TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

I haven't seen it yet. Is it anything like Todd Phillips' Joker?

Let's just say say you know Reeves watched it.  You will definitely feel the vibe.

Interesting. I feel like I kinda got some of that vibe in some of the stills and trailers so my Spidey sense it seems wasn't off the mark. I'll try to catch it next week

Yeah, The Batman definitely borrows ideas from The Joker. Not in a good way, there were a lot of moments in the movie where I thought "Ah, The Joker did that better".

I found the film too long and absurdly emo in parts (Nirvana songs!). Again, it has decent ideas in it, but it's not the best version of them.

EDIT: Did we lose the spoiler tag? I can't find it.

[Josephus]

Love and Death (1975)

Boris (Woody Allen):  You're a tyrant, and a dictator, and you start wars.
Napoleon:  Why is he reciting my credits?

Nowhere near as good as I remember (though I did get a chuckle out of that line in light of recent world events.) I'm still surprised he throws in jokes based on Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and TS Eliot; we must have been much more sophisticated back in the 70s.

Yeah, I loved that movie. But I took Russian lit. in uni, so I kind of was able to follow it   

[Syt]

Watched a couple of episodes from S1 of It's Always Funny In Philadelphia. Against my expectation I think it's quite funny and I will keep watching. But mostly I'm re-watching BoJack Horseman (finished Season 1 again today). As an aspiring writer I find the show quite depressing, because I don't think my writing or characters will ever be anywhere near as layered or complex.

[Sheilbh]

Oh RIP William Hurt

[crazy canuck]

The Adam project - fun action movie with some great one liners. Added bonus of seeing the UBC campus and the Forrest around my area 

[The Brain]

The Adam project - fun action movie with some great one liners. Added bonus of seeing the UBC campus and the Forrest around my area 

NB?

[crazy canuck]

Yes, one might even say worth fighting for

[Sheilbh]

Flee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUVeuX1u04

Danish animated documentary about a guy who was a refugee from Afghanistan in the 90s telling his story to a school friend and now a film director. Really extraordinary, very moving and quite beautiful. I strongly recommend.

The version I saw was Danish which has the voice the director and Amin (re-named), who's telling his story, but the film had Riz Ahmed and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as executive producers (at least for the English version or to provide some funding as animation's expensive - but I'm not sure) and they did a dubbed English version which I'd also quite like to see.

[Eddie Teach]

Yes, one might even say worth fighting for

You put on your robe and wizard hat?

[Sheilbh]

Trying to work out which streaming services I'll actually need eventually:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/17/amazon-completes-its-8-5-billion-acquisition-of-mgm/

[Habbaku]

For me: HBO, Netflix, Amazon, with a once in a while sub to Disney to binge their Star Wars and Marvel shows.

[crazy canuck]

For me: HBO, Netflix, Amazon, with a once in a while sub to Disney to binge their Star Wars and Marvel shows.

Same - Mrs. CC had also has Apple so she can watch Ted Lasso (sp?)

[Duque de Bragança]

Trying to work out which streaming services I'll actually need eventually:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/17/amazon-completes-its-8-5-billion-acquisition-of-mgm/

I'll stay with physical media in the meantime. 

[Grey Fox]

I have : Netflix, Disney +, Amazon Prime and, when it's F1 season, a Sports channel sub.

I also have a Youtube Music subscription & Xbox Gamepass Ultimate.

Sometimes I think about getting a Tou.tv Extra sub (French-Canadian service).

Mentioned often, I don't have cable anymore.

[Threviel]

I'll try a free month here and there. Very rarely pay for a month or two. It's enough for us to binge watch what's new on every service once a year or so.

Very much of it is very old, very uninteresting or very bad. If I want to watch a move they are rarely available so I often fish in the bay.