TV/Movies Megathread

[katmai]

Catching up on The League and this episode with Seth Rogen in LA is pretty dreadful.

It was written by Rogen and Jason Mantzoukas who plays Rafi.

[Admiral Yi]

Time to deport Rogaine back to Canada.

[garbon]

Other observation - David Krumholtz, who features as a fat friend in the episode, apparently bulked up quite a bit. Wiki says that a couple years back he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

I hadn't seen him since Numbers went off air and didn't think it was him at first.

Yeah I was pretty surprised.

[garbon]

Catching up on The League and this episode with Seth Rogen in LA is pretty dreadful.

It was written by Rogen and Jason Mantzoukas who plays Rafi.

And they deserve to be punished for it.

[Ideologue]

Well, it's the first time I've seen it.

[Viking]

It is important to discriminate between the pre-christain anglo saxons which told the beowulf story (as well as the icelandic sagas) and the christian anglo-saxons that wrote them down (same for commonwealth era icelanders that did the same).

[Josquius]

Well, it's the first time I've seen it.

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I saw the same joke elsewhere. It is teh funny.

[Brazen]

I watched teh end of the third series of The Walking Dead last night. I can't reconcile David Morrisey's Governor character with his Almost Doctor, or, in fact anything else he's played.

[Josquius]

You know, on TWD I completely failed to place him. He didn't even ring any "I know that face from somewhere..." bells.

[Viking]

I watched teh end of the third series of The Walking Dead last night. I can't reconcile David Morrisey's Governor character with his Almost Doctor, or, in fact anything else he's played.

Thats because he's, y'know, ACTING!

[Ideologue]

Telefon (1977).  Donald Pleasance is a Soviet agent gone rogue and Charles Bronson is the KGB's solution to their problem.  Taking a page from The Manchurian Candidate, the Soviets have placed 51 deep, deep cover sabotage operatives within the U.S., and all of them have been subjected to drug induced hypnosis that makes them believe that they are, in fact, Americans.  Pleasance, in a fit of ego, is activating them over the telephone, one at a time, for reasons not immediately clear.  To fans of Quentin Tarantino or, I guess, poetry, the trigger phrase is strikingly familiar:

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep
Do you hear that, ________?
Miles to go before you sleep

Some twists happen, but in the end Harmonica kills the shit out of Ernst Blofeld.  It's a pretty cool movie.  I enjoyed the use of a Soviet spy as the hero, which struck me as different.  Also, there is a CIA analyst who may be my favorite female character in just about any movie, who talks to computers and tells her boss "This is exactly what led to the downfall of the Hittite Empire!"  Marry me, fictional lady.

B

P.S. Roughly on par with The Conversation, but certainly more entertaining throughout.  It's on Youtube; there is no DVD release apparently.

[CountDeMoney]

I also watched Rush (2013), but I'm waiting until Le Mans and Grand Prix (and Death Race 2000 for some reason ) come in the mail to review it, because I feel those are more essential grounding than the only other F1 movie I've ever seen, Driven.

Because F1 racing needs to be properly deconstructed.  Gotcha.

[Ideologue]

I also watched Rush (2013), but I'm waiting until Le Mans and Grand Prix (and Death Race 2000 for some reason ) come in the mail to review it, because I feel those are more essential grounding than the only other F1 movie I've ever seen, Driven.

Because F1 racing needs to be properly deconstructed.  Gotcha.

Darn, I took that out because I forgot that Le Mans isn't F1, it's something else.

But yes, why not?  Historical perspective is important.

[Savonarola]

To fans of Quentin Tarantino or, I guess, poetry, the trigger phrase is strikingly familiar:

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep
Do you hear that, ________?
Miles to go before you sleep

You do know that's from Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," right?

Here's Gonzo and Fozzy doing a, different, interpretation of it:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGoZNjNgcP0

¡Olé!

[CountDeMoney]

You do know that's from Robert Frost's "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," right?

Of course he does.  People who deconstruct racing flicks for historical perspective know their Frost.