TV/Movies Megathread

[Syt]

Gran Torino was on Swiss tv last night (I like to watch stuff there, because they let you choose between English original and German dub).

Good film. Clint Eastwood reminded me of quite a few Languishites. I mean, replace gooks with dazzling urbanites, the dog with a cat ...

[The Brain]

So how was the German dub?

[Syt]

So how was the German dub?

I have no idea.

[jimmy olsen]

Battle Los Angeles

Cliched dialogue and you've seen all these soldiers before, but the film was 97% action and the action was awesome.

[Sophie Scholl]

Battle Los Angeles

Cliched dialogue and you've seen all these soldiers before, but the film was 97% action and the action was awesome.

I used to think Aaron Eckhart was probably a pretty cool guy in real life, but I saw him on The Late Late Show the other night, and he came off as kind of a flakey douche.  Probably the most awkward interview I've seen Ferguson give.

[jimmy olsen]

Also, the way the aliens were beat at the end made more sense then in any other alien invasion of modern earth film I can remember.

[Eddie Teach]

I like HG Wells' solution- we can't beat space-faring aliens(granted we might be able to if they only traveled from Mars) but the earth can.

[jimmy olsen]

I like HG Wells' solution- we can't beat space-faring aliens(granted we might be able to if they only traveled from Mars) but the earth can.

Modern 1st World nations could defeat the Martians in the original novel fairly easily. 

[Josquius]

Also, the way the aliens were beat at the end made more sense then in any other alien invasion of modern earth film I can remember.

They got bored and went home?

[Viking]

Also, the way the aliens were beat at the end made more sense then in any other alien invasion of modern earth film I can remember.

That the rumors of an alien attack were fictive and massive amounts of ordinance was spent on radar blips, flocking birds, the local dazzling urbanites and tv news traffic helecopters. The movie ends with the Japanese ambassador speaking "U paleface gaijin do it again, fight battle against nobody! U stoopid, no hi speed rail for U!!!11111oneoenoeneon"

[Josephus]

Also, the way the aliens were beat at the end made more sense then in any other alien invasion of modern earth film I can remember.

You ruined it for me.

[Ed Anger]

Gran Torino was on Swiss tv last night (I like to watch stuff there, because they let you choose between English original and German dub).

Good film. Clint Eastwood reminded me of quite a few Languishites. I mean, replace gooks with dazzling urbanites, the dog with a cat ...

Get of my lawn.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

The Witchfinder General. Before Nic Cage, there was Vincent Price. Fun low budget Hammer-ish flick about how wonderful it was during Cromwell's time. Price plays the self appointed Witchfinder (he's actually a Lawyer) .. It all plays out like recent US elections.

6.9 witchsicles outta 10

[derspiess]

Battle Los Angeles

Cliched dialogue and you've seen all these soldiers before, but the film was 97% action and the action was awesome.

Ditto.  I had read some reviews mentioning the cliches so I was actually bracing for worse than what they actually used.  It was a solid action movie and honestly about as scifi-ish as I like these types of movies to be.

They did an awesome job with the aliens-- you eventually got a decent idea of what they looked like but never got a 100% clear close-up shot of them in good lighting, which is a good effect for this type of movie.  Plus I liked how the aliens were using actual infantry-type soldiers, complete with crew-served weapons, squad leaders, etc. rather than just moving around in vehicles & blowing shit up (though there was a bit of that).  And their weaponry seemed more conventional than you typically see for aliens.

[Malthus]

Heh, and actual aliens that could cross interstellar space and invade us would be so far advanced from us that they could squash us like bugs.