TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Saw Frances Ha again. I really liked it.

EXPLAIN.

[Queequeg]

It seemed really nuanced and well-observed.  Frances felt like a real person a lot more than I thought after my first, 14-minute hateviewing.  I changed my mind when she went home to Sacramento and her parent's Unitarian Church; it made complete sense, and was simultaneously very funny.  I liked how complex the relationship with Sophie was, which frequently seemed to skirt outright hatred.  Gerwig was adorable.

I went in to it initially expecting Jules et Jim 2013, which it wasn't, and actually wasn't trying to be on second viewing. 

[Malthus]

I've never seen the movie and don't really want to: but if I did, my viewing pleasure would only be enhanced by the thought of Ide gnashing his teeth at every scene. 

[Queequeg]

I've never seen the movie and don't really want to: but if I did, my viewing pleasure would only be enhanced by the thought of Ide gnashing his teeth at every scene. 

Maybe this was part of it. 

[Malthus]

I've never seen the movie and don't really want to: but if I did, my viewing pleasure would only be enhanced by the thought of Ide gnashing his teeth at every scene. 

Maybe this was part of it.

"Notice the subtlely with which the director underscores the plight of the directionless young in Western society with understated humour here ... "

"AAAAAHHHH!" [Gnash, gnash]

[crazy canuck]

I am pretty damned sure the dociliity has never been covered.

You would be wrong.  Michone or however you spell her name explained it when her character was first introduced.  They didnt just show her lugging those two zombies around with her with no explanation.

I just watched those episodes again recently...no explanation.

Watch season 3 again. 

[FunkMonk]

Netflix House of Cards S2 episode 1 has the FunkMonk Seal of Approval.

[MadImmortalMan]

Well I learned from that Mitt show that Charlie Crist is an enormous dickhead.

[citizen k]

I am pretty damned sure the dociliity has never been covered.

You would be wrong.  Michone or however you spell her name explained it when her character was first introduced.  They didnt just show her lugging those two zombies around with her with no explanation.

I just watched those episodes again recently...no explanation.

Watch season 3 again. 

It's when Milton is examining Michonne's walkers after they arrived at Woodbury.

[Josquius]

The last ep of walking dead was rather weird with michon's zombies on leads.
The ones she had when she was first introduced- fine. After a long time she has trained them. But these she only just got, seems weird that they would go docile as soon as you remove their mouths and arms

[Phillip V]

Netflix House of Cards S2 episode 1 has the FunkMonk Seal of Approval.

Gave me a good surprise.

[viper37]

The last ep of walking dead was rather weird with michon's zombies on leads.
The ones she had when she was first introduced- fine. After a long time she has trained them. But these she only just got, seems weird that they would go docile as soon as you remove their mouths and arms

maybe they ain't that agressive to begin with and are just misunderstood?

[Ideologue]

Dead Ringers (1988).  You might think a David Cronenberg movie that features a woman with a mutant vagina and the pair of twins fucking her would involve significant body horror, but you would be wrong.  Instead, this is Cronenberg sliding into his Imploding Heads Period.  Thus, it is a bummer, although not to the extent of Crash later.  Nonetheless, we have a game dual performance by Jeremy Irons as the titular gonzo gynecologists laid low by their inability to function without and, in the end, with, each other.  It's amusing when, toward the finale and the twins are trying to jointly kick their intense addiction, his reads in both roles sound exactly like his reads for Scar.  Except they're about drugs.

B

Berberian Sound Studio (2012/2013).  One of the worst films of the year.  Many movies have made me angry this year, but this one never did: it made me feel hollow and numb instead.  Imagine if Blow Out was just John Travolta doing his job for an hour and a half, and then he had a psychotic break that went nowhere.  Berberian Sound Studio!

D, trending toward F

Monsters University (2013).  This film's got balls: Monsters University is the story of a dream that was hopeless from jump street and it doesn't lie about it, instead contextualizing its life-destroying collapse within the safe, ultimately uplifting confines of a family comedy.  It's not unpleasing to the adult palate in the first place, but it may be the most important movie your children could ever see.

B+

[Ideologue]

It seemed really nuanced and well-observed.  Frances felt like a real person a lot more than I thought after my first, 14-minute hateviewing.  I changed my mind when she went home to Sacramento and her parent's Unitarian Church; it made complete sense, and was simultaneously very funny.  I liked how complex the relationship with Sophie was, which frequently seemed to skirt outright hatred.  Gerwig was adorable.

I went in to it initially expecting Jules et Jim 2013, which it wasn't, and actually wasn't trying to be on second viewing.

Don't take this the wrong way.  I want you to live a long and happy life, but when you do die, you should be denied a Christian burial.

[katmai]

If gets such a Shitty grade from Ide, it must be good!