TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Anyone watching American Horror Story? Watched the first two eps and was quite impressed. Sort of a cross between Amityville Horror and The Shining...had quite a few chilling moments.

[Viking]

I expect Once is getting much better ratings though. It's appearing on ABC on Sunday rather than NBC on Friday for one thing.

Also I don't know that I'd call Goodwin and Morrison "star power".

Robbie Carlisle is gonna start channeling Begbie and come over to your house and kick your ass.

Yes, for a TV show (and especially compared to Grimm) it is full of star power.

[Viking]

Hell's on Wheels, AMC.
A former Confederate soldier is seeking vengeance from the Union Soldiers who raped&killed his wife during the war.
Of course, they man is a noble hero.  He fought for honor, not for slavery.  He freed all his slaves one year before the war and kept them on wages.
Can't have the 'hero' a proud slave owner, now can't we?

Aside that, I kinda like the show so far, I think it has an interesting premise: the building of the first transcontinental railroad and the machinations behind it, similar in nature to BoardWalk Empire.

Will watch it again, see how it evolves.

I watched it. I have to say, I suspect the script is covered in Lettows semen stains and has co-author credit for Jubal Early. I stopped at the scene where the "yankees" were enjoying perverted sexual fantasies about negresses in bondage.

I do, however, find it interesting that to make a confederate acceptible as a hero they have to remove every feature which served to identify confederates and reduce him to Mel Gibson's character from "The Patriot" and give the yankees every characteristic which history has given to the confederacy.

The Mel Gibson school of historical narrative must be destroyed. 

[Eddie Teach]

Robbie Carlisle is gonna start channeling Begbie and come over to your house and kick your ass.

Yes, for a TV show (and especially compared to Grimm) it is full of star power.

Apparently, last week Once Upon a Time had 11.4 million viewers and Grimm just under 6. So they can afford to splurge a little more on the budget.

[viper37]

I do, however, find it interesting that to make a confederate acceptible as a hero they have to remove every feature which served to identify confederates and reduce him to Mel Gibson's character from "The Patriot" and give the yankees every characteristic which history has given to the confederacy.

I don't get the feeling that all yankees are scum, or that the main character even considers that.  It's just that some of them were bad, and that probably makes a better story than the opposite.
But he himself has been Gibsonified for sure

The Mel Gibson school of historical narrative must be destroyed. 

I wonder why he hasn't tought of an epic movie on that war.  Probably because there were no British

[Sophie Scholl]

Bah.  Disappointed to hear about Hell on Wheels.  Confederatard apologists.

[viper37]

Bah.  Disappointed to hear about Hell on Wheels.  Confederatard apologists.

Another review here:
http://whatculture.com/tv/tv-review-hell-on-wheels-1-1-pilot.php

[Drakken]

Someone put the whole series Peter the Great on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/user/xPTGx#p/u/10/vFtKAPEoK7

Reminds me how Maximillian Schell was fucking awesome in that series, even though he was smaller than the real Peter, and Charles XII was not the warmongering manchild buffoon we see in the series. Yet, seeing Schell as Peter executing the lot of the Streltsy lead revolters with his own hand is kinda priceless.

[Syt]

I was watching an old TNG episode yesterday, "Contagion".

According to Memory Alpha it's the first episode where Picard orders his trademark "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." Of course he receives a potted plant instead from the replicator.

I wonder if this was a shout out to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where Arthur Dent's attempt to get the Nutrimatic aboard the Heart of Gold to give him a cup of tea almost gets the crew killed because it overloads the computers, and where a bowl of petunias also makes an unexpected but very notable appearance.

[Zoupa]

Just saw most of Carrie for the first time. Fucked up 

Young Sissy Spacek though, yummy.

[Josephus]

Just saw most of Carrie for the first time. Fucked up 

Young Sissy Spacek though, yummy.

Greatest opening scene in any horror movie.

[Viking]

I've reached episode 4 of "The Jury" (a UK TV series). It is very good. 

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Watched "Face Off" ... nope not the John Woo cheese fest. This face off is far less disappointing in that it's called Face Off and is actually a Hockey movie. It is however a bigger cheese fest than Mr. Doves flying out of the cathedral's movie.

Low budget tax shelter film starring actual old school hockey players. There's tons of great crisp shot on 35 mm, mostly helmet-less hockey with the likes of Bobby Orr, Derek Sanderson, and all the Maple Laffs of the period. Included as an extra feature is the SCTV parody which is how most Canadians know the movie, actually...  Fun and sincere as all get out.

7.2 "Michael Sarrazins of Canada" drinking Molson Export in stubbies with "Chief" George Armstrong outta 10

[Liep]

Denmark excluded from the UN in the latest parks and rec episode. Excellent.

[jimmy olsen]

The approaching three musketeers film deserves some credit for being the first Clock Punk film.
That I know of anyway.
It does look potentially bad though.

The 2nd Hellboy movie had Clock Punk villains.