TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Sure I do, but I didn't realize that Tarantino (given it's Tarantino) was probably more inspired by Telefon, rather than the original poem (especially since the last lines are not in the poem, but are an invention of Telefon).

[Ideologue]

Also, I like muppets.   "Bad to verse."

[Savonarola]

Sure I do, but I didn't realize that Tarantino (given it's Tarantino) was probably more inspired by Telefon, rather than the original poem (especially since the last lines are not in the poem, but are an invention of Telefon).

Okay.   

[Ideologue]

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.

All I meant was, I wanted to have more to compare it to than Days of Thunder, Talladega Nights, and Speed Racer.  I've probably seen a few other racing movies, but that's all that come to mind immediately.

Besides, Grand Prix looks fucking awesome.  It's got James Garner and Toshiro Mifune and, apparently, even that guy from Danger, Diabolik!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33w2hPO7t1g

[CountDeMoney]

All I meant was, I wanted to have more to compare it to than Days of Thunder, Talladega Nights, and Speed Racer.  I've probably seen a few other racing movies, but that's all that come to mind immediately.

lol, Talladega Nights.  Dr. Quinn and Medicine Woman.

Besides, Grand Prix looks fucking awesome.  It's got James Garner and Toshiro Mifune and, apparently, even that guy from Danger, Diabolik!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33w2hPO7t1g

Yes.  Many of us have already seen it.

[Ideologue]

Fair enough.  But bear in mind there's a whole age of consent between when it was released and when I was born.

[CountDeMoney]

Fair enough.  But bear in mind there's a whole age of consent between when it was released and when I was born.

Heh, my mother has always had two movie crushes:  Omar Sharif and James Garner.  I think I saw everything Garner had already done by the time I was 12.

[Viking]

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.

Was she referring to the Sea Peoples with iron weapons or Egyptians of two man chariots?

[Ideologue]

It seemed to be a general complaint about her boss' complacency.

[viper37]

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

Inacurate.  It should have said 8 weeks, at least.

[Darth Wagtaros]

It seemed to be a general complaint about her boss' complacency.

Yeah. You hear that one a lot.

"Shit, man, my boss is an incompetent tool! Guys like him led to the downfall of the Hittite Empire!"

[Ed Anger]

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.

That buys you one pass from me Ide. Don't waste it on your commie shit.

[Ideologue]

 

[Viking]

It seemed to be a general complaint about her boss' complacency.

hmm.. why she singles out the hittites when pretty much every body except the egyptians got wiped out in a similar way suggests to me that she fails at bluffing as a history nerd.

Edit: sorry, not a keeper.

[Ideologue]

Pretending to care is all I think you can realistically ask for, and even that's pushing it.

Also, she was hot and >120lbs.