TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

How would you define "enough"?

It should be a big chunk. Without the Labour votes in the war cabinet, Halifax would've won. Greenwood was the strongest and most vocal supporter of Churchill's position. Attlee, as when he was PM, was relatively silent but when he spoke made pretty telling/decisive interventions. Churchill doesn't survive, and Britain sues for peace if it wasn't for the Labour Party and the Labour Ministers. That relationship should be as key as anything to do with the internal squabbling of the chinless elites.

[Grey Fox]

I think it's going to be mild rage then.

[FunkMonk]

Yeah, this is a movie about Gary Oldman winning an Oscar. Don't expect much else.

He is great in it though.

[Berkut]

Serendipity.

Me and the girl friend are watching Ken Burns Civil War documentary, and we went to watch episode 2. She had gotten the blue rays from the library (advantages to dating a librarian!) so I loaded it up into my Xbox to watch. For some damn reason, the sounds would not work. That's odd.

So I switch the TV over to Netflix, to see if the problem is with the XBox, and Netflix comes up and I hit play on the next thing to be played, and we have been making our way through Community.

It starts fine, with sound, so we are just like "Whatever, lets just watch Community instead!".

Take a wild guess which episode was on....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBrltBrB14c



Just fucking brilliant.

[grumbler]

Yeah, this is a movie about Gary Oldman winning an Oscar. Don't expect much else.

He is great in it though.

That's the way I looked at it.  It wasn't really a historical film, it was a Gary Oldman star vehicle.

[FunkMonk]

Yeah, this is a movie about Gary Oldman winning an Oscar. Don't expect much else.

He is great in it though.

That's the way I looked at it.  It wasn't really a historical film, it was a Gary Oldman star vehicle.

Yup. It's one of those movies where you just make some popcorn, turn your brain off, and watch a guy act his ass off. Perfectly decent flick.

[Razgovory]

Is there a little Clem biopic?

[Sheilbh]

Is there a little Clem biopic?

No. I mean he doesn't even get more than a cameo in historical dramas of that period - it tends to be all Churchill.

Which I get, because Churchill's a more charismatic, ebullient figure. Whereas Clem was not. You know, in the 1945 election he was asked by a reporter if he had any comment about Labour's election campaign and replied "no"

But if we're doing films about decisions the war cabinet debates and Halifax or even just about the war cabinet in general, then Clem and Greenwood (for a few years) and Bevin should pretty big characters.

[Admiral Yi]

Watched Uncut Gems.  Sandler's performance is good (been a while since I said that).  The ending felt a little abrupt.

[The Larch]

Serendipity.

Me and the girl friend are watching Ken Burns Civil War documentary, and we went to watch episode 2. She had gotten the blue rays from the library (advantages to dating a librarian!) so I loaded it up into my Xbox to watch. For some damn reason, the sounds would not work. That's odd.

So I switch the TV over to Netflix, to see if the problem is with the XBox, and Netflix comes up and I hit play on the next thing to be played, and we have been making our way through Community.

It starts fine, with sound, so we are just like "Whatever, lets just watch Community instead!".

Take a wild guess which episode was on....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBrltBrB14c

Just fucking brilliant.

[Josephus]

Yeah, this is a movie about Gary Oldman winning an Oscar. Don't expect much else.

He is great in it though.

That's the way I looked at it.  It wasn't really a historical film, it was a Gary Oldman star vehicle.

Yup. It's one of those movies where you just make some popcorn, turn your brain off, and watch a guy act his ass off. Perfectly decent flick.

What I thought when I saw Joker

[Duque de Bragança]

Any German watched this?

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/diehamburgerkrankheit
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079264/

Die Hamburger Krankheit /The Hamburg Syndrom/La maladie de Hambourg (Franco--German production with a Jean-Michel Jarre soundtrack).

Some interesting parallels with the current health crisis, though it is obviously not realistic, nor supposed to be. Surrealist parable?

Director is Peter Fleischmann, from the new German cinema of the 60's-80's, of Hunting Scenes from Bavaria fame. So it might be preachy, for all I know, but should be interesting.



PS: before you ask, Mongers, not watched yet. 

[Malthus]

Yeah, this is a movie about Gary Oldman winning an Oscar. Don't expect much else.

He is great in it though.

I have Gary Oldman typecast as the corrupt cop from *Leon* (aka *The Professional*). I kept expecting him to burst out with something like "Admiral, bring me everyone out of Dunkirk" "What do you mean everyone?" "EVERYONE!!"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=na05sqxgasg

[The Minsky Moment]

Attlee, as when he was PM, was relatively silent but when he spoke made pretty telling/decisive interventions.

In the movie he gives a romping, ranting speech in the Commons ripping into Chamberlain.  Kind of funny to watch.

[Sheilbh]

Attlee, as when he was PM, was relatively silent but when he spoke made pretty telling/decisive interventions.

In the movie he gives a romping, ranting speech in the Commons ripping into Chamberlain.  Kind of funny to watch.

Amazing.