TV/Movies Megathread

[crazy canuck]

I liked the show better.

I have as well. 

[Barrister]

I'm always looking for tv shows I can sort of have on in the background, typically while I'm cooking or doing laundry.  Yesterday I settled on The Muppet Show.

It's a weird watch.  It's a show made over 40 years ago.  I'm over 40 years old, and even I don't know who half of the special guest stars are.  It's a variety show, which is a style of television that went out of style over 30 years ago, and it's kind of a tribute to a vaudeville theatre, which is an even older art form.

In short it made me feel very old to watch, even if some of the bits are pretty funny.

Also curious the "Mahna Mahna" bit that's perhaps their most famous is in their very first episode.

[Savonarola]

I'm always looking for tv shows I can sort of have on in the background, typically while I'm cooking or doing laundry.  Yesterday I settled on The Muppet Show.

It's a weird watch.  It's a show made over 40 years ago.  I'm over 40 years old, and even I don't know who half of the special guest stars are.  It's a variety show, which is a style of television that went out of style over 30 years ago, and it's kind of a tribute to a vaudeville theatre, which is an even older art form.

In short it made me feel very old to watch, even if some of the bits are pretty funny.

Also curious the "Mahna Mahna" bit that's perhaps their most famous is in their very first episode.

It predates The Muppet Show and was performed on The Ed Sullivan Show.

The guests on the first season are mostly just people Jim Henson knew.  There are some big stars (Lena Horne an Vincent Price), but a lot of them are lesser known (they even had the Mummenschanz on one episode.)

[grumbler]

A demonstration of how sensibilities change can be seen by the fact that some Muppet Show episodes have content advisories on them due to some of their portrayals of natives of various countries.

[Syt]

It predates The Muppet Show and was performed on The Ed Sullivan Show.

It's from an Italian movie called "Sweden: Heaven and Hell": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden:_Heaven_and_Hell

Sweden: Heaven and Hell (Italian: Svezia, inferno e paradiso) is an Italian mondo film from 1968 directed by Luigi Scattini. The English language print was narrated by British actor Edmund Purdom.

The film which is made up of nine segments focuses on different aspects of sexuality in Sweden such as lesbian nightclubs, porn films, the swinging lifestyle of married couples and the sex education of teenagers. The film also examines drug addiction, alcoholism and suicides in Sweden.

The film also featured the debut of the song "Mah Nà Mah Nà" by Piero Umiliani, later made famous by The Muppets.

The scene (Swedish women visiting the sauna): https://youtu.be/KoheVioD3Bg (contains images of Swedish women wearing towels in a sauna)

[The Brain]

You don't wear towels in a sauna.

[Savonarola]

It predates The Muppet Show and was performed on The Ed Sullivan Show.

It's from an Italian movie called "Sweden: Heaven and Hell": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden:_Heaven_and_Hell

Sweden: Heaven and Hell (Italian: Svezia, inferno e paradiso) is an Italian mondo film from 1968 directed by Luigi Scattini. The English language print was narrated by British actor Edmund Purdom.

The film which is made up of nine segments focuses on different aspects of sexuality in Sweden such as lesbian nightclubs, porn films, the swinging lifestyle of married couples and the sex education of teenagers. The film also examines drug addiction, alcoholism and suicides in Sweden.

The film also featured the debut of the song "Mah Nà Mah Nà" by Piero Umiliani, later made famous by The Muppets.

The scene (Swedish women visiting the sauna): https://youtu.be/KoheVioD3Bg (contains images of Swedish women wearing towels in a sauna)

Heh, well that was very 70s.  I had meant that it had been performed by Jim Henson on the Ed Sullivan Show before it was performed on The Muppet Show; but that's still a good find.

[Josquius]

You don't wear towels in a sauna.

Remind me not to go in after you.

[crazy canuck]

You don't wear towels in a sauna.

Remind me not to go in after you.

You would rather get the front view?

[Jacob]

You don't wear towels in a sauna.

Remind me not to go in after you.

Why bother go in if you're going to wrap yourself in a towel? Do you wear you swimwear when you go to an onsen?

[Razgovory]

Because Officer Grady said that if he sees my bare ass again he will kick it.

[Josquius]

The ass is it.
No towel = nasty sweaty butt prints on the seats.

[Savonarola]

Daredevil (2003)   

Not great, but not as bad as its reputation either (other than Jennifer Garner's acting, that is as painful as advertised.)  The film had the bad luck to follow some of Marvel's early successes, (Blade, Spiderman, X-men); the plot isn't as well done as that and the action sequences aren't as exciting.  The biggest problem, in my opinion, is that the movie takes itself too seriously.  This is the story of a blind man who beats up people with num-chuks; the dark and gritty tone is all wrong.

Jon Favreau does give the film some sparkle.  Michael Clarke Duncan was an inspired choice for Kingpin, (the film would have been better if they had cast a black Daredevil and gone full Blaxploitation.) 

[Eddie Teach]

You don't wear towels in a sauna.

Remind me not to go in after you.

Why bother go in if you're going to wrap yourself in a towel?

Presumably the same reason you'd go in otherwise, to bask in the steam.

[celedhring]

Alita (yank movie). Watched the anime eons ago and remember liking it, but the movie is pretty terrible. The girl playing the protagonist is pretty good in it, though, despite the creepy CGI eyes.