TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

Dracula E3 is a bit of a mess.

I quit halfway through. Big letdown after the first couple episodes. [spoiler]Couldn't get over how stupid it was that they just let Dracula go.[/spoiler]

Yeah, to me that was the dumbest part. [spoiler]We have to release him! He has a...lawyer.[/spoiler]

[crazy canuck]

Never underestimate our dark powers.

[Savonarola]

I'm not that familiar with the genre outside Daniel Defoe.

Have you ever read Tristram Shandy?

No, I've never even seen the movie.

[Eddie Teach]

If anyone is curious, there is a movie but it's called A Cock and Bull Story.

[Tonitrus]

Have you ever read Tristram Shandy?

I lasted about four pages.

Apparently, Thomas Jefferson was a big fan. 

[Oexmelin]

I quite like the movie - it's a valiant attempt at getting at the spirit of the book.

Otherwise, Sav, you can try Shandy "light": Jacques the Fatalist (which explicitly borrows from Sterne...)

[Sheilbh]

I'm not that familiar with the genre outside Daniel Defoe.

Have you ever read Tristram Shandy?

I love Tristram Shandy.

At university by the time I read it I already decided I was kind of wanting to focus on modernism and I was really into formal criticism. And I don't think I've ever been as excited reading a book, because I knew it had a reputation but it just blew my mind.

[Eddie Teach]

I quite like the movie - it's a valiant attempt at getting at the spirit of the book.

Otherwise, Sav, you can try Shandy "light": Jacques the Fatalist (which explicitly borrows from Sterne...)

Now that one I did read in school, but it seemed more like philosophizing than storytelling. 

[Threviel]

Finished S4 of The Expanse. Excellent show, gold standard for sci-fi.

[spoiler]Parts of the last episode felt a bit rushed. Where did all the slugs go?

Ashfords death wasn't handled good. That he was about to die was obvious and probably needed to get whatshisname established as a big bad. But why would an experienced fighter like Ashford try to storm a ship with only two assistants? Shoot out the engine and call or help would have been the more obvious strategy. And why would he, when the enemy ship seemed finished and withe the enemy in sights move in such a way as to leave an unsecured door at his back? And when threatened by Philip, why didn't he just kill whatshisname? He knew he would be spaced. That part established Ashford as a bad tactician, not whatshisname as a good one.[/spoiler]

[viper37]

I totally agree with you about Ashford

[Eddie Teach]

S3 of True Detective. Excellent.

[Razgovory]

I'm trying to watch HBO's Watchmen, because everyone says it's great.  My only problem is that I don't have much tolerance left for Super Heroes.

[Eddie Teach]

I didn't see any superheroes in the first couple episodes, just regular people in masks.

[crazy canuck]

1917 - Stunningly beautiful and horrific.  I liked the fact it was a day in the life movie rather than one that tried to make heroes out of the main characters.   

[crazy canuck]

I totally agree with you about Ashford

Ditto.