TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Christ, IDeo - how many words did you type out on a movie that came out 21 months ago???

I think he was better off putting his reviews here where he knew he had to rein in the excess a little.

[Caliga]

I saw Anchorman 2. I laughed.

+1

[Ed Anger]

Will Farrell needs to fall into a wood chipper.

[katmai]

Ed Anger's Penis needs to fall into a wood chipper, 22 kids is enough!!!1

[Ed Anger]

Ed Anger's Penis needs to fall into a wood chipper, 22 kids is enough!!!1

Jelly.

[Ideologue]

Christ, IDeo - how many words did you type out on a movie that came out 21 months ago???

OK, maybe you have a point, because it turns out it's around 5600, including footnotes and captions.  I thought it was more like 3000.   Well, the movie is culturally, historically, or aesthetically important.

Will endeavor to tighten in future.

[katmai]

Ed Anger's Penis needs to fall into a wood chipper, 22 kids is enough!!!1

Jelly.

Is what all of Ed Anger's bastard children can only afford to eat

[The Brain]

Ed has been pretty chipper lately.

[Ideologue]

47 Ronin (2013).  A lethargic if occasionally lovely slog through the legend of the forty-seven ronin, as tarted up by $175 million worth of Hollywood fantasy, and even though I know that I'm supposed to be totally offended by that, the fanciful nonsense parts are also by a huge margin the best parts.

The day Hawaii bombed Japan

(It's way less than 5600 words.  I think less than 2000.)

C+

P.S. I also really liked the costumes, but--

unfortunately, they stop being samurai, start being ronin, and might as well start wearing potato sacks.

[The Brain]

80s TV Ivanhoe is on.

[Viking]

That one took a while.  I've been sort of noodling on it for what seems like two or three weeks.

Of Mars and men

I've uprated it as a result of the last couple of watches, basically by the dint of wanting to watch it four times in a year: John Carter is an A.

While John Carter OF MARS wasn't as bad as it is presented as being it certainly isn't good. It was always going to have many of the same problems a wonder woman movie will have (and casablanca has to modern viewers), how can the trope-namer be considered interesting or relevant when the movie comes out decades after the trope went mainstream?

It was an ok adaptation which contorted itself not to seem dated (which it is ffs) and failed to be relevant while ceasing to be coherent. The "people" of Barsoom are persons and characters and CGI does not do them justice in any way. Andy Serkis needs to be cloned, or at least teach actors how to do what he does.

[Neil]

Viking's just pissed because the Martians had some sort of religion.  John Carter was a great movie.

[Ideologue]

While I don't disagree that Andy Serkis is probably the best he is at what he does, Dafoe is a boss actor in any scenario.

Also, have the Wonder Woman tropes been mainstream for as long as you think?  50 Shades of Gray is a pretty recent phenomenon.

[Ideologue]

And in seriousness, only two female superheroes with even close to marquee names have ever had movies made about them, and those were the cheap, unfaithful knockoffs that I understand Catwoman and Elektra were.  Also, the only straight-up fantasy/superhero hybrid to mix gods and metahumans is Thor (and its sequel).  I think a straight Wonder Woman movie would cover some pretty fresh ground (as would an Aquaman movie, which I'm a lot more excited about, even if a Namor movie would be better).

[Grey Fox]

Viking's just needs to stop reading books before seeing movie adaptation. He always comes with too much bagage, too many expectations.