TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Hey, Sav, I finally "remembered" (I happened across a review by accident) of that pre-Code sex film I was talking about.  It's none other than your main man Lubitsch's Design For Living.  It's about, as Kevin Smith would put it, an extended game of Chinese finger cuffs.  But I'm sure you know that.

[Ed Anger]

I want to punch you in the balls Ide.

[Ideologue]

The Right Stuff (1983).  It's fucking great!  TAKE THAT TAXPAYERS! A

[CountDeMoney]

The Right Stuff (1983).  It's fucking great!  TAKE THAT TAXPAYERS! A

Even a broken Millennial is right once in a while.   Good for you, kid.  Here's some Ritalin.  Don't sell it.

[Ideologue]

Ritalin's for olds.  It's Adderall these days.  Frankly, I'd be a better person if I were hopped up on dextroamphetamines all day.  Add an effective antidepressant and antianxiety medication and those myostatin inhibitors that'll be coming down the pipe anytime soon, and I'd be right as rain.

Also a PPAR-gamma agonist would be pretty rad for those days where I eat nothing but cookies.  Not rosiglitazone, it makes your heart explode.

Sorry for horning in on your schtick, Mihali.

[Ed Anger]

Now I feel bad for wanting to punch you in the balls.

[Ideologue]

Was it for the B+ for Spring Breakers or the Kevin Smith reference, anyway?  Both?  Both is possible.

[CountDeMoney]

Now I feel bad for wanting to punch you in the balls.

Don't worry;  for every Right Stuff he gets correct, he'll drop a B+ on Grown Ups 2.

[Ed Anger]

Was it for the B+ for Spring Breakers or the Kevin Smith reference, anyway?  Both?  Both is possible.

Spring Breakers. Awful, awful movie.

[Ideologue]

Now I feel bad for wanting to punch you in the balls.

Don't worry;  for every Right Stuff he gets correct, he'll drop a B+ on Grown Ups 2.

That seems extremely unlikely.

Spring Breakers. Awful, awful movie.

Not for everybody.  Though I figured you were the target audience: you enjoy the prurient experience of watching nubile young things get mostly naked, yet you hate young people.  I mean, what was it?  Did you feel pandered to?

[celedhring]

Spring Breakers has popped up in several "Best of 2013" lists. I don't think it completely works, but it's an interesting film. Plus it has hot drunken chicks in bikini.

[Ed Anger]

I loathe james Franco. I like naked girls. I loathe james Franco fellating a pistol. I like....nothing else about this movie

I felt greasy after watching it. Then I took my wife's movie picking powers away.

[Ideologue]

Spring Breakers has popped up in several "Best of 2013" lists. I don't think it completely works, but it's an interesting film. Plus it has hot drunken chicks in bikini.

Indeed.  Part of the reason why I needed to watch it--it's one of the last American "important" narrative films of 2013 that I hadn't already caught.  The remaining two are the Coens' Inside Llewyn Davis, All Is Lost with Robert Redford, and arguably (in terms of importance, but it was a big movie) Prisoners, which is about Wolverine beating up a retarded guy.

Did you find SB as abhorrently right-wing as I did?

I loathe james Franco. I like naked girls. I loathe james Franco fellating a pistol. I like....nothing else about this movie

I felt greasy after watching it. Then I took my wife's movie picking powers away.

Fair enough.  I like James Franco, but he's an odd duck.

[celedhring]

Anyway, just watched a terrible Keanu Reeves film on the telly: The Watcher. It's an awful 90s psycho-thriller where he plays a serial killer chased by James Spader. Anyway the most interesting bit of the film is something I found on the wiki:

Reeves has stated that he was not interested in the script but was forced into doing the film when a friend forged his signature on a contract. He performed the role rather than get involved in a lengthy legal battle. He was contractually prevented from disclosing this until twelve months after the film's US release

[CountDeMoney]

I don't get the James Franco hate.  I mean, it's not like we're being overdosed by him to such a degree and with such severity as we were in previous eras, such as the Age of Colin Farrell or, more recently, the Ryan Reynolds Phase or Ryan Gosling Era.