TV/Movies Megathread

[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.

[Ideologue]

Watched the last part of the real Carrie again.  God that movie is so, so, so good.

Sissy Spacek is so much hotter than she's given credit for too.  Kind of a weird nose that looks great in profile but a little Lon Chaneyesque dead on, but nothing really wrong about it; but she had gorgeous eyes and at 27 (Jesus, and I complain about Hollywood "teenagers" today) basically possessed of the perfect female body.

A+ for Carrie and also Sissy Spacek's prime years.

Also review of Carrie (2013): Maybe remake the French Connection so Popeye isn't a huge racist instead

They're not even going to laugh at it, because Carrie doesn't have the decency to at least be an incompetent as well as unnecessary remake: merely bland in most respects, inferior in every single respect, and willing neither to innovate nor to truly plagiarize.

C+

[Sheilbh]

First The Conversation, now this. Why do you hate Gene Hackman?