TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Finished season 2 of Community. The two part paintball season finale was fun, but I didn't think it was as good as the original - as Abed said, sequels are rarely as good as the original. Great season overall. It had some absolutely amazing episodes - others were still great, but IMHO suffered from the show's peaks so far setting some pretty damn high standards.

For me the show peaked in season 2-bits of season 3. Were you able to watch the D&D episode?

[Syt]

Yes. I liked it a lot, but I'm not seeing how its considered the best episode by many. I think at least chicken fingers, the first paintball, and the claymation Christmas ones are ahead of it for me.

EDIT: Actually, I'd rank the clip episode, the Halloween zombie episode, and the bottle episode (Annie's stolen purple pen) ahead of it, too.

[celedhring]

I gotta say that my favorite episode might be one from season 5 (!). The social network one. Simply genius plus an homage to 1970s sci-fi. 

The Ken Burns war documentary one too. That episode is what prompted me to actually watch Ken Burns stuff to begin with. 

[Syt]

Netflix is doing an animated? pseudo-rotoscoped? WW2 flick. The Liberator.

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/vZaIZgkCcXQ



This looks like they didn't have budget for a war movie, so they filmed everything in a studio, stylized it, and put it in CGI backgrounds. Which could work, I guess, but this just looks ... weird.

[FunkMonk]

Trebek is gone 

[Josquius]

Netflix is doing an animated? pseudo-rotoscoped? WW2 flick. The Liberator.

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/vZaIZgkCcXQ



This looks like they didn't have budget for a war movie, so they filmed everything in a studio, stylized it, and put it in CGI backgrounds. Which could work, I guess, but this just looks ... weird.

Puts me in mind of a scanner darkly. Which was not a good film. But I don't see why the style can't work.

[Sheilbh]

I really like In a Scanner Darkly.

I agree from that I can't see the "why" of animation. Like they're not doing anything particularly interesting with it - the example I thought of was Waltz with Bashir which is definitely doing something with the animation.

[frunk]

I gotta say that my favorite episode might be one from season 5 (!). The social network one. Simply genius plus an homage to 1970s sci-fi. 

The Ken Burns war documentary one too. That episode is what prompted me to actually watch Ken Burns stuff to begin with. 

My current favorite is the conspiracy episode, but all of the ones both you and Syt mentioned are way up there.  The one that I would rate lower that's frequently considered among the best is Remedial Chaos Theory.  It's good, but it gets a bit monotonous after you've seen it a few times.

[celedhring]

I gotta say that my favorite episode might be one from season 5 (!). The social network one. Simply genius plus an homage to 1970s sci-fi. 

The Ken Burns war documentary one too. That episode is what prompted me to actually watch Ken Burns stuff to begin with. 

My current favorite is the conspiracy episode, but all of the ones both you and Syt mentioned are way up there.  The one that I would rate lower that's frequently considered among the best is Remedial Chaos Theory.  It's good, but it gets a bit monotonous after you've seen it a few times.

I wouldn't list it at the top of my favorites but I like it a lot. I think it got a lot of reputation for originating the "darkest timeline" meme.

The conspiracy episode is hilarious too. I have a soft spot for all those episodes parodying film genres (which is a lot of them, admittedly).

[Eddie Teach]

Is that the one where they roll the die to decide who's getting the pizza?

[frunk]

I wouldn't list it at the top of my favorites but I like it a lot. I think it got a lot of reputation for originating the "darkest timeline" meme.

The conspiracy episode is hilarious too. I have a soft spot for all those episodes parodying film genres (which is a lot of them, admittedly).

The first time I saw RCT I was pretty blown away, so I understand the love.  I like it a lot too, but I don't think it's among the best anymore.

[frunk]

Is that the one where they roll the die to decide who's getting the pizza?

Yep.

[Syt]

The conspiracy one was great, too. ANd I loved the b-plot with the giant blanket fort.

[Josephus]

I really like In a Scanner Darkly.

I agree from that I can't see the "why" of animation. Like they're not doing anything particularly interesting with it - the example I thought of was Waltz with Bashir which is definitely doing something with the animation.

Maybe it's a lockdown thing?

[Barrister]

Just looking for something to have on while I did laundry, I put on The Good Place for a second watch.

Now I'm sucked in again - midway through season 2.  Fork I liked this show.