TV/Movies Megathread

[Tonitrus]

"Revolution" season finale...

Second season is looking pretty stupid.  It was looking strong for a bit, but the last few episodes carried in the lame.

[Grey Fox]

Still Season 1.

[Josephus]

I stuck with it cause I was loyal, but found it got boring pretty quick. Glad it's over.

[CountDeMoney]

Revolution always seemed to strike me as something you'd find in the "Pre-Teen Post-Apocalyptic Romance" section at B&N.

[Drakken]

Downloaded and watched the whole 1983 BBC series The Cleopatras. Wasn't as bad as expected from reading the reviews. In fact, I liked it.

If sometimes there are indeed some bad pieces of acting and weird TV effects, I think the critics were kinda too harsh that one at the core. No, it's not I, Claudius, and there is no redeeming for most of the characters in the series, but most pay the price of their silly chronic backstabbing one way or another. There's no denying, though, that seeing the late Ptolemies down to Cleopatra VII run around like little conniving sociopaths has grown on me.

Yes, it is grim dark, downright comically dark sometimes, but it was the point all along : the Late Ptolemies were on average so bad and so busy plotting and murdering each other that it was spiralling out of control, and the only hope of a "benign" King and Pharaoh of Egypt would have been to wipe them all out. They were pawning the riches of Egypt to Rome just to gain the upper hand in the short term, and letting its territory being quartered into pieces, bit by bit, because they couldn't bother less about Cyrenaica, Palestine, or Cyprus. You get the feeling that it was long behind making sure the other Ptolemies were ridden off, and drinking and whoring themselves out to their hearts' content while it still lasts.

Superficial, yes, but watching the wry Ptolemy VIII Physcon, easily the "least bad" and the "baddest" of the bunch, is highly enteraining. Oh, and a young, not so fat Ian McNiece too. Make a remake of it with AGoT or Rome quality, and you have easily one of the most badass Early Antiquity series for a long while. It can easily be better, blooder, and wry-cutting than Rome or even Game of Thrones.

I give it 3 Dead Ptolemies on 5.

[Josquius]

The Green Hornet- What the hell is this crap? Why was this movie made? I just don't get it.

Argo- Pretty damn good.

[Eddie Teach]

Silver Linings Playbook. Nice little movie.

[Syt]

A friend had never watched the original Clash of the Titans, so we fixed that yesterday. It's one of my favorite childhood movies.

The effects are still pretty great, and the Medusa scene is just plain awesome.

Some of the acting, though ... let's say it's not Hamlin's strongest performance. "We have ..." [pauses dramatically and grabs his sword as if to draw it] "... a flying horse!"

[11B4V]

Silver Linings Playbook. Nice little movie.

It was and it has the Huger Games Hottie in it. 

[Syt]

Huger Games

Sounds like some XXL-dildo pr0n.

[11B4V]

Huger Games

Sounds like some XXL-dildo pr0n.

Oopps 

[Malthus]

Downloaded and watched the whole 1983 BBC series The Cleopatras. Wasn't as bad as expected from reading the reviews. In fact, I liked it.

If sometimes there are indeed some bad pieces of acting and weird TV effects, I think the critics were kinda too harsh that one at the core. No, it's not I, Claudius, and there is no redeeming for most of the characters in the series, but most pay the price of their silly chronic backstabbing one way or another. There's no denying, though, that seeing the late Ptolemies down to Cleopatra VII run around like little conniving sociopaths has grown on me.

Yes, it is grim dark, downright comically dark sometimes, but it was the point all along : the Late Ptolemies were on average so bad and so busy plotting and murdering each other that it was spiralling out of control, and the only hope of a "benign" King and Pharaoh of Egypt would have been to wipe them all out. They were pawning the riches of Egypt to Rome just to gain the upper hand in the short term, and letting its territory being quartered into pieces, bit by bit, because they couldn't bother less about Cyrenaica, Palestine, or Cyprus. You get the feeling that it was long behind making sure the other Ptolemies were ridden off, and drinking and whoring themselves out to their hearts' content while it still lasts.

Superficial, yes, but watching the wry Ptolemy VIII Physcon, easily the "least bad" and the "baddest" of the bunch, is highly enteraining. Oh, and a young, not so fat Ian McNiece too. Make a remake of it with AGoT or Rome quality, and you have easily one of the most badass Early Antiquity series for a long while. It can easily be better, blooder, and wry-cutting than Rome or even Game of Thrones.

I give it 3 Dead Ptolemies on 5.

Heh, the Ptolemies were so perversely horrible, they seemed almost to be a parody of depraved decadence.  Like they were inventing new ways to combine incest and murder.

Never seen that series, but sounds like good fun ...

[Drakken]

Heh, the Ptolemies were so perversely horrible, they seemed almost to be a parody of depraved decadence.  Like they were inventing new ways to combine incest and murder.

Never seen that series, but sounds like good fun ...

The 8 episodes are all on YouTube.

Beware, though, the TV effects and the music will get distracting.

[Viking]

2. I think Krypton still exploded, it's just Krypton had a space program

[spoiler]I think I might be wrong about this[/spoiler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4HVDIaECyQ

[Ideologue]

2. I think Krypton still exploded, it's just Krypton had a space program

[spoiler]I think I might be wrong about this[/spoiler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4HVDIaECyQ

Could work.  Probably a bad idea, but a new one.