TV/Movies Megathread

[Grey Fox]

So am I. I don't know how to watch in Canada.

[FunkMonk]

I am 100% behind Ukraine

I enjoyed their act but Lithuania made me and my wife LOL so I'm backing them 

[FunkMonk]

Gotta say I was expecting some boos and heckles when the Israeli act performed. Didn't hear anything though.

[Liep]

I am 100% behind Ukraine

80% agree. 20% to Russia.

[Josephus]

So am I. I don't know how to watch in Canada.

Do you have OMNI 2? They are carrying it live.

[Grey Fox]

So am I. I don't know how to watch in Canada.

Do you have OMNI 2? They are carrying it live.

No OMNI Channels in Quebec but that means its on their website! I didn't know Rogers was the rights holder.

[The Brain]

I am 100% behind Ukraine

80% agree. 20% to Russia.

[celedhring]

I am 100% behind Ukraine

80% agree. 20% to Russia.

I think Russia wants 50% of Ukraine, at the very least.

[FunkMonk]

 

[Grey Fox]

Eurovision.

I think I underestimated Azerbaijan's song in my initial rating. I think it's going to go far.

[Josquius]

Just heard a pretty horrifying/amazing statistic.
Since Astro Boy began in 1961, 1/2 of all TV anime began after 2010.
Huge disclaimers in place like 12 episode independent series being more common in recent times vs. hundreds of episode long series in the past. But still.

[Duque de Bragança]

Right, another deceptive statistic. 

[Eddie Teach]

Jupiter's Legacy. This was kinda weird. There were some interesting parts and some dull family drama. Not sure if I would bother with another season.

[Malthus]

Watching a UK police procedural called *Line of Duty*. So odd to see a modern day gritty cop show where the cops do not carry handguns ... I'm so used the US type of show of this sort. Pretty good so far.

Also watching a new take on the superhero genre, *Invincible*. Pretty entertaining if one skips over the teen romantic drama ... I don't always mind teen romantic drama (I liked it in *Star vs. The Forces of Evil*, and in *Gravity Falls*). But here it is somehow un-engaging. The plot is otherwise pretty entertaining, though I feel this particular vein has been mined before, I haven't seen the other shows that do this sort of thing, so I'm not bored.

[Savonarola]

Blade: Trinity (2004)

Vampires have set up Blade!  As he's captured in an FBI raid his mentor, Whistler, is gunned down.  While Blade is broken up by the loss, as in any good Rocky movie the tragic death spurs him on and with the eye of the tiger he... er... no, that didn't happen.  Actually Blade is largely indifferent to his only friend's death. 

No matter, he's soon rescued by a rag-tag lot of vampire hunters who call themselves the Night Stalkers.  At first Blade is dismissive of their abilities, but in time he comes to respect their enthusiasm and he becomes like a father figure to them as they... er, no, that also didn't happen, Blade remains aloof and dismissive to the end. 

Okay, but these Night Stalkers they are amazing, one of them, Jessica Biel, is Whistler's illegitimate daughter; she's a complicated woman having been abandoned by her father but continuing on his line of work she works through both her abandonment issues and Elektra complex by... uh, no, my mistake, her only personality trait is that she makes playlists of darkcore^1. music that she plays when hunting vampires.  Well there's another guy, Ryan Reynolds, who has a dark secret, you see he used to be a vampire and he masks his pain by pretending to be a wisecracking, immature asshole, but as the movie goes on we discover that beneath his bravado he's really a... wisecracking immature asshole. 

Well, okay, but the villain is the man himself, Dracula.  He's the original vampire, a nightmare and terror to behold.  He an Blade go way back, their numerous battles are the stuff of... er... no, I'm wrong again.  He and Blade have never met.

Well he's evil anyway and he and the vampires have a nefarious scheme.  They've kidnapped homeless people, put them in chemical stasis and drain their blood.  Blade discovers this horrible secret, and shuts down the blood farm.  With the vampires cut off from their food supply their forced to a dangerous, reckless gambit as they... uhm... no, this seems to make absolutely no difference and has no consequences.

Well no one went to a Blade movie to see character development, we came to see the ass kicking.  Just as in the past two movies the combat scenes are amazing as Wesley ups the ante by... er... no, Wesley just phones in the fight scenes. 

Jessica Biel did show up to fight, and her bow and arrow scenes are allegedly for real, not the work of a double.  Unfortunately she's only there to show off her fantastic waist^2. and kill the girl vampire (Piper Perabo, although it would have been more believable if Piper had died of over-acting rather than a silver arrow.) 

This is the first Marvel series to make it to three movies; and the first to go off the rails at the third movie (Spiderman and X-Men would soon follow.)  This one isn't good, but it is fascinating.  Everything that worked in the first two movies was dumped to make an ensemble movie with a jokey tone and every rule of narrative logic was abandoned (except that the girl hero has to kill the girl vampire.)  The result is one of a kind; if you like no-rules cinema this is one to see.

1.)  It might have been a different core, like Hardcore, Rapcore, Nerdcore or Reactorcore, but since this is a vampire film I'm going to call it Darkcore.
2.)  It was truly fantastic. I'll bet you could have bounced quarters off it.