TV/Movies Megathread

[grumbler]

I hope they can get Christopher Franke to do the score once again.

[HVC]

CW? So angsty teens in space?

[Darth Wagtaros]

W

CW? So angsty teens in space?

With Musical Guest: Bland Zoomer

[FunkMonk]

For some reason I think the evolution of the Earth Alliance into a xenophobic fascist dictatorship won't seem so impossibly shocking nowadays.

[Admiral Yi]

Spoiler on Friday Night Lights: [spoiler]everybody makes out with everybody.[/spoiler]

[Syt]

It's weird seeing Olivia Colman winning all kinds of accolades, since the only show I've seen her on was Peep Show.

[Josquius]

Yep.
Done very well for herself after starting as one of the supporting actors for Mitchell and Webb

[Sheilbh]

Yes - although she as terrific in Peep Show.

[garbon]

What's more surprising is wins for roles as a queen where she mostly just sits about looking unhappy.

[Eddie Teach]

Isn't that what Lizzie does?

[viper37]

Ridley Scott announces Napoleon and Gladiator 2.  Woah!

[Darth Wagtaros]

Ridley Scott announces Napoleon and Gladiator 2.  Woah!

Napoleon and Gladiator 2? Does Gladiator come forward in time at the moment of death to do battle with Napoleon? Maybe Napoleon could be modeled on Cyrus from the 300 movie and have all sorts of weird shit around him. The Old Guard could be monsters!

[The Brain]

Ridley Scott announces Napoleon and Gladiator 2.  Woah!

Napoleon and Gladiator 2? Does Gladiator come forward in time at the moment of death to do battle with Napoleon? Maybe Napoleon could be modeled on Cyrus from the 300 movie and have all sorts of weird shit around him. The Old Guard could be monsters!

Achy Breaky Guard?

[viper37]

Ridley Scott announces Napoleon and Gladiator 2.  Woah!

Napoleon and Gladiator 2? Does Gladiator come forward in time at the moment of death to do battle with Napoleon? Maybe Napoleon could be modeled on Cyrus from the 300 movie and have all sorts of weird shit around him. The Old Guard could be monsters!

Could be an idea.  You should submit it

Napoleon is going to be filmed soon and Gladiator 2 is apparently already written and will start shooting immediately after that.

[Savonarola]

The Mark of Zorro (1920)

In old California Don Diego Vega (Douglass Fairbanks) pretends to be a wastrel and fop; but is, in fact the masked vigilante Batman Zorro, champion of the oppressed.  While the sword fighting leaves something to be desired; Fairbanks uses his considerable athletic ability to great effect here.  (His version of Robin Hood would take it even further, but ended up looking a little overly merry.)

It is sort of strange to see Zorro as the champion of Catholic priests and Indians at a time when the Klan was making a big comeback.  In any event does anyone know if the wastrel by day / hero by night trope is older than The Scarlet Pimpernel?  I can't think of an earlier version of the story, but I'm probably forgetting something.

(In the original comic book this is the movie Thomas and Martha Wayne took young Bruce to see the night they were gunned down (according to IMDB at least, that's a fact I'd hate to ruin by research.))