TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Re-watched 24 Party People for no good reason. I'd forgotten how fun this film is - I feel like I should watch Control again now but that wiped me out when it was released so I may handle with care.

[jimmy olsen]

Anyone watch the Korean monsterpocalypse drama "Sweet Home" on Netflix that just came out?

I've read the web comic and it's pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rI56NmD33Y

[celedhring]

Re-watched 24 Party People for no good reason. I'd forgotten how fun this film is - I feel like I should watch Control again now but that wiped me out when it was released so I may handle with care.

24 Hour Party People might be my favorite music biopic of all time (not counting fictional or semifictional stuff like Velvet Goldmine). I also think Steve Coogan has never been better in a film.

It introduced me to pre-Britpop Manchester, which is something one has to be thankful for.

[Sheilbh]

24 Hour Party People might be my favorite music biopic of all time (not counting fictional or semifictional stuff like Velvet Goldmine).

I wonder

I think my favourite in a way is Control. But I watched it at the local indy cinema as a university student who was a big Joy Division fan (still am) and it had a profound emotional effect on me - I still haven't re-watched it

I think the more "straight" music biopics can be really good - What's Love Got To Do With It springs to mind - but I really do like the ones that have a bit of a take, such as Tony Wilson's story as Tony Wilson would tell it

I also think Steve Coogan has never been better in a film.

I mean I'd argue for Alan Partridge Alpha Papa - but that's probably because I'm one of those people who grew up watching the various Alan Partridge series

But he is perfect in this role. He's like the anti-Mantzoukas - I think he has a similarly limited range it's just somewhere different on the excitement scale

[Josquius]

24 Hour Party People definitely sits on my genuine list of favourite films of all time. It is truly excellent.
And to think I originally saw it totally by accident on a tiny bedroom TV.

Control is a fine film too. Though far more of a focus on Ian Curtis the man than the music.  A little bit up its own arse.

[celedhring]

I kinda watched it by accident, too. I was trying to close the business with a girl that was really into music and checking what was on theaters that seemed to fit the bill. 

[Sheilbh]

Yeah I think I first saw it on a tiny bedroom TV at university. It is one of those films.

[celedhring]

Damn, I kinda want to watch it again. Not available for streaming over here, but the DVD should still be at my parent's house. Guess a visit to welcome the New Year is in order. 

[viper37]

That movie has cult status in Quebec, in its Quebec's joual (slang, I guess...) dubbed version:
Why 'Slap Shot' Captures the 1970s Better Than Any Other Sports Movie

It probably contains everything you shouldn't put in a movie today

[Barrister]

That movie has cult status in Quebec, in its Quebec's joual (slang, I guess...) dubbed version:
Why 'Slap Shot' Captures the 1970s Better Than Any Other Sports Movie

It probably contains everything you shouldn't put in a movie today

It's not just a cult classic in Quebec - it's a fucking treasure.

[Eddie Teach]

Canadian cult classic, perhaps.

[Admiral Yi]

That movie has cult status in Quebec, in its Quebec's joual (slang, I guess...) dubbed version:
Why 'Slap Shot' Captures the 1970s Better Than Any Other Sports Movie

It probably contains everything you shouldn't put in a movie today

How can any movie claim to capture 70s malaise better than Taxi Driver?

[grumbler]

That movie has cult status in Quebec, in its Quebec's joual (slang, I guess...) dubbed version:
Why 'Slap Shot' Captures the 1970s Better Than Any Other Sports Movie

It probably contains everything you shouldn't put in a movie today

How can any movie claim to capture 70s malaise better than Taxi Driver?

The '70s in the US equate to the '50s in Canada.

[Sheilbh]

How can any movie claim to capture 70s malaise better than Taxi Driver?

Someone's not seen Holiday On The Buses.

[Eddie Teach]

Someone's not heard of it, even.

Anyway, I'll put in for Shaft. The 70s as imagined in their memoirs.