TV/Movies Megathread

[Neil]

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.

Yeah.  It was man-against-man.  The whole plot of a 70s spy movie is accomplished in a matter of seconds in a montage of satellite photos in a more modern film.  The remainder is filled in with gunshots and explosions, with an occasional footchase.

[Ideologue]

Men In Black 3: good fun, but the ending is total bullshit.

[Eddie Teach]

The remainder is filled in with gunshots and explosions, with an occasional footchase.

Nothing wrong with those things. 

[The Brain]

The remainder is filled in with gunshots and explosions, with an occasional footchase.

Nothing wrong with those things. 

OK, Mart.

[Neil]

The remainder is filled in with gunshots and explosions, with an occasional footchase.

Nothing wrong with those things. 

In moderation, sure.  But the modern world and film industry have overindulged.  People aren't interested in a movie where someone figures something out anymore, because in this day and age information is simply presented to us with the click of a mouse.

[Berkut]

Watched about an hour of the first episode of the  Hatfield and McCoys things on History Channel. Then the wife was tired as we will watch the rest tonight.

[Malthus]

Watched about an hour of the first episode of the  Hatfield and McCoys things on History Channel. Then the wife was tired as we will watch the rest tonight.

Lemme guess - they don't get along. 

[Josephus]

Watched about an hour of the first episode of the  Hatfield and McCoys things on History Channel. Then the wife was tired as we will watch the rest tonight.

Lemme guess - they don't get along. 

thanks for spoiling it for me.

[Sheilbh]

Just watched the trailer for the Great Gatsby.  Looks.....good.

[katmai]

Watched about an hour of the first episode of the  Hatfield and McCoys things on History Channel. Then the wife was tired as we will watch the rest tonight.

Lemme guess - they don't get along. 

thanks for spoiling it for me.

another spoiler for ya....



They filmed it in Romania.

[Ed Anger]

 

[FunkMonk]

Just watched the trailer for the Great Gatsby.  Looks.....good.

I watched that a few days ago and I was not amused.

[Habbaku]

Just watched the trailer for the Great Gatsby.  Looks.....good.

Like the novel, it will no doubt be atrocious.

[Ideologue]

Just watched the trailer for the Great Gatsby.  Looks.....good.

Like the novel, it will no doubt be atrocious.

You disgust me.

Sheilbh, I'm with you.  It looked great.  That chick playing whom I guess is probably Jordan Baker?  Let's just say the theater floor is even stickier.

Also, it's timely and stuff.

[Josquius]

The Curse of Steptoe- Cool little one hour long BBC piece about the making of Steptoe and Son. The son didn't like being typecast and having his career as a serious actor hurt. The dad's problems were more with being gay.