TV/Movies Megathread

[Valmy]

Can you blame them?

Making a show about a place they have never been to?  Of course.  One of many abominable things about Glee.

[Josephus]

I went to a wedding that could have been an extra scene in Eastern Promises ... 

I was at a Russian Jewish wedding this past weekend. I was scared to even look somebody the wrong way.

Did it have the hard-faced dudes with short buzzed hair and prison tats?

Was the wedding entertainment a transvestite? 

No. But we had a magician and a belly dancer.

[viper37]

Just saw Superman.

Pretty good.  Lots of bad things, very predictable, but overall, pretty good.

Bad things:

• [spoiler]Americans are dumb.  First, they attack the aliens with A-10 and it fails.  So they send the ground troops with M-16.  When all else fails, they resort to pistols.  I mean, c'mon.  If the A-10 manage to, at best, knock out the opponent, what would a light caliber weapon do to him?  And when your realize that shooting isn't doing anything, you keep shooting your gun until there's no bullet, then you draw your blade??  I suppose it could be interpreted as critique of the gun culture, i.e. a gun isn't always a man best friend, but still.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Superman and the other Kryptonians attack each another with airplanes and locomotives wich, when crashed on the ground, destroy the streets, but not the buildings along their paths.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Superman is facing people as strong as him with similar powers, but he tells people to simply go inside and lock their doors.  For fuck sake, tell them to leave the area?[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Zod says his people will take years to adapt to Earth's atmosphere, and suffer along the way like Kal El.  Yet, by the end of the movie, he has Superman strength, power, and ability to ignore unwanted noises.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler]Zod is a psycho on par only with the Governor from Walking Dead.  Superman does not feel any remorse for killing hundreds, maybe thousands of innocents by destroying his scout ship, he just doomed his race.  Yet, he's crying after killing Zod, the last of the Kryptonians on Earth, bent on destroying everything and everyone.  Illogical.[/spoiler]

Still, a very good movie, despite these minor points.

[Eddie Teach]

Saw the first couple episodes of Dracula. Not bad.

[viper37]

I told a friend not to watch "The host".  Told him it was crap, despite a good premises, halfway through, it became some teenage girl flick like Twilight.
What did he tell me this week?
-"I watched the Host, I remembered only someone told me about it.  After 45 minutes, it became crap, like that tween vampire movie".
- I told you last week NOT to watch it!  didn't you listen?
- Oh, that was the movie.

See? no one listens to me, and they all end up regretting it, always! 

[Eddie Teach]

Poor Cassandra.

[Ideologue]

I'm still gonna see The Host at some point.  I'm depressingly fascinated with Andrew Niccol's career shame spiral.

[CountDeMoney]

I told a friend not to watch "The host".  Told him it was crap, despite a good premises, halfway through, it became some teenage girl flick like Twilight.
What did he tell me this week?
-"I watched the Host, I remembered only someone told me about it.  After 45 minutes, it became crap, like that tween vampire movie".
- I told you last week NOT to watch it!  didn't you listen?
- Oh, that was the movie.

See? no one listens to me, and they all end up regretting it, always! 

LOL, yeah, I had the same issues with it;  I was watching it, seemed pretty good, and then somewhere in the middle of a monster movie, a Lettow-style ROK schoolgirl emo flick broke out.

[Syt]

Does it have tentacles?

[Kleves]

I told a friend not to watch "The host".  Told him it was crap, despite a good premises, halfway through, it became some teenage girl flick like Twilight.

LOL, yeah, I had the same issues with it;  I was watching it, seemed pretty good, and then somewhere in the middle of a monster movie, a Lettow-style ROK schoolgirl emo flick broke out.

I think you guys are talking about different movies. 

[katmai]

[Viking]

Just saw Superman.

Pretty good.  Lots of bad things, very predictable, but overall, pretty good.
Still, a very good movie, despite these minor points.

Seriously, you missed [spoiler]

• The Tornado Scene
• Jonathan Kent telling Clark to let innocents die if it's good for Clark

[/spoiler]

How can you make a list of stupid shit and miss that?

[Eddie Teach]

Seriously, you missed [spoiler]

• Jonathan Kent telling Clark to let innocents die if it's good for Clark

[/spoiler]

How can you make a list of stupid shit and miss that?

Stupid because it goes against "canon" or do you think that's stupid on its own merits?

[Viking]

Stupid because it goes against "canon" or do you think that's stupid on its own merits?

Both, but mainly merits. I'm willing to let filmakers take liberties

[Eddie Teach]

Ah, the moral high horse. Because he can save someone, he has a duty to, regardless of the cost to himself.

I think the advice was sensible, considering papa Kent had no idea the true extent of Clark's power. A lesser Superman could easily end up in a metal cage or a laboratory table.