious nuttyness into this