TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Cool I will finally be able to make a non-racist cut of Gone with the Wind. It will be only 30 minutes long but 30 glorious minutes of the Hollywood Golden Age.

My non-racist Birth of a Nation was just a a few minutes of Confederate soldiers being shot in the war.

Yankees.    
What's surprising is the director always denied making a racist movie, and his other movies were apparently allright.  But I'm not a specialist of silent-era movies.

Gone with the Wind reprensets the mindset of the author, duh.  She was raised in Georgia in the early 1900 and both her grandfathers served in the Confederate army and one was a planter.  It's easy to understand the bias for a white person living then.  That put aside, it is still a great movie, for what is essentially a romance movie.

[celedhring]

Cool I will finally be able to make a non-racist cut of Gone with the Wind. It will be only 30 minutes long but 30 glorious minutes of the Hollywood Golden Age.

My non-racist Birth of a Nation was just a a few minutes of Confederate soldiers being shot in the war.

Yankees.    
What's surprising is the director always denied making a racist movie, and his other movies were apparently allright.  But I'm not a specialist of silent-era movies.

Griffith's films have a very confused ideology when you take them as a whole. Broken Blossoms for example features an interracial love story, which goes against the core of Birth of a Nation - that different races should not live alongside each other. I've never delved in his biography, but he has always struck me as somebody that really didn't have a fully formed ideology and just let himself be driven by the ideology of what he was adapting (both Birth and Blossoms are adaptations).

[Admiral Yi]

Gone With The Wind is a yawner of a chick flick.

[Valmy]

Cool I will finally be able to make a non-racist cut of Gone with the Wind. It will be only 30 minutes long but 30 glorious minutes of the Hollywood Golden Age.

My non-racist Birth of a Nation was just a a few minutes of Confederate soldiers being shot in the war.

Yankees.    
What's surprising is the director always denied making a racist movie, and his other movies were apparently allright.  But I'm not a specialist of silent-era movies.

Gone with the Wind reprensets the mindset of the author, duh.  She was raised in Georgia in the early 1900 and both her grandfathers served in the Confederate army and one was a planter.  It's easy to understand the bias for a white person living then.  That put aside, it is still a great movie, for what is essentially a romance movie.

I agree Gone With The Wind is a great movie.

Who are you calling a Yankee? I could barely hit .200 in little league.

[The Brain]

Frankly, my dear, look at all the fucks I don't give. Look at them!

[Eddie Teach]

Friday the 13th (1980). Brief appearance by Jason, sans hockey mask. Nearly as brief appearance by Kevin Bacon. [spoiler]It's nice to see elderly women get some representation among fictitious killers.[/spoiler]

[celedhring]

Gone With The Wind is a yawner of a chick flick.

I've never been able to watch it in one go, to be honest. It's not a great film, but it certainly has a huge cultural significance.

I find the Selznick diaries on how the film was made far more entertaining than the film itself. I recommend reading the book to anyone having a passing interest in the nuts, bolts, and egos of Golden Age Hollywood.

[Duque de Bragança]

Cool I will finally be able to make a non-racist cut of Gone with the Wind. It will be only 30 minutes long but 30 glorious minutes of the Hollywood Golden Age.

My non-racist Birth of a Nation was just a a few minutes of Confederate soldiers being shot in the war.

Yankees.    
What's surprising is the director always denied making a racist movie, and his other movies were apparently allright.  But I'm not a specialist of silent-era movies.

Gone with the Wind reprensets the mindset of the author, duh.  She was raised in Georgia in the early 1900 and both her grandfathers served in the Confederate army and one was a planter.  It's easy to understand the bias for a white person living then.  That put aside, it is still a great movie, for what is essentially a romance movie.

I agree Gone With The Wind is a great movie.

I love the Atlanta fire scene!

[grumbler]

Gone With The Wind is a yawner of a chick flick.

I've never been able to watch it in one go, to be honest. It's not a great film, but it certainly has a huge cultural significance.

I find the Selznick diaries on how the film was made far more entertaining than the film itself. I recommend reading the book to anyone having a passing interest in the nuts, bolts, and egos of Golden Age Hollywood.

I'm with you and Yi.  Not a good movie.  Over-acting by the bucket and a plot that took forever to do anything.  It had some great scenes in it, but they were linked by yawns.

[Eddie Teach]

Overlong and overacted, sure, but it was the 30s. /shrug

[Razgovory]

Put down with Yi, Grumbler and the guy with the Elf name.  It's a boring film.

[Habbaku]

Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee's jaunt into Vietnam from Black America's viewpoint, and also a sort of heist film mixed with anti-war messages, and lots more besides. Unfortunately not his greatest. Far too long, too much of the dialogue just comes across as cliche and trite, and some of the foreshadowing makes me roll my eyes at how it's eventually handled. 6 MAGA hats out of 10.

[celedhring]

Second season of The Order on Netflix. One of my standout guilty pleasures of 2019. 

[garbon]

Second season of The Order on Netflix. One of my standout guilty pleasures of 2019. 

[Josquius]

Anyone else watched Upload?
Sci fi drama/comedy on Amazon Prime. Set around the kind of thing we've seen in Black Mirror, a virtual afterlife where people on death's door are uploaded.
Quite entertaining. Hot female lead. Excellent ideas for home gardening.