TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Guess I fucked up those spoiler tags.

What do you mean, what ghosts?  The five hundred dead MRFs that populated the cast of American Horror Story.

[Ideologue]

Something I've noticed is that Looper's started making people's end of the year best-of lists.  Ugh, why?  Did Millennium top people's lists for 1989?

[Martinus]

Guess I fucked up those spoiler tags.

What do you mean, what ghosts?  The five hundred dead MRFs that populated the cast of American Horror Story.

In the first season. I don't recall a single ghost in the second season. 

[Ideologue]

Guess I fucked up those spoiler tags.

What do you mean, what ghosts?  The five hundred dead MRFs that populated the cast of American Horror Story.

In the first season. I don't recall a single ghost in the second season. 

Ohhh.  I thought you were still watching the first season on Netflix or whatever, and that's the last they have available.  I haven't seen minute one of the second, although when I can do so for free (or, you know, for the price of my subscription to not-television), I shall.  My bad.

[Martinus]

I'm watching the second season for free. 

[Tamas]

I'm watching the second season for free. 

[Eddie Teach]

It's on basic cable.

[Martinus]

Well, I'm watching them on a website that just streams all current shows. So I am not downloading or sharing any files.

Poland ftw. 

[Syt]

Well, I'm watching them on a website that just streams all current shows.

Lettuce will ridicule you for it.

[Tamas]

Well, I'm watching them on a website that just streams all current shows. So I am not downloading or sharing any files.

Poland ftw. 

good luck with all the malware

[Josephus]

I don't think Hannibal was interested in Clara for her pussy so much. I think he had this obsession with her from the get go, and wanted to collect her like a pet. At least that was the interpretation I got. They probably did have sex, but I don't think it was Hannibal's main preocupation.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't think Hannibal was interested in Clara for her pussy so much. I think he had this obsession with her from the get go, and wanted to collect her like a pet. At least that was the interpretation I got. They probably did have sex, but I don't think it was Hannibal's main preocupation.

Nope, sexuality was never one of primary Lecter's drivers.  But the desire for a companion, one who shares his appreciation of aesthetics, I felt was more important to him.

[CountDeMoney]

and I recall Red Dragon to be really pretty decent, which is why it shocked me when I looked it up and it turned out Brett Ratner directed it.  I assume Manhunter is great, as it was done by Michael Mann, whom it turns out I'm actually a rather big fan of without having known it (before I cared about who made movies, there was still Last of the Mohicans, Heat, and Collateral).

Meh, didn't finish Red Dragon as it was terribly cookie-cutter from Manhunter, and Manhunter did so many scenes better.
Both fucked up the novel's ending, though.  In the novel, [spoiler]Will Graham's character is totally fucked up when Dolarhyde goes after his family.[/spoiler]

But Manhunter is a fantastic story and production on its own, and all the cast is better as well, including a young Stephen Lang. 

Brian Cox's Lecter gets short shrift compared to Anthony Hopkins, but it's also not fair to him, as he's only in a few scenes and not nearly as developed as a character.  But Cox chews up his scenes, particularly the main scene when Graham goes back to meet him in prison.  YOU WANT THE SCENT? SMELL YOURSELF

[jimmy olsen]

Also the Ciaphus Cane Warhammer 40k books.

Except he actually grows over time into the hero that people think he is, while internally still believing himself to be a coward.

[jimmy olsen]

On the other hand, while our rapine should have limits, the natural world, in a sense, must be treated as an object without agency or rights of its own, because the alternative is to be eaten by tyrannosaurs, or even scarier things.  For example, that fucking centipede that chomps its fangs and puts its feelers in Ann Darrow's MOUTH in the hollowed-out log?  YOU CAN TREAT THAT AS AN OBJECT.  AN OBJECT OF NIGHTMARES. FUCK.

Anyway, I liked that aspect of the movie a lot.

I thought the giant worms with teeth were a lot freakier.