TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Cracker. Still for my money the best British crime drama ever

[Josephus]

Walking Dead: You know if I was Rick, I'd go back to the prison and say, "OK, pack up. We're moving.  I know a place that the governor will never be able to get to." Seriously that Morgan dude has a nice little setup.

[Syt]

Anybody else watched the premiere of Vikings?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings_%28TV_series%29

It follows the adventure of Ragnar Lodbrok.

It's really well done so far, I really like it.  The viking's portrayal seems accurate, the characters are well fleshed out.  I'll be watching the next episodes for sure

I liked it quite a bit, though Gabriel Byrne seemed very annoyed to be in it.

[Razgovory]

I didn't even know Ragnar Lodbrok was real.

[Syt]

I didn't even know Ragnar Lodbrok was real.

I think (it's been a while since I read about it - need to ask friends who do Scandinavian studies at university) the legendary Lodbrok is an amalgamate of historical characters, including the real one. Though he is (historically) the father of at least Ivar the Boneless who led the Great Heathen Army in England.

[Sophie Scholl]

I've been watching Ripper Street on BBC America.  Not a bad show, but it amuses me as yet another example of shows I watch intermingling in terms of casts.  So far Bronn, Jorah Mormont, Barristan Selmy, and the future Blackfish have shown up in White Chapel.   I presume the filming locations are close together.

[Martinus]

Speaking of which, the season 3 GoT trailer really got me excited. Can't wait for a hyper teenage girl on a revolutionary spree.

P.S. Now that Renly is gone, I support Daenerys.

[Grey Fox]

Probably the most introspective Walking Dead yet.

This season's all about little boy growing up.

He still needs to be smacked around a bit;  little fucker's still too mouthy, dead Mom or no dead Mom.

Devourer of Souls is the only person in the group that understands it's a brand new zombie world & most of them need to die.

[Neil]

Speaking of which, the season 3 GoT trailer really got me excited. Can't wait for a hyper teenage girl on a revolutionary spree.

P.S. Now that Renly is gone, I support Daenerys.

Weird.  I would have assumed you would back Joffrey.  I mean, you're practically a (slightly) male version of Cersei.

[Eddie Teach]

 

Cersei only backs Joffrey because he's her son, otherwise she wouldn't be able to stand him.

[Neil]

Cersei only backs Joffrey because he's her son, otherwise she wouldn't be able to stand him.

Joffrey is a male version of Cersei.  Vain, pointlessly cruel and unreasonably proud.

[Eddie Teach]

Doesn't negate what I said. 

[KRonn]

Cersei is smart, devious, cunning, qualities with Joffrey lacks, though maybe he could have developed those if he had lived longer.

[Scipio]

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/heeeeeres-napoleon-spielberg-developing-kubrick-script-as-tv-miniseries/

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The idea that Kubrick had to give up to make Barry Lyndon.

Is this really wise?

The silent epic Napoleon is probably the best; I don't think Kubrick could have equaled it, and I'm certain Spielberg won't come close.  We'll get some sort of Shaving Ryan's Privates bullshit with overwrought emotionalism and cheesy sentimentality; Napoleon bewailing the loss of individual soldiers on the march back from Russia in the mode of Liam Neeson's Schindler- "with this watch, I could have saved a division!", etc., etc.

I have no confidence whatsoever in Spielberg's ability to handle this subject matter.  There's no great American work about the Napoleonic era, so there's nothing for him to adapt; if we're lucky he'll tack some sort of Boy's Own story on the era and have done with it.

[Admiral Yi]

Joffrey is a male version of Cersei.  Vain, pointlessly cruel and unreasonably proud.

Cersei's cruelty is always very much to the point.