TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

While you homos argue about your fancy art house shit, I watched a real movie.

Bullitt

[Eddie Teach]

Set in San Francisco, for maximum manliness.

[Ed Anger]

 

[Queequeg]

Hannibal Season One is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

[Ideologue]

Good looking out, QQ.

MB: you want my copy of Bullitt?  I do not care for that picture at all.  Bought it believing I'd seen it on TV like eight years ago and enjoyed it.  Was WRONG.  I saw the car chase, which is fine.  I did not see the hour and a half surrounding it and which nearly claimed my life through boredom.

[Ideologue]

Listening to "Let It Go" for like the fiftieth time in a row, while a fine (if mentally ill) experience in itself, it's also annoying me more and more that Frozen never lives up to the promise of that song.

[katmai]

Hannibal Season One is now streaming on Amazon Prime.

Yeah been catching up on 2nd half of season that i missed before the Feb 28th start.

[Viking]

Listening to "Let It Go" for like the fiftieth time in a row, while a fine (if mentally ill) experience in itself, it's also annoying me more and more that Frozen never lives up to the promise of that song.

From what I heard disney had a traditional plot with the evil frost queen who's ice cold heart must be melted and female protagonist with love triangle until the songwriters played Let it Go for them. Disney loved the song and re-wrote the script to get it in. That's why it fits in so badly.

I love the song too and it is on my guilty pleasures play list in itunes now (the idina menzel version, not the popstar one).

[Ed Anger]

Good looking out, QQ.

MB: you want my copy of Bullitt?  I do not care for that picture at all.  Bought it believing I'd seen it on TV like eight years ago and enjoyed it.  Was WRONG.  I saw the car chase, which is fine.  I did not see the hour and a half surrounding it and which nearly claimed my life through boredom.

I gots my own DVD. Give it to someone who can't go through Best Buy and buy everything on the DVD shelf.   

I do thank you for the offer. 

[Ideologue]

Listening to "Let It Go" for like the fiftieth time in a row, while a fine (if mentally ill) experience in itself, it's also annoying me more and more that Frozen never lives up to the promise of that song.

From what I heard disney had a traditional plot with the evil frost queen who's ice cold heart must be melted and female protagonist with love triangle until the songwriters played Let it Go for them. Disney loved the song and re-wrote the script to get it in. That's why it fits in so badly.

I love the song too and it is on my guilty pleasures play list in itunes now (the idina menzel version, not the popstar one).

My big problem with it was that it kept bouncing from tone to tone and, despite Elsa having the best song (by a mile), she is almost not a character.  What other Disney Princess sings an I Want song. ceases to do anything advancing her desires whatsoever, and virtually disappears from the movie for forty minutes?

I liked it better when it was still plausibly an Evil Queen origin story.

[Ed Anger]

Also, Quantum of Solace an A?

U crazy bro.

[Sheilbh]

Insane. Ide's the sort of person who thinks Die Another Day's a good Bond song

[Ed Anger]

Moonraker is the greatest Bond movie.

[Sheilbh]

My favourite's You Only Live Twice.

Watched a couple of episodes of Justified and liked it. Worth carrying on?

[Ideologue]

I also gave Moonraker an A.

Of the Bond movies I've seen, the rough breakdown is:

The Spy Who Loved Me (A)
Quantum of Solace (A)
Casino Royale (A)
Goldfinger (A)
The Spy Who Loved Me 2 (aka Moonraker) (A)
You Only Live Twice (B+)
Thunderball (B+)
Dr. No (B+)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (B)
Skyfall (C+)
Diamonds Are Forever (C+)
From Russia With Love (C+)
First half of The Man With the Golden Gun (I)
Live and Let Die (D+)

I'd include GoldenEye, but I have not seen it in like a decade.  I remember it being pretty rad.

I've not yet seen Die Another Day or heard Madonna's song.  I bet neither are as bad as folks make out.  I do like ice castles.