TV/Movies Megathread

[katmai]

!!!!!PREPARE TO BE AMAZED!!!!!

I've purposefully been avoiding spoilers.  I have the utmost respect for the shot, though.  It's fucking incredible.  Wish I'd seen it on a bigger screen.

It was nice Steadicam shot yeah.

[Eddie Teach]

Sorry, can't get with that;  he's a one-trick pony, but Scott Pilgrim saved him.

Yeah, great film. I do wonder what he'll do when he ages a bit

I suspect he'll move from slightly creepy, kinda sweet kids to definitely creepy adult roles.

Like Crispin Glover.

[Ideologue]

Leviathan (2012/2013).  A documentary about a day's work on fishing boat with few words and less narrative, Leviathan is something of a zen-like, easy-going entertainment in the Koyaniqaatsi, industrial porno vein, if you've got the stomach for decapitated fish and for more camera movement than is ever justified.  The first thirty minutes are long takes from cameras appended to the crew members and they made me a little nauseous.  After that point, most of the footage is from cameras attached to objects as stationary as you can find on a boat--the frame still moves, a lot, but it is not as subject to the arbitrary, sickening movements of POV shots from someone's collar or boot.

While much of the film impresses upon you the numbing routine of the job, there is also a great deal of breathtaking, beautifully grotesque imagery of humanity's predatory relationship with the natural world: hacking the fins off stingrays; blood draining out the sluices on the deck and back into the ocean; the omnipresent, Birds-like specter of hungry seagulls following the boat around; and the view from beneath the water when they throw starfish overboard along with the rest of the organic trash, playing like nothing so much as a gory version of the stargate sequence from 2001.

I liked it, because I'm sophisticated.

B

[Sophie Scholl]

Ide, did you also do this page?  Damn.   http://truedetectiveconversations.tumblr.com/

[Ideologue]

I could have written the one about Frozen.

Hell, if that's what True Detective is like, I'm gonna start watching the show.

[The Larch]

Harrelson's character is an "aw shucks" kind of guy, while McConaghey's is extremely pedantic, you'd love it. The tone of those conversations is very similar to what you can get on the real show.

[Ideologue]

They encapsulate the two sides of my soul.

[MadImmortalMan]

We watched The Science of Sex Appeal the other night.

It prompted my wife to bust out a tape measure to find out her waist/hip ratio. She was happy. 

[lustindarkness]

I'm caught up with TWD! 
Now I'm pissed because I have to wait until Sunday like everyone else.

[Tonitrus]

First person that fucks up with Walking Dead or True Detective spoilers tonight gets the hammer.

It was a pretty non-eventful, character-development episode.

And it seems the next couple will probably be that way as they start finding each other again.

[Josephus]

First person that fucks up with Walking Dead or True Detective spoilers tonight gets the hammer.

It was a pretty non-eventful, character-development episode.

And it seems the next couple will probably be that way as they start finding each other again.

It was awesome. I like character development.

[MadImmortalMan]

Here's a spoiler for Walking Dead. Zombies attack, one or two characters don't make it. The ones who survive find a reason to have conflict amongst themselves. Then zombies attack. Some people die. The survivors fight about something. Then zombies attack...

[garbon]

Doesn't seem like an accurate single episode description.

[Ideologue]

We watched The Science of Sex Appeal the other night.

It prompted my wife to bust out a tape measure to find out her waist/hip ratio. She was happy. 

Yes, but what about the important questions?

[Queequeg]

Walking Dead:
[spoiler]Anyone else see what was inside that particularly decrepit zombie's head?  It looked like fresh calamari.  Kind of a nice, surprisingly subtle gross-out moment.  I guess the "zombie metabolism" breaks the entire thing down to it's essentials.[/spoiler]