TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

American History X has an unthreatening black person who for reasons that remain obscure befriends a Nazi, with redemptious results. I like American History X, but it certainly has significant weaknesses.

[Admiral Yi]

Green Book (which I avoided) appears to have given a redemption story to a racist through use of a black friend

Driving Miss Daisy 2: this time the racist's in the front seat.

He's racist only in the critical race theory sense.

[Grey Fox]

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gladiator-2000

Gladiator
2 stars
Roger Ebert May 05, 2000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture#2000s

2000
(73rd)
Gladiator   
Chocolat   
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon   
Erin Brockovich   
Traffic

2005 Crash
2012 Argo
2018 Green Book

All wonderful movies I've never seen before and never will.

Crash teaches that we are all a little bit racist / racism comes out in high pressure circumstances
Argo brought us Affleck racing to get diplomats out of Tehran
Green Book (which I avoided) appears to have given a redemption story to a racist through use of a black friend

You should watch it. It's a great movie about how multiculturisms starts.

[crazy canuck]

I don't care for Adam Driver though I've admittedly only seen him in Star Wars and Girls.

I thought he was very good in BlacKkKlansman

[Josquius]

Green Book (which I avoided) appears to have given a redemption story to a racist through use of a black friend

Driving Miss Daisy 2: this time the racist's in the front seat.

I thought Green Book was decent. Nothing ground breaking. Not oscar worthy. But decent nice little film.

[Syt]

Finished Archer: Danger Island. I liked it a lot but not quite as much as Dreamland. It lost me a bit in the last episodes when it went full Wolfenstein/Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

I had hopes for Archer: 1999, but I'm half way through the season and ... it's fine? Not great, just fine. Carol/Cheryl is really starting to grate on my nerves, though (yes, I know that's the point).

[Sheilbh]

Amazon Prime have done a deal with the National Theatre which does very good streaming of its productions for cinemas around the country and launched the first series of "Great British Theatre":
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-British-Theatre-Series-1/dp/B096Y44CMV

They've got Ian McKellen's one man show, Fleabag (original stage show - excellent), Cumberbatch's Hamlet (haven't seen) and their Frankenstein adaptation (they rotated the roles of Frankenstein and the monster with Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller - but the one I saw was very good.

A little Cumberbatch heavy for me - but hopefully they get the revival of Angels in America up there plus the Lehman Trilogy and Amadeus.

[celedhring]

Damn, I hope they make those available internationally.

[celedhring]

The White Lotus - only 2 episodes available, but so far it's just a bunch of unlikeable rich people being embarassing. Will give it another episode or two.

[FunkMonk]

The White Lotus - only 2 episodes available, but so far it's just a bunch of unlikeable rich people being embarassing. Will give it another episode or two.

How does it match against the premier show about unlikeable rich white people, Succession?

Season 3 coming soon btw 

[Eddie Teach]

What about Billions?

[Syt]

Damn, I hope they make those available internationally.

Me too. We have a movie theater here which does live broadcasts from the National Theater, but prices are double those of a movie ticket and on par with getting a seat in a proper theater.

[jimmy olsen]

Demonic
https://youtu.be/dUUtdDnxRuY

[The Brain]

Hitler on Trial. In the early 1930s SA thugs attack political opponents in Berlin, and one prosecutor calls a star witness: Adolf Hitler. Short and sweet, more educational than highly artistic.

[Tonitrus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-WxNVLZhQ

I am...cautiously optimistic.