TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

Best rebranding was when the Green channel was reborn as an AMERIKKKA, FUCK YEAH! channel.

[11B4V]

Day off 2morrow and "Tracker" is on the agenda.

[Ideologue]

These old Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are the shit.  Well, some of them are shit.  The best one I've seen so far might be one with no big names, called "The Three Bops."  It's a musical piece, and is pretty catchy, involving a jazz (or something) version of the story of the Three Little Pigs and their lupine nemesis.  It's fantastic, an A+.  Then it's immediately watered down by another musical piece, that has one awful song, the titular "I Love to Singa," sung repeatedly over and over till the end of time and baryonic matter by a rather poor avian vocalist that I believe we are meant to take as talented, named "Owl Jolson" (yes, I see what they did there).  So you love to singa about the Juna and the moona and the springa? WELL I LOVE TO MURDER.  C, but only because it does have a delightful fat-person-stuck-in-a-trapdoor joke in it.

I'd never realized until now that all of the Marvin the Martian/Bugs Bunny cartoons are practically the same script with new animation.  It's a good script, I guess?  But by the fourth time they meet for the first time, it's less just weird than it is a little tiresome, although the shorts are all individually quite good.  However, the animation and background design are the real draw of the Marvin shorts, and "Hareway to the Stars", with its images of the jagged red runways of a Martian space station and green dehydrated Martian goons burnt right into my childhood, is an A+ just for that alone. However, "Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century" is predictably the best of Marvin's appearances, because it stars Daffy and not Bugs.  A+ P.S. That's right, Daffy is better.  Daffy has pain and pathos.  Bugs is an amoral monster whose universe has been designed so that he always gets his way.  See also, Ferris Bueller.

[The Brain]

You should watch real cartoons, like this one. You might learn something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi-ItrJISQE

[Razgovory]

These old Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are the shit.  Well, some of them are shit.  The best one I've seen so far might be one with no big names, called "The Three Bops."  It's a musical piece, and is pretty catchy, involving a jazz (or something) version of the story of the Three Little Pigs and their lupine nemesis.  It's fantastic, an A+.  Then it's immediately watered down by another musical piece, that has one awful song, the titular "I Love to Singa," sung repeatedly over and over till the end of time and baryonic matter by a rather poor avian vocalist that I believe we are meant to take as talented, named "Owl Jolson" (yes, I see what they did there).  So you love to singa about the Juna and the moona and the springa? WELL I LOVE TO MURDER.  C, but only because it does have a delightful fat-person-stuck-in-a-trapdoor joke in it.

I'd never realized until now that all of the Marvin the Martian/Bugs Bunny cartoons are practically the same script with new animation.  It's a good script, I guess?  But by the fourth time they meet for the first time, it's less just weird than it is a little tiresome, although the shorts are all individually quite good.  However, the animation and background design are the real draw of the Marvin shorts, and "Hareway to the Stars", with its images of the jagged red runways of a Martian space station and green dehydrated Martian goons burnt right into my childhood, is an A+ just for that alone. However, "Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century" is predictably the best of Marvin's appearances, because it stars Daffy and not Bugs.  A+ P.S. That's right, Daffy is better.  Daffy has pain and pathos.  Bugs is an amoral monster whose universe has been designed so that he always gets his way.  See also, Ferris Bueller.

There are a few where Bugs fails.  In "Tortoise wins by a hair" not only does Bugs Bunny lose but is found to have connections with organized crime.

[The Brain]

Does not compute.

[Liep]

Nearing the end of Band of Brothers, it's peaking sentimentality-wise. Ah, Spielberg.

[Admiral Yi]

Nearing the end of Band of Brothers, it's peaking sentimentality-wise. Ah, Spielberg.

Don't know if you can really pin that on Spielberg.  The show pretty closely follows the book.

And wasn't that Tom Hanks' baby anyways?

[mongers]

These old Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are the shit.  Well, some of them are shit.  The best one I've seen so far might be one with no big names, called "The Three Bops."  It's a musical piece, and is pretty catchy, involving a jazz (or something) version of the story of the Three Little Pigs and their lupine nemesis.  It's fantastic, an A+.  Then it's immediately watered down by another musical piece, that has one awful song, the titular "I Love to Singa," sung repeatedly over and over till the end of time and baryonic matter by a rather poor avian vocalist that I believe we are meant to take as talented, named "Owl Jolson" (yes, I see what they did there).  So you love to singa about the Juna and the moona and the springa? WELL I LOVE TO MURDER.  C, but only because it does have a delightful fat-person-stuck-in-a-trapdoor joke in it.

I'd never realized until now that all of the Marvin the Martian/Bugs Bunny cartoons are practically the same script with new animation.  It's a good script, I guess?  But by the fourth time they meet for the first time, it's less just weird than it is a little tiresome, although the shorts are all individually quite good.  However, the animation and background design are the real draw of the Marvin shorts, and "Hareway to the Stars", with its images of the jagged red runways of a Martian space station and green dehydrated Martian goons burnt right into my childhood, is an A+ just for that alone. However, "Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century" is predictably the best of Marvin's appearances, because it stars Daffy and not Bugs.  A+ P.S. That's right, Daffy is better.  Daffy has pain and pathos.  Bugs is an amoral monster whose universe has been designed so that he always gets his way.  See also, Ferris Bueller.

Are those the Looney Tunes golden collections, because I have the first four or five and there's some damn good cartoons in amongst them; edgy character and satire that wouldn't make it into much mainstream cinema at the time. 
I wonder if that's where the tradition of subversiveness in cartoons came from ?

[Darth Wagtaros]

The new show is good.
I always loved Three Little Bops. 

[dps]

These old Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are the shit.  Well, some of them are shit.  The best one I've seen so far might be one with no big names, called "The Three Bops."  It's a musical piece, and is pretty catchy, involving a jazz (or something) version of the story of the Three Little Pigs and their lupine nemesis.  It's fantastic, an A+.  Then it's immediately watered down by another musical piece, that has one awful song, the titular "I Love to Singa," sung repeatedly over and over till the end of time and baryonic matter by a rather poor avian vocalist that I believe we are meant to take as talented, named "Owl Jolson" (yes, I see what they did there).  So you love to singa about the Juna and the moona and the springa? WELL I LOVE TO MURDER.  C, but only because it does have a delightful fat-person-stuck-in-a-trapdoor joke in it.

I'd never realized until now that all of the Marvin the Martian/Bugs Bunny cartoons are practically the same script with new animation.  It's a good script, I guess?  But by the fourth time they meet for the first time, it's less just weird than it is a little tiresome, although the shorts are all individually quite good.  However, the animation and background design are the real draw of the Marvin shorts, and "Hareway to the Stars", with its images of the jagged red runways of a Martian space station and green dehydrated Martian goons burnt right into my childhood, is an A+ just for that alone. However, "Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century" is predictably the best of Marvin's appearances, because it stars Daffy and not Bugs.  A+ P.S. That's right, Daffy is better.  Daffy has pain and pathos.  Bugs is an amoral monster whose universe has been designed so that he always gets his way.  See also, Ferris Bueller.

There are a few where Bugs fails.  In "Tortoise wins by a hair" not only does Bugs Bunny lose but is found to have connections with organized crime.

Not exactly along the same lines as what Ide said, but I've read quotes where apparantly Mel Blanc liked Daffy better.  His take was that Daffy was inherently funny, but Bugs needs good material to be funny.

[Razgovory]

Nearing the end of Band of Brothers, it's peaking sentimentality-wise. Ah, Spielberg.

Don't know if you can really pin that on Spielberg.  The show pretty closely follows the book.

And wasn't that Tom Hanks' baby anyways?

It's not a good movie for a Euro unless you feel emotionally dead at the end.

[Eddie Teach]

It's not a good movie for a Euro unless you feel emotionally dead at the end.

Like Dogville or Requiem for a Dream. 

[11B4V]

Watched the new Red Dawn last night. Why did I do that.

[FunkMonk]

Watched the new Red Dawn last night. Why did I do that.

Why did they even think a remake was a good idea?