TV/Movies Megathread

[Viking]

So...Homeland. No discussion?

Claire Danes is a bit ugly

I think it's because she's always weeping and is....not an attractive cryer

It's called acting. I blame the writers for making Carrie the crying wet rag she is.

So...Homeland. No discussion?

Claire Danes is a bit ugly

No, she isn't.

[Ed Anger]

Yes she is.

[Sheilbh]

It's called acting. I blame the writers for making Carrie the crying wet rag she is.

Sure, it's just a Homeland thing
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tommywes/the-best-of-the-claire-danes-cry-face-project

[Admiral Yi]

She's three parts cute and two parts plain.

I remember reading a review of Romeo and Juliet that argued she was cast opposite di Caprio because she was the kind of girl their target teenie bopper audience would not be jealous of.

[Tonitrus]

I think she is cute.

[Ed Anger]

I poop more attractive things.

[Viking]

It's called acting. I blame the writers for making Carrie the crying wet rag she is.

Sure, it's just a Homeland thing
http://www.buzzfeed.com/tommywes/the-best-of-the-claire-danes-cry-face-project

She's just typecast. 

[Ideologue]

Languish: gay.

[Queequeg]

Watching Pushing Daisies.  Brian Fuller has fantastic taste in brunettes for a gay man. 

[Ideologue]

Tangled (2010).  Welcome to The Little Mermaid with the rough sexual edges sanded off (and hastily reapplied in the last act), with less good songs (but not bad songs), and in 3D... but despite some still-plasticky character animation on occasion and cartoon violence that is more viscerally distressing than it is funny, it's a really beautiful film that takes the utmost advantage of its CGI tools, and where Tangled shines (ha ha) is the lighting effects that could not be easily done, if done at all, in 2D.  The lantern sequence is, possibly, the most single-mindedly beautiful thing in any movie in the Disney animated canon.

I also liked the story, which moved me with its refreshing return to a variation on the successful formula.  True, it has its problems.  The entire world, other than her sickeningly evil "foster mother," may bend over backwards for Rapunzel--another contrast to The Little Mermaid, wherein for most of the picture Ariel is effectively alone, not counting her useless friends, against an inhospitable world--but you never entirely blame it.  This movie failed to pull an Oldboy with its long-confined protagonist either, but it didn't have the same dark tone of Frozen, so it was never an issue.

Indeed, I have to admit that my impressions about this movie were wrong in practically every detail.  The ad campaign made it seem like a Dreamworksian venture in smug anachronistic garbage, and while there are some lines here and there that do approach that (the "smolder" line is possibly marginally worse in context), they're few and far between, and tend to simply be phrases that stand out from the setting, like the overuse of "like" as a speech disfluency, and "freak out," a term younger than many people alive today.  Oh well, Ariel said "gosh."  Who is your Gosh?  Is it Neptune?

Ultimately, it's a movie about how a skinny blonde becomes a brunette, and the bob cut that saved her life and brought everyone she loved immeasurable happiness.  THE END!

A

[jimmy olsen]

I want you to review "How to train your Dragon" next.

[Ideologue]

Beats reviewing The Desolation of Smaug.

[jimmy olsen]

Beats reviewing The Desolation of Smaug.

Don't anger up my blood boy!

[Josquius]

I watched a kid's film today too.
Megamind.
It promised so much and as expected didn't quite deliver on all it promised...but it was somewhat enjoyable nonetheless.

[Neil]

Beats reviewing The Desolation of Smaug.

I enjoyed that film.  It felt like an adventure without being too much of an action film.