TV/Movies Megathread

[mongers]

I've really enjoyed this, so thanks for everyone recommendations.

I especially like the way her and the adoptive mother's relationship developed, somewhat complex and depicted subtly. 

It really is a great show.

I loved how believable it was, and how subtle.

The 15 minute making of documentary on Neflix is worth a viewing.

[Josephus]

So finished watching the new The Stand. Avoid this. See if you can find the early 90s one instead.
The final episode of this version was a whole new addon that had nothing to do with the source material and was really stupid.
[spoiler]Flagg appears to a group of unspoiled primitive tribe members in, I guess, South America, and brings them "evil." to their innocent ways. Mother Abigail rescues Frannie when Frannie falls into a well and fortells her future. [/spoiler]

[spoiler]Not sure about the Abigail/Frannie bit, but I recall the Flagg scene showing up at a tribe of primitives was in the book (the expanded 1990 re-release, at least).[/spoiler]

At any rate, 90s The Stand's first movie had the best intro after the teaser:



Though I always wondered [spoiler]if the super flu kills people within a week or two, how come everyone in the base was killed seemingly in seconds in the middle of whatever they were doing? Or did they just sterilize the base with gas or something to make sure the virus doesn't escape?[/spoiler] It's been a while since I watched/read the Stand.

I don't think people died instantly. I don't think it took weeks either. Days, perhaps.  Also, flu does affect people differently.  But, in the book, for instance, which I'm re-reading now, Patient Zero, drives from California to Texas before he dies.[spoiler]I think the scenes you remember in the base of people dead at their desks--they wren't allowed to leave, they were in lockdown, so I guess they died at their desks.[/spoiler]

[Razgovory]

There are two versions of The Ten Commandments?

No, it just looks like that because each tablet has only 5 commandments each.

[Savonarola]

There are two versions of The Ten Commandments?

Both directed by Cecil B. DeMille (1923 and 1956 as Oex said).  The first one is a little different than the more famous Yul Brynner/Charleton Heston in that only the first half of the movie is the story of the Exodus (ending where Moses breaks the tablets on the Golden Calf.)  The film then dissolves into (then) present day and tells the story of two brothers and their relationship with the ten commandments.

[Admiral Yi]

For anyone watched Narcos or who has watched it, did they fuck up the continuity with the offspring?  I thought in the maternity scene the wife said a beautiful baby girl.  Then later they have a fat son running around.

[Sheilbh]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-of-thrones-play-in-the-works-for-broadway-will-revive-iconic-characters-exclusive?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[Grey Fox]

For anyone watched Narcos or who has watched it, did they fuck up the continuity with the offspring?  I thought in the maternity scene the wife said a beautiful baby girl.  Then later they have a fat son running around.

I don't remember that but there is 2 Escobar offspring

[Josephus]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-of-thrones-play-in-the-works-for-broadway-will-revive-iconic-characters-exclusive?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

hmmm....they did a LOTR musical and that tanked.

[Syt]

Watching a movie from 2004: https://twitter.com/CBThorburn/status/1377696492295761923?s=20

[Darth Wagtaros]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/game-of-thrones-play-in-the-works-for-broadway-will-revive-iconic-characters-exclusive?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

hmmm....they did a LOTR musical and that tanked.

It probably didn't have Where There's a Whip There's a Way!

[Syt]

Heh - Ravenous is on Disney's Star

Highly recommended if you like the 1840s American frontier soldiering, drama, comedy, beautiful winter mountains, and don't mind gratuitous violence. And cannibalism.

[celedhring]

Watching a movie from 2004: https://twitter.com/CBThorburn/status/1377696492295761923?s=20

I had a similar experience rewatching Superbad recently 

[The Larch]

The American Pie series is almost unwatchable nowadays (if you considered it watchable in the past  ).

[Sheilbh]

I love John Hughes films but know to avoid them to stop sullying the memory

Now I just re-watch Easy A which is, in part, about loving John Hughes films.

[Admiral Yi]

I don't see the problem with either Superbad or American Pie.  In neither are they celebrating involuntary hookups.