TV/Movies Megathread

[Razgovory]

I took my Dad to the Avengers movie for father's day.  He likes films like that.  I kept wondering why they needed a team when just one of them was able to best the villain.  They just sorta took turns kicking his ass.  It was like Wile E. Coyote as a super villain.

[Syt]

Picked up two blu rays today:

1. Cross of Iron. One of the favorite movies of my dad's, so I watched it countless times as a kid (though his favorite was A Bridge Too Far which he watched once a month - he died shortly before Saving Private Ryan came out). The movie still has one of the best into sequences of any war movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yJ0xB9Mqss&feature=related

2. Thin Red Line.

[Darth Wagtaros]

The Hangover. Was OK I guess. not sure that it was as funny as e3veryone was saying it was.

[Admiral Yi]

1. Cross of Iron. One of the favorite movies of my dad's, so I watched it countless times as a kid (though his favorite was A Bridge Too Far which he watched once a month - he died shortly before Saving Private Ryan came out). The movie still has one of the best into sequences of any war movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yJ0xB9Mqss&feature=related

The battle scenes are as silly as the battle scenes in Ran.  Peckinpah was a hack.

[Duque de Bragança]

Picked up two blu rays today:

1. Cross of Iron. One of the favorite movies of my dad's, so I watched it countless times as a kid (though his favorite was A Bridge Too Far which he watched once a month - he died shortly before Saving Private Ryan came out). The movie still has one of the best into sequences of any war movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yJ0xB9Mqss&feature=related

Featuring the great late Klaus Löwitsch seen in Die Welt am Draht, Derrick and Peter Strohm 

[The Brain]

Picked up two blu rays today:

1. Cross of Iron. One of the favorite movies of my dad's, so I watched it countless times as a kid (though his favorite was A Bridge Too Far which he watched once a month - he died shortly before Saving Private Ryan came out). The movie still has one of the best into sequences of any war movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yJ0xB9Mqss&feature=related

Great = the intro, the hospital, and the end. The rest of the movie is totally meh.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Finished Seasons 1 and 2 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. 

[Admiral Yi]

Finished Seasons 1 and 2 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

That show would be so much better if it had just one reasonable looking chick on it.

[Admiral Yi]

Saw the tail end of Hangover Deux.  I didn't hear a single funny line.

[Ideologue]

Welcome to the NHK, or Ideologue and Lettow Make a Porno Game.

Pretty funny, though, and it's basic contempt for otaku culture is pretty great.

A fine show, but I am surprised you are watching it. I wasn't aware it was your sort of thing. The ending song is excellent.

It's been something I've been meaning to watch for a while, then I found it on the Youtube.  I'm glad I didn't watch it when I was basically a hikokimori myself, as I expect it would have been rather depressing.

I'm about two-thirds through; the show runs out of steam a little bit after the offline meeting on the island, although that part was pretty golden.  It's still okay, I just hate everything to do with MMORPGs, and I hope that part doesn't dominate the rest of the run (I doubt it will, since it involves work and Satou is the laziest man on Mars).

Anyway, one thing really does bug me about the whole thing.  This guy has been unemployed and living without human contact for nearly years at the beginning of the show, right?  He's Japanese, he has the Internet.  But it takes the Lettow of the East to tell him that cartoon porn exists?  I mean, come the fuck on.  That part was kind of implausible.

[viper37]

Saw the tail end of Hangover Deux.  I didn't hear a single funny line.

it's mostly the same jokes from #1, albeit they've gone further.  A transexual hooker instead of a regulard hooker, a monkey instead of a baby, etc,etc.

[Duque de Bragança]

A Better Tomorrow http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092263/ The first "Bullet Ballet" masterpiece by John Woo.
Seen at last on the big screen! Liked it more than on video as it had happened with Hard Boiled.
Next week: The Killer...

[mongers]

Tried watching 'Life After People' , gave up after 3 minutes:

God Damn that must be the single most stupid ever for a 'documentary' series. 

Why not have a series 'Life after everyone lost their right arm, all carnivores became herbivores and visa versa' ?   

[Scipio]

A Better Tomorrow http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092263/ The first "Bullet Ballet" masterpiece by John Woo.
Seen at last on the big screen! Liked it more than on video as it had happened with Hard Boiled.
Next week: The Killer...

I recommend A Better Tomorrow 2.  Superior in every way, except plausibility, rationality, and reality.

[mongers]

Watched Pink Floyd's 'Live At Pompeii'.  Simple idea, well executed.