TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Are there any Almodovar films without homosexual characters?

[katmai]

Are there any Almodovar films without homosexual characters?

[Ideologue]

Are there any Almodovar films without homosexual characters?

The Skin I Live In.

[spoiler]Horrifyingly so.  In theory, anyway.  The first sex scene with Vera/Vincente is the rape by the plot intruder/Tiger Guy and it's treated as something like farce.  I disliked it on, like, every level--from having nothing to actually do with the story, to her/his weird non-reaction.  The latter made more sense later, but I still wasn't having it.  Especially when the other "rape" victim in the movie, the surgeon's daughter, who was not in any legal or moral sense actually raped, is made to go in the other direction, treating her non-rape as not just a life-destroying but mind-destroying event.  I don't think Almodovar's point was that a Y chromosome makes you superior and able to triumph over all forms of violation, whereas a double-X means mental instability, submission, weakness, and an inability to realize you consented to sex; but that's, yeah, kind of the point of the movie he made.[/spoiler]

[Ideologue]

Oh, wait, I forgot the lesbian in the featured extra role.  My bad.

[Habbaku]

I find that lesbians usually feature extra rolls.

[Ideologue]

I've known a fair number of attractive ones.  Worked with a butch lesbian that was, I thought, really strikingly pretty (others disagreed because she had short hair and didn't wear makeup like a clown, I guess; but in fairness, my opinion is based largely on her fulfillment of my main criterion for "hot").  She had a very conventionally attractive girlfriend, who was lipstick lesbian all the way, and looked kind of like an actress from the 1940s.  My sister is better looking than I am, and has a lower BMI than I do now, and maybe have ever had other than my Unemployed Period (2011).  Her first girlfriend was gloriously beautiful in a (pretty literally) heroin chic way.

Now her immediate ex-girlfriend is not a sexy woman, and was fully possessed of the billowings which you describe.  When my sister described how she was pretty much never attracted to her, I felt a deep pang of genetic solidarity with her for the first time in my entire life, realizing then that blood truly is, as liquids go, pretty thick indeed.

[Admiral Yi]

Watched all of Oblivion. A'alright I guess.

My pet peeve with the movie was the drones looked exactly like this: 

Made it a little hard to take them seriously.

[Admiral Yi]

Also saw the preview for Robocop and it looks like a total Iron Man rip off.

[The Brain]

I like my movies with lipstick thespians.

[Syt]

Honest Trailers: Robocop

[Eddie Teach]

They're probably not gonna remake Die Hard until the sequels run dry.

[The Larch]

Are there any Almodovar films without homosexual characters?

Well, there are a few, actually. :p

[katmai]

Not that I can recall off top of my head.

[Savonarola]

Not that I can recall off top of my head.

It's been a long time since I've seen it, but I don't think "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" did.

[Queequeg]

Talk to Her has a character who pretends to be gay, but that's about it.