TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

Jupiter's Legacy was quite good, ended on a cliff hanger and has been cancelled.
Netflix does this way too often

[Syt]

Kim's Convenience is on Netflix over here.

... but only Season 5.

[Malthus]

Finally watched *Rango* (2011). I loved it. It was like all Westerns rolled into one, plus a bunch of other genres thrown in for good measure, but with critters. 😄

The highlight for me was the chase scene, with a clan of inbred hick moles riding bats with mounted Gatling guns chasing after the heroes who are fleeing on a runaway pig-pulled cart. The moles are playing *Ride of the Valkyries* on the banjo ...

It's totally insane, but somehow it works anyway; you would expect such a movie to be nothing but references, and the plot would suffer for it (or be non-existent), but it actually comes together quite nicely - simultaneously skewering and celebrating the standard hero's journey.

[mongers]

Hostiles (2017).

In 1892, a famous army Captain is asked to escort a dying Cheyenne chief and his family to Montana.  This particular chief has killed/tortured some friends of his, and he consider him an enemy, and he's not happy at all with executing his orders. 

It's a nice western, one where there's a lot more talking than shooting, so it's a nice change of pace.  I highly recommend it, but I do not know how to provide a more thoughtful description without spoiling the movie.

Stars Christian Bale as the army captain and Wes Studi as the Cheyenne chief.

That's a pretty good no give away description.

And at the risk of tainting you recommendation, I'd also think it's well worth a viewing. And that's with me generally disliking Bale's acting performances.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Finally watched *Rango* (2011). I loved it. It was like all Westerns rolled into one, plus a bunch of other genres thrown in for good measure, but with critters. 😄

The highlight for me was the chase scene, with a clan of inbred hick moles riding bats with mounted Gatling guns chasing after the heroes who are fleeing on a runaway pig-pulled cart. The moles are playing *Ride of the Valkyries* on the banjo ...

It's totally insane, but somehow it works anyway; you would expect such a movie to be nothing but references, and the plot would suffer for it (or be non-existent), but it actually comes together quite nicely - simultaneously skewering and celebrating the standard hero's journey.

I enjoyed Rango. It is an underrated classic.

I skipped Jupiter's Legacy, figuring it'd get wacked and didn't want to get invested.

[Gups]

Jupiter's Legacy was quite good, ended on a cliff hanger and has been cancelled.
Netflix does this way too often

I gave up half way through ep 2. Thought the concept was interesting but the dialogue around the family dynamics was dull and cliched and the acting poor.

[celedhring]

I thought it was slow and overbearing. And I didn't get the sense they had this great thing to say about the superhero mythos. At least The Boys is fun.

[Josquius]

An analysis I read this morning I think sums it up best, that it came 2 years too late.

It wasn't going on my best show ever list, not by a long shot, but given the cliff hanger at the end I was curious to see where it goes. It was doing a lot of things right though seemed mired in its drawn out and ultimately meh origin story.

[crazy canuck]

Jupiter's Legacy was quite good, ended on a cliff hanger and has been cancelled.
Netflix does this way too often

The previews made look like a dysfunctional family with superpowers.

[HVC]

yes. still good though.

[Syt]

The series finale of The Good Place won the Nebula Award by the SFWA for dramatic presentation.

Other nominees were:

Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, Christina Hodson (Warner Bros. Pictures/DC Entertainment)
The Expanse: "Gaugamela," Dan Nowak (Amazon)
Lovecraft Country Season 1, Misha Green, Shannon Houston, Kevin Lau, Wes Taylor, Ihuoma Ofordire, Jonathan I. Kidd, Sonya Winton-Odamtten (HBO Max)
The Mandalorian: "The Tragedy," Jon Favreau (Disney+)
The Old Guard, Greg Rucka (Netflix)

Hades won the games writing category. Runners up were:

Blaseball, Stephen Bell, Joel Clark, Sam Rosenthal (The Game Band)
Kentucky Route Zero, Jake Elliott (Cardboard Computer)
The Luminous Underground, Phoebe Barton (Choice of Games)
Scents & Semiosis, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson, Yoon Ha Lee (Self)
Spiritfarer, Nicolas Guérin, Maxime Monast, Alex Tommi-Morin (Thunder Lotus Games)

(Last year, Outer Worlds beat both Outer Wilds AND Disco Elysium, which is a bloody travesty.)

[Eddie Teach]

Dramatic? 

[Syt]

Dramatic? 

It means "Movie or TV show"

[Eddie Teach]

I liked The Good Place but it was pretty lackluster as drama.

[Syt]

I liked The Good Place but it was pretty lackluster as drama.

It's about the writing, not whether it's "drama." Drama is the catch-all term for stories in acted format. The Nebula Awards are for speculative fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, etc.).