TV/Movies Megathread

[jimmy olsen]

For war films there's so many to choose from I'm surprised at the omission, one of may favourites being 'The Train'.

Yep. And the Thin Red Line which is one of my favourite films.

I have not seen that yet.

It's terrible!

[Viking]

I don't recall there being a Ronin 2 or 3.   

47 Ronin

Or Ronin 4-46!

(Yeah, didn't notice the 7 before)

Me too. I saw the poster and Keanu Reeves and thought, it's a Ronin sequal, but wondered where the other two Ronin movies were. Direct to DVD? I know about the 47 Ronin but didn't think Americans had anything worthwhile to do in such a movie, The Last Samurai showed me that. This feels a bit like the Hollywood tendency to put black or ethnic people in robin hood and viking movies.

[Liep]

Danish state tv is either doing a elaborate april's fool or trying to piss off the feminists with their new programme "Blachman"

Concept is that Blachman (our version of the angry x-factor judge) and another old white man sits next to a naked woman (apparently a woman who are somehow involved with creating a "dickless society") and comments on her body and generally about sex. The idea is to recreate the masculine man.

http://www.dr.dk/DR1/xfactor/Artikler/2013/blachman.htm (video is NSFW)

[11B4V]

Comedies...hmmm

Dr Strangelove
Most of the sellers Pink Panthers
As Good As it gets
Arthur
Caddyshack
Old School
Clerks
The Hangover
Nappy Dynamite
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Big Lebowski
My Cousin Vinney

No Airplane? Shirley you can't be serious.

The list is by no means complete. Was off the top o the head. 

[11B4V]

Anyhoo

http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/2013_movies/Movies_In_Theaters_2013.html

2013 is gonna be so rad.

I have high hopes for Oblivion. Morgan Freeman for the win.

[garbon]

We're getting another Machete?

[CountDeMoney]

I have high hopes for Oblivion. Morgan Freeman for the win.

Yeah, I'm a little jazzed for that one, looks cool.

[Admiral Yi]

Watched the tail end of 3 O'Clock High last night.  The quality of this movie does not need further comment, but I would like to point out one aspect that I had not noticed in previous viewings, and that is how weird the entire student body looks.  With the exception of Teh Hott Chick, Teh Football Player, and our protagonist (who is puny but kind of normal looking) every single student in a back ground shot has a strange misshapen head.

Also caught the first half of The Cutting Edge.  A concussed hockey player (DB Sweeney) gets offered a lot of money to pair figure skate with rich bitch Moira Kelly.  It's teen romantic drivel of course, but Moira Kelly looks absolutely yummy in her little skater outfits (plenty of gratuitous ass shots) and I would have happily watched it to the end but my cable connection frizzed out.

[Scipio]

Watched the tail end of 3 O'Clock High last night.  The quality of this movie does not need further comment, but I would like to point out one aspect that I had not noticed in previous viewings, and that is how weird the entire student body looks.  With the exception of Teh Hott Chick, Teh Football Player, and our protagonist (who is puny but kind of normal looking) every single student in a back ground shot has a strange misshapen head.

Also caught the first half of The Cutting Edge.  A concussed hockey player (DB Sweeney) gets offered a lot of money to pair figure skate with rich bitch Moira Kelly.  It's teen romantic drivel of course, but Moira Kelly looks absolutely yummy in her little skater outfits (plenty of gratuitous ass shots) and I would have happily watched it to the end but my cable connection frizzed out.

Back before Moira Kelly became known for her portrayal of a shrill, Democrat apparatchik.

[garbon]

Just saw Showgirls for the first time.

What was up with all the grunting?

And more importantly, what the fuck was up with the last 15 minutes? It was like they said - well we've made an okay, sexually provocative movie - now how can we make sure it ends up in a train wreck?

[mongers]

'Life's Too Short' the 2013 special, in part built around him and Val Kilmer trying to get 'Willow 2' off the ground.

[Ideologue]

Dredd (2012).  I liked it quite a bit, but I think I would have liked it more if it had either been slightly less competent, or rather more ambitious.  With a little bit more, it could've gone from a B+ to an A+, easy.  I think the key moment is when Dredd doesn't gun down the fourteen year old kids.  Attempted murder of a judge is death, dude. You said so like five times.  [spoiler]This is made all the stranger when Dredd wilfully risks the lives of like 10,000 people, presumably including children, in the climax. [/spoiler]  Anyway, Karl Urban is pretty delightful and was refreshingly willing to recede into his part as the faceless law of Mega City One.  Lena Headley is a superb villain as Ma-Ma.  I also enjoyed Olivia Thirlby's Judge Anderson, as well as her psychic abilities; I was iffy about each going in, but both the character and her powers were well-integrated.  The latter a great deal moreso than they were in the other big movie last year to feature psychoflexic gobbedlygook prominently, the mediocre Looper.  I also liked the hard-R violence quite a bit, if the blood was sometimes a little too CGI.  The Slo-Mo scenes are fun, and even Zack Snyder could take some notes on the last one.

But again, however, I was left with the distinct impression of wasted potential.  Could this have been this decade's Blade Runner?  Maybe not, but maybe its Road Warrior.  I needed more fascism.

Dark City (1998).  Am I misremembering (lol get it?), or does this movie end with almost exactly the same imagery, down to the actress, as Requiem For a Dream?  I guess sometimes you get the powers of a God, and sometimes you get your arm hacked off after blowing your vascular system out with too much heroin. On the minus side, no ass to ass to be found here whatsoever. B+

[CountDeMoney]

but I think I would have liked it more if it had either been slightly less competent, or rather more ambitious.

What does this even mean?  Your review does not elaborate upon this concept.  You just put it out there and left it, while you go onto other themes: your comments about the actors were positive, you liked the violence, the slo-mo scenes were fun, et cetera.  So how do we come to the conclusion that "slightly less competent" or "rather more ambitious" would solve the "wasted potential"?

The movie may have delivered, but your movie review did not.  Rewrite, resubmit.  Grade: INCOMPLETE

[Syt]

Has anything seen The Raid: Redemption?

A SWAT team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.

It's an Indonesian action film that's getting some pretty good reviews.

[The Brain]

Has anything seen The Raid: Redemption?

A SWAT team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.

It's an Indonesian action film that's getting some pretty good reviews.

Streetcar rice pudding!