TV/Movies Megathread

[katmai]

Really?  But it's all ludefisky.

Hey, wait a minute--whatever happened to Norgy?

[Ideologue]

I just ain't seen him in a while.

[katmai]

He's joined the long list of people who are around, just don't visit Languish much anymore

[Ideologue]

You're more than welcome to offer your incorrect opinion about what is, then, Edward.

(I will concede Memento was likely the most technically challenging.)

The Dark Knight. Or Inception. Heck, even Memento. I can barely remember The Prestige, other than the silly "twist".

It's about obsession.

And Dark Knight?  No.  Great performance by Ledger, some great scenes, but a little silly, and overlong.

Inception is really very good, but feels like it missed its potential.  It's his second best though.

[CountDeMoney]

And Dark Knight?  No.  Great performance by Ledger, some great scenes, but a little silly, and overlong.

Wrong.

[Neil]

I thought it was too small a story for a feature movie,

Have you ever talked to anybody that was around when it happened?  Too small a story?  The networks were dumping regular programming for extended coverage of it. It was national fucking crisis for 3 days. Too small a fucking story?

MTV and 9/11 has broken your brain, kid.

It's easy for people under a certain age to forget that the space program used to be important, and humanity had aspirations beypnd appearing on American Idol.

[Neil]

But my question is why no Prestige?  Seriously, easily his best film, where the fuck is it?

Sometimes you suck.

[Ideologue]

I had no idea this forum was a festering pit of hatred for one of the better films of the 2000s.  Very sad.

[Ideologue]

I thought it was too small a story for a feature movie,

Have you ever talked to anybody that was around when it happened?  Too small a story?  The networks were dumping regular programming for extended coverage of it. It was national fucking crisis for 3 days. Too small a fucking story?

MTV and 9/11 has broken your brain, kid.

It's easy for people under a certain age to forget that the space program used to be important, and humanity had aspirations beypnd appearing on American Idol.

Yes, but what does this have to do with Admiral Yi?

[Josquius]

Episodes- It amuses me. Joey's stalker is pretty.

[Duque de Bragança]

The Killer. Despite the rough state of the print (first reel and distorted high frequencies) I'm glad I could see in a cinema at last.
Still the best by John Woo.

[Josephus]

Episodes- It amuses me. Joey's stalker is pretty.

Labia?

[frunk]

I had no idea this forum was a festering pit of hatred for one of the better films of the 2000s.  Very sad.

The Prestige is pretty good, but I wouldn't call it his best flick by far.  Just about all of the characters in the Prestige come off as jerks (except for the David Bowie Tesla, he was awesome) of one sort or another.  Some of the plot points are thoroughly obvious yet still confusing due to muddled dialogue and unclear shooting.  It wasn't like a great stage trick or a grand illusion, they just mumbled into their sleeve and went tada!

Compare that to Memento, where a potentially very confusing movie was quite clear and made perfect sense. 

[Josquius]

Episodes- It amuses me. Joey's stalker is pretty.

Labia?

Yes.
Though by pretty I largely mean "BBC boobies! Woot!"

[FunkMonk]

The One True List of Great Christopher Nolan Movies:
(ranked in order of greatness)

• The Prestige
• Memento
• Everything else