TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

Janeway sucks.

[Syt]

How many Nazi episodes did Voyager have? Or am I thinking of Enterprise?  Seemed like there was a time travel episode every few weeks.

On holodeck, but still:



And there was the episode with the Cardassian version of Mengele.

[viper37]

Agents of SHIELD isn't terribly impressive so far.

I thought this week episode was moderatly better than the 2 first ones.  There is still hope for this show, I think.

Haven't watched Revolution yet.  I'm unsure I should keep watching it, it's not terribly good.

[viper37]

And there was the episode with the Cardassian version of Mengele.

Oh, wait, it was on the Holodeck, right?  Fucking Holodeck shows.

[Viking]

How many Nazi episodes did Voyager have? Or am I thinking of Enterprise?  Seemed like there was a time travel episode every few weeks.

On holodeck, but still:



And there was the episode with the Cardassian version of Mengele.

It's an eternal sci fi trope. Even Bab5 had the Dilgar, proper space nazis, not pathetic time travel nazis.

[garbon]

Janeway sucks.

What is wrong with people who suck?

[The Larch]

Agents of SHIELD isn't terribly impressive so far.

I thought this week episode was moderatly better than the 2 first ones.  There is still hope for this show, I think.

As long as you can brush aside the fact that the evil industrialist hellbent in evading regulation and interference by governments and agencies would set up shop in Malta of all places...

[Neil]

Voyager was really bad.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Agents of SHIELD isn't terribly impressive so far.

I thought this week episode was moderatly better than the 2 first ones.  There is still hope for this show, I think.

As long as you can brush aside the fact that the evil industrialist hellbent in evading regulation and interference by governments and agencys would set up shop in Malta of all places...

I don't know. Maltese security was pretty hard core.

[Scipio]

Latest episode of Arrow was great.

[viper37]

As long as you can brush aside the fact that the evil industrialist hellbent in evading regulation and interference by governments and agencies would set up shop in Malta of all places...

it's easier to pronounce than Liechtenstein.

[Savonarola]

Reap The Wild Wind (1942)

A Cecil B. Demille epic extravaganza of the sea set in the 1840s in the Florida Keys.  At the time sail is America's lifeline, but some salvagers on the keys were deliberately leading ships onto the reefs.  John Wayne plays a sea captain who runs afoul of salvagers.  Paulette Goddard plays a boisterous girl who runs an honest salvage company; and seems to be trying to show how *she* would have played Scarlet O'Hara throughout the film.  Ray Milland is the naval lawyer who tries to bring law, order and civilization to Florida (quit snickering, all of you.)

The story is a rollicking good yarn; only bogged down by a long court room scene in the middle of the adventure.  John Wayne plays an ultimately heroic man, but not a good man (he would later say that his purpose in the film was to make Ray Milland look like a real man.)  When the film was released he was third billing behind Milland and Goddard.  When it was rereleased a decade later he was top followed by Susan Hayward (who only has a small role) and then Milland and Goddard.

There's also a fight with a giant squid in this film.  The studio donated the squid prop (which was made of rubber) to the war effort; thus starting Japan's longstanding problems with giant tentacle monsters.

[Tonitrus]

Agents of SHIELD isn't terribly impressive so far.

I thought this week episode was moderatly better than the 2 first ones.  There is still hope for this show, I think.

Haven't watched Revolution yet.  I'm unsure I should keep watching it, it's not terribly good.

Season 2 isn't getting any better.

[Josephus]

Star Trek Voyager was my second favourite after STNG. Not saying it was that great, but found it better than DS9 and that catastrophe that followed.

STNG, though, was miles ahead of what came before and what followed.

[The Larch]

As long as you can brush aside the fact that the evil industrialist hellbent in evading regulation and interference by governments and agencies would set up shop in Malta of all places...

it's easier to pronounce than Liechtenstein.

Being Marvel, I'm dissapointed they didn't use Genosha or Madripoor.