TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

I also finally watched Behind the Candelabra. Talking about horror probably reminded me of Rob Lowe.

Very well made and extraordinarily unselfconscious performance by Michael Douglas.

[Admiral Yi]

Agreed.  Couldn't have been easy to do that role.  You could see Matt Damon was noticeably more uncomfortable in his role.

[Queequeg]

I don't know if that's a fault with his performance.  He's Joe Gillis.  He's supposed to be uncomfortable. 

[garbon]

I mean Douglas campaigned hard for that role.

[Savonarola]

The General (1926)

The General is in the public domain, and there are many prints of dubious quality out there.  The one I saw wasn't too awful, but the score was just classical pieces which had no relation to the action on screen.  It had an introductory title card, which upon reading my wife said: "A light-hearted Civil War comedy?  Are there many of those?"

The film has such a simple structure (in essence it's two chases) but what a comic masterpiece.  Buster Keaton put far more effort into the film than any sane person would; going so far as to count out the number of grains of gunpowder with tweezers so the canon would fire exactly right.  The results pay off, though.  Interestingly it was a critical and commercial failure when it was first released.  It (and Buster Keaton) were re-discovered in the 1950s.

[Ideologue]

It was probably too intense for the sensibilities of the time.  They hadn't yet been exposed to Die Hard, so how could they contextualize it On a Train?

I have the Kino blu-ray that I borrowed/reclaimed from my dad.

[Queequeg]

I mean Douglas campaigned hard for that role.

That was one of the best movies I saw last year, pretty easily.  I loved it. 

[Sheilbh]

Agreed.  Couldn't have been easy to do that role.  You could see Matt Damon was noticeably more uncomfortable in his role.

Interesting. I didn't get that vibe from Matt Damon.

Though I think Rob Lowe steals it. Doing that much with so little is admirable.

[garbon]

Apparently Frozen is gay propaganda.

http://news.yahoo.com/frozen-gay-conspiracy-theory-094500946--politics.html

[jimmy olsen]

I really should see that and Tangled, I hear they're great, but they usually dub animated movies in Korean here.

[Admiral Yi]

Interesting. I didn't get that vibe from Matt Damon.

In particular during the tongue wrestling scenes.

[Savonarola]

It was probably too intense for the sensibilities of the time.  They hadn't yet been exposed to Die Hard, so how could they contextualize it On a Train?

I was thinking it was like Speed when I was watching it, in that it wastes almost no time in getting to the action (and that Keanu Reeves displays about the same range of emotion as the Great Stone Face.)  Die Hard is a better analogy.

[Malthus]

Apparently Frozen is gay propaganda.

http://news.yahoo.com/frozen-gay-conspiracy-theory-094500946--politics.html

What about Pinocchio - a "wooden" boy who longs to become "real", and who suffers an embarrasing "erection" every time he tells a 'lie'? Gay comming-out tale! 

[Sheilbh]

The last episode of the wonderful Inside No. 9, 'The Harrowing':

[Beenherebefore]

A friend of mine played on the soundtrack for "Frozen". She's a folk music horn player, and played the ancient ram's horn.
If only she'd known she would be promoting gaydom and sex with animals. 

I fell in love with the American version of "Shameless". It's not just good drama, it's decent therapy.

Finishing "True Detective" was a bit sad, and some of the stuff in the last episode had a distinct "Thanksgiving at the Lettows" feeling. Still, a huge thumbs up for it. Well worth my time.