TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Bitch Slap is on TV again.

[Ideologue]

House was painfully formulaic.

Catching up on this thread:

#1:  By Christ, Ide has a blog,

I GOTS SHIT TO SAY.  Everyone is so hot-and-cold around here.  I'll get offered the most good-natured but ignorant fucking advice I've ever heard here, but a man gets a perfectly normal hobby and it's doomsday with some people.  On the other hand, this is Languish where the most innocuous thing, like Cal eating a hot dog at a gas station once or CdM happening to own a cat, is grist for the mill.  It's the nature of things.

Anyway, it's only lame until thousands read it.  Is that likely?  Not really.  But I have fun writing it, I'm pretty good at it, and here's a fun fact: I'm pretty sure my calorie expenditure has gone up like 10% a day, and calorie intake gone down by about the same amount, since I started it, because it keeps me occupied and an active CNS is a caloric resource hog.

Also, that incest joke I made in my Pacific Rim review is tres magnifique.

Since I forgot this morning, btw, it's a pretty low C+.  Iron Man 3 was ultimately more enjoyable.  Noodle that shit.

#2:  With apologies to HVC, being "hooked on Vicodin" might make sense to your average TV demographic, but it's pure fantasy BS to anyone in the know.  Doctors get hooked on fucking IV hydromorphone (Dilaudid), pure oxycodone (e.g. Oxycontin), oxymorphone (Opana) or fentanyl patches, not shitty Vicodin (5, 7.5 or 10mg hydrocodone with 500mg tylenol packed in every pill).  MAH SAD DOCTOR WITH SUCH CYNICAL WIT AND A TRAGIC DRUGS HABIT

Really?  500mg acetaminophin on a regular basis is, like, deadly, right?

[Capetan Mihali]

Really?  500mg acetaminophin on a regular basis is, like, deadly, right?

No, but 2000-4000mg in 24 hours can be, which your average Vicodin addict is easily ingesting, if not 2-3x.  Anyways, FDA lowered it to 325mg APAP with your narcotic.  Ibuprofen is safer, minding your stomach lining, and good ole Bayer aspirin is best (unless you have Reyes Syndrome and it kills you dead).

[Ideologue]

Ide's blog brightens my day, even though his last review mentioned air warfare in a positive manner.

You reminded me: a medium-sized submarine force could have sat on the rift, spawnkilled every kaiju immediately, and Earth would have been basically safe forever.

I agree with you Ide on that much.  Not a lot of good movies this season.

I was interested in Pacific Rim because of the director, but it looks bad.

It's not bad bad.  It's not like After Earth.  And it's not infuriating, like Star Trek.  It's more like The Lone Ranger or Iron Man 3, where enormous potential was just wasted.  These movies should have been easy--expensive, sure, technically ambitious, okay, but almost effortless to conceive and write in a fully entertaining manner.  It took genuine ineptitude to fuck them up.  Same thing here.

2013 looked like such an amazing year at the movies at the outset, too.  There are like 40 movies I wanted to see in theaters this year.  I've seen 16 so far, and the only ones that either met or exceeded my expectations were Evil Dead, Pain & Gain, Gatsby, and This Is the End.  Oh, and Fast and Furious 6, which I expected to be entirely fine but disposable entertainment, and I guess After Earth on a technicality, as I kept my hopes pretty low as you might imagine.

Even Man of Steel, The Purge, and Upstream Color, which were very good, okay, and okay respectively, still let me down to some degree.

[Ideologue]

Really?  500mg acetaminophin on a regular basis is, like, deadly, right?

No, but 2000-4000mg in 24 hours can be, which your average Vicodin addict is easily ingesting, if not 2-3x.  Anyways, FDA lowered it to 325mg APAP with your narcotic.  Ibuprofen is safer, minding your stomach lining, and good ole Bayer aspirin is best (unless you have Reyes Syndrome and it kills you dead).

Yeah, I meant like 500mg four, five times a day.  Hepatic failure.

Maybe you should start a drug blog.

[katmai]

It would be better than your Movie one.

[Jacob]

Saw Pacific Rim. If you like giant monsters, giant robots, and/or giant robots fighting giant monsters, you will like this movie.

There are like 1000 details that don't hold together if you look at them, but if you're busy watching the giant things punching each other you may well not care. The characters are all stereotypes fulfilling their prescribed roles, which is fine because this movie is all about giant monsters fighting giant robots while wrecking everything around them.

[katmai]

Hmmm do I take the opinion  of Blog writing law clerk or the award winning writer....

[Ideologue]

You can take both our words for it, since we're describing our own reactions.  Are you accusing Jacob of having some reason to lie?

However, there is a factual inaccuracy in Jake's review:

If you like giant monsters, giant robots, and/or giant robots fighting giant monsters, you will like this movie.

But I'm sure it wasn't intentional.

[CountDeMoney]

I refuse to see any movie I have labeled as "Timmay whacking porn".

[katmai]

I refuse to see any movie I have labeled as "Timmay whacking porn".

That limits a lot of films.

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, to good ones.

[Kleves]

Pacific Rim. It was pretty sweet. Somewhere 14-year-old Kleves has an erection and he doesn't know why (hopefully it's not at my grandfather's wake... that'd be tough to explain to the relations).

[Eddie Teach]

I refuse to see any movie I have labeled as "Timmay whacking porn".

So anything with car chases or explosions or aliens is automatically bad? 

[Korea]

Saw Pacific Rim. If you like giant monsters, giant robots, and/or giant robots fighting giant monsters, you will like this movie.

There are like 1000 details that don't hold together if you look at them, but if you're busy watching the giant things punching each other you may well not care. The characters are all stereotypes fulfilling their prescribed roles, which is fine because this movie is all about giant monsters fighting giant robots while wrecking everything around them.

Agreed. Saw it. Liked it for it was suppose to be. Enjoy seeing Ron Pearlman and Charlie Day show up because I didn't know they were in it. 7/10 Would see again