TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Dare? Bet? Sexual blackmail?

[Viking]

(and not good nonsensical as in The Joker

+1 the thing that truly makes the joker the ultimate villain for comics and movies is that his plot's don't have to make sense. In fact if the Joker's plot didn't have a whole bunch of continuity errors, plot holes, non-sequiters and down right contradictions they'd be doing it wrong.

[The Larch]

I binge watched True Detective yesterday. Really excited about it, although the diatribes that McConawhatshisname and Harrelson indulge in are way too pedantic for my tastes and sound quite unrealistic, it's as if they were in a play.

By the way... [spoiler]is it me or are there Lovecraftian undertones in the investigation? Carcosa...The King in Yellow...[/spoiler]

[Josephus]

Dare? Bet? Sexual blackmail?

tipsy

[The Larch]

The Skin I Live In (2011).  I'd never seen a Pedro Almodovar movie before, but I'm getting I'm So Excited! in a few days, so I watched this, his last movie (...)

I'm not sure if that is the best way to get introduced to Almodóvar. His last film (I'm so Excited!) is supposed to be a throwback to his early days of crazy, extravagant and hedonistic comedies, but it was brutally panned by the critics over here. Why don't you start with other, earlier films?

[Savonarola]

And Darth would be around 85? 

He blew up Alderan because their children kept getting on his lawn.

Luke:  I'll never join you.

Darth Vader:  Of course you won't.  You kids today with your Millennium Falcons and your wookies and your holographic projectors.  You don't realize how good you have it.  Back in my day we didn't have all that.  All we had were rocks and the force and we liked it.  It taught us values like respect for our own parents.

[The Larch]

I just watched "Her". Amazing film and scarily beliveable portrayal of a near future on its way to distopia.

[Ed Anger]

And Darth would be around 85? 

He blew up Alderan because their children kept getting on his lawn.

Luke:  I'll never join you.

Darth Vader:  Of course you won't.  You kids today with your Millennium Falcons and your wookies and your holographic projectors.  You don't realize how good you have it.  Back in my day we didn't have all that.  All we had were rocks and the force and we liked it.  It taught us values like respect for our own parents.

[Sheilbh]

The first series of Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes is free on ITV Player!

Three down. Weirdly (as I think they're in order) I'd already read all three stories...

[Ideologue]

The Skin I Live In (2011).  I'd never seen a Pedro Almodovar movie before, but I'm getting I'm So Excited! in a few days, so I watched this, his last movie (...)

I'm not sure if that is the best way to get introduced to Almodóvar. His last film (I'm so Excited!) is supposed to be a throwback to his early days of crazy, extravagant and hedonistic comedies, but it was brutally panned by the critics over here. Why don't you start with other, earlier films?

Because I wanted to watch a crazy, extravagant and perverse sex thriller.  I was certainly not cheated.

[The Larch]

The Skin I Live In (2011).  I'd never seen a Pedro Almodovar movie before, but I'm getting I'm So Excited! in a few days, so I watched this, his last movie (...)

I'm not sure if that is the best way to get introduced to Almodóvar. His last film (I'm so Excited!) is supposed to be a throwback to his early days of crazy, extravagant and hedonistic comedies, but it was brutally panned by the critics over here. Why don't you start with other, earlier films?

Because I wanted to watch a crazy, extravagant and perverse sex thriller.  I was certainly not cheated.

Then you should also watch "Tie me up, tie me down", an earlier film of his with a similar premise, but no doctors or cosmetic surgery are involved there.

[Sheilbh]

Because I wanted to watch a crazy, extravagant and perverse sex thriller. 

You've already said you wanted to watch an Almodovar, Larch is just doubting if that's the best one to start with

[Ideologue]

I figured I'd start with what I was most comfortable with.

[garbon]

Homosexual flight attendants?

[Ideologue]

Homosexual flight attendants?

That's what I'm second most comfortable with, I guess.

Well, I have to watch I'm So Excited.  It's 2013 vintage, is from a significant filmmaker, and I'm 19 films off from my goal off 100.  (There aren't really 100 significant filmmakers who made films in 2013, so one from Almodovar is better than, oh, Renny Harlin.  Although I'm probably gonna wind up watching Bruce Willis die hard cashing his check too. )