TV/Movies Megathread

[HVC]

Time travel makes no sense either.

you can make it consistent, at least.

[Malthus]

Films made for (and possibly by) Timmay: "Sharknado" and "FDR: American Badass". 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2013/may/24/worst-films-at-cannes?picture=409405162

[Josephus]

Looper is watchable.

[Ideologue]

Looper is watchable.

Indeed.  No more, and maybe slightly less (I wouldn't seek to watch it again).

[11B4V]

Loopers ok if you ignore that the time travel laws they use make no sense

that's why it's Science Fiction and not Science Reality. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Didn't like the ending of the latest season of Arrested Development.

[Eddie Teach]

Didn't like the ending of the latest season of Arrested Development.

Rather abrupt and leaves quite a bit in the air.

[garbon]

Identity Thief or theft or whatever.

Ugh

[CountDeMoney]

The Eagle.  Decent movie.  There are worse ways to kill two hours.

Though I'm sure all the historitards found ways to have their conniptions over it somehow.

MAH GREAVES

[Sophie Scholl]

News seasons of Luther and Copper are pretty decent so far.  Both are available on Netflix up to the current seasons if anyone wants to get on board.  I recommend them both.

[11B4V]

The Eagle.  Decent movie.  There are worse ways to kill two hours.


MAH GREAVES

I thought the same of Centurion both were entertaining. Fassbender is out ahead of Channing IMO.

[Ideologue]

Fistful of Dollars (1964).

I know without it Last Man Standing wouldn't even exist, but without Yojimbo, neither would Fistful, so it's not as clear cut case of shitting on the "original" to say Walter Hill's movie is the better American version--well, English language version--well, you know what I mean.  Here's why this is the case: by the time of Last Man Standing, squibs had been invented.  So had shooting night for night.  So had Bruce Willis.  And so had editing.  Sergio Leone: "I sure would like to do a long take, but I can't, so we're just going to cut from Joe under the porch to, um, Joe under the porch and no one will ever be the wiser."

I'm having trouble remembering what happened to the Irish gang in Last Man Standing.  I know the basic set-up is the same.  The Italians set their house on fire and gun them down as they try to flee.  (The ethnicities might be the other way around.)  The idea is certainly sound.  But I do have a vague recollection that that scene shares the same basic flawed execution as in Fistful of Dollars: here the laughably incompetent Baxters run toward the source of the flames instead of away from them as common sense would suggest, and run through them even though this gets them caught on fire and puts them into an kill zone set up by the Rojos on the front side of their house.  Even more bizarrely, all of them keep trying to surrender up to and including Baxter Dad and Baxter Son even though the Rojos have shot down approximately twelve people so far, all of whom have attempted the same thing with minimal success.

Still, a pretty fun movie, noteworthy for the enjoyable and iconic Eastwood performance, the great torture scenes, the final showdown between Joe and the Rojos, and the fact it eventually led to The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.  B

[jimmy olsen]

I can't believe this is gonna be a real movie! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJnzJir7Klo

[Ideologue]

Oh, just to add, for its flaws Fistful is still a real Western, so it makes me a lot happier than The Lone Ranger did.  First thing Joe does in A Fistful of Dollars: shoots four men, cracks joke to undertaker.  First thing John Reid does in The Lone Ranger: fails to successfully play with a doll.

[Josephus]

Saw Klute the other day, the 1971 Jane Fonda/Donald Sutherland movie about a hooker being stalked. It was alright, but boy movies in the day just had such a slow pace to them. Although Fonda was hot in those tight sweaters and no bra days. And you gotta love a movie with such phrases as "What's your bag?". I guess "bag" was short for "baggage", so "What's your baggage?" meaning what's your problem? and "you're such a square."