TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

 

"How's the family?"
"Oh, fine.  My son's bisexual.  Thanks for asking."

GATOR NEEDS SOME WALKING AROUND MONEY

[Eddie Teach]

They just weirdly failed to tie it all up into a good movie.  I sorta think of it as a series of funny-as-balls skits.

Generally the less time a comedy movie spends developing its meta-plot, the better. Those parts almost always tend to be cliched and not very funny.

[dps]

Didn't see that one. All I can say is 21 Jump Street actually had some funny lines and I wasn't expecting that.

As in you weren't expecting it to be a comedy, or as in you weren't expecting it to actually succeed in being funny?

[derspiess]

"How's the family?"
"Oh, fine.  My son's bisexual.  Thanks for asking."

His resentfulness at having to moonlight at Bed Bath & Beyond so his kid can "find himself" was a good recurring joke.

[derspiess]

They just weirdly failed to tie it all up into a good movie.  I sorta think of it as a series of funny-as-balls skits.

Generally the less time a comedy movie spends developing its meta-plot, the better. Those parts almost always tend to be cliched and not very funny.

Yeah, but there are funny movies with weak plots that I would still call good movies.  There's just something about The Other Guys that makes it hilarious yet still not a good movie, per se.

[garbon]

Didn't see that one. All I can say is 21 Jump Street actually had some funny lines and I wasn't expecting that.

As in you weren't expecting it to be a comedy, or as in you weren't expecting it to actually succeed in being funny?

The latter. I thought it would be lame but it actually entertained.

[FunkMonk]

Paths of Glory on TCM right now. 

"There are times when I am ashamed to be a member of he human race, and this is one such occasion."

[FunkMonk]

Back to School on AMC 

[CountDeMoney]

Paths of Glory on TCM right now. 

"There are times when I am ashamed to be a member of he human race, and this is one such occasion."

No shit, watching it on a channel with commercial interruption.

[Ideologue]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984).  Traditionally my favorite of the Indiana Jones franchise, after this recent viewing nothing has changed.  Although what I had forgotten is how much of this movie is straight-up fucking horrifying.  You know, people give Willie shit, and she is a little annoying, but that woman is easily the most heroic character in the film.  You know what would have happened if Indy and Short Round had gotten caught in that death trap behind the cockroach-and-centipede nest and the only one who could save them was me?  A forty minute movie would've happened.  Fuck you, Dr. Jones, I ain't putting my hand in there.  Oh, also there are some parts about child slavery and the flayed skin of human beings, which I suppose are also scary.  A+

Outland (1981).  Sean Connery is a cop, in space.  He's a good cop.  Everyone else is a bad cop, or a bad mining facility administrator, or a bad dancer, except for one person, who is either Frances McDormand or a very good reproduction, and is also a good doctor.  Connery catches wind of an evil scheme to sell crypto-meth to mine workers in order to get them to produce more, which works except it eventually leads to psychosis and hilarious and poorly researched space-based suicides, where people venture into the vacuum and burst like water balloons full of blood.  (In the Outland universe, those who swim in the deep end of pools risk being compressed into viscera and bonedust, since human skin is utterly incapable of resisting changes of one atmosphere of pressure.)  The film's climax involves the mining operator calling in two highly-trained assassins, who shoot at and miss Sean Connery approximately fifty times.  It was okay!  Saved mainly by Connery's assholish performance. C+

[CountDeMoney]

except for one person, who is either Frances McDormand or a very good reproduction,

Frances Sternhagen, you child.  Cliff Clavin's mom.

Young people.

[Ideologue]

Don't know who that is.  She was good in it too, as was James Sikking, whom I always like to see.

Beyond the Black Rainbow (2012).  Say, guys, what if we made a movie that was a combination of Carrie and Altered States, shot and edited it like 2001 except even more static and with one third the dialogue and one tenth the plot?  Do you think people would say it was really good and get other people to waste four bucks on it?  D minus minus because I will begrudgingly concede the late-70s sci-fi throwback set design and the hallucinogenic Kubrick-pastiche aesthetic is pretty interesting and for one surrealist scene halfway through that is really enjoyable but doesn't come close to justifying the film's 110-minutes-that-feel-like-180.

[Josquius]

Last night a group of us went to see Back to the Future at the cinema.
True classic. One of the best things America has ever done.
Though....I'm sure cracked has already said this......but the end where they have Biff just freely in their house and all friendly with the family- wtf? He tried to rape Marty's mother and they're all chummy-chummy? Ah the 50s, a simpler time, a better time....

[Syt]

I've recently grown rather fond of the Cinema Snob and his reviews of old exploitation/porn/splatter movies. I think he's my favorite reviewer on theTGWTG website.

[Ed Anger]

Who fucking rated Outland a c+?