TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

This looks good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRrhXjH1M70

Like Berberian Sound Studio but about a video nasties censor.

ah, I knew the actress looked familiar.  Raised by Wolves lead actress.

[Malthus]

I see there is a trailer for the upcoming Foundation series on Apple. Any thoughts?

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a32944802/foundation-apple-tv-release-date-trailer-cast-spoilers-plot-details/

[Eddie Teach]

Shame it's on Apple.

[grumbler]

The Foundation trilogy was an interesting intellectual exercise, but Asimov couldn't write characters to save his life.  I question whether the new writers can graft characters into a story that is about ideas and not people.  Especially when they are also apparently trying to make it an action flick.

They are also leading with the second of the crap prequel books that Asimov wrote in an unsuccessful effort to try to integrate the Foundation series into his robot books.  Hari Seldon is interesting as an idea you hear about but boring as a character when you actually see him.

[Threviel]

As I remember the Foundation series almost every book was in a different century, might be difficult to get a good show going when all the characters are replaced each season.

Kind of like the new LotR series, they have to focus on the elves or else everyones favourite characters are going to die each season or so.

[celedhring]

As Grumbler said, the trailer makes it look that it's based on the crappy prequels, plus lots of histerics and action flicky silliness in the trailer (Granted, that's what trailers usually go for).

That said, if the reviews are good it's the show that would make me subscribe to Apple TV, now that the 18 months (!!) of free trial I got with my iPad have expired. But I'm not too hopeful.

[Josquius]

I can only guess they'll be telling the story in multiple time periods at the same time?
I am intruiged at how they'll work it out.

[celedhring]

Looking at the cast on IMDB. Salvor Hardin appears in all 10 episodes, and so does Seldon. So I guess they go back and forth.

[The Brain]

Looking at the cast on IMDB. Salvor Hardin appears in all 10 episodes, and so does Seldon. So I guess they go back and forth.

Cameo?

[Josephus]

So...I was flipping channels and came across the first episode of a new series called Anne Boleyn.
I guess they are going for shock value, or it's the in thing now, but the actress playing Anne is, how to put it, of African descent.
I don't know, I just found this odd. A sort of reverse cultural appropriation.  I can handle black people in out of place historical contexts (Amazon's The Great, set in Catharine's Russia, does this), but not in the leading role.
Got me thinking: What if a biopic on Whitney Huston featured Taylor Swift in the lead role? Or Samuel L. Jackson as Stalin? , "Die Trotsky, you mother fucker."

In any case, what eventually got me was about 15 minutes in, when Anne and Jane Seymour embraced in a passionate kiss in the gardens. First time in my life, two women kissing set my eyes rolling. 

[Sheilbh]

It's a Channel 5 show. I think to be honest they were hoping the casting would be more controversial than it was

But it is famously the most trashy TV channel in the UK so it isn't even like The Great which I think is excellent. It's more like the Tudors as interpreted by the writers of Hollyoaks: After Hours

[The Brain]

sex is there sex

[Josephus]

sex is there sex

Didn't make it past the lesbian snogging.

[Josquius]

So...I was flipping channels and came across the first episode of a new series called Anne Boleyn.
I guess they are going for shock value, or it's the in thing now, but the actress playing Anne is, how to put it, of African descent.
I don't know, I just found this odd. A sort of reverse cultural appropriation.  I can handle black people in out of place historical contexts (Amazon's The Great, set in Catharine's Russia, does this), but not in the leading role.
Got me thinking: What if a biopic on Whitney Huston featured Taylor Swift in the lead role? Or Samuel L. Jackson as Stalin? , "Die Trotsky, you mother fucker."

If these biopics were made in 500 years time the comparison would become valid....and I wouldn't see much of a problem then.
I fail to be worked up by race-blind casting when you're not trying to be historically accurate and just making a stupid drama (and chasing controversy).
What bothers me more is when one character is meant to be the biological child of two others but obviously they're completely different races.
And when you get random black extras on supposedly long isolated planets with a population of only 500.

[garbon]