TV/Movies Megathread

[jimmy olsen]

Clock Punk?

Just looked it up.  Apparently like Steampunk, but set during the Renaissance period and using clockwork and gear powered inventions of an advanced nature instead of steam powered.

"Punk" and "Renaissance" don't seem to naturally go together in my mind.  I have a hard time imagining the Sex Pistols in 15th century Florence.

A lot of people seem to forget the 'punk' part of steampunk, cyberpunk and 'clockpunk'.  If you're not fighting 'The Man', it's not the right genre.

Odd comment coming from someone who always sides with 'The Man'.

[Neil]

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.

No it didn't.  'Punk' is a critical part of 'clockpunk'.

[Neil]

Clock Punk?

Just looked it up.  Apparently like Steampunk, but set during the Renaissance period and using clockwork and gear powered inventions of an advanced nature instead of steam powered.

"Punk" and "Renaissance" don't seem to naturally go together in my mind.  I have a hard time imagining the Sex Pistols in 15th century Florence.

A lot of people seem to forget the 'punk' part of steampunk, cyberpunk and 'clockpunk'.  If you're not fighting 'The Man', it's not the right genre.

Odd comment coming from someone who always sides with 'The Man'.

Why is that an odd comment?  Just because I side with the forces of law and order doesn't mean that I don't know how to define things.

[Razgovory]

Curiously, in recently discovered copies of some of Leonardo De Vinci's note books it appears that he actually invented The Clash centuries before the British reinvented it in the 1970's.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Rifftrax of THOR.  Better than the movie without the traxx.

[Queequeg]

EDIT:  It also may be the nadir of the treatment of the Holocaust in popular culture.  It's success seems to say:  if you want to make a movie about the joys of graphically torturing and killing human beings, just make it vengeance for the Holocaust and nobody can really criticize it.  When it is the same attitudes of celebrating brutality that enabled the Holocaust in the first place.     Genuinely saddening from a talented director and cast with tons of Hollywood money at their disposal.

The final scene-where the Nazi leadership, together with their wives, mistresses and presumably family, is locked in a room and burned to death-made me feel physically ill. 

[Josquius]

I'm watching the second series of Pete Vs. Life.
It...it...is quite funny yet....the way it so closely follows the sitcom plot cliche every episode annoys me.
So many sitcoms seem to follow this pattern way too much- loser guy gets a new lucky break, has a few encounters with different people, everything seems to be going well, till oh no, all the encounters come together in a very unlikely and disasterous way which sends him back to supreme loserdom.

[Zoupa]

EDIT:  It also may be the nadir of the treatment of the Holocaust in popular culture.  It's success seems to say:  if you want to make a movie about the joys of graphically torturing and killing human beings, just make it vengeance for the Holocaust and nobody can really criticize it.  When it is the same attitudes of celebrating brutality that enabled the Holocaust in the first place.     Genuinely saddening from a talented director and cast with tons of Hollywood money at their disposal.

The final scene-where the Nazi leadership, together with their wives, mistresses and presumably family, is locked in a room and burned to death-made me feel physically ill.

[Habsburg]

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Durkin 2011)

Pretty astounding freshman work from Durkin, centered with a great turn by Olsen.
Atmospheric and haunting work. Well acted and well shot.  It's no Winter's Bone, but a good ride. 80/100.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Scott Pilgrim Versus the World. Awesome.

Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny. Too weird for words.

[Ideologue]

Did you watch the Rifftrax, Wags?

Even with Mike, Kevin and Bill, that movie gave me a headache.

[Josephus]

Watched The Way Back. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023114/

Supposedly based on the true story of a 1941 breakout from a gulag and the escapees' trek to India. Pretty good.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Rifftrax.  Yes.  Fucking insane.  The Thumbelina girl was fairly attractive though.

[Razgovory]

Watched The Way Back. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023114/

Supposedly based on the true story of a 1941 breakout from a gulag and the escapees' trek to India. Pretty good.

It's not a true story.

[CountDeMoney]

Scott Pilgrim Versus the World. Awesome.

Incredibly awesome, on multiple levels after repeated viewings.