TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

 

[Savonarola]

Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato)

Something of a Japanese Star Trek/Star Wars.  The earth is under attack and only has a year before it's invaded.  In order to save mankind the Japanese government, after consulting with Neil Space Armaments Consortium, decides to raise the Battleship Yamato, refit it with rockets and shoot it into space with a crew of STAR BLAZERS!

There are some very Japanese moments in this; like when the evil alien overlord learns the value of friendship from humans.

The first two seasons ran in the United States in the late 70s.  I remember watching some episodes.  It's aged better than many other cartoons from my childhood. 

[Eddie Teach]

Something of a Japanese Star Trek/Star Wars.  The earth is under attack and only has a year before it's invaded.  In order to save mankind the Japanese government, after consulting with Neil Space Armaments Consortium, decides to raise the Battleship Yamato, refit it with rockets and shoot it into space with a crew of STAR BLAZERS!

They should have gone with IdeCorp's suggested heavy bombers.

[Ideologue]

After about 20 Ethan Hawke movies, but it's there.

And you wonder why you get so much shit.

I'm prepping for Getaway at the end of August.  It's my most anticipated movie of the year, at least now that Pacific Rim blew it.

Watched Gamera: Guardian of the Universe again.  Man, is that so much better than PR.

[11B4V]

Looks of all action and stunts no substance.

[Ideologue]

Looks of all action and stunts no substance.

Getaway?  Action and stunts are substance.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm prepping for Getaway at the end of August.  It's my most anticipated movie of the year, at least now that Pacific Rim blew it.

Looks like a really bad Shelby commercial.

And why bother to save his wife when Selena Gomez and her DSLs giftwrapped themselves to him?

[Ideologue]

Because otherwise he doesn't drive places and do shit.  She's totally in and Ernst Blofeld's plan anyway.

***

The Conjuring (2013).  Finally, a movie about pop Catholic mythology that attempts to explain the theodicy behind a nominally omnipotent, omnibenevolent God, that nonetheless lets other supernatural entities venture onto the material plane, manifest greater power within this world than I Am has been witnessed to wield since Old Testament days, and eat innocent people's souls, fundamentally contradicting basic Catholic soteriology.  Wasn't Prince of Darkness just amazing?

But this?  The Conjuring is fine, but like Insidious, while it may have its terrifying turns, it won't stick with you forever—or even overnight.

B

Hey, technically under 1000 words here: Busting makes me feel good, but probably displeases the Lord

[katmai]

Season 4 TRAILER!

[CountDeMoney]

Those fucking swarms.
How the fuck is the prison getting breached, and who is doing it?  Better not be the Governor.
Looks like they've provided some spoilers as to who sacrifices themselves.

Good to see Rick's still finding ammo for that Anaconda.  RICKGASM: ACCOMPLISHED

Oh, fuck yeah.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Now that's it's Week 3, anybody else watching Ray Donovan?

This is from a couple oops 5 days ago, but I still am.  I'm likin' it. 

[11B4V]

Those fucking swarms.
How the fuck is the prison getting breached, and who is doing it?  Better not be the Governor.
Looks like they've provided some spoilers as to who sacrifices themselves.

Good to see Rick's still finding ammo for that Anaconda.  RICKGASM: ACCOMPLISHED

Oh, fuck yeah.

[Ideologue]

(Bearing in mind I've never read the Edgar Rice Borroughs books; cannot speak to fidelity.)

Took me a long time to get to it, which is still sooner than a majority of the viewing public, but I finally got to John Carter (2012).  Count me amongst the growing number of folks who are slowly rehabilitating the famous flop: it's really close to great.

Story's rad, action and humor top-notch.  Most of my serious complaints are production design-related--the movie doesn't look quite as amazing as it should.  It does look good, but often things are too undifferentiated, and its colors not as vibrant as they needed to be.  Mars should've been a bit redder, the Red Martians maybe a bit redder still, the Green Martians greener, and most importantly the Helians and the Zodangans needed to be differentiated beyond "kind of Egyptian armor, with blue highlights" and "kind of Egyptian armor, with red highlights."  There is a "predator city," that never predates--that'd have been fun to see.  And maybe some more cheesecake with Delah.  Just a bit?  Is that sexist?  I still want her to be capable and scientific, just less dressed, in true planetary romance fashion, because masturbating in the 1920s sure did involve the imagination.

And while I came to accept and enjoy John Carter Action Comics #1ing all over the damn place with surely no less than 100% physical accuracy, that awful Lockjaw dog thing was a bridge too far--breaking the goofy scale, and really unfortunately omnifuckingpresent.

Still, while not approaching the 1980 masterpiece, it really is a worthy spiritual successor to Flash Gordon, pulpy and funny and full of preposterous action (and adding a little genuine human emotion on the margins, which was weird yet not misplaced).  Further, it shows what a hack fucktard Gore Verbinski is; and unlike Lone Ranger, this movie did not deserve to fail.

The disc, of course, is teal blue.  Disney's inability to market this wonderful movie really is infinite, isn't it?

B+

[Admiral Yi]

Biggest problem was the red chick was a pinch on the butch side.

[11B4V]

Biggest problem was the red chick was a pinch on the butch side.

Naw, nice tats though.