TV/Movies Megathread

[grumbler]

Buckaroo Bonzai is still one I re-watch yearly.

I saw The Mandalorian movie.  The projector broke and I got free passes, so it didn't cost anything. That was ght ebest thing about it. Otherwise it is a barely stiched together longer episode of the series with little plot.

Sheep Detectives was very good.

Buckaroo Banzai was an iconic movie from my childhood. Me and my brother rewatched the car test drive scene until we burned out the tape (not literally).

I still rewatch it every few years. It's just fun. The soundtrack is also a synth favorite from the 1980s.

And the cast seem to all agree that they never had so much fun making a movie.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Buckaroo Bonzai is still one I re-watch yearly.

I saw The Mandalorian movie.  The projector broke and I got free passes, so it didn't cost anything. That was ght ebest thing about it. Otherwise it is a barely stiched together longer episode of the series with little plot.

Sheep Detectives was very good.

Buckaroo Banzai was an iconic movie from my childhood. Me and my brother rewatched the car test drive scene until we burned out the tape (not literally).

I still rewatch it every few years. It's just fun. The soundtrack is also a synth favorite from the 1980s.

And the cast seem to all agree that they never had so much fun making a movie.

I bet it was.  Seems like the kind of movie that was nuts enough and low stakes enough that it could be fun.

[crazy canuck]

Buckaroo Bonzai is still one I re-watch yearly.

I saw The Mandalorian movie.  The projector broke and I got free passes, so it didn't cost anything. That was ght ebest thing about it. Otherwise it is a barely stiched together longer episode of the series with little plot.

Sheep Detectives was very good.

Buckaroo Banzai was an iconic movie from my childhood. Me and my brother rewatched the car test drive scene until we burned out the tape (not literally).

I still rewatch it every few years. It's just fun. The soundtrack is also a synth favorite from the 1980s.

And the cast seem to all agree that they never had so much fun making a movie.

I bet it was.  Seems like the kind of movie that was nuts enough and low stakes enough that it could be fun.

Had more to do with the cast members

[grumbler]

Buckaroo Bonzai is still one I re-watch yearly.

I saw The Mandalorian movie.  The projector broke and I got free passes, so it didn't cost anything. That was ght ebest thing about it. Otherwise it is a barely stiched together longer episode of the series with little plot.

Sheep Detectives was very good.

Buckaroo Banzai was an iconic movie from my childhood. Me and my brother rewatched the car test drive scene until we burned out the tape (not literally).

I still rewatch it every few years. It's just fun. The soundtrack is also a synth favorite from the 1980s.

And the cast seem to all agree that they never had so much fun making a movie.

I bet it was.  Seems like the kind of movie that was nuts enough and low stakes enough that it could be fun.

Had more to do with the cast members

And the director, who allowed a lot of improvisation and creative input from the cast and crew.

[The Minsky Moment]

Just watched Captain America Winter Soldier for the first time (thought I had seen it years ago).  I think it's just a remake of Buckaroo Banzai.

To be fair the only original literary works in Western History are The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Nibelungenlied, and the Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai.  So you can't unfairly ding a Captain America movie for that flaw.

[crazy canuck]

 

[frunk]

Just watched Captain America Winter Soldier for the first time (thought I had seen it years ago).  I think it's just a remake of Buckaroo Banzai.

To be fair the only original literary works in Western History are The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Nibelungenlied, and the Adventures of Buckeroo Banzai.  So you can't unfairly ding a Captain America movie for that flaw.

 

[mongers]

'Cold Storage' - mildly diverting Liam Neilson horror sci-fi comedy.

[Josquius]

Rental Family.

Basic nice little film. Brendan Fraiser is a small time actor based in Tokyo who ends up working for one of those people rental agencies that have cropped up in various "oh isn't Japan weird" articles.
It makes for a nice little framing device to tell a few little stories.
It feels fairly natural for an American film based in Japan. Just focusses on its little human stories without giving in to "Japan so crazy!" ism. Could very well see it working as a Japanese film with only a few modifications

[Syt]

Every once in a while Prime video serves up something nice. Checked for something to have on during home office today and Battle of Britain is on the front page of recommendations.

As much WW2 airplane porn as the movie has (thank you for preserving those planes, General Franco ), I forgot that the German footpads ride in M7 Priests and M3 Halftracks in the opening.

[Syt]

More hills in Calais than I expected ... 

[The Brain]

Timestamp looks wrong too.

[Syt]

At any rate, I'm following it up with A Bridge Too Far.

[celedhring]

Every once in a while Prime video serves up something nice. Checked for something to have on during home office today and Battle of Britain is on the front page of recommendations.

As much WW2 airplane porn as the movie has (thank you for preserving those planes, General Franco ), I forgot that the German footpads ride in M7 Priests and M3 Halftracks in the opening.

They were not really "preserved", all those HE-111s and Bf-109s were built in Spain after WWII, because the Germans had supplied the tooling and that's kinda all what the local industry could manage during the 1940s and 1950s. Pretty sure many of them were equipped with British engines, even.

[Syt]

Thanks for the clarification. Either way, a boon to the movie.

Bridge Too Far - hadn't watched it in a while, but it was a movie I grew up with. My dad watched it at least once a month.

It holds up incredibly well. And it's a real case of, "They don't make them like this anymore." If they did, the mock-up tanks for the Germans would look much better, but it would be incredibly desaturated, there'd be CGI instead of practical effects, and there would be much more soundtrack (I had forgotten how much of the film has no music at all).