TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

Ain't that the truth.  My entire body clock is still fucked up.   Who the hell eats lunch at 11am?  Day cares and senior centers, that's the fuck who.

[jimmy olsen]

Maybe it's because I'm tired, but I can't make out what that word is supposed to say.  Lost?  Dolt? Lois? Dole?   Are we supposed to know this?

Not sure if serious. 2014?

I also didn't get it. 

[viper37]

Shield. At a push and very quickly shee-eld

seems I got it right then.  Must be some local accent specifities that escapes me.  I'm still having problem with various regional english accents.

[viper37]

As much as I like Boardwalk Empire, I just can't stand the 20s.  It really looks like a boring time period and their form of entertainment reminds me of the Bugs Bunny show.

Getting drunk in speakeasies reminds you of Bugs Bunny? 

the way they dance, the way the sing.  I could just imagine Bugs&Daffy Duck in that settings.

As I said, it's the 20s settings: the way they have fun at the clubs, the type of music they like, the weird dancing, what passes for sexy, etc, etc.

[viper37]

As much as I like Boardwalk Empire, I just can't stand the 20s.  It really looks like a boring time period and their form of entertainment reminds me of the Bugs Bunny show.

I love the dancing girls.

black girls in leopard dress...  Sorry, not for me.

[Valmy]

BBC4 documentary on the 'Joy of Disco'. Absolutely brilliant. I'm a convert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zQpMnU6N4o
Documentary about how a much-derided music actually changed the world. Between 1969 and 1979 disco soundtracked gay liberation, foregrounded female desire in the age of feminism and led to the birth of modern club culture as we know it today, before taking the world by storm. With contributions from Nile Rogers, Robin Gibb, Kathy Sledge and Ian Schrager.

Um it was much derided in the late 1970s for taking down Rock and Roll as the pop music of choice.  Has anybody actually derided it much since 1982 or so?  Will disco fans ever get over this?  Man they are a whiny group.

[Admiral Yi]

black girls in leopard dress...  Sorry, not for me.

White girls in top hats and crotch shorts.

[viper37]

black girls in leopard dress...  Sorry, not for me.

White girls in top hats and crotch shorts.

can't remember these ones.  Might have been last year.
I do remember that horrible coregraphy with the girl that died, about "King Tut" or something egyptian.  Looked silly, and totally did not do it for me.

[Valmy]

As much as I like Boardwalk Empire, I just can't stand the 20s.  It really looks like a boring time period and their form of entertainment reminds me of the Bugs Bunny show.

Getting drunk in speakeasies reminds you of Bugs Bunny? 

the way they dance, the way the sing.  I could just imagine Bugs&Daffy Duck in that settings.

As I said, it's the 20s settings: the way they have fun at the clubs, the type of music they like, the weird dancing, what passes for sexy, etc, etc.

Well yeah cartoons, then as now, have cultural references.  Especially as those were made as shorts before movies to entertain adults.

Anyway not much can be done for you Viper.  If you hate the setting you hate the setting.

[Razgovory]

As much as I like Boardwalk Empire, I just can't stand the 20s.  It really looks like a boring time period and their form of entertainment reminds me of the Bugs Bunny show.

Getting drunk in speakeasies reminds you of Bugs Bunny? 

the way they dance, the way the sing.  I could just imagine Bugs&Daffy Duck in that settings.

As I said, it's the 20s settings: the way they have fun at the clubs, the type of music they like, the weird dancing, what passes for sexy, etc, etc.

Well yeah cartoons, then as now, have cultural references.  Especially as those were made as shorts before movies to entertain adults.

Anyway not much can be done for you Viper.  If you hate the setting you hate the setting.

He's more of a Pepe le Pew type.

[Ideologue]

Hey, neat tidbit that Sav didn't tell me, perhaps because he didn't know, or because he wishes to keep his competitive advantage.

William Cameron Menzies, the director and effective production designer on Things to Come, also did the production design (i.e., the good part) of Thief of Bagdad.  I find this fact delightful.

[Malthus]

As much as I like Boardwalk Empire, I just can't stand the 20s.  It really looks like a boring time period and their form of entertainment reminds me of the Bugs Bunny show.

Getting drunk in speakeasies reminds you of Bugs Bunny? 

the way they dance, the way the sing.  I could just imagine Bugs&Daffy Duck in that settings.

As I said, it's the 20s settings: the way they have fun at the clubs, the type of music they like, the weird dancing, what passes for sexy, etc, etc.

Well yeah cartoons, then as now, have cultural references.  Especially as those were made as shorts before movies to entertain adults.

Anyway not much can be done for you Viper.  If you hate the setting you hate the setting.

He's more of a Pepe le Pew type.

Ah, Pepe Le Pew.

From the era when the only thing more hilarious than national stereotypes was sexual harrassment. 

[katmai]

Thor the Dark World.

Fun popcorn entertainment that gives 1st tease of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

B+

[Ideologue]

Thor the Dark World.

Fun popcorn entertainment that gives 1st tease of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

B+

WTF stop agreeing with me.  It's what I'm giving it too, except I plan on spending 1200 words complaining about its shitty production design in comparison to other movies of its type and particularly in comparison to Bo Welch's fantastic work on the original.

Unfun fact: production designer Charles Wood is doing Guardians of the Galaxy also.  Of course, I still hope that movie is a roaring success because it's the only thing that could possibly ever get Warner to make a Legion of Super-Heroes movie.

I did enjoy Del Toro.  Am ambivalent about the reconceptualization of the Infinity Gems.

[Ed Anger]

Is there enough Natalie Portman to leer at?