TV/Movies Megathread

[Sophie Scholl]

I just want to say, Arrow is Ossum, it is the best thing on TV (cable or broadcast or streaming) right now. I raved about it (so did amscip too iirc) in previous seasons but it just gets better and better.

Me, too!   Most recently:

After this past Wednesday's episode, I think Arrow might be my favorite show on television right now, and one of my favorite shows of all time.  Something about it just entertains the heck out of me on multiple levels.

[The Brain]

Arrow? I didn't even see the Indian.

[MadImmortalMan]

The Way Back

Ed Harris and Colin Farrell


A group of political prisoners (of various nationalities) escape a gulag in Irkutsk and walk south all the way to India. I liked it.

[The Brain]

Any blond Nazis?

[MadImmortalMan]

No Nazis. But shirtless Colin Farrell with huge tattoos of Lenin and Stalin across his chest though. 

[Admiral Yi]

The Way Back

Ed Harris and Colin Farrell


A group of political prisoners (of various nationalities) escape a gulag in Irkutsk and walk south all the way to India. I liked it.

I find Colin Farrell much more bearable when he uglies up, like here and in Horrible Bosses.

[The Brain]

No Nazis. But shirtless Colin Farrell with huge tattoos of Lenin and Stalin across his chest though. 

Method actors are weird.

[Queequeg]

Anyone watched  Les Revenants?

[Viking]

I just want to say, Arrow is Ossum, it is the best thing on TV (cable or broadcast or streaming) right now. I raved about it (so did amscip too iirc) in previous seasons but it just gets better and better.

Me, too!   Most recently:

After this past Wednesday's episode, I think Arrow might be my favorite show on television right now, and one of my favorite shows of all time.  Something about it just entertains the heck out of me on multiple levels.

The Clock-King episode was great. Who'd have though Clock King would be so menacing. I'm sort of expecting to see Pack Rat or Condiment King show up and freak me out soon enough.

This is the trailer for the next 4-5 episodes including deathstroke, suicide squad, birds of prey and a possible harley quinn sighting. Slade's monologue is almost straight out of Knightfall when Bane promises to do the same to batman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxtdOtNOrRw

The guys writing this show are minig the dc back catalogue for great ideas. Virtually every single named character in the show (even one offs) is some form of continutiy reference. Only Diggle and Moira aren't specifically taken from the comics (jon diggle was a writer on the green arrow comic though).

I appreciate the show is on CW, but they manage to both fit the cw dictates (parties, fashonable clothes on the females, male abs etc) while keeping up an intense pace, even for a 1 hr show, there is virtually no downtime in any episode. I think the two parallel arcs, island and starling mean that no episode feels like filler, even if one of the arcs might be filler.

I'm totally hooked and I don't only watch the show but also three after shows (John Campea, Emergency Awesom and Geekvolution on YouTube), then re-watch to catch what I missed.

[jimmy olsen]

Dredd is coming at some point in the near future.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Condiment King would be pretty badass.  Along with Mopup.

[Ideologue]

Clock King was great in that Batman: TAS episode.  I think it's the one I remember the best.

[Viking]

Clock King was great in that Batman: TAS episode.  I think it's the one I remember the best.

He had two, and got away both times iirc. Neppers Clock King was a lot like him, only more desperate and stabby with the minute hand.... as well as the ironic, time running out for him.

[Ideologue]

Bowler hat?  This is important.  I might say vital.

[Sheilbh]

37 Days to War.

Period drama about the start of the First World War. A bit simple at times, but totally redeemed by an outstanding performance by Ian McDiarmid as (a rather old) Sir Edward Grey.