TV/Movies Megathread

[mongers]

'Le Magnifique' - Good entertaining spoof, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset are excellent leads. 


Though I was confused by Bisset's novel character speaking a heavily accented French, compared with her French in the rest of the film, I think that joke needs to be explained to me. 


edit:
Maybe it's to signify her character is speaking clunky unrealistic dialogue?

[crazy canuck]

'Civil War' - photojournalist burn-out, silly last 5-10mins, a golden opportunity wasted.

Agreed

[Duque de Bragança]

'Le Magnifique' - Good entertaining spoof, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset are excellent leads. 


Though I was confused by Bisset's novel character speaking a heavily accented French, compared with her French in the rest of the film, I think that joke needs to be explained to me. 


edit:
Maybe it's to signify her character is speaking clunky unrealistic dialogue?

More of a diva French, very affected and mannered.

Great movie.   
Spoofing Peckinpah, Gérard de Villiers' SAS and James Bond, somewhat. 

[Habbaku]

'Civil War' - photojournalist burn-out, silly last 5-10mins, a golden opportunity wasted.

Agreed

100%. Started off with a lot of promise, and individual scenes are really, really great, but...it's just a nothing of a movie at the end.

[mongers]

'Le Magnifique' - Good entertaining spoof, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset are excellent leads. 


Though I was confused by Bisset's novel character speaking a heavily accented French, compared with her French in the rest of the film, I think that joke needs to be explained to me. 


edit:
Maybe it's to signify her character is speaking clunky unrealistic dialogue?

More of a diva French, very affected and mannered.

Great movie.   
Spoofing Peckinpah, Gérard de Villiers' SAS and James Bond, somewhat. 

Thanks Duque, that makes a lot more sense.

Also just started 'La Sirène du Mississipi' , for some reason I often find Deneuve too remote, worth continuing with it?

[Barrister]

Slowly watching Season Three of Marvel's Animated What If...?

Got to "What if... Howard the Duck got hitched"

Spoilers to follow

It's a follow up from Season One's "Party Thor" episode, which very briefly we see Howard the Duck and Darcy Lewis (played and voiced by Kat Dennings) hook up briefly.

Well now - they're married, and have a child (well, err, an egg) together.  Various other-worldly beings think the child (err, egg) is of immense value so there's no end of shenanigans as the new parents try to get their egg back.

It's amusing because they seemingly try to ram as many different characters from different movies into the episode, in almost a "mad, mad, mad, mad, world" style.  You have Fury and SHEILD (with agent Coulson), the Grandmaster, Loki, Yondu, Malekith, Kaecilius, Zeus, Thanos plus more I really can't remember (and I had to google some of these names to begin with).

It was pretty goofy, and kind of fun.  I liked it.  To give you a taste of the kind of humour in this one, Nick Fury keeps calling Darcy "Mrs The Duck".

Kid ultimately hatches and saves the day, and likely to show up again in another episode.

[garbon]

The duck one is only one I skipped.

[Barrister]

The duck one is only one I skipped.

It was my favourite of the season so far.

[mongers]

'Back In Action' - passable comedy spy drama with Foxx and Diaz - no character were killed in the making of the film, also contained this weeks movie howler 'Opening the Thames barrier will let the Atlantic ocean flood London'.

'Cocaine Bear' - Entertaining gore-fest, with some funny cameos.

'Champions' with Woody Harrelson, looks cute and amusing from the first 30 mins I've seen.

[Duque de Bragança]

'Le Magnifique' - Good entertaining spoof, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset are excellent leads. 


Though I was confused by Bisset's novel character speaking a heavily accented French, compared with her French in the rest of the film, I think that joke needs to be explained to me. 


edit:
Maybe it's to signify her character is speaking clunky unrealistic dialogue?

More of a diva French, very affected and mannered.

Great movie.   
Spoofing Peckinpah, Gérard de Villiers' SAS and James Bond, somewhat. 

Thanks Duque, that makes a lot more sense.

Also just started 'La Sirène du Mississipi' , for some reason I often find Deneuve too remote, worth continuing with it?

Sorry for the late answer, but i don't have much to say.

Well, it's a Truffaut movie, not a Belmondo movie. if that helps.
I can see why Deneuve's icy beauty, her elusive character could play to the strengths of that movie, but it is also a matter of taste. I have not seen it in a long while, and when I watched it the first time, the recording on TV failed, with the last 10 minutes gone.

[mongers]

'Le Magnifique' - Good entertaining spoof, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset are excellent leads. 


Though I was confused by Bisset's novel character speaking a heavily accented French, compared with her French in the rest of the film, I think that joke needs to be explained to me. 


edit:
Maybe it's to signify her character is speaking clunky unrealistic dialogue?

More of a diva French, very affected and mannered.

Great movie.   
Spoofing Peckinpah, Gérard de Villiers' SAS and James Bond, somewhat. 

Thanks Duque, that makes a lot more sense.

Also just started 'La Sirène du Mississipi' , for some reason I often find Deneuve too remote, worth continuing with it?

Sorry for the late answer, but i don't have much to say.

Well, it's a Truffaut movie, not a Belmondo movie. if that helps.
I can see why Deneuve's icy beauty, her elusive character could play to the strengths of that movie, but it is also a matter of taste. I have not seen it in a long while, and when I watched it the first time, the recording on TV failed, with the last 10 minutes gone.

Yes, I can see you point there and Belmondo acted the part well, also like his own stuntwork. I think it's definitely worth a viewing and Deneuve is well suited to her character, incidentally I've only ever met one woman having that nature.

What is it about France in the 50s-70s, nearly everything in the films looks so suave or cool? Even the Renault 4s and Deux Chevauxs!

[garbon]

'Back In Action' - passable comedy spy drama with Foxx and Diaz - no character were killed in the making of the film, also contained this weeks movie howler 'Opening the Thames barrier will let the Atlantic ocean flood London'.

It is amazing people outside of it don't drown.

[grumbler]

'Back In Action' - passable comedy spy drama with Foxx and Diaz - no character were killed in the making of the film, also contained this weeks movie howler 'Opening the Thames barrier will let the Atlantic ocean flood London'.

It is amazing people outside of it don't drown.

The sea isn't interested in drowning them.

[Duque de Bragança]

Yes, I can see you point there and Belmondo acted the part well, also like his own stuntwork. I think it's definitely worth a viewing and Deneuve is well suited to her character, incidentally I've only ever met one woman having that nature.

What is it about France in the 50s-70s, nearly everything in the films looks so suave or cool? Even the Renault 4s and Deux Chevauxs!

Belmondo did most of his stunts till his mid '50s, until an accident due to a stunt actually.
As for the 50's to the 70s... Well, it's the best part of the Glorious Thirties. Cinema-wise, there is the Nouvelle Vague and the auteur theory, but it had a negative effect on genre cinema, namely fantasy/horror going down from Franju to Rollin (sorry Savonarola).
As a matter of fact, for some reason, Rollin is more popular in the UK and the US than in France, judging by the video releases. UHD, untampered transfers (AI messes à la Cameron non merci). 

Back to Belmondo, from the '70s on he limited himself to mainstream movies, entertaining and with some humour, unlike Delon, mostly cop movies, sometimes criticising the Françafrique (the Professional). Until the '80s, nadir of French police movies, including one too many cop movie from him. Delon was even worse, though sometimes in a so bad it's good vein.

[mongers]

Yes, I can see you point there and Belmondo acted the part well, also like his own stuntwork. I think it's definitely worth a viewing and Deneuve is well suited to her character, incidentally I've only ever met one woman having that nature.

What is it about France in the 50s-70s, nearly everything in the films looks so suave or cool? Even the Renault 4s and Deux Chevauxs!

Belmondo did most of his stunts till his mid '50s, until an accident due to a stunt actually.
As for the 50's to the 70s... Well, it's the best part of the Glorious Thirties. Cinema-wise, there is the Nouvelle Vague and the auteur theory, but it had a negative effect on genre cinema, namely fantasy/horror going down from Franju to Rollin (sorry Savonarola).
As a matter of fact, for some reason, Rollin is more popular in the UK and the US than in France, judging by the video releases. UHD, untampered transfers (AI messes à la Cameron non merci). 

Back to Belmondo, from the '70s on he limited himself to mainstream movies, entertaining and with some humour, unlike Delon, mostly cop movies, sometimes criticising the Françafrique (the Professional). Until the '80s, nadir of French police movies, including one too many cop movie from him. Delon was even worse, though sometimes in a so bad it's good vein.

Thanks for the interesting perspective, Duque, yes I will have to get into more European cinema classics over the next 4 years (whilst trapped in the bunker).