TV/Movies Megathread

[Darth Wagtaros]

Willow gets an A anyway.

Willow gets an A.  Mission to Mars gets an axe in the back of its head.

[Liep]

Yep, Jose, there's a lot of strange things going on, eg. [spoiler]why would a guy who had managed to keep a gun for 15 years be so reckless and shoot a deer close to his home and then hang it with gunshot wound and all right in the front? People breaking the necks of 5 year old girls to get food after a day?[/spoiler]

I'll probably watch the next episode too though.

[Ideologue]

Mission to Mars an A?

Lay off the drugs Ide.

Val Kilmer automatically decreases it a grade, for starters.

Val Kilmer isn't in Mission to Mars.  You're thinking of Tombstone.

[The Brain]

Mission to Mars (1996).  It's our good fortune to find this great de Palma film on the YouTube.  For the beautiful shots (including one of my all time favorites, the quasi-famous tracking shot in the artificial gravity ring of the Mars rescue ship) and almost entirely well-done sequences, not to mention the wonderful characters and the performances that give them life, I'd give the movie an A+.  But then there's the part where they indicate that aliens seeded life on Earth--and that humans are the deliberate result of their endeavor.  I suppose I could rationalize that and pretend the intent was that they seeded life, hoped for something intelligent to arise, and kept tabs on it from Mars when it did, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't, and I'm just fucking sick of this scientifically retarded trope.  Still, if you were trapped in a room and had to watch either this or Prometheus to get out, at least this movie has a good story to go along with its unsupported hypotheses and brilliant compositions. A

Ouch!

[CountDeMoney]

I give Ideologue's movie review education in law school a splat.

[viper37]

No thoughts on Revolution ep.2.?

missed it.  gonna record it on Saturday.

[dps]

Mission to Mars an A?

Lay off the drugs Ide.

Val Kilmer automatically decreases it a grade, for starters.

Val Kilmer isn't in Mission to Mars.  You're thinking of Tombstone.

Actually, he's thinking of Red Planet.  That was the bad 2000 SF flick about Mars with Val Kilmer.  Mission to Mars was the bad 2000 SF flick about Mars with Gary Sinise.

There's probably a 3rd bad 2000 SF about Mars that no one's heard of that stars Greg Evigan or somebody like that.

[viper37]

There's probably a 3rd bad 2000 SF about Mars that no one's heard of that stars Greg Evigan or somebody like that.

Ghost of Mars   (but no Greg Evigan (I don't even know who that is)).

[dps]

There's probably a 3rd bad 2000 SF about Mars that no one's heard of that stars Greg Evigan or somebody like that.

Ghost of Mars   (but no Greg Evigan (I don't even know who that is)).

Evigan was a US TV star;  he was best know for his role in BJ and the Bear.  And yeah, that was actually the title of a US TV show.  The reason I used him is that several years ago, 3 underwater adventures came out at about the same time:  The Abyss, Leviathan, and Deepstar 6;  and he starred in one of them. 

[viper37]

ah, I didn't know that show.

Made me think of another show, though, a guy and his grizzly bear, hiding from justice for a crime he didn't commit.  That was fun   Can't make the title though.

[dps]

ah, I didn't know that show.

Made me think of another show, though, a guy and his grizzly bear, hiding from justice for a crime he didn't commit.  That was fun   Can't make the title though.

Grizzly Adams?

BJ and the Bear was about a truck driver named BJ McKay and his best friend, a chimpanzee named Bear.  And I feel really bad that I know that and don't have to look it up.

Incidentally, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo was a spinoff of BJ and the Bear;  I think it might be better know and remembered than the parent show, even though it didn't run for as long.  And I feel even worse now. 

[CountDeMoney]

BJ and the Bear was about a truck driver named BJ McKay and his best friend, a chimpanzee named Bear.  And I feel really bad that I know that and don't have to look it up.

Incidentally, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo was a spinoff of BJ and the Bear;  I think it might be better know and remembered than the parent show, even though it didn't run for as long.  And I feel even worse now.

Hey, I watched them too.  But my excuse was elementary school.

[Eddie Teach]

Incidentally, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo was a spinoff of BJ and the Bear;  I think it might be better know and remembered than the parent show, even though it didn't run for as long.  And I feel even worse now.

I've heard of BJ and the Bear, but not Sheriff Lobo fwiw.

[Malthus]

ah, I didn't know that show.

Made me think of another show, though, a guy and his grizzly bear, hiding from justice for a crime he didn't commit.  That was fun   Can't make the title though.

Grizzly Adams?

BJ and the Bear was about a truck driver named BJ McKay and his best friend, a chimpanzee named Bear.  And I feel really bad that I know that and don't have to look it up.

Incidentally, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo was a spinoff of BJ and the Bear;  I think it might be better know and remembered than the parent show, even though it didn't run for as long.  And I feel even worse now.

BJ and the Bear?

Sounds like a date night in San Francisco. 

[Ed Anger]

I want a legit DVD box set of Sheriff Lobo. Forget the BJ and the Bear shit, Lobo was where it was at.

And Carter Country.