TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Watched Forbidden Planet again.  Out of curiosity, does anyone know how Anne Francis' wardrobe in Forbidden Planet was received back in the 50s?  It's explicitly a little scandalous (there's a whole shouldn't-have-worn-that-skirt part where Leslie Nielsen yells at her for making his crew horny), but it is indeed a little salacious.  For example, there's a scene where, despite her Evelike innocence, she was clearly blocked not to bend over too far because her dress is so short we'd have gotten a great view of her ass if she'd bent normally.  I wonder how it was viewed at the time.

Interestingly, the worst effects shot in the film is her swimming "nude" in the pool in what can be clearly viewed to be a very concealing cream-colored dress.

I was also having fun trying to pretend the ending is ambiguous at all, and whether it could really have been Altaira controlling the Krell machines.  It's obviously meant to be her dad, of course, but there's a weird bit where she's the one having the dream about the id monster trashing the saucer crew.

[CountDeMoney]

She had some serious leggage back in the day.

[Ideologue]

Anne Francis was a gorgeous lady.

Also as brunette:

[viper37]

Dark Knight Rises on TV, 1080i.  It was awful.  I don't like Bane's voice either in english.  I guess it has to be seen on IMAX.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Re-watching The ANgry Video Game Nerd on Youtube.

[Syt]

Dark Knight Rises on TV, 1080i.  It was awful.  I don't like Bane's voice either in english.  I guess it has to be seen on IMAX.

It didn't make it a better movie, unfortunately.

[Savonarola]

Sav, that's Malevich right? Or Kandinsky?

It's Kandinsky, Circles within a Circle (1923)

[Josquius]

Red dawn remake- meh. They at least lampshade fairly early the stupidity of a north Korean invasion. And it has its cool points. But even beyond the base idea the whole thing is just stupid. Stupid in  a way over and beyond the original. It would be nice to see a film about urban resistance in a western country done well....

[Malthus]

Red dawn remake- meh. They at least lampshade fairly early the stupidity of a north Korean invasion. And it has its cool points. But even beyond the base idea the whole thing is just stupid. Stupid in  a way over and beyond the original. It would be nice to see a film about urban resistance in a western country done well....

The first problem is choosing a reasonable enemy invader that passes the laugh test. 

"The invaders from Canada are burning down the White House ... again!"

[The Brain]

Aztecs.

[Ed Anger]

Aztecs.

You need to purchase the DLC for that one.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Red dawn remake- meh. They at least lampshade fairly early the stupidity of a north Korean invasion. And it has its cool points. But even beyond the base idea the whole thing is just stupid. Stupid in  a way over and beyond the original. It would be nice to see a film about urban resistance in a western country done well....

The first problem is choosing a reasonable enemy invader that passes the laugh test. 

"The invaders from Canada are burning down the White House ... again!"

Maybe a vast Liberal-socialistic conspiracy raises secret armies recruited from Americorps to take over the country?


I should note that this scenario was proposed rather seriously by some Republican friends of mine. They were considering moving to South Carolina to join the resistance and arm themselves.

[Admiral Yi]

He said western country.  Doesn't have to be the US.

[Malthus]

He said western country.  Doesn't have to be the US.

Can't do the whole "Wooolverines!" thing unless it's the US. 

[Josquius]

It wasn't the invaders that were the problem there. I could pretend it was some sort of weird alternate history with China invading.
It was that even beyond d this initial leap of faith, despite some glimmers of enjoyable quasi realism, they handled things stupidly.