TV/Movies Megathread

[Liep]

Lethal Weapon 6. If blackface is offensive, what is blackbody? It works on all the levels, from DeVito's zombie chief to Olson's southern accent and through the homoeroticism.

A

[garbon]

Lethal Weapon 6. If blackface is offensive, what is blackbody? It works on all the levels, from DeVito's zombie chief to Olson's southern accent and through the homoeroticism.

A

Blackbody is also offensive, Scandiweenie, though Always Sunny gets a pass...particularly when they including buttshots for the ladies.

[garbon]

I saw About Time tonight.  I had wanted to see it but wasn't so enthused on how the movie would actually be.  Found it actually to be pretty endearing and most of the house ended up in tears.

[Ideologue]

I bet the time travel is crap but I won't notice till a second viewing.  It seems to be the way.

[garbon]

Oh the time travel is crappy [spoiler](rules don't really make sense beyond a hand wavey well we haven't yet caused a time paradox but later there is a firm rule introduced)[/spoiler] but I think key in watching the movie is just to just accept that premise and move on. Beyond that I like it as things end rather [spoiler]hopeful rather than some sort of sacrifice that I expected from the trailers[/spoiler].

Also, I hope you are able to notice how crappy the time travel is on the first viewing.

[Josephus]

The Reluctant Fundamentalist. C+ Read the book instead.

[Scipio]

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

Pretty good stuff, honestly. Less abstruse than the first one, and also less pedestrian.

[Kleves]

Ender's Game. Pretty good, though I dislike the coda (which is faithful to the book).

[Syt]

Some early 90s WWF wrestling tapes on YouTube. It's cheesy as fuck, but Bobby Heenan is a god on the microphone.

[Savonarola]

The Little American (1917)

Cecil B. DeMille directs this wonderful propaganda film, made shortly after America's entry in the First World War.  Mary Pickford is the titular Little American who is pursued by both a German (Karl) and Frenchman (Jules) in 1914.  War breaks out and both return to serve in their nations armies.  Mary Pickford's French uncle dies and she sets sail for the old world.  Her boat is sunk by the Germans; there's a great cross cut scene where the German's load their torpedoes while the ship passengers attend a dance party.  Anyhow Mary Pickford had the foresight to stuff an American flag into the bosom of her dress so that when she's eventually rescued everyone realizes she is an American.

By sheer grit Mary make's it to her aunt's house only to find that her aunt is dead and that she is now the mistress of the house.  The French use her house as a hospital, but then evacuate the front leaving her and the wounded soldiers to fend for themselves.  The German's take over the house and the film takes on the over the top quality that only Cecil B. DeMille could deliver.  They break into the wine cellar and down the whole thing, then they raid the larder, rape the women (off screen), burn the furniture, dance jigs on the table, destroy all the artwork and vandalize everything else.  They just don't make movie villains like the Germans anymore.

Karl (who was in the company) tries to rape Mary; but recognizes her and stops.  She forgives him and eventually true love wins in the end, with some help from the artillery.

Mary Pickford and Cecil B. DeMille didn't work together well (hardly a surprise given that they were both egomaniacs.)  Cecil only has a couple scenes that are all out and Mary never gets the chance to clown around.  It ends up not being near as good as the films they made on their own.

[CountDeMoney]

there's a great cross cut scene where the German's load their torpedoes while the ship passengers attend a dance party.

omg so hawt

They just don't make movie villains like the Germans anymore.

[Viking]

Ender's Game. Pretty good, though I dislike the coda (which is faithful to the book).

Is "Formic" the new hate term for gays?

[Razgovory]

Huh. I was a solid 'c' student in High School. Thanks a fucking lot Ide.

I'm not sure if Ide is good judge of what it takes to be successful.

[Admiral Yi]

Watched All the Pretty Girls last night.  Dude kidnaps attractive women, ocaisonally murders them.  Morgan Freeman hunts him down with the help of Ashley Judd, a doctor who was kidnapped but escaped.

This is arguably Freeman's best acting work, but the story line is not all that interesting.  The interaction between the kidnapper and his victims is not all that creepy, and they kept it pretty PG13. 

Ashley Judd is kind of interesting as an actress.  Good looking, but not enough to get the glamorpuss roles; decent actress, but not good enough to get the real heavyweight roles.

[Ed Anger]

Her sister is the real heavy weight. Hyuk.