TV/Movies Megathread

[katmai]

Also watched Forbidden Planet, <snip> A

FINALLY Ideo properly appreciates a good movie.

A drunken monkey......

[Syt]

Haven't seen Hunger Games, but saw the trailer for Pt. 2 before Iron Man 3. It felt almost hilarious, because it took itself so super serious.

[crazy canuck]

Haven't seen Hunger Games, but saw the trailer for Pt. 2 before Iron Man 3. It felt almost hilarious, because it took itself so super serious.

Its a children's book.  The one taking it too seriously is Ide.

[fhdz]

Haven't seen Hunger Games, but saw the trailer for Pt. 2 before Iron Man 3. It felt almost hilarious, because it took itself so super serious.

Its a children's book.  The one taking it too seriously is Ide.

It's meant for teens, really, which wouldn't make it a "children's" book. I haven't read them but I did find the movie engaging.

[crazy canuck]

Haven't seen Hunger Games, but saw the trailer for Pt. 2 before Iron Man 3. It felt almost hilarious, because it took itself so super serious.

Its a children's book.  The one taking it too seriously is Ide.

It's meant for teens, really, which wouldn't make it a "children's" book. I haven't read them but I did find the movie engaging.

Its meant for people below the age of majority.  Happy?

[11B4V]

Haven't seen Hunger Games, but saw the trailer for Pt. 2 before Iron Man 3. It felt almost hilarious, because it took itself so super serious.

Its a children's book.  The one taking it too seriously is Ide.

It's meant for teens, really, which wouldn't make it a "children's" book. I haven't read them but I did find the movie engaging.

Its meant for people below the age of majority.  Happy?

I read somewhere Hunger Games Trilogy out sold the Harry Potter series. Dont know if it's true. No small feat if so.

[crazy canuck]

Haven't seen Hunger Games, but saw the trailer for Pt. 2 before Iron Man 3. It felt almost hilarious, because it took itself so super serious.

Its a children's book.  The one taking it too seriously is Ide.

It's meant for teens, really, which wouldn't make it a "children's" book. I haven't read them but I did find the movie engaging.

Its meant for people below the age of majority.  Happy?

I read somewhere Hunger Games Trilogy out sold the Harry Potter series. Dont know if it's true. No small feat if so.

Maybe, in some markets.  I know my younger boy and all his peers loved the books.  They also all loved the movie.  I took a bunch of them out to a showing.  And although it is definitely pitched to that age group, I thought it was well done.

[Josephus]

Haven't seen Hunger Games, but saw the trailer for Pt. 2 before Iron Man 3. It felt almost hilarious, because it took itself so super serious.

Its a children's book.  The one taking it too seriously is Ide.

It's meant for teens, really, which wouldn't make it a "children's" book. I haven't read them but I did find the movie engaging.

Its meant for people below the age of majority.  Happy?

I read somewhere Hunger Games Trilogy out sold the Harry Potter series. Dont know if it's true. No small feat if so.

I find that hard to believe.

[11B4V]

Hmmm

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/hunger-games-trilogy-outsells-harry-potter-7-books-195452422.html

Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games trilogy is now Amazon's top-selling book series of all time, outselling the seven-book Harry Potter series, the online retailer announced today. That takes both physical and e-books into consideration. Hunger Games achieved its Amazon milestone with three books over four years compared with J.K. Rowling's seven over the course of well beyond a decade.

[Eddie Teach]

People bought Harry Potter from brick & mortar stores.

[CountDeMoney]

Went to go see Star Trek: Into Darkness today.  I shall write about it after I feast.  I am torn about it, however.

No reason to delay your feast.  Dont beat yourself up about eating first.

Meh, Hookay.

So I go into this film knowing full well that this is the rebootiverse, so I realize that I'm going to adjust my expectations accordingly.  Also, since I read all your spoilers anyway, I already know what's going on. 

Now, as a movie, it's fun.  Naturally there's the need to have seen the first reboot film, if only to understand how the crew came together, Pike's influence, Spock/Uhura, WTF-is-old-Spock-doing-there, etc, all those references.  Once those are under your belt, in that respect it's a decent movie, and an excellent cast of characters that work well together--as opposed to the TOS crew, that highlights 3 characters (even 2 as the movies advanced) or TNG, which has so damned many, there's only one worth focusing on.  But even in this film, the characters were beginning to fall right into their little typecast niches, which was disappointing. 

Now, as somebody who respects the concept of CANON and will call CANON VIOLATION when warranted, I have to say the Bad Guy's Big Secret truly annoyed me.  It just didn't work: not for a CANON purist, and not really for a casual fan.  It was absolutely unnecessary to develop the Big Secret into that.  And not only that, he didn't even do it well.

My biggest beef is, after two movies, you mean to tell me there isn't anybody out there in Hollywood at all that can't come up with a more original storyline than the last two films: one using a typical, worn out franchise meme (time travel) or the 2nd one in  recycling of  popular character (Bad Guy)?  I'm certain there's got to be a decent, original storyline out there somewhere.

And the Enterprise itself is the biggest and bestest aspect of the film anyway.  It doesn't have the realistic crunchiness of the new BSG, but it's nice to see pipes and conduits, as opposed to looking like a dental office.   The cloud scene was a great effect.

I did like the Prime Directive storyline, though.  That was a nice touch.  SO THEY SAW US BIG DEAL

I give it 3 Mehs out of 5 Mehs.  The Bad Guy's Big Secret totally took the wind out of its sails.

[lustindarkness]

Hmm, no previews or reviews for After Earth? Does that mean it will suck ass?

[11B4V]

People bought Harry Potter from brick & mortar stores.

Certainly.

[derspiess]

It's meant for teens, really, which wouldn't make it a "children's" book.

That's even worse than a children's book.

That said, I thought the movie was fairly watchable-- if you're on an 11-hour flight and you've already watched the good movies.

[CountDeMoney]

It's meant for teens, really, which wouldn't make it a "children's" book.

That's even worse than a children's book.

No fucking shit.