TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

On June 25, 2008, Landham announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat held by Mitch McConnell on the Libertarian line.[2][14] A month later, Landham repeatedly called for "genocide" against Arabs (to whom Landham referred as "camel-dung shovelers," "camel jockeys," and "rag-heads") on the political radio show The Weekly Filibuster.[4] On July 28, the Kentucky Libertarians voted unanimously to withdraw Landham's nomination, citing his comments were not in keeping with the party's platform and values.[15]

That's quite the paragraph. 

[Savonarola]

Incidentally, while we're on McTiernan, I was watching some Predator scenes today for fun. So, the movie has two US Governors in the cast. What would be the movie with most elected officials?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_actor-politicians#United_States  (but a lot of the names listed were merely candidates and were never elected)

Been trying to go through this list to think of another movie.  Most obvious links might be Fred Thompson (Senator from Tennessee) or Ronald Reagan - or if being a small-town mayor counts, Clint Eastwood.  But I can't think of any movie that any of them would have appear in together.

Fun fact I learned going through the list though - Sonny Landhamn, who played Billy Sole in Predator, ran for governor of Kentucky, but failed to gain the Republican nomination.  That theoretically would have made 3 governors though.

"This is the Army" had both George Murphy (later a Senator, and star of that Tom Lehrer song) and Ronald Reagan.

(The other star name checked in the Tom Lehrer song, Helen Gahagan Douglas (US Congresswoman), was only in one movie "She", though she would be the inspiration for the Wicked Queen in Snow White.)

[Admiral Yi]

Gopher was a US Representative?

No stranger than Sonny Bono, of Sonny and Cher.

[Syt]

This reads like parody:

https://variety.com/2021/film/directors/chloe-zhao-oscars-nomadland-marvel-eternals-dracula-1234961719/

About Chloe Zhao doing Marvel's Eternals:

[...]

In a movie that would be full of visual effects and greenscreen — as all Marvel movies are — Feige says Zhao "was really fighting for practical locations" in accordance with her vision for it. At one point, they cut a sample reel of "Eternals" for Disney higher-ups to watch.

"And I had to keep saying, 'This is right out of a camera; there's no VFX work to this at all!'" Feige says. "Because it was a beautiful sunset, with perfect waves and mist coming up from the shore on this giant cliffside — really impressive stuff."

[...]

[The Brain]

Chloe Lmao?

[celedhring]

For All Mankind - Season 2

It was ok, they doubled down a bit too much on the domestic drama storylines, season 1 had a better balance and more pace to it. Still enough cold war in space bits to make for an entertaining ride. Also, a bit forced how they put back the same crew from season 1 in the missions, even though 10 years have passed.

I'm reading that Moore has planned a 7-season arc for this, but I'm not sure Apple TV is going to last that long...

[viper37]

Nor arguing about those three, but the 13th Warrior deserves more recognition, despite its troubled history.

What troubled history?
Long story here:https://collider.com/the-13th-warrior-what-went-wrong/

[grumbler]

For All Mankind - Season 2

It was ok, they doubled down a bit too much on the domestic drama storylines, season 1 had a better balance and more pace to it. Still enough cold war in space bits to make for an entertaining ride. Also, a bit forced how they put back the same crew from season 1 in the missions, even though 10 years have passed.

I'm reading that Moore has planned a 7-season arc for this, but I'm not sure Apple TV is going to last that long...

No, he hasn't.  He just says he has.  Witness Battlestar Galactica, which started out great and then flopped around because he didn't have a plan past 2.5 seasons.  Worst ending evar.

[Berkut]

For All Mankind - Season 2

It was ok, they doubled down a bit too much on the domestic drama storylines, season 1 had a better balance and more pace to it. Still enough cold war in space bits to make for an entertaining ride. Also, a bit forced how they put back the same crew from season 1 in the missions, even though 10 years have passed.

I'm reading that Moore has planned a 7-season arc for this, but I'm not sure Apple TV is going to last that long...

No, he hasn't.  He just says he has.  Witness Battlestar Galactica, which started out great and then flopped around because he didn't have a plan past 2.5 seasons.  Worst ending evar.

Whats the connection to BSG?

[grumbler]

For All Mankind - Season 2

It was ok, they doubled down a bit too much on the domestic drama storylines, season 1 had a better balance and more pace to it. Still enough cold war in space bits to make for an entertaining ride. Also, a bit forced how they put back the same crew from season 1 in the missions, even though 10 years have passed.

I'm reading that Moore has planned a 7-season arc for this, but I'm not sure Apple TV is going to last that long...

No, he hasn't.  He just says he has.  Witness Battlestar Galactica, which started out great and then flopped around because he didn't have a plan past 2.5 seasons.  Worst ending evar.

Whats the connection to BSG?

Moore was the showrunner for BSG.

[Berkut]

For All Mankind - Season 2

It was ok, they doubled down a bit too much on the domestic drama storylines, season 1 had a better balance and more pace to it. Still enough cold war in space bits to make for an entertaining ride. Also, a bit forced how they put back the same crew from season 1 in the missions, even though 10 years have passed.

I'm reading that Moore has planned a 7-season arc for this, but I'm not sure Apple TV is going to last that long...

No, he hasn't.  He just says he has.  Witness Battlestar Galactica, which started out great and then flopped around because he didn't have a plan past 2.5 seasons.  Worst ending evar.

Whats the connection to BSG?

Moore was the showrunner for BSG.

Is he the one we can blame that travesty on?

[Eddie Teach]

"Starbuck is a man." - Neil, or possibly Ed.

[Duque de Bragança]

Nor arguing about those three, but the 13th Warrior deserves more recognition, despite its troubled history.

What troubled history?
Long story here:https://collider.com/the-13th-warrior-what-went-wrong/

Re-shoots, conflicts between producer and director etc. = troubled history.

Crappy link though.

The 90s Hollywood logic of equating a Spanish actor to an Arab character because they both have brown skin is indefensible, but at least they didn't cast a white guy

Antonio Banderas is from Andalusia (hello Al-Andalus).

[celedhring]

How to be racist while trying to be anti-racist 

[Duque de Bragança]

How to be racist while trying to be anti-racist 

That has been plaguing the so-called anti-racists for quite a while now.