TV/Movies Megathread

[11B4V]

Fucking hell
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/19/its-a-wonderful-life-sequel

It's the downside to copyright expiry.  Schmucks get to fuck with the classics.

Truely shameful.

[Admiral Yi]

I've tried twice now to watch The Great and Mighty Oz and both times it didn't take.

[Ideologue]

What is that, the Asylum version?

Saw The Counselor last night and Catching Fire tonight.  Both are vast improvements upon their predecessors, in Catching Fire's case its franchise originator and Worst Movie Ever Made, The Hunger Games, and in The Counselor's, its director's literal abortion of an Alien prequel.  One still sucks, and it's not the film other people are claiming is the Worst Movie Ever Made, which is in fact rather great despite an annoying depiction of the lifestyle of a shitlaw criminal lawyer.

[jimmy olsen]

Watched the 2nd season of the Legend of Korra. The first five episodes were kind of a confused, angsty mess, but episodes six to fourteen were great, with the final four being absolutely epic.

eh? have they got to 14?

aren't they still on 10?

They showed 11-12 last Friday and then released 13-14 at midnight after a successful online campaign.

Have you seen them yet Viking? What do you think?

[Ed Anger]

What is that, the Asylum version?

Saw The Counselor last night and Catching Fire tonight.  Both are vast improvements upon their predecessors, in Catching Fire's case its franchise originator and Worst Movie Ever Made, The Hunger Games, and in The Counselor's, its director's literal abortion of an Alien prequel.  One still sucks, and it's not the film other people are claiming is the Worst Movie Ever Made, which is in fact rather great despite an annoying depiction of the lifestyle of a shitlaw criminal lawyer.

Did you eat fresh while watching that catching fire?

[Grey Fox]

What is that, the Asylum version?

Saw The Counselor last night and Catching Fire tonight.  Both are vast improvements upon their predecessors, in Catching Fire's case its franchise originator and Worst Movie Ever Made, The Hunger Games, and in The Counselor's, its director's literal abortion of an Alien prequel.  One still sucks, and it's not the film other people are claiming is the Worst Movie Ever Made, which is in fact rather great despite an annoying depiction of the lifestyle of a shitlaw criminal lawyer.

The Worse movie ever made is Mulholland Drive.

[Eddie Teach]

Worst movie ever- Failure to Launch. Runner Up- Any other Rom Com with Matthew McConnaughey. Second runner up- Other types of movies with Matthew McConnaughey(exceptions- Dazed and Confused, A Time to Kill).

[Malthus]

Watched the 2nd season of the Legend of Korra. The first five episodes were kind of a confused, angsty mess, but episodes six to fourteen were great, with the final four being absolutely epic.

eh? have they got to 14?

aren't they still on 10?

They showed 11-12 last Friday and then released 13-14 at midnight after a successful online campaign.

Have you seen them yet Viking? What do you think?

My kid is very much enjoying the original Avatar series. Though he makes yucky faces at all the ship-teasing romance stuff. 

Is the Legend of Korra aimed at a similar audience?

[lustindarkness]

I've made it to seaon 2 episode 10 of The Walking Dead, and to page 71 (end of Feb 2012) in this thread for TWD comments.

And we watched two more. One more episode and we will be done with season 2. And it seems to be a good one.

Season 2 finale and season 3 opener were The Awesome.

[jimmy olsen]

Watched the 2nd season of the Legend of Korra. The first five episodes were kind of a confused, angsty mess, but episodes six to fourteen were great, with the final four being absolutely epic.

eh? have they got to 14?

aren't they still on 10?

They showed 11-12 last Friday and then released 13-14 at midnight after a successful online campaign.

Have you seen them yet Viking? What do you think?

My kid is very much enjoying the original Avatar series. Though he makes yucky faces at all the ship-teasing romance stuff. 

Is the Legend of Korra aimed at a similar audience?

It's aimed at an audience that's a little older. The 4 main characters are all in their late teens and there's a literal love triangle amongst them. The good guys are a bit more gray, threatening to kill judges and war profiteering is a-ok.

The main character personality wise is the opposite of Aang, while he was a spiritual pacifist, Korra's a meathead who's first instinct is to punch the problem into submission. Thus her journey and problems are quite different, she has to learn to be patient and get in touch with her spiritual side. This takes two whole seasons, but they're short, combined they're only as long as a season of the original series.

It's set 70 years after the end of the original series in a city that's inspired by roaring '20s Shagnhai/NYC.

Animation is gorgeous and the fight scenes are great. Sometimes however things get bogged down by multiple overlapping plot threads and all the drama/angst, which is a function of the shorter seasons in my opinion. They try to do too much at once sometimes, and it's difficult to pull off in the short time they've been allotted. That being said, when it's good it's great and the 2nd half of the 2nd season was definitely that.

[Malthus]

It's aimed at an audience that's a little older. Has a literal love triangle in it. The good guys are a bit more gray, threatening to kill judges and war profiteering is a-ok.

The main character personality wise is the opposite of Aang, while he was a spiritual pacifist, Korra's a meathead who's first instinct is to punch the problem into submission. Thus her journey and problems are quite different, she has to learn to be patient and get in touch with her spiritual side. This takes two whole seasons, but they're short, combined they're only as long as a season of the original series.

It's set 70 years after the end of the original series in a city that's inspired by roaring '20s Shagnhai/NYC.

Animation is gorgeous and the fight scenes are great. Sometimes however things get bogged down by multiple overlapping plot threads and all the drama/angst, which is a function of the shorter seasons in my opinion. They try to do too much at once sometimes, and it's difficult to pull off in the short time they've been allotted. That being said, when it's good it's great and the 2nd half of the 2nd season was definitely that.

Maybe I'll wait a bit before introducing him to it. The original series is about on the edge of his maturity level - though I must say, he's really enjoying it.

I must say the creators do a great job of making a series that the parents can watch with enjoyment as well as the kids. My wife loves it and she usually has no patience with animated adventure stuff. Though she was a bit put out when Carl pointed out that she's a lot like Katara, when that character is acting annoyingly motherly towards the others.  "But I am your mother ... "

[Viking]

Have you seen them yet Viking? What do you think?

I've seen it now. And... Holy Shit. They spent all season lulling me into a false sense of expecting mediocrity and then they blow their entire load on the Avatar Wan episode and the Feature Film length Final. It feels like the lull of ATLA season 3 waiting for Sozin's Comet. Just without the character development. TBH, I don't really like Korra as a person and I think she is naively stupid. Then again, I never really liked Aang either, but he was naively principled.

[Liep]

http://youtu.be/LSOONAsCG0U

The first trailer for von Trier's new movie. It has gotten so much news for so little; I wonder if the internet will explode now.

It's NSFW, btw. And will probably not be on youtube for long.

[Savonarola]

The Worse movie ever made is Mulholland Drive.

For what Lynch had to work with Mulholland Drive turned out okay.  I think it would have been a good TV series, but that was not to be.  I've certainly seen much worse than that; "The Terror of Tiny Town," the world's only all-midget western, for instance, was far worse.

[Ideologue]

What is that, the Asylum version?

Saw The Counselor last night and Catching Fire tonight.  Both are vast improvements upon their predecessors, in Catching Fire's case its franchise originator and Worst Movie Ever Made, The Hunger Games, and in The Counselor's, its director's literal abortion of an Alien prequel.  One still sucks, and it's not the film other people are claiming is the Worst Movie Ever Made, which is in fact rather great despite an annoying depiction of the lifestyle of a shitlaw criminal lawyer.

Did you eat fresh while watching that catching fire?

I am tired of being creeped out by the photoshopped picture of Jennifer Lawrence staring at me with soulless eyes while I'm trying to get a Goddamned sub.