TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Uma Thurman was so insanely hot when she was young.

Dangerous Liaisons....drool.

Amen brother.
I remember the first time I saw her was in Baron De Manchausen. Her initial appearance, naked, coming out of the water on a shell, Venus de milo like left a deep impression on me.

[Ideologue]

I really don't get the massive hate 300 draws. I thought it was great.

Languish's snobbiness permeates all aspects of life.

This is why they needed an arbiter.  And so I came.  It's almost Christlike, when you think about it.

(The tacked on story back in Sparta is pretty awful, though.  I have no idea why Snyder chose to run with that, unless the studio demanded the movie be only 95% homoerotic, instead of 99%.)

It's a suck movie.  The only snobbishness is you insisting that you somehow see it as more than everyone else because you alone are not snobbish.

Whoa.  Meta.

[grumbler]

It's a suck movie.  The only snobbishness is you insisting that you somehow see it as more than everyone else because you alone are not snobbish. 

Yeah, it sucked.  I am normally pretty good when it comes to suspension of disbelief, but that movie went way past what I could accept.  I stopped watching after the second time the Spartans threw their spears at the Orcs and then, miraculously, had them back in their hands again.  That was, what, halfway through the battle?  Could never bother to watch the rest.

[jimmy olsen]

That's progress, in a way.   

One of my pet peeves is how monsters always have to be the same.  Werewolves are vulnerable to silver, vampires to wooden stakes, Zombies can only be killed by a shot to the brain.  These seem kinda arbitrary.  In a world where people actually believe in magic, being arbitrary works because magic is arbitrary.  It's not suppose to make sense.  But in the modern world where people try to rationalize these things it always seems silly.  Take the vampires.  Why are vampires allergic to sharp wood?  I know why legends had people stake a vampire.  It was to keep him from getting back up.  You drove a wooden stake into a vampire to pin him to the ground.  Then you cut his head off (and stuffed it with holy wafers and lit him on fire). Incidentally, the way they killed Dracula was that they cut off his head with an large knife.

Sometimes in a movie the characters will scoff at the idea of one the traditional weakness.  "You don't drive back a vampire with a crucifix.  That's silly.  You have to use garlic."  That strikes me as absurd.  Why garlic?  Will an ordinary onion work?  What about a leek?  They are pretty close to garlic.

Rhode Island has the most vampire myths in the nation and had vampire scares as late as the 1890s.

The real way to kill a vampire is to cut out its heart and burn it.

[Darth Wagtaros]

I believe the doctor in Lifeforce explained the stabbing in the heart thing.

[Josquius]

It's a suck movie.  The only snobbishness is you insisting that you somehow see it as more than everyone else because you alone are not snobbish. 

Yeah, it sucked.  I am normally pretty good when it comes to suspension of disbelief, but that movie went way past what I could accept.  I stopped watching after the second time the Spartans threw their spears at the Orcs and then, miraculously, had them back in their hands again.  That was, what, halfway through the battle?  Could never bother to watch the rest.

The thing about 300 which a lot of people miss (if I hear another wannabe internet smart guy moan about it being not historically accurate....) is that it is some Spartan guy telling the story of what happened.
Ancient story tellers were big on their exaggeration and inconsistency. He is very much an unreliable narrator.
That's a big thing I like about 300; its just the sort of film the Spartans would have made.

[11B4V]

It's a suck movie.  The only snobbishness is you insisting that you somehow see it as more than everyone else because you alone are not snobbish. 

Yeah, it sucked.  I am normally pretty good when it comes to suspension of disbelief, but that movie went way past what I could accept.  I stopped watching after the second time the Spartans threw their spears at the Orcs and then, miraculously, had them back in their hands again.  That was, what, halfway through the battle?  Could never bother to watch the rest.

The thing about 300 which a lot of people miss (if I hear another wannabe internet smart guy moan about it being not historically accurate....) is that it is some Spartan guy telling the story of what happened.
Ancient story tellers were big on their exaggeration and inconsistency. He is very much an unreliable narrator.
That's a big thing I like about 300; its just the sort of film the Spartans would have made.

I respect your opinion on 300. To me it's an abomination.

I just seen the trailer for Red Tails.  Not impressed.

[11B4V]

Here's the only decent "300" movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qKD-Ph7ds

[garbon]

Here's the only decent "300" movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qKD-Ph7ds

I'm not even sure why they made that.

[garbon]

Statistics prove that Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain are, together, directly responsible for the majority of mental illness in the United States.

I think I said it before but I think Requiem would have made an impression on me if I had been in my early/mid-teens. As it was, meh.

[garbon]

It's a suck movie.  The only snobbishness is you insisting that you somehow see it as more than everyone else because you alone are not snobbish. 

Yeah, it sucked.  I am normally pretty good when it comes to suspension of disbelief, but that movie went way past what I could accept.  I stopped watching after the second time the Spartans threw their spears at the Orcs and then, miraculously, had them back in their hands again.  That was, what, halfway through the battle?  Could never bother to watch the rest.

I just thought it was supposed to be visual erotica with some kinky violence thrown in.

[11B4V]

I did get another watching of this. Smashing good show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODM1RJe4FvQ

[Ideologue]

Statistics prove that Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain are, together, directly responsible for the majority of mental illness in the United States.

I think I said it before but I think Requiem would have made an impression on me if I had been in my early/mid-teens. As it was, meh.

Huh.  Why then, but not later?

[garbon]

Statistics prove that Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain are, together, directly responsible for the majority of mental illness in the United States.

I think I said it before but I think Requiem would have made an impression on me if I had been in my early/mid-teens. As it was, meh.

Huh.  Why then, but not later?

I'd already been desensitized later.

[Ideologue]

The only thing I didn't like was that it had the nerve to put the involuntary, likely long-term confinement of three of the leads (and the maiming of Jared Leto's character) on the same level as doing some sex work.  Connolly got off way easier than the others.