TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I'm a cracker.

[CountDeMoney]

No idea what those two problem with her is, she is muy caliente!

Meh, too ethnicky.

[katmai]

No idea what those two problem with her is, she is muy caliente!

Meh, too ethnicky.

You are all up in the ethnicky if it's of the Asian persuasion, so don't gimme that shit you raciss bastard.

[Ed Anger]

Latinas can pick my crops.

[katmai]

Latinas can pick my crops.

Is this a sexual euphemism?

[Ed Anger]

Maybe.

[CountDeMoney]

No idea what those two problem with her is, she is muy caliente!

Meh, too ethnicky.

You are all up in the ethnicky if it's of the Asian persuasion, so don't gimme that shit you raciss bastard.

There's well-blended ethnicky, like a choco-vanilla swirl, and then there's not so well-blended ethnicky, like a box of neopolitan.

[Sheilbh]

Wuthering Heights.

I loved this adaptation.  Andrea Arnold's directed a couple of pretty desolate British social realist films (Red Road and Fish Tank) and sort of brings that to this.

The really impressive thing is the sense of place, the way the moors and farmhouse are shot is brilliant.  I loved the feeling that there was almost no time or progress in this film.  You got the impression the life of the Earnshaws would have been much the same in the 16th century or post-Threads.  It only really looks Victorian when you see the grand house.

The other thing I liked about this a lot was the extent it stripped things back.  The childhood love story was beautifully shown, with a sort of knowingly innocent sexuality.  But it was like a sort of ur-Wuthering Heights.  It reminded me that in the novel the story is told via two very unreliable and partial narrators.  In this film you almost had the feeling that this was the real story that was later told by Nelly and Lockwood.

[The Brain]

Wuthering Heights.

I loved this adaptation.  Andrea Arnold's directed a couple of pretty desolate British social realist films (Red Road and Fish Tank) and sort of brings that to this.

The really impressive thing is the sense of place, the way the moors and farmhouse are shot is brilliant.  I loved the feeling that there was almost no time or progress in this film.  You got the impression the life of the Earnshaws would have been much the same in the 16th century or post-Threads.  It only really looks Victorian when you see the grand house.

The other thing I liked about this a lot was the extent it stripped things back.  The childhood love story was beautifully shown, with a sort of knowingly innocent sexuality.  But it was like a sort of ur-Wuthering Heights.  It reminded me that in the novel the story is told via two very unreliable and partial narrators.  In this film you almost had the feeling that this was the real story that was later told by Nelly and Lockwood.

Are you a woman?

[Syt]

Are you a woman?

Are you?

[CountDeMoney]

I sincerely believe, if the education system jettisoned Wuthering Heights from mandatory high school reading lists, more Americans would actually read.

[Sheilbh]

The world's divided into Wuthering Heights boys and girls who run around moors wailing, and anti-Wuthering Heightsists who get on with their lives.

I am an unabashed Wuthering Heights fan and entirely in the first category.

[CountDeMoney]

And there's nothing wrong with that, Shiv. Let your freak flag fly.

[The Brain]

Are you a woman?

Are you?

What kind of question is that?

[Josephus]

My favouite version of Wuthering Heights:

http://youtu.be/BW3gKKiTvjs