TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

Operation Mincemeat - Well known story but not seen the film before. Too much on drama, romance, bits and bobs for the people setting it up. Should have had a lot more about the spy events in Spain. Show the German side and how they analysed it

[Darth Wagtaros]

Operation Peticoat.  An old favorite of mine, along with Father GOose.  Simple and straight forward but fun.

Finished Stranger Things. As I mentioned in Discord, Derek had grown on me.  Actor managed to make a 2 dimensional 80's bully into something kind of fun.  The plot was all over the place, and at the end it felt like they just kind of got tired of it and wanted to wrap it all up.  The D&D ending was sweet in a way.

[Syt]

Some of the established Fallout lore hits a bit different these days (minor spoiler for Fallout TV show).

[Duque de Bragança]

Some of the established Fallout lore hits a bit different these days (minor spoiler for Fallout TV show).

Since the first Fallout video game actually. 

[Syt]

Well yeah.

[Savonarola]

The Bellhop (1960)

This is a Jerry Lewis movie without a plot, instead it's a series of gags in which Lewis (the titular bellhop) causes havoc as he tries to perform his job.  If you think Le Roi Crazy is hilarious then you'll probably like this film, if not then not.  I knew what I was getting into when I put it on, so I'm not going to complain about the film^1.. 

I watched it for the chance to see the Fontainebleau^2. Hotel when it was just past its heyday.  In the late 40s and early 50s Miami Beach was the place for upper middle class Americans to visit during the winters.  Before about 1955 there were laws against night clubs in Miami Beach, so the hotels would book some of the biggest acts in America (including Martin and Lewis and Milton Berle, who is also in the film.)  So it was similar to Las Vegas today, but with a beach rather than gambling.  The problem was the hotels lost money on the acts and then when nightclubs were permitted they lost that even as a draw.  Still the Fontainebleau did look spectacular in those days (it probably does today, they just had a billion dollar renovation.)

1.)  Except for the scene where he does a Stan Laurel impression.  That was very nearly as bad as Jar Jar Binks's homage to Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin in The Phantom Menace.
2.)  Pronounced Fountain-Blue in this part of the world.  For whatever reason we think that the "Eau" sound makes an oo as in Boo sound in French.  There's a former city called "Eau Gallie" that was incorporated into Melbourne and it's pronounced "Oo Golly."  That was like nails on a chalkboard for me the first several years I lived here - I guess I do have a lot to complain about for this film.

[Syt]

Season 1 of Jack Ryan on Prime. I liked it.

[Tonitrus]

Have recently been binging The Streets of San Francisco (70's police drama series with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas), and was amused to stumble across an episode with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the killer-of-the-week (I had never known he had done this).  Hilarious plot as a out-of-control-tempered Vietnam vet that gets enraged when people think of his body as freakish.  Includes a gratuitous scene, common for early Arnold, for him to show off his physique...and co-stars Diana Muldaur (of ST:TNG Dr. Pulaski fame) as a rich cougar who "understands" him while also wanting to take sexual advantage.   

[Duque de Bragança]

Yep, saw a blu-ray boxset in Germany with that series on sale, and almost bought it for those guests.

[celedhring]

Operation Mincemeat - Well known story but not seen the film before. Too much on drama, romance, bits and bobs for the people setting it up. Should have had a lot more about the spy events in Spain. Show the German side and how they analysed it

It's the kind of stuff that probably would make for a brilliant documentary (the story is incredible - what with the prepared washed-up corpse and all) but you need to add too much extraneous shit to make it work as a regular movie.

[Syt]

Have recently been binging The Streets of San Francisco (70's police drama series with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas), and was amused to stumble across an episode with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the killer-of-the-week (I had never known he had done this).  Hilarious plot as a out-of-control-tempered Vietnam vet that gets enraged when people think of his body as freakish.  Includes a gratuitous scene, common for early Arnold, for him to show off his physique...and co-stars Diana Muldaur (of ST:TNG Dr. Pulaski fame) as a rich cougar who "understands" him while also wanting to take sexual advantage.   

I don't think I've seen the show since I was a kid. But yeah, spotting actors in old shows from "before they became household names" is always fun. I think Miami Vice was full of such appearances, too?

[Duque de Bragança]

Have recently been binging The Streets of San Francisco (70's police drama series with Karl Malden and Michael Douglas), and was amused to stumble across an episode with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the killer-of-the-week (I had never known he had done this).  Hilarious plot as a out-of-control-tempered Vietnam vet that gets enraged when people think of his body as freakish.  Includes a gratuitous scene, common for early Arnold, for him to show off his physique...and co-stars Diana Muldaur (of ST:TNG Dr. Pulaski fame) as a rich cougar who "understands" him while also wanting to take sexual advantage.   

I don't think I've seen the show since I was a kid. But yeah, spotting actors in old shows from "before they became household names" is always fun. I think Miami Vice was full of such appearances, too?

Yes, another great and possibly better example. This re-release trailer for the French blu-ray box set focuses on guests, at its end:

[Maladict]

[mongers]

I don't think I've seen the show since I was a kid. But yeah, spotting actors in old shows from "before they became household names" is always fun. I think Miami Vice was full of such appearances, too?

'Seinfeld' is also good for this, other night the principle love interest for him was a rather young, Anna Gunn. 

edit:
I'd guess 20-21 years old, nope look it up, would be likely 24 when it was recorded.