TV/Movies Megathread

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A B5 animated movie, Babylon 5: The Road Home is being released this summer, as reported by theHollywood Reporter

Returning Babylon 5 castmembers include Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan, Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova, Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari, Bill Mumy as Lennier, Tracy Scoggins as Elizabeth Lochley and Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander.

JMS has been hinting at this for a while but couldn't reveal much because WB hadn't announced it yet.  The animation has been finished for a while, but it apparently took some time to find voice actors that were G'Kar enough and Delenn enough.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

A B5 animated movie, Babylon 5: The Road Home is being released this summer, as reported by theHollywood Reporter

Returning Babylon 5 castmembers include Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan, Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova, Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari, Bill Mumy as Lennier, Tracy Scoggins as Elizabeth Lochley and Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander.

JMS has been hinting at this for a while but couldn't reveal much because WB hadn't announced it yet.  The animation has been finished for a while, but it apparently took some time to find voice actors that were G'Kar enough and Delenn enough.

please be good...

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please be good...

JMS had complete creative control, so it should be good other than the pedestrian dialogue he seems stuck with.

[Josquius]

I gave episode 1 of succession another go and got through it.
At one point near the end  the druggie son is talking to the Asian guy whose company he wants to buy and says the deal being offered is so good he has to accept it or else they'll take him to court....
....
Hows this?

[grumbler]

I gave episode 1 of succession another go and got through it.
At one point near the end  the druggie son is talking to the Asian guy whose company he wants to buy and says the deal being offered is so good he has to accept it or else they'll take him to court....
....
Hows this?

It's hyperbole.  Technically, since a corporation officer has a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders, an egregious breach might see the officer sued, but, short of an illegal action on the officer's part, I don't think that the shareholders could win the suit.

[Darth Wagtaros]

please be good...

JMS had complete creative control, so it should be good other than the pedestrian dialogue he seems stuck with.

Yeah. I remember thinbking years ago that the perfect show would be JMS coming up with plot and overall direction while Joss Whedon handle'd scripting.

[grumbler]

please be good...

JMS had complete creative control, so it should be good other than the pedestrian dialogue he seems stuck with.

Yeah. I remember thinbking years ago that the perfect show would be JMS coming up with plot and overall direction while Joss Whedon handle'd scripting.

It is possible that you were thinking that because I made a post to that effect here.

[Savonarola]

Purple Rain (1984)

I saw this on the big screen; the stage shows of The Revolution and The Time (both at the peaks of their careers) are amazing in that format.  The rest of the movie is okay; most of the cast weren't professional actors and it shows.  Prince does the non-speaking scenes well; the part where he goes to his dressing room thinking that he'd just blown his chance after "Purple Rain" is impressive - his dialogue scenes are okay.  The rest of the band was wise to stick to music.  Jerome Benton and Morris Day are great; it's no surprise that they'd be back for "Under the Cherry Moon" and "Graffiti Bridge" respectively.

I was amused that Prince pronounces "Motherfucker" like a white man; especially since he'll go on to teach us ebonics in Under the Cherry Moon.

Prince and Apollonia ending up together after he slapped her around a couple times would be problematic today.  I'm surprised it wasn't more controversial back then (in fact "Darling Nicky" was the controversy; that's allegedly what set Tipper Gore off.)

[crazy canuck]

please be good...

JMS had complete creative control, so it should be good other than the pedestrian dialogue he seems stuck with.

Yeah. I remember thinbking years ago that the perfect show would be JMS coming up with plot and overall direction while Joss Whedon handle'd scripting.

It is possible that you were thinking that because I made a post to that effect here.

 

I was going to say, that thought seems familiar, just could not place where I had heard it before 

[Savonarola]

Once Upon a Time in America (1982)

I didn't realize that young Deborah was Jennifer Connelly; even as a child actor she had quite a career.

I had forgotten how brutal the (second) rape scene was; it especially seems that way since it comes after the films two funniest scenes - the baby switching caper and the uhm... line up scene where Tuesday Weld tries to identify her assailant. 

I thought James Wood had a good point about his character's fate; even if that wasn't his character that jumped into the garbage truck, you still know what happens to him.  (Much like Jimmy Hoffa, even if you don't know the details, you know what happened to him.)

This is a great movie; but also a difficult movie (and, I think, ultimately a rewarding movie).  None of the major characters are likable; it has a really slow pace; and there's so much ambiguity that the viewer is forced to draw his own conclusions (what was Noodles doing for 35 years?  did the 1960s scenes happen at all or was it all an opium fueled dream?)  I think those all work out in the films favor, but it requires work by the viewer.

The costuming and sets are extraordinary and, while I prefer "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", Ennio Morricone delivers a great score.

The films greatest flaw is, despite being a film about Jewish mobsters and Unions, it's set in New York rather than Detroit.   

[grumbler]

I really enjoyed that movie.  The switching back and forth in time was very reminiscent of that technique as used in The Godfather Part 2.  The ambiguity of the characters and the plot worked out well, I think, in showing the ambiguity of America's treatment of organized crime in the era presented.  The only downside I saw was that the characters didn't seem much changed despite the length of time the story encompassed.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yes, I am aware.  On the optimistic side, Whedon will likely take any work he can get.

[garbon]

The Idol

Huh, that was something.

[Syt]

Mild spoiler from the Ted Lasso finale in a "blink and you'll miss it" way: Zoreaux to work with JCVD on "Escape to Victory" remake.

[Admiral Yi]

I wonder if the disappearance of the little blurbs on Netflix is connected to the writers' strike.