TV/Movies Megathread

[Duque de Bragança]

Not a disaster of epic proportions such as Episode I but nothing special

So, 20 years from now, it's going to be a classic masterpiece with genre defining moment.  Got it.

No, that's Tron: Legacy. 

[celedhring]

Tron Ares it's one of those "fuck I'm old" movies - it made me realize it's been 15 years since Tron:Legacy.

Incidentally, I'm surprised to see how fondly Tron:Legacy is looked upon, but I guess it's old enough that it qualifies as nostalgia for a lot of people. I remember it being very pretty, but very boring. Also one of the "pioneers" on using terrible CGI deaging, just for the sake of it.

Kickass soundtrack, though. Always fire it up when playing sci-fi games (it's a Stellaris staple).

[crazy canuck]

Tron Ares it's one of those "fuck I'm old" movies - it made me realize it's been 15 years since Tron:Legacy.

Incidentally, I'm surprised to see how fondly Tron:Legacy is looked upon, but I guess it's old enough that it qualifies as nostalgia for a lot of people. I remember it being very pretty, but very boring. Also one of the "pioneers" on using terrible CGI deaging, just for the sake of it.

Kickass soundtrack, though. Always fire it up when playing sci-fi games (it's a Stellaris staple).

You think you are old, I saw the original Tron on release in the movie theatre and took my kids to Legacy.

[Syt]

I re-watched the first few episodes of Veep. It seems quaint these days.

(And the insanity of the last two or so seasons not as far fetched anymore.)

[garbon]

I re-watched the first few episodes of Veep. It seems quaint these days.

(And the insanity of the last two or so seasons not as far fetched anymore.)

When I watched some of it again last year, it did feel a bit more prophetic. Agree it would not have worked to put out in our current climate as it would have been like and so? If anything look how tame she was...

[celedhring]

Tron Ares it's one of those "fuck I'm old" movies - it made me realize it's been 15 years since Tron:Legacy.

Incidentally, I'm surprised to see how fondly Tron:Legacy is looked upon, but I guess it's old enough that it qualifies as nostalgia for a lot of people. I remember it being very pretty, but very boring. Also one of the "pioneers" on using terrible CGI deaging, just for the sake of it.

Kickass soundtrack, though. Always fire it up when playing sci-fi games (it's a Stellaris staple).

You think you are old, I saw the original Tron on release in the movie theatre and took my kids to Legacy.

I was too little when it came out, but my mother loved it and bought me a "novelization for kids" with plenty of stills from the movie which I devoured avidly. I wonder if it's still stashed somewhere...

I took her to Tron Legacy and now I'll take her to Tron Ares. The movie's probably not very good, but mother-son bonding rules.

EDIT: This is the thing! https://www.ebay.com/itm/166956016503

[crazy canuck]

Tron Ares it's one of those "fuck I'm old" movies - it made me realize it's been 15 years since Tron:Legacy.

Incidentally, I'm surprised to see how fondly Tron:Legacy is looked upon, but I guess it's old enough that it qualifies as nostalgia for a lot of people. I remember it being very pretty, but very boring. Also one of the "pioneers" on using terrible CGI deaging, just for the sake of it.

Kickass soundtrack, though. Always fire it up when playing sci-fi games (it's a Stellaris staple).

You think you are old, I saw the original Tron on release in the movie theatre and took my kids to Legacy.

I was too little when it came out, but my mother loved it and bought me a "novelization for kids" with plenty of stills from the movie which I devoured avidly. I wonder if it's still stashed somewhere...

I took her to Tron Legacy and now I'll take her to Tron Ares. The movie's probably not very good, but mother-son bonding rules.

EDIT: This is the thing! https://www.ebay.com/itm/166956016503

 

[Syt]

I re-watched the first few episodes of Veep. It seems quaint these days.

(And the insanity of the last two or so seasons not as far fetched anymore.)

When I watched some of it again last year, it did feel a bit more prophetic. Agree it would not have worked to put out in our current climate as it would have been like and so? If anything look how tame she was...

Well yeah. Unfortunately prophetic not just in hilarious ways like Mike's hair dye running down his face during a press conference.

[Syt]

Tron Ares it's one of those "fuck I'm old" movies - it made me realize it's been 15 years since Tron:Legacy.

Incidentally, I'm surprised to see how fondly Tron:Legacy is looked upon, but I guess it's old enough that it qualifies as nostalgia for a lot of people. I remember it being very pretty, but very boring. Also one of the "pioneers" on using terrible CGI deaging, just for the sake of it.

Kickass soundtrack, though. Always fire it up when playing sci-fi games (it's a Stellaris staple).

Funny, I was listening to a random ambient sci-fi playlist on Spotify, and Solar Sailer came up:

I was left really confused, because I liked the song and was sure it was part of the Stellaris soundtrack. Guess I know now where Andreas Waldetoft borrowed some inspiration from. (Stellaris still has maybe the best Paradox soundtrack, at least in its early years. )

[celedhring]

Yeah, it's such a great synth ambient score. Daft Punk 

[Syt]

Oh man, this is hitting right in the nostalgias. Loved the movie as a kid

[Savonarola]

Requiem for a Vampire (1972)

An innovative film in the Euro-sexploitation vampire genre in that this film doesn't have lesbian vampires; instead it has lesbians and vampires, and that is why Jean Rollins is the master.

Even by the standards of a Jean Rollins film this doesn't have much of a story.  Two young ladies dressed as clowns and a driver are being pursued by another vehicle and both are shooting at one another (why they were dressed as clowns or being pursued is never explained).  They escape, but the driver is shot and dies.  The young ladies wander around for awhile and then come to a castle with the last vampire.  He plans on turning them into vampires where they can carry out his bloodline.  One of the girls is into it, the other one has misgivings and we learn that with the ending of the Fourth Age of Middle Earth (or whatever age they were in in the 70s) evil vampire magic has faded substantially.

Of course there's the usual Rollins fare like vampire bat on woman sex or a young woman who is forced to strip her best friend and whip her repeatedly.

[Duque de Bragança]

That's one of his best, I think.
The melancholy was not overdone, and the movie seemed less cheap than usual. Talking about the real Rollin movies, not the so-bad-it's-good classic that is Zombie Lake.
The latter started by no less than Jess Franco and with Rollin rushed in by Eurociné in damage control. Did not work out, to say the least.

[Tamas]

CBC Gem has a new 10 episode series about János Hunyadi.  I am 6 episodes in, and really enjoying it.  I think it is on Netflix in other countries.  I recommend watching it with subtitles, and no dubbing.  It is important to know who is speaking what language to catch some of the nuance of the story being told. 


Edit - sorry it's called Rise of the Raven

It better not be that recent crap made my Orban stooges.

[HVC]

Wiki says it was made in 2015 and based on the Hungarian novel series Hunyadi by Mór Bán. Doesn't say if it's Orban propaganda