TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Jar-Jar Binks is still in it. Until they excise him away, that movie will not be close to worth watching.

[Duque de Bragança]

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You know, for all the tinkering Lucas has done with his films, at least he hasn't matched Spielberg for idiocy.

I mean, remember when he re-edited E.T., and removed the guns and shotguns from the hands of the FBI at the end of the film during the chase?  He didn't want the FBI to seem too threatening to a bunch of children.

Dude, it's the FBI.  In reality, they'd definitely bring shotguns to a bicycle chase with 10 year olds and a harmless alien.  They're the FBI.  That's why the FBI has the reputation it does.

I'm waiting for when he redoes Schindler's List, and replaces all the MP-44s with accordions.

However, unlike Lucas, Spielberg does not go out of his way against original versions cf. E. T (both cuts on DVD) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (the three cuts are available on blu-ray).
Furthermore, the original versions quality is comparable to the newer cut, unlike Lucas for its Special crappy editions with outdated lasersdisc transfers (even for Laserdisc he chose bad transfers below par for that format).

[Razgovory]

I think he wants to maintain the impression that the SS was threatening to children.  He's not going to kiss up to the SS like he would the FBI.  If you look at the real life FBI's response plan for 'Ten-year old kids riding bikes with a harmless alien', you'd see 'Blast 'em with a LAW'.

That's how the show "ALF" ended.

[Eddie Teach]

Pulling a Yi, just caught the last couple minutes of Fight Club. Great movie.


(Ok, so I already saw it ten or fifteen years ago.)

[Darth Wagtaros]

I think he wants to maintain the impression that the SS was threatening to children.  He's not going to kiss up to the SS like he would the FBI.  If you look at the real life FBI's response plan for 'Ten-year old kids riding bikes with a harmless alien', you'd see 'Blast 'em with a LAW'.

That's how the show "ALF" ended.

Only good thing about that series.

[Josephus]

Walking Dead is really good. When the last episode ended I looked at my watch, incredulous that an hour had passed. And according to a trailer for next week, we're in for a shitload of zombies.

[Habbaku]

Agreed.  Last night's episode continued the streak of quality bits from TWD.  Hope they can keep it up for the next four.

[CountDeMoney]

Walking Dead is really good. When the last episode ended I looked at my watch, incredulous that an hour had passed. And according to a trailer for next week, we're in for a shitload of zombies.

Do you watch the talk show The Talking Dead that comes on right after a new episode?  They had the writer with them last week, said the "Zombie Quotient" gets ratcheted up substantially over the rest of this season's episodes.

[Josquius]

Good.
Though I totally forgot about The Walking Dead yesterday, shall have to hunt for it today.

[Martinus]

So, judging from the last night's episode of Glee, Ryan Murphy just misses American Horror Story.

[Sheilbh]

The Class.  Good.  So much better for being French than Hollywood on the same subject. 

Whoever designed the marketing should be fired.  The poster prepares you for a high school comedy.  A Jean Hugues film:

Which would be great, but The Class isn't really anything like that. 

[Admiral Yi]

Watched a tiny bit of Shaolin Soccer the other night.  Same dude as Kung Fu Hustle, so I was expecting more brilliance.  It was crap.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Watched a tiny bit of Shaolin Soccer the other night.  Same dude as Kung Fu Hustle, so I was expecting more brilliance.  It was crap.

Yeah. I tried it the other ngiht.

[Ideologue]

G.I. Joe: The Movie.  The cartoon, that is.  Good fun.  It compares unfavorably to the Transformers movie, but what doesn't?  I really liked the inclusion of such a bizarre element as Cobra-La.  A bridge that eats people?  Remarkable.

[Admiral Yi]

The Zookeeper.  I was pleasantly surprised.  Some good gags, and the animal effects were flawless.