TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

(I.e., the "good part.")

[Ed Anger]

Finally watched the Avengers. Total meh.

[celedhring]

(I.e., the "good part.")

It actually reminded me more of Phone Booth, which has a better threaded script.

My main problem with Grand Piano's script is that in order to stretch it to the 90 minutes mark (one thing is shooting a 7 minute tour de force in an opera house - like in The Man Who Knew Too Much - and another making an entire film around it), they put a lot of filler that leads nowhere like the entire subplot with Wood's two idiot friends. The villain's plan is a bit idiotic ([spoiler]just chop off the damn piano and get the loot[/spoiler]), but that's part of the over-the-topness of the premise, I guess.

[Iormlund]

Heh. What were you expecting, Ed?

I love North by Northwest...

One of my favourite films.

[Viking]

Finally watched the Avengers. Total meh.

It's better in the theatre.

[Ed Anger]

Finally watched the Avengers. Total meh.

It's better in the theatre.

Then I'd have to be around other people.

[Viking]

Finally watched the Avengers. Total meh.

It's better in the theatre.

Then I'd have to be around other people.

When I go to the theatre I disregard the paeons that also happen to be there, letting them bask in my munificence. Basically my attitude to the other people in the theatre is the same as Seedy's cats have towards him, disdainful tolerance. It's actually worth it for the big screen, big noise and the audience reactions reminds me which emotions I should fake when impersonating a human.

[Ed Anger]

 

[CountDeMoney]

Basically my attitude to the other people in the theatre is the same as Seedy's cats have towards him, disdainful tolerance.

Do you let them curl up under your arm, too?

[Ideologue]

I love North by Nortwest...

Thanks for the transatlantic goodwill 

Exactly!

Grand Piano is weird to me... besides one of the producers being a close friend, the guy that does the FX owes me money, and an ex-GF shows up as an extra 

Well, at $25.48 for the Blu Ray preorder, I assume he can pay you back now.

[Ideologue]

Speaking of BDs, released today: Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel double-feature.

This (Airplane!) marks the first time I've upgraded from DVD to BD, unless you count the BD of Spaceballs that came with my Mel Brooks Collection, which I suppose you might as well.  I've also been itching to upgrade The Truman Show, which, in any event, has a lot more to recommend it viz. HD than Airplane!, but the main goal here was to get The Sequel, which I (perhaps alone) judge to be nearly on par with the original, and in some respects even more memorable (Shatner's cameo is frightfully hilarious).

Also got Side Effects, the Soderbergh super-thriller that has grown on me like a Goddamned fungus till, ultimately, I've had to admit it's basically perfect and really one of the very best films of 2013.

[CountDeMoney]

I demand that Ideologue immediately undertake a Michael Paré Ultimate 80's Triple Feature:  Eddie & The Cruisers, Streets of Fire and The Philadelphia Experiment

[Ed Anger]

I triple dog dare him.

[CountDeMoney]

See that, Ide?  Triple dog dare.  Gotta do it now.

[katmai]