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Maladict

Quote from: Liep on January 17, 2014, 03:11:38 AM
Denmark will add another couple of Oscars to its collection. Jagten and The Act of Killing are certain winners.

Jagten should win, but I wouldn't discount La Grande Bellezza.

celedhring

Though call, but I think Jagten is more palatable for American audiences. La Grande Bellezza has essentially no plot.

Sophie Scholl

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A typical night at BA's...


Of course, sometimes she likes to put on a show first.  Who am I to complain? http://imgur.com/yTJUn8y
"Everything that brought you here -- all the things that made you a prisoner of past sins -- they are gone. Forever and for good. So let the past go... and live."

"Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

Josquius

I've started on TNG series 2. And so far its worse than series 1. Oh deer.
"The Outrageous O'Conner"- seriously? Ugh.
And the one with the deaf peace emissary guy was just crappy. They talk so much about how lasers suck then some guy comes in with his laser gun and kills three people with one shot....
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The Larch

Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 16, 2014, 04:02:24 PM
Quote from: The Larch on January 16, 2014, 08:04:27 AM
Quote from: celedhring on January 16, 2014, 07:46:30 AM
I recall some Alba skin in Idle Hands... or is my former teenager me idealizing that film?

She spent a good chunk of the movie in her underwear. And bonded. :perv:

Why am I not notified of these things???

She's also into spanking, apparently.

Grey Fox

Quote from: Tyr on January 17, 2014, 06:22:20 AM
I've started on TNG series 2. And so far its worse than series 1. Oh deer.
"The Outrageous O'Conner"- seriously? Ugh.
And the one with the deaf peace emissary guy was just crappy. They talk so much about how lasers suck then some guy comes in with his laser gun and kills three people with one shot....

SEASON
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

jimmy olsen

Quote from: Grey Fox on January 17, 2014, 07:53:28 AM
Quote from: Tyr on January 17, 2014, 06:22:20 AM
I've started on TNG series 2. And so far its worse than series 1. Oh deer.
"The Outrageous O'Conner"- seriously? Ugh.
And the one with the deaf peace emissary guy was just crappy. They talk so much about how lasers suck then some guy comes in with his laser gun and kills three people with one shot....

SEASON
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It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Josquius

Quote from: Grey Fox on January 17, 2014, 07:53:28 AM
Quote from: Tyr on January 17, 2014, 06:22:20 AM
I've started on TNG series 2. And so far its worse than series 1. Oh deer.
"The Outrageous O'Conner"- seriously? Ugh.
And the one with the deaf peace emissary guy was just crappy. They talk so much about how lasers suck then some guy comes in with his laser gun and kills three people with one shot....

SEASON
There are no seasons in space
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Grey Fox

Quote from: Tyr on January 17, 2014, 08:10:59 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on January 17, 2014, 07:53:28 AM
Quote from: Tyr on January 17, 2014, 06:22:20 AM
I've started on TNG series 2. And so far its worse than series 1. Oh deer.
"The Outrageous O'Conner"- seriously? Ugh.
And the one with the deaf peace emissary guy was just crappy. They talk so much about how lasers suck then some guy comes in with his laser gun and kills three people with one shot....

SEASON
There are no seasons in space

No series either.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Capetan Mihali

Watched Rio Bravo last night. :alberta:  Nice to see a good patriotic western, unlike that commie High Noon picture! :mad:

Damn, Ricky Nelson can actually act!  And so can Dean Martin.  The Duke, of course, is The Duke; rarely more so than in this movie, I think.
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viper37

Quote from: Tyr on January 17, 2014, 06:22:20 AM
I've started on TNG series 2. And so far its worse than series 1. Oh deer.
"The Outrageous O'Conner"- seriously? Ugh.
And the one with the deaf peace emissary guy was just crappy. They talk so much about how lasers suck then some guy comes in with his laser gun and kills three people with one shot....
Imho, it doesn't start being good until mid season 3.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

Eddie Teach

In space, no one can hear Josquius use weird Britishicisms.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Barrister

Quote from: viper37 on January 17, 2014, 10:39:23 AM
Quote from: Tyr on January 17, 2014, 06:22:20 AM
I've started on TNG series 2. And so far its worse than series 1. Oh deer.
"The Outrageous O'Conner"- seriously? Ugh.
And the one with the deaf peace emissary guy was just crappy. They talk so much about how lasers suck then some guy comes in with his laser gun and kills three people with one shot....
Imho, it doesn't start being good until mid season 3.

Which of course was shortly before Roddenberry died.  Coincidence?  I think not...
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katmai

Caught 1st episode of True Detective on HBO.
Looked good and look forward to checking out next episode.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Savonarola

The Flapper (1920)

A daughter of a Senator (Olive Thomas) is bored by her life in small town Florida.  She's sent to Mrs. Paddle's School for Young Ladies (which is the greatest name imaginable for a girls' boarding school) in New York State.  Mrs. Paddle is a strict disciplinarian and the girls are very, very naughty and must be punished in the most humiliating way; or at least that's what would have happened if it had been my film.  In the film I actually watched wacky hi-jinks ensue as the girls try to emulate the flapper lifestyle and Olive Thomas tries to catch the eye of an older man (William Carleton.)

One night the charity pupil at Mrs. Paddle's school robs the place and escapes with her boyfriend (proving once again that you should never trust poor people or orphans.)  The couple lure Olive to New York City and then force her to take their pilfered loot back to Florida with her so that they can recover it later.  Their dastardly plan seemed horribly flawed, since there was nothing to stop Olive from ratting them out when they were out of sight; but she goes along with it.  She also pretends to be a wicked, worldly woman when she returns to Florida.  The ending resembles the end of an "I Love Lucy" episode where all Olive's troubles pile up at the last minute, but then are quickly resolved.

The star, Olive Thomas, lived a fascinating life.  She was from a small steel town in Pennsylvania.  Her father died when she was a child.  She married at 15 to an abusive man, and then divorced him when she was 17.  She went to New York City where she became a model (she was the first ever Vargas girl.)  She became a showgirl at the Ziegfeld Follies, had an affair with Florenz Ziegfeld.  She moved to Hollywood and married Jack Pickford (Mary Pickford's younger brother.)  She made a couple movies and died at age 25 from having accidentally drunk her husband's topical remedy for his syphilis sores.  That became Hollywood's first major scandal.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock