TV/Movies Megathread

[grumbler]

so... this movie venerates very smart people?  That's pretty cool!

Those are clues that the movie is a spoof.  You want to see some funny stuff, go back and find the debates between the "it was Nazi propaganda" types and the "goof, it was a spoof" types.

[CountDeMoney]

Uh. Yes please.

Nicolas Winding Refn and Ed Brubaker team up for inevitably stylish crime series:
http://www.avclub.com/article/nicolas-winding-refn-and-ed-brubaker-team-inevitab-249973?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing

Well, this could be fantastic. Brubaker is one of my favorite funnybook writers, and Refn can be decent when providing pretty pictures to a good story.

Holy fuck, Too Old To Die Young is an achievement.  Morally reprehensible characters you cannot always bring yourself to despise, with dialogue and pacing that is maddeningly deliberate, soaked in pornographic hyperviolence and surreal absurdism.

There's only two ways to go with this Amazon Prime series: love or hate. You will be the viewer that either finds it hypnotically stunning or pretentiously self-indulgent, and you probably already know who you are on that spectrum.

I finished it 2 weeks ago, and it's still bouncing around in my head.

[Josquius]

New series of better call saul.
I wonder if I'm just getting old or streaming has destroyed my attention span.
I find increasingly that in the gap between series I totally forgot what happened before hand.
Could the covid induced extended gaps be to blame?

Here I was having trouble remembering why nacho was on the run and then who the hell Betsy was. Even quite why Saul wanted vengeance on the senior lawyer.

[Syt]

New series of better call saul.
I wonder if I'm just getting old or streaming has destroyed my attention span.
I find increasingly that in the gap between series I totally forgot what happened before hand.
Could the covid induced extended gaps be to blame?

Here I was having trouble remembering why nacho was on the run and then who the hell Betsy was. Even quite why Saul wanted vengeance on the senior lawyer.

That's why there's recap videos on YouTube

[Duque de Bragança]

Bring back Adam West - the *real* Batman! The one who dances!

 

[viper37]

Those are clues that the movie is a spoof.  You want to see some funny stuff, go back and find the debates between the "it was Nazi propaganda" types and the "goof, it was a spoof" types.

Well, of course it was a political satire.  I don't think the movie was ever intended to be taken at first degree, it seems way too obvious for some kind of nazi propaganda.  Don't know about the original material, however.

[Darth Wagtaros]

The book was good, but it showed Heinlens libertarian wank too.

I was hoping the movie would be a serious sci fi piece, with good special effects, and the depth of the book (battles over multiple planets; shifting alliances amonst species, etc). Instead it was a loud special effects extravaganza disguised as satire.

[The Brain]

The movie was awesome.

[viper37]

La petite Aurore: l'enfant martyre (1950)

My turn to show off with old black & white movies. 


Based on the true story of Aurore Gagnon, a 10 year old child beaten by her father and step mother for 6 months until she died of her injuries.

I watched this movie as a kid because my parents wanted to me to see what it was to be mistreated.  As I arrived at a friend's place yesterday, she was playing this movie for her daughters, to show them what it was to be mistreated.

Anyway.  It's a boring movie, named once of the worst movies to ever be produced in Quebec.  The Aurore prize is the equivalent of the Razzies, for Quebec cinema.  It was hugely popular when it came out, being sold out for a while.

[Grey Fox]

I was shown that movie for the same reasons too.

I did not show it to my children.

[Syt]

On BoJack Horseman, Old Yeller is a different movie ... more Of Mice And Men territory, I suppose.



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[viper37]

I was shown that movie for the same reasons too.

I did not show it to my children.

You are a good father

[celedhring]

The book was good, but it showed Heinlens libertarian wank too.

I was hoping the movie would be a serious sci fi piece, with good special effects, and the depth of the book (battles over multiple planets; shifting alliances amonst species, etc). Instead it was a loud special effects extravaganza disguised as satire.

Starship Troopers is bad. It's fun-bad, mind you, and I enjoy it every time it's on. But the whole satire aspect is a bit of fig leaf to trick ourselves into thinking "it's bad on purpose!".

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yes! I can't help but think they didn't know how to make the movie so they did what Tommy Weiseau did and claim that it was supposed to be like that.

[Barrister]

Yes! I can't help but think they didn't know how to make the movie so they did what Tommy Weiseau did and claim that it was supposed to be like that.

I think for movies like Starship Troopers or RoboCop director Verhoeven was definitely intending the satire element.

Now when it comes to Basic Instinct or Showgirls...