TV/Movies Megathread

[Darth Wagtaros]

Awake was weird.  Ok but hard to follow, mostly because its hard to care.

[Josquius]

Just finished watching the pilot episode of Awake on Hulu. The show doesn't actually premiere until tomorrow night (March 1st), but they gave a full preview of it ahead of time.

I remember seeing a trailer for that absolutely ages ago....thought it had been out already. Shall investigate!

[HVC]

Goon was surprisingly good.

[Liep]

Easy A. Lead actress was hot, talented and funny. Supporting cast was good except for the religious nuts who were charactarized beyond the funny.

7 slutty outfits for Emma Stone out of 10.

[Neil]

Non mon ami. I'm not a big fan of blood and gore, I just didn't feel engaged by any of the characters.

Since the source material is supposedly quite good, I blame poor acting skills.

The source material isn't really that great.

[FunkMonk]

Saw Lawrence of Arabia on TMC tonight.  TMC being TMC, they left the musical interlude and the entre 'e acte in.

Best.  Movie.  Ever.

Good man.

[Sheilbh]

Easy A. Lead actress was hot, talented and funny. Supporting cast was good except for the religious nuts who were charactarized beyond the funny.

7 slutty outfits for Emma Stone out of 10.

I love Stanley Tucci in that.  I think it's probably the best high school comedy since Mean Girls.

[Eddie Teach]

High school comedies just ain't as fun as they used to be. 

[Lettow77]

They cancelled Hijinx of the Masses 

[Ideologue]

Just finished watching the pilot episode of Awake on Hulu. The show doesn't actually premiere until tomorrow night (March 1st), but they gave a full preview of it ahead of time.

The basic situation is that a detective (Jason Isaacs--Lucius Malfoy, Colonel Tavington) gets into a car wreck with both his wife and son as passengers. He awakens from the wreck to find one of them dead and the other alive and proceeds with his life. The only trouble? Every time he goes to sleep, he wakes up with the deceased/living reversed.

In addition to the topsy-turvy situations that's creating with the psychiatrists he's being forced to go to in each reality, he also has different partners and different cases...only, information from a case in one world is starting to bleed over in small ways into the other.

I thought it was excellent for a pilot and can only hope that the rest of the season holds up to the standard.

Amusingly, the first episode is directed by the same guy that directed one of the Twilight movies. Wut.

Fortunately, the showrunner is none other than Howard Gordon--one of the main writers/showrunners of Homeland.

I saw an ad for it the other day.  It looks cool, but I was surprised that it was a TV show, not a movie.  I'm not sure the premise has the stamina for that.

[CountDeMoney]

I saw an ad for it the other day.  It looks cool, but I was surprised that it was a TV show, not a movie.  I'm not sure the premise has the stamina for that.

Yeah, it struck me the same way.  Even though he'll be doing stuff like different cases with different partners in each consciousness, after a while it'd be like, Oh it's Tuesday, I get the wife today.

[mongers]

Still watching old movies not so good on Netflicks, though I thought 'The Contract' with Morgan Freeman and John Cusack was passable.

[Liep]

Chinatown. First time I've seen it and now can not explain or justify why that is. Excellent.

9 legendary movie quotes I've never fully understood till now out of 10.

[CountDeMoney]

Chinatown. First time I've seen it and now can not explain or justify why that is. Excellent.

Jesus H Christ, Liep.  Better late than ever, I suppose.

[Eddie Teach]

I've never fully understood what movie critics and Languish think is so great about that movie.