TV/Movies Megathread

[garbon]

Got Django Unchained this morning.

Can you explain it to me then?

I watched it and I didn't get it.

What's there to get?  Southerners of the antebellum South are inherently evil, and it would've been great if a white guy from Germany and a black guy from God Knows Where, Africa, had killed a metric ton's worth of them.

Agreed.

[CountDeMoney]

What's there to get?  Southerners of the antebellum South are inherently evil, and it would've been great if a white guy from Germany and a black guy from God Knows Where, Africa, had killed a metric ton's worth of them.

Yeah, the only bad guys more fun to watch getting whacked than Nazis.

[Sheilbh]

I miss South African baddies

[garbon]

What's there to get?  Southerners of the antebellum South are inherently evil, and it would've been great if a white guy from Germany and a black guy from God Knows Where, Africa, had killed a metric ton's worth of them.

Yeah, the only bad guys more fun to watch getting whacked than Nazis.

I would have thought you'd go for something involving China.

[Ideologue]

What's there to get?  Southerners of the antebellum South are inherently evil, and it would've been great if a white guy from Germany and a black guy from God Knows Where, Africa, had killed a metric ton's worth of them.

Yeah, the only bad guys more fun to watch getting whacked than Nazis.

I was thinking today about why I enjoyed Django so much more than Basterds.  I think it honestly might be the setting--not the Holocaust, so much, as rather the continent.  It's really surprising how well armored warfare worked in the time period given that when it wasn't raining it was drizzling in Europe from 1939 all the way through V-E Day.

Django takes place on a succession of very pleasant days.

[Viking]

Mmm....Murder She Wrote you say?

yeah, just like MSW they put all the clues to the murder early on, including the red herring, and gave you a few seconds to realize who was the murderer before Rita blurted it out.


Edit: BTW, if they reboot MSW Julie Benz could be a good Jessica Fletcher.

[CountDeMoney]

I would have thought you'd go for something involving China.

Yeah, nothing like a good, old fashioned Korean War flick now and then.

[MadImmortalMan]

Edit: BTW, if they reboot MSW Julie Benz could be a good Jessica Fletcher.

Definitely a hotter one.

[CountDeMoney]

I miss South African baddies

You'll always have Lethal Weapon 2.

Man, that blonde was a hottie.

[Josephus]

Dvd of Jethro Tull performing at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970. 

Nice.

[Josephus]

Season 3 of Shameless (US) was awesome. Thought S.2 made a bad turn, but this season brought it back up. Nice, moving finale too.

[viper37]

How was Defiance?

I saw maybe... 4 minutes of it and I'm pretty sure every single line uttered was an almost direct ripoff of dialogue between Princess Leia and Han Solo when he's getting ready to leave after getting paid and she's berating him for being a mercenary and not caring about anyone.

finally watched it.

It was similar, with the roles inverted, the guy staying, the girl leaving, the girl coming back to save the day (sort of).

Still enjoyable, imho.

[Ideologue]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).  I forgot what a stone cold bummer this movie is.  Confucius say, "JUST FUCK ALREADY."

And they never do.   A

P.S.: There's a part, and maybe it's bad translation in the subtitles--and I thought maybe they're making fun of her at first, referring to her as "young master," but there is definitely a "he" pronoun thrown in there--where some guys believe Zhang Ziyi is a man.  People flying: believable.  Zhang Ziyi passing as a man: not possible in any gravity field.

[11B4V]

Django Unchained= Garbage

[Syt]

Got Django Unchained this morning.

Can you explain it to me then?

I watched it and I didn't get it.

What's there to get?  Southerners of the antebellum South are inherently evil, and it would've been great if a white guy from Germany and a black guy from God Knows Where, Africa, had killed a metric ton's worth of them.

Yes, and it's about as conventional a hero's journey you can get; they even hang a lampshade on it with the legend of Siegfried. Hero, removed from his usual surroundings (slavery) by a mentor who sets him on a quest to complete himself (rescue his missing wife). It follows the classical structure closely, and that probably contributes to its broad acclaim. Which goes to show that a good story can make a well known plot fresh and entertaining.