TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

I always thought that any Warhammer 40k media adaptation should just take the Teutonic Knights from Alexander Nevsky and make them the good guys 

[Syt]

I mean, I knew the helmet designs were based on it, but the taking-off-the-helmet shot is repeated in Conan's opening with Thulsa Doom, Thorgrim and Rexor.

[Habbaku]

Quick movie update:

Warfare: 6/10
Weapons: 9/10
Eddington: 8.5/10

Can't recommend Weapons enough.

[Syt]

So I guess Nicolas Cage is playing John Madden in the Madden biopic?

[Josquius]

So the new superman.... It's.... Meh.....

A bit different to normal superman films. It's fun in that it feels like watching marvel film #35 without having watched the 34 before it. Except there aren't films before it.

I really don't get who Mr Terrific is or why the Green Lantern is weird. Or the elemental guy or other guys in prison. Or a lot. This messes with my head.

It's overall alright though. Nice not to get bogged down in origin stories for the umpteenth time and it has a proper comic book sense of frivolity.

[PRC]

Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie "One Battle After Another" is out, was able to catch and enjoy it.  Still digesting it, but if anyone is a fan of his oeuvre this should hit the mark.  Feels relevant and timely, probably feels closer to home if you're American, especially in the South West.  It's the wildest conspiracies of the Left and the Right with car chases and fantastic cinematography. 

[The Brain]

Monster: The Ed Gein Story. Farmer is sweet and psycho, and has cultural impact. I've never read up on Ed Gein so I cannot say much about accuracy, but it was very well made I think and I was entertained.

[Sheilbh]

Mentioned in the other thread but got accidentally dragged into a massive Morse marathon - then ended up in a wider exploration of the ITV4/Viking River Cruises Cinematic Universe. So I watched the prequel, Endeavour, which I really liked (I love Roger Allam and Anton Lesser though).

The started watching Lewis and had forgotten Laurence Fox is the sidekick there which rather ruins it (especially as his character is a bit of a bell). Makes me slightly sad as I feel Kevin Wheatley deserved better.

[Josquius]

Mentioned in the other thread but got accidentally dragged into a massive Morse marathon -
So I watched the prequel, Endeavour, which I really liked (I love Roger Allam and Anton Lesser though).

The started watching Lewis and had forgotten Laurence Fox is the sidekick there which rather ruins it (especially as his character is a bit of a bell). Makes me slightly sad as I feel Kevin Wheatley deserved better.

I totally missed you having your 40th. Congrats.

then ended up in a wider exploration of the ITV4/Viking River Cruises Cinematic Universe.

[celedhring]

One Battle after Another - extremely funny. Very political, of course, but I thought in very smart ways. The only people in the movie that create meaningful community and family bonds are the lefties - even if nonconventional ones, while the white nationalists, for all their talk, are shown to be devoid of any empathy - even for themselves (there's nuance to that but I really don't want to spoil the movie). PTA really hit the jackpot since the movie was written and shot before Trump was elected yet it nails the current climate.

Di Caprio is excellent playing a doofus former revolutionary who struggles with parenthood, who now has to save her daughter when their past catches up to them. Him and Del Toro completely take over the movie in the middle. That said, I wish we saw more about the girl. In the end her character and Di Caprio's are the emotional core of the movie, and we see little of her or who she is until the very end.

It did remind me of a movie about a teen who clashes with his parents who were part of Weather Underground, and now live on the run. Late 1970s early 1980s I think. I wish I could recall the name.

EDIT: The movie I was thinking of is Running on Empty.

[mongers]

'Worth' - worthy.

[Savonarola]

Daughters of Darkness (1976)

Vampires can't have tan lines.    This film has absolutely no credibility.      

Lesbian vampires run amok in Belgium!  Countess Elizabeth Báthory and her "Personal secretary" ( ) arrive at a hotel where a very 70s newlywed couple is staying.  Countess Báthory seems friendly, but the hotel clerk remembers her staying at the same hotel 40 years ago and looking the same as she does today and there are a number of young women found murdered in nearby Bruges all of them completely drained of blood.  Could these facts be related?  Could this Countess Báthory in fact be the same as the bathed in the blood of virgins?  and could she be leading the newlywed wife into a depraved world of lesbian blood-drinking?

This is a little better than most 70s Euro-sexploitation vampire films (not a real high recommendation, I realize.)  For one thing the cast all speaks English rather than being dubbed.  For another the film works the psychological angle more plausibly than most.