TV/Movies Megathread

[fhdz]

The Wizard of Oz (1939).  A beautiful film that reminds us that we must never take our friends and family for granted, for death and pain may come at any moment.  The Wizard of Oz was made in a time when Americans had not yet become a race of effete weaklings, and knew that evil, whether it be a wicked witch or Nazism, understands only violence and must be conquered with righteous violence.  We knew this instinctively, and once our belief in civilization was so strong that even our little girls could crush and melt their enemies without a hint of regret or remorse, just as in their millions our young women would do during the war to come, serving as the labor that built our command of the air and, ultimately, permitted the delivery of the atom bomb, killing thousands quickly to save millions from the long death of fascism and militarism.

I also really enjoyed how colorful it was, the special effects on the funnel cloud, and the songs.  And it's really funny!

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Okay, I liked that review.

Me too, actually.

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, that's much more like it as a review.

[Eddie Teach]

melt their enemies without a hint of regret or remorse,

So Dorothy's protestations to the contrary were a sham?

[garbon]

Yes, that's much more like it as a review.

So Languish wants a review that says nothing about the movie or even actual history?

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, that's much more like it as a review.

So Languish wants a review that says nothing about the movie or even actual history?

He mentions WW2-era little girls crushing and melting our enemies.  Good enough for me, and even a little hot.

Certainly beats some of the 1,200-word esoteric and pretentious bullshit he's popped out before.

[Ideologue]

Yes, that's much more like it as a review.

So Languish wants a review that says nothing about the movie or even actual history?

Doesn't it?  Wizard of Oz is a surprisingly violent film for what is considered kid's fare; as such, it is an artifact of its time.  A better time, when we believed in dropping things on people, and white phosphorous was to a Nazi's face as a bucket of water was to a witch.

I think I also mentioned the color.

[jimmy olsen]

Isn't kids fare still violent? Avatar the Last Airbender had genocide, a hundred year steampunk world war, secret police, torture, etc.

[Eddie Teach]

Never too early to get kids thinking about hurting people. 

[CountDeMoney]

Isn't kids fare still violent? Avatar the Last Airbender had genocide, a hundred year steampunk world war, secret police, torture, etc.

Only if your definition of "kids" = adolescent fucktards, since those films are PG-13 and PG, respectively.

[jimmy olsen]

Isn't kids fare still violent? Avatar the Last Airbender had genocide, a hundred year steampunk world war, secret police, torture, etc.

Only if your definition of "kids" = adolescent fucktards, since those films are PG-13 and PG, respectively.

Avatar the Last Airbender was a cartoon show on Nickelodeon.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417299/

[Ideologue]

Isn't kids fare still violent? Avatar the Last Airbender had genocide, a hundred year steampunk world war, secret police, torture, etc.

Did Aang ever get sent on what was pretty explicitly a killing mission?

[Ideologue]

Also, does he ever bend the air in someone's lungs so they burst like an Israeli commuter's?

[Ideologue]

Oh yeah, I got my extremely ill-advised purchases from Amazon today.   This Hitchcock set is really beautiful.  It's like a book with sleeve pages, ala the Indiana Jones or Stanley Kubrick sets, but the discs aren't jammed in there, again like Israeli commuters.  I thought the actual little book that comes in the box would be more worthwhile, though; it's not exactly a Criterion-grade collection of essays, but rather pretty fluffy, but I guess not nothing either.

Well, what's done is done.  It may be serving as my present to my dad this Christmas; although he's got all these on bootleg DVDs already, I've seen his copies of other movies, and suffice it to say they look like garbage, especially his B+W films.

I also got Invasion of the Body Snatchers '78, Carrie ('76, which goes, I hope, without saying), and Broken Arrow.

I'll just point out that the last one was $5.

[The Brain]

Daytime TV gave Private Practice. That chick is so hot.

[Viking]

Isn't kids fare still violent? Avatar the Last Airbender had genocide, a hundred year steampunk world war, secret police, torture, etc.

Kids shows are always over the top. What did Skeletor, Shredder, Megatron and crazy witch from Power Rangers want? Usually it was more evil than what Hitler wanted.