TV/Movies Megathread

[Drakken]

Saw both Yojimbo and Sanjuro on the big screen at the theater last Friday. Loved the experience.

While Toshiro Mifune is of course awesome as the proto-Man With No Name, in both movies I was thoroughly surprised seeing a very young Tatsuya Nakadai - and loved it, especially in Yojimbo as the gun-totting Unosuke.

[Ideologue]

Three Ernest movies for five bucks!

OMG which one first?  I choose: Goes to Camp.

They should put these back on the big screen.  For the experience.

[FunkMonk]

Three Ernest movies for five bucks!

OMG which one first?  I choose: Goes to Camp.

They should put these back on the big screen.  For the experience.

Goes to Jail is my personal favorite.

[Tonitrus]

Three Ernest movies for five bucks!

OMG which one first?  I choose: Goes to Camp.

They should put these back on the big screen.  For the experience.

Goes to Jail is my personal favorite.

Saves Christmas.

[Tonitrus]

Actually, "Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam".

[CountDeMoney]

Three Ernest movies for five bucks!

OMG which one first?  I choose: Goes to Camp.

They should put these back on the big screen.  For the experience.

Goes to Jail is my personal favorite.

Saves Christmas.

Goes To Jail. 

[Ed Anger]

They just showed a commercial for Mundo Fox. Everything looks....cheap. UK TV cheap, maybe worse.

[Tonitrus]

"Tomorrow, When the War Began"

Plucky Australian teenagers fight a guerrilla war against generic Asian (i.e. ChiComs) invaders who want to grab Oz's resources.

2 "not-quite-Wolverines" out of 5.

[FunkMonk]

They just showed a commercial for Mundo Fox. Everything looks....cheap. UK TV cheap, maybe worse.

Americano Como Tú

[Ed Anger]

They just showed a commercial for Mundo Fox. Everything looks....cheap. UK TV cheap, maybe worse.

Americano Como Tú

I don't think so.

[11B4V]

Hunger Games...not too bad.

[Ideologue]

Gog (1954).  Enjoy a guided tour of some boring ass science city in the desert.  Spoiler: you know the giant vacuum tube monstrosity that is killing the scientists, that you just know in your brain's heart has become sapient and evil and is going to AM all over these dull motherfuckers?  Nah, it was some Soviet agents we never see, in a rocket plane we never see, beaming a signal into the "super brain" that did it.  Because it was built in Switzerland?  This movie sucked.  Oh, and Gog is the name of a robot servitor, not the computer that isn't even the antagonist anyway.  It's defeated with a flamethrower.  Because steel melts when you throw flames at it.  It's pretty pathetic really.  Fuck this shit.  D+

P.S.: did people in the 1950s have a greater tolerance for extended periods of shrill, loud, annoying noise?  There's some parts in this that gave me a headache.

Beast With a Million Eyes (1955).  An alien that jumps from body to body tries to take over people, but is ultimately defeated through the power of love.  Not bad.  C+

Village of the Damned (1960).  You all know this one.  One of the best of its breed.  A  But I liked the 1990 one better.

Explorers (1985).  Starring a young Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix before he became a ghost.  Also--Robert Picardo was the alien?  I've seen this move like twenty times and I just found this out.  Anyway, this isn't the best movie, but from the perspective of craft, I think it may be the most perfect adventure film ever made.  The process of discovery is extraordinarily well done, the Jerry Goldsmith score is sublime and unfortunately underappreciated (as is the whole film), despite focusing almost excusively on child actors the acting is nevertheless top notch, there is almost no fat to the narrative--nothing that does not either reveal character or advance the action, and nothing that is not entertaining--and everything works.  Even the dumb parts.  A+ one billion

It's bizarre and maybe a little sad that the Goonies--with which Explorers has a great deal in common, but is better than--is a piece of ineradicable Americana, while this movie may one day be forgotten.  Not to take anything away from the Goonies, but if I had to choose one, it'd be Explorers.  Without hesitation.

Also, it has Ethan Hawke.  The best Goonies could deliver was Corey Feldman; and I don't even know who the fuck that Mikey kid was, and neither do you.

[Eddie Teach]

The Goonies will be forgotten too. Shit, I watched it a couple months ago and have forgotten most of it.

[Ed Anger]

I really need to stop watching Bar Rescue.

The kitchen: 
The bar: 
Dead rodents: 

[citizen k]

The best ... and I don't even know who the fuck that Mikey kid was, and neither do you.

Samwise Gamgee