TV/Movies Megathread

[Habbaku]

Notice how he didn't state how much he paid?

[Ed Anger]

Picked up Das Boot and Black Hawk Down on Blu-ray.

Yuk.

[Ideologue]

Notice how he didn't state how much he paid?

Fair enough, but I suspect that Das Boot was more than the nine bucks that you said was overpriced.

[Josephus]

Watched Gravity. Thought it was OK. Straight to the point, anyways. Got going right away. Got a bit hokey here and there, but worth watching.

[Ideologue]

Altered States (1980).  Whoever directed the "Take On Me" video owes Ken Russel, like, at least twenty bucks.

A

[katmai]

Altered States (1980).  Whoever directed the "Take On Me" video owes Ken Russel, like, at least twenty bucks.

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Steve Barron

[Ideologue]

Steve Barron owes Ken Russel twenty bucks.

[The Brain]

Picked up Das Boot and Black Hawk Down on Blu-ray.

I could have given you das boot.

[Ideologue]

WTF is this shit?  I finished a movie review in three hours instead of eight?

The Jasper Johns of tonally confused tae kwon do

And yes, the title of this review is a direct reference to a line in this bad movie.

American Hustle (2013).  It was not better than The Conversation.

C+

[MadBurgerMaker]

I just watch Pacific Rim, Elysium, and Man of Steel over the last couple days.  The fuckin giant robot movie might have been the best of all of them lolz

E:  It seems like the robots should have used swords more often

[Razgovory]

I'm watching Black Hawk Down on Netflix, and I have a question.  In the big hanger where all the soldiers hang out, they are having a pig barbecue, and a captain catches a Delta Force guy wandering around the hanger with his gun out with the safety off.  The captain tells the soldier put the safety on, and the solider just blows him off.  Is that the way it really works?  Do soldiers just go to eat at the mess with their guns out and the safety off?  When a captain tells an enlisted man to not do things like that, do the enlisted men just blow off the officers?

[The Brain]

IRL the officer would have been fired.

[Syt]

In the big hanger where all the soldiers hang out

So that is why it's called a hanger and not a hangar anymore.

[Scipio]

I'm watching Black Hawk Down on Netflix, and I have a question.  In the big hanger where all the soldiers hang out, they are having a pig barbecue, and a captain catches a Delta Force guy wandering around the hanger with his gun out with the safety off.  The captain tells the soldier put the safety on, and the solider just blows him off.  Is that the way it really works?  Do soldiers just go to eat at the mess with their guns out and the safety off?  When a captain tells an enlisted man to not do things like that, do the enlisted men just blow off the officers?

IIRC, that actually happened (according to the book). Delta also got a free pass from the commander.

[Malthus]

Saw the Desolation of Smaug the other day.

I enjoyed it, but less than I had hoped. Lots of changes from the book, mostly not for the better.

[spoiler] My biggest beef with the changes is that the lengthy sequence with the dragon chasing the dwarves and Bilbo around really ratcheted down the threat posed by said dragon.

How awesome and awful can Smaug be, if he can chase the dwarves about for a half hour and not even get one? Even when they are standing on his very lip?

Also, Smaug leaving to toast Lake-Town made no sense. The dwarves were standing right there at the end of the chase, having covered him with molten gold. Why not eat or flame them, the dwarves who are pissing him off? Is it that Smaug just accepts that they are too agile for him to get?

In the book, Smaug is unable to get at the dwarves directly, because he doesn't know exactly where they are - so he smashes up the mountainside where he thinks (rightly) the door may be, hopes that dealt with them - in any even he's eaten their transport so they are stuck there - and then flies off to smash lake town. [/spoiler]