TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

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).

Tropical Thunder. 

[Ideologue]

Tropic Thunder?  Insanity.

[Ideologue]

Nm, misunderstood.

[CountDeMoney]

The Worse movie ever made is Mulholland Drive.

For what Lynch had to work with Mulholland Drive turned out okay.

Soft core lesbianism with Naomi Watts makes everything okay.

[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?

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.

EAT FRESH.

[mongers]

I wouldn't mind watching a movie this evening before I turn in early, but can't be arse to make any effort to choose or find anything in a stack over there*. 





* points to a place 5 3/8 ft away.

[CountDeMoney]

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).

Tropical Thunder. 

Boo.  Tropic Thunder was hilarious on so many levels.

[Eddie Teach]

He was making another McConnaughey exception. I didn't remember him in that movie either.

[CountDeMoney]

Ah, gotcha, Yi.

And he was the agent, for God's sake.  With the retard kid.  The gift basket with the satellite phone.  DO NOT REGIFT

[Tonitrus]

Watched "The Devil and Miss Jones" again (the Jean Arthur/Charles Coburn classic, not th porno).  One of my favorite films, with some good underlying messages on human relations and social justice. 

I'd recommend it for an Ide review. 

[viper37]

I wouldn't mind watching a movie this evening before I turn in early, but can't be arse to make any effort to choose or find anything in a stack over there*. 

Simple.
Launch Youtube.  Type "Intrepid Hyena".  Watch. Comment on the next morning

[Admiral Yi]

He was making another McConnaughey exception. I didn't remember him in that movie either.

Dude.  Playing tennis on the Wii.  Tom Cruise tries to whore him with a personal jet.  He saves Ben Stiller with a commercial skipper TV recorder thingy.

[jimmy olsen]

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 ... "

The first season ends with a murder-suicide, so yeah, you might want to wait a bit.

[jimmy olsen]

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.

She was hailed as the messiah at the age of three and then home schooled in elemental kung fu in a religious compound in rural Antarctica until she was 17 before she left for the big city. Naively stupid is a rather realistic result.

[Viking]

The first season ends with a murder-suicide, so yeah, you might want to wait a bit.

ATLA starts with Genocide