TV/Movies Megathread

[Grey Fox]

Well yeah, too much right wing comments here.

[Eddie Teach]

Languish is full of bellicose centrists who drive posters from both the right and left fringes off.

[CountDeMoney]

Oh, bullshit.



I mean, look at this;  it's still Superman, doing what Superman does:  helping the helpless. 
You don't see him propping up the oligarchical hierarchy of the Daily Bugle, the puppet mouthpiece for the 1% exploiting and oppressing the workers of Metropolis, do you?  No.  He's helping the people, who are just as equal as anybody else.

I see nothing wrong with that.  If anything, it makes him a true superhero.   A true superhero is one powerful enough to break the workers' chains, and unite them with actual pensions.

[Neil]

[Ed Anger]

That chick has a nice ass.

[Grey Fox]

I like this Seedy.

[CountDeMoney]

I like this Seedy.

Seedy's fed up to here with this bullshit.  Time to go motherfucking 3rd Shock.

[Grey Fox]

I like this Seedy.

Seedy's fed up to here with this bullshit.  Time to go motherfucking 3rd Shock.

5th column 5th column!

[Admiral Yi]

That chick has a nice ass.

Killer ass.

[Neil]

I like this Seedy.

Seedy's fed up to here with this bullshit.  Time to go motherfucking 3rd Shock.

You're still a slave that way though.  Why not try a different way.

[Ideologue]

Daily Bugle?

***

About halfway through Man of Steel, there is a moment that signals Snyder's strategy. Hans Zimmer's heretofore rather forgettable score turns into something else for a moment, into a musical cue recalling nothing so much as Christopher Young's dread-inducing accompaniment to 2012's Sinister. The lights go out in Clark Kent's childhood home, as they do in homes and businesses across the globe. The camera zooms through a doorway to a static-filled TV that suddenly takes on pattern and the forms of words, and a face--the distorted image of the Antichrist in black pleather, Superman's nemesis made manifest, General Dru-Zod. In a babel of tongues, the message is received: we are not alone. It occurred to me only later that Zack Snyder, perhaps sneakily, but I believe with some intention, has created here not an action movie per se, and a superhero movie only incidentally, but something like a horror film. It is much the same horror with which we associate with the subgenre that Snyder has decided to evoke here. At least, with the best haunted house films, the fear is not just fear of being hurt, but a stark religious awe, the terror felt by mortal bodies set against the supernatural. This is appropriate. The story of Man of Steel is the story, after all, of a war to determine the nature of our world's God.

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So I time traveled to 2007 and started a blog, because you can't contain me.  It's phase 2 in my 42-phase plan to write about movies instead of being a shitty quasi-attorney.  You losers can read it, or not.

Bear in mind it's easier to call me a tasteless moron if you do.

[Admiral Yi]

Man, Sean Young is absolutely heartbreaking in Bladerunner.

[Syt]

Man, Sean Young is absolutely heartbreaking in Bladerunner.

When I was a kid, I thought the role was played by a man in drag. The actress's first name didn't help.

[Eddie Teach]

It's the haircut. Didn't know any girls at school who wore it so short.

[Ideologue]

Man, Sean Young is absolutely heartbreaking in Bladerunner.

Fair enough.  Ever see Firebirds?  I liked Firebirds.