TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Yeah - and Aretha Franklin too who (five years after the initial comment) faxed a correction about something Dionne Warwick had said about her

[Josquius]

Was on iPlayer and they have lots of the Bank Holiday epics already up.

It slightly blew my mind that those 50s epics that I remember watching on TV and a lot of them are basically the length of a Marvel film

I suppose kids these days just have a better attention span than I did.

I wonder if part of it is that editing might be cheaper now and once the 'film is in the can' the costs of manipulating it and producing final cuts could well a lot less expensive than processing and assembling generations of film stock?  So perhaps that helps to make films longer/more tedious?

I think this is a big part of it. And the lack of technical restrictions on length and better technical ability to edit has led to people losing the ability to actually edit from an artistic standpoint.

[mongers]

'Rebel Ridge' and entertaining action-thriller, newish on Netflix. 

[Josephus]

Anybody watching that Dune prequel thing? (asking for a friend)

[crazy canuck]

Anybody watching that Dune prequel thing? (asking for a friend)

Yeah, it's very good.  Well written, acted and the production value is top notch.

[Josephus]

Anybody watching that Dune prequel thing? (asking for a friend)

Yeah, it's very good.  Well written, acted and the production value is top notch.

Seriously or you hitting the eggnog early?

[crazy canuck]

Anybody watching that Dune prequel thing? (asking for a friend)

Yeah, it's very good.  Well written, acted and the production value is top notch.

Seriously or you hitting the eggnog early?

I am serious.  It is very good.  I am surprised it has not been a topic here. 

[Josephus]

Anybody watching that Dune prequel thing? (asking for a friend)

Yeah, it's very good.  Well written, acted and the production value is top notch.

Seriously or you hitting the eggnog early?

I am serious.  It is very good.  I am surprised it has not been a topic here. 

Yeah, I thought languish would be all over it. I'll start watching it tonight

[crazy canuck]

Let me know what you think 

[Valmy]

The Disney TV series based on movies have us all a bit weary and wary of the idea.

I love Dune so I will check it out after Christmas.

[mongers]

BBC had two 'Porridge' Xmas specials on over Christmas, for comedy nearly 50 years old, held up remarkable well. 


Also a documentary interview of the two script writers, both still with us, who weirdly went to Hawaii to help redraft the 'Pearl Harbor' script. There they met Kate Beckinsdale who mentioned she only really got to know here father through the 'Porridge' series, in which he starred, as she was only 5 years when he died. 

[The Brain]

I noticed that Netflix has made a new Carry On movie. Anyone seen it? How does it hold up against classics like Khyber etc?

[celedhring]

Saw Conclave. Very well-made movie, although I was slightly disappointed after all the raves. It's the kind of film were everybody is performing at a top level (the directing is great, and the star-studded cast* all of them deliver), which hides that there isn't all that much to the material - but I guess that's Robert Harris for you. The surprise ending was a bit whatever and it felt pretty much a case of a story looking for a theme - although it does have a pretty awesome final shot. Again, the director (who also directed All Quiet in the Western Front) does a great job with a source material that's actually rather thin.

*It was even slighty weird that they cast Isabella Rosellini in such a nothing part.

[Josephus]

I noticed that Netflix has made a new Carry On movie. Anyone seen it? How does it hold up against classics like Khyber etc?

Not enough boob jokes

[Admiral Yi]

Rewatched The Boys From Brazil.  Joseph Mengele, played oddly by Gregory Peck (spoiler?)

breeds Hitler clones in the jungles of Paraguay and seeds them throughout North America and Europe in order to SAVE THE ARYAN RACE.

A thinly veiled Simon Wiesenthal, played more plausibly by Lawrence Olivier, hunts him down.

I saw this when I was a kid and I thought it was pretty cool, but it just doesn't hold up.  Marathon Man is a much better Nazi comeback movie.  Nifty little flip by Sir Larry on the parts.