TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I think if I need to talk to malcontents and provacateurs on the Internet, I've got a place to do that.

[jimmy olsen]

The review's style is really similar to yours, plus there's a nonsensical court scene of bees suing global agribusiness, you'd love it.

[Ideologue]

I said I'd read it.  But all I can see is some awesome trailer for a movie about a lady with a laser eye.

[Syt]

A Somethingawful account? How mid-00s.

[Sophie Scholl]

Just breezed through the first five episodes of Almost Human.  I quite enjoyed it, which is rather good seeing as how I'll be needing replacement tv entertainment.  BBC has apparently killed Ripper Street, making them awful at life when combined with their earlier cancelling of Copper.  Bastards.

[Josquius]

Watched the first two episodes of The Americans. Very silly in a Homeland vein but seems more self-aware about its silliness than Homeland, which I stopped watching long ago.

[derspiess]

Watched the Finnish/Russian film "9th Company" last night.  Enjoyed parts of it.  Had a feeling they were exaggerating the battle at the end and turns out I was right. 

I really wanted to like it-- the vehicles, uniforms, equipment all looked great-- but poorly shot/edited action sequences and the annoying Hollywood-ish gasoline explosions canceled a lot of that out.  The first part of the film drags on without really developing the characters that much IMO.  Picks up a bit when they get to Afghanistan, but there are a lot of predictable moments.

It's too bad-- I think the Soviet experience in Afghanistan is fertile ground for some excellent war films.  But this one just wasn't it.

[11B4V]

2 Guns: C+

[viper37]

Just breezed through the first five episodes of Almost Human.  I quite enjoyed it, which is rather good seeing as how I'll be needing replacement tv entertainment.  BBC has apparently killed Ripper Street, making them awful at life when combined with their earlier cancelling of Copper.  Bastards.

It's nice, but there's nothing original.

of note:
- The robot who isn't supposed to display emotions but can feel them isn't actually much different than a human.  In fact, the banter between the two is very similar to Hawaii 5-0.
- There are episodes about an hostage crisis, a damsel in distress, a prostitution ring, etc, etc, all I have seen before.
- A detective who seems useless outside of the office.
- A weird science nerd (now, where did we see that again?  NCIS, NCIS:LA, Hawaii 5-0, all of the above? ).

I am disapointed that JJ Abrams' team hasn't done something much more original.

[garbon]

Yeah, I have to say that they haven't done much with the concept. Pretty generic cop show at the moment.

[Grey Fox]

It's on broadcast TV, it was baseless to expect anything else.

[garbon]

It's on broadcast TV, it was baseless to expect anything else.

Not really.

[lustindarkness]

Godzilla trailer is out, not sure what to think. I guess I just hope it does not suck.

[viper37]

It's on broadcast TV, it was baseless to expect anything else.

Hannibal and Dracula are ok.

[Grey Fox]

Hardly Innovative tho.

Hannibal is just another NCIS with a canibal character.

Don't know anything about Dracula.