TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Yep. Here we go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing

I've not seen the series but the book's great.

[Capetan Mihali]

I've not seen the series but the book's great.

Same.  It's a classic.

[Ideologue]

Strangers On a Train (1951).  Lotta tennis in this picture.  A lot.

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It's one of my favorite Hitchcock movies; though I think that even by Hitchcock standards Farley Granger and Ruth Roman are not a believable romantic couple.  Of course the real romance is between Robert Walker and Farley Granger.  They have a great deal of on screen chemistry; which is one of the reasons why the film is so great.

God, next you'll be telling me there's some kind of homosexual subtext to Rope.

I also agree with you.  Talkies are better.

[Ideologue]

Robert Redford slowly dies.  It's decent.

2013
Written and directed by J.C. Chandor
With Robert Redford and Scott Witherell (Our Man)

Spoiler alert: mild, but goes to severe with more than adequate warning

Shouldn't the spoiler alert go before the spoiler?

I originally had that "dies for a hundred minutes."  No spoilers were intended, rather than to simply say, the man suffers.

Like with many a survival film, especially one as sparsely populated as this, it can be hard to get much more specific than that when discussing All Is Lost, short of simply transcribing its events.

car crash gif meme thing

You think a transcription of events is a story?  No wonder your novel's gone so well.

Edit: meh, maybe you're right.  Seems less clever now that I look at it.

[Admiral Yi]

Caught the last few minutes of Oblivion: Tom Cruise SyFy flick.  Based on what I saw I'll make an effort to see the whole thing.

Wasn't that opening in theaters like 3 months ago?

Cue The Big Bean...

[11B4V]

Caught the last few minutes of Oblivion: Tom Cruise SyFy flick.  Based on what I saw I'll make an effort to see the whole thing.

Wasn't that opening in theaters like 3 months ago?

Cue The Big Bean...

Worth a watch.

[Ideologue]

Oblivion was released in May 2013.  It is very, very good.

Who's the Big Bean?

[Eddie Teach]

Oblivion was released in May 2013.  It is very, very good.

Who's the Big Bean?

Think racially.

[Ideologue]

Act locally?

[katmai]

Oblivion was released in May 2013.  It is very, very good.

Who's the Big Bean?

Me.
And it came out Apr 19th.

[Ideologue]

Well, darn, that's right.  I saw it again in May.

[Admiral Yi]

Act locally?

[CountDeMoney]

You think a transcription of events is a story?  No wonder your novel's gone so well.

Edit: meh, maybe you're right.  Seems less clever now that I look at it.

I included that pic, because that's what that sentence does to the English reader.

Really now..."Like with many a survival film"..?  What, is "like many survival films" simply not pretentious and bombastic enough?

Edit:  douchebag.

[Ideologue]

Pretense and bombast is my bread and butter.

[Admiral Yi]

I watched the Apocolypse Happens at James Franco's House Party.  A reasonable way to kill a few hours, but nothing special.  No really hilarious bits.

Well, I did get a bit of a laugh out of the Michael Cerra-coke head sex maniac part.