TV/Movies Megathread

[Josquius]

Iron Sky- I knew it would be a bit of a crappy dissapointment but not quite in this way....the German chick was cuter than expected though. Cute voice. Overall very meh.

Gulliver's Travels- The Jack Black one. Not as awful as I'd heard. Not great but so-so.

[Malthus]

4.  Because, as is usual for the genre, wise precaution and clever thinking would make for a short, dull movie.

Bah, monsters are even more scary when they defeat clever protagonists through overwhelming brawn or wit.

Spoilers below.


Put me in the camp of those who thought it was a fun movie, in spite of all its glaring faults.

Many of those faults were I think due to lazy scriptwriting, where the writer wanted to move the action from A to B and could see no way to do so sufficiently quickly without the crew behaving foolishly or implausibly.

For example - it makes no sense for Prometheus to simply land somwhere on the planet without a full scan taking a lot of time, and just sort of randomly land right next to the important artifact. But it saves time.

Similarly, it makes no sense for a woman to engage in strenuous action immediately after major abdominal surgery. Nor does it make sense for her to assault the crewmembers taking her to hypersleep, conduct surgery on herself (removing an alien squid-baby), and have neither her nor they even mention this when they all meet up again. If I had a squid-baby removed, I'd be "mentioning" it all over the place!

But again, it saves time - the writers want to move on to the next scene. No time to resolve the "WTF I JUST HAD A SQUIDBABY" thing.

My take: that the filmmakers were more interested in both the big themes (conflict between parent and child, creation and creator) and in creating a visually stunning thrill ride, than in making either the setting or characters sensible. Those who like the movie do so because they find the themes engaging and the thrills exciting. Those who dislike the movie do so because they can't enjoy the big themes or the thrills when neither the setting nor the characters make any sense. That's why the film creates so much argument.

Me, I enjoyed it. But I can certainly see why some do not.

[Scipio]

4.  Because, as is usual for the genre, wise precaution and clever thinking would make for a short, dull movie.

Bah, monsters are even more scary when they defeat clever protagonists through overwhelming brawn or wit.

Spoilers below.


Put me in the camp of those who thought it was a fun movie, in spite of all its glaring faults.

Many of those faults were I think due to lazy scriptwriting, where the writer wanted to move the action from A to B and could see no way to do so sufficiently quickly without the crew behaving foolishly or implausibly.

For example - it makes no sense for Prometheus to simply land somwhere on the planet without a full scan taking a lot of time, and just sort of randomly land right next to the important artifact. But it saves time.

Similarly, it makes no sense for a woman to engage in strenuous action immediately after major abdominal surgery. Nor does it make sense for her to assault the crewmembers taking her to hypersleep, conduct surgery on herself (removing an alien squid-baby), and have neither her nor they even mention this when they all meet up again. If I had a squid-baby removed, I'd be "mentioning" it all over the place!

But again, it saves time - the writers want to move on to the next scene. No time to resolve the "WTF I JUST HAD A SQUIDBABY" thing.

My take: that the filmmakers were more interested in both the big themes (conflict between parent and child, creation and creator) and in creating a visually stunning thrill ride, than in making either the setting or characters sensible. Those who like the movie do so because they find the themes engaging and the thrills exciting. Those who dislike the movie do so because they can't enjoy the big themes or the thrills when neither the setting nor the characters make any sense. That's why the film creates so much argument.

Me, I enjoyed it. But I can certainly see why some do not.

Maybe Scott felt like he didn't want to make Dances with Alien (after Dances with Muslims and Dances with Saxons and Dances with Harlem and Dances with Romans).

[Admiral Yi]

You Annette Benning fans have to see Grifters.  She is shrieking hot in that and bounces around the screen all nuded up.

[Scipio]

You Annette Benning fans have to see Grifters.  She is shrieking hot in that and bounces around the screen all nuded up.

PLus, that is super-creepy ossum Cusackian/Huston freaky-deaky nutjob con-artistry.  And surprise bonus Pat Hingle crime boss.

[Josephus]

The Killing (US). Over, finally.

[CountDeMoney]

The Killing (US). Over, finally.

OOOH DONT SAY NUFFIN IM STILL 3 EPISODES BEHIND KNOCKING IT OUT TONIGHT

[katmai]

It was suicide!

[Habbaku]

The Killing (US). Over, finally.

Is that it for the show?  I haven't watched a single episode, but if it's only got two seasons and will only ever have two seasons...

[Habbaku]

It was suicide!

The victim was the killer all along!

[CountDeMoney]

SON OF A

[katmai]

The Killing (US). Over, finally.

Is that it for the show?  I haven't watched a single episode, but if it's only got two seasons and will only ever have two seasons...

TBD. Amc hasn't made an announcement.

[Josephus]

The Killing (US). Over, finally.

OOOH DONT SAY NUFFIN IM STILL 3 EPISODES BEHIND KNOCKING IT OUT TONIGHT

It was the butler.

D"oh.

[Josephus]

 Better joke:

We don't find out who killed Rosie. We have to wait for S.3

[Eddie Teach]

I knew Linden was crazy, but spending a month investigating a murder without realizing she was the killer was a bit hard to swallow.