TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Also why is the 70s so perfect for these types of thrillers, even in retrospect like in Tinker Tailor.

Because audiences were still expected to think back then, and they could.

[Admiral Yi]

Because audiences were still expected to think back then, and they could.

He's talking about movies set in the 70's, not made in the 70's.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Going Postal (Discworld) was bitchin super awesome.

Re-watched Dodgeball af ew weeksa go, it was excellent.

[CountDeMoney]

Because audiences were still expected to think back then, and they could.

He's talking about movies set in the 70's, not made in the 70's.

Eh, OK.  Thought he was talking about the first Tinker Tailor with Alec Guiness.

[Josephus]

The most recent episode of MadMen was the best of a somewhat disappointing season.

[Eddie Teach]

Because audiences were still expected to think back then, and they could.

He's talking about movies set in the 70's, not made in the 70's.

Detente?

[Capetan Mihali]

Sam Peckinpah's 1969 Western The Wild Bunch.    Good fun for bad people.

[11B4V]

Sam Peckinpah's 1969 Western The Wild Bunch.    Good fun for bad people.

[Ideologue]

Apocalypto is worth watching. For sure. Great chase scene, but also the opening stuff on the pyramids is pretty cool. Great scenery and story telling overall.
Just cause Mel Gibson is an angry Jew hater --and who isn't?-- doesn't mean he can't make good movies still. I still want to watch Beaver some day.

I enjoyed The Passion of the Christ, except for the tacked on happy ending.

[11B4V]

Apocalypto is worth watching. For sure. Great chase scene, but also the opening stuff on the pyramids is pretty cool. Great scenery and story telling overall.
Just cause Mel Gibson is an angry Jew hater --and who isn't?-- doesn't mean he can't make good movies still. I still want to watch Beaver some day.

I enjoyed The Passion of the Christ, except for the tacked on happy ending.

Never seen that.

[Sheilbh]

Because audiences were still expected to think back then, and they could.

He's talking about movies set in the 70's, not made in the 70's.

Eh, OK.  Thought he was talking about the first Tinker Tailor with Alec Guiness.

Both work actually.  And The American Friend was made (and set) in the 70s too. 

[Josephus]

Apocalypto is worth watching. For sure. Great chase scene, but also the opening stuff on the pyramids is pretty cool. Great scenery and story telling overall.
Just cause Mel Gibson is an angry Jew hater --and who isn't?-- doesn't mean he can't make good movies still. I still want to watch Beaver some day.

I enjoyed The Passion of the Christ, except for the tacked on happy ending.

Yup. I liked that too. Lots of the old ultra violence.

[CountDeMoney]

Well, going back to Neil's premise as to why the '60s and '70s make such a great platform for espionage movies is probably due to the fact that the nexus of human intelligence gathering and over-reliability on technology hadn't fully clashed.
Look at The Conversation, Three Days of The Condor, Marathon Man--technology is an adjunct, not the centerpiece, like it is in the thrillers of the '80s and onward.  Back then, it was still a brain game.

[Duque de Bragança]

Sam Peckinpah's 1969 Western The Wild Bunch.    Good fun for bad people.

A fave of mine too, I'd love to watch it in a cinémathèque.
Probably my favourite western now actually.

[Syt]

Re-watched "Firefox" with Clint Eastwood.

Hadn't watched the movie since I came to Vienna. So it's weird now to see the Viennese subway and adjoined areas masquerading as Moscow.