TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Just because.

[garbon]

Yesterday I watched:

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Terminator Salvation
Prometheus
Valley of the Dolls

This cold is the worst.

[The Larch]

Just because.

Coming back in January. Hallelujah!

[Scipio]

Just because.

That was nice and exploitative.

I am shocked, shocked to find, etc., etc.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't care, I'd exploit Annie in any number of ways.  Most of them legally questionable in any number of states.

[crazy canuck]

Watched the last episode of Blacklist - it has me mildly interested again.

[lustindarkness]

Yes, Blacklist still has me watching, getting predictable, but I am ok with that.

[Ideologue]

Yesterday I watched:

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Terminator Salvation
Prometheus
Valley of the Dolls

This cold is the worst.

I dunno.  Did you get fired?  It might not be the worst.

[garbon]

Yesterday I watched:

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Terminator Salvation
Prometheus
Valley of the Dolls

This cold is the worst.

I dunno.  Did you get fired?  It might not be the worst.

No instead, I just had people hitting me up all day to do work on my sick day.

[Malthus]

Yesterday I watched:

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Terminator Salvation
Prometheus
Valley of the Dolls

This cold is the worst.

I dunno.  Did you get fired?  It might not be the worst.

No instead, I just had people hitting me up all day to do work on my sick day.

Heh, you gotta love that.

Say you can't work because you are sick, or you are going on vacation, or whatever, and suddenly eight people decide your input is absoluely vital and when you said you can't work, surely that doesn't apply to them, your best buddies and faithful supporters ... ? 

Never fails.

Last time I was leaving town for a long weekend, one of these types was all "yeah, but you will be waiting in the airport for hours, surely you could review this contract ... for me?" Didn't work ... she was too low on the totem pole for me to kow-tow to that extent for. 

[garbon]

Yesterday I watched:

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Terminator Salvation
Prometheus
Valley of the Dolls

This cold is the worst.

I dunno.  Did you get fired?  It might not be the worst.

No instead, I just had people hitting me up all day to do work on my sick day.

Heh, you gotta love that.

Say you can't work because you are sick, or you are going on vacation, or whatever, and suddenly eight people decide your input is absoluely vital and when you said you can't work, surely that doesn't apply to them, your best buddies and faithful supporters ... ? 

Never fails.

Last time I was leaving town for a long weekend, one of these types was all "yeah, but you will be waiting in the airport for hours, surely you could review this contract ... for me?" Didn't work ... she was too low on the totem pole for me to kow-tow to that extent for. 

Yeah - my other favorite is that it also doesn't go both ways. Heaven forbid I try to contact them on their sick day or vacation.

I'll admit that yesterday I was selective and only did a few things as I was like god damn, I took a sick day because I'm only at 33% functionality.

[Savonarola]

Plan 9 From Outer Space

Oh, Criswell, you will always be my favorite radio psychic.

[Barrister]

Plan 9 From Outer Space

  Isn't Plan 9 a little, shall we say, mainstream for your tastes?

[Savonarola]

But whether, as Sav says, I should see these like operas is I think missing the point.  Operas have stories too.  That's why the Ring Cycle loses me when they move from the mythic realm of gods and incest to East Bumfuck, Lotharingen.

If you watch opera for the plot then you have missed the point.

Così fan tutte

While I agree with the central point that Mozart is attempting to make with this supposedly comical opera, that is that all women are whores and can never aspire to be anything else, the premise used is simply too fantastic to merit any serious consideration.  Mozart cannot really expect us, the audience, to believe that Fiordiligi and Dorabella are so incredibly stupid, that they do not display the slightest amount of suspicion when their fuck buddies are called off to war and two Albanian soldiers who are the spitting images to their fuck buddies, but with mustaches, simply show up and immediately try to bed them.  Even if we do accept the premise that the women are as horny as alley cats and as dumb as a bag full of hammers it still stretches any amount of credibility that they don't at least worry that Albanians would be chock full of venereal diseases.

I did, however, find the character of the philosopher Don Alfonso one of the most remarkably well thought out characters in the history of opera, in that his teaching, as he openly admits in song, will lead Guglielmo and Ferrando to unhappiness.  It is perhaps the only time in opera that it is fully acknowledged that the study of the humanities can lead only to misery.

D+

[Savonarola]

The Thief of Bagdad (1924). 

That's my favorite Douglas Fairbanks Sr. movie.  You might get some mileage out of Robin Hood; his interpretation of the outlaw is a little more... merry than most.