TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

They make you wear pants like the Hiterites they are.

Thanks, Sav.

The last one I went to seemed like it was about eight hours, but it was also students at university, so it's probably fairer to blame the musicians than the music. But in any event, it's hard to recall its actual duration.

The show featured in Grand Piano isn't a symphony, though, but a piano concert where he plays several shorter pieces. Those concerts last about an hour, plus intermission. Still longer than the film makes it to be, but less preposterous.

[Ideologue]

They make you wear pants like the Hiterites they are.

Thanks, Sav.

The last one I went to seemed like it was about eight hours, but it was also students at university, so it's probably fairer to blame the musicians than the music. But in any event, it's hard to recall its actual duration.

The show featured in Grand Piano isn't a symphony, though, but a piano concert where he plays several shorter pieces. Those concerts last about an hour, plus intermission. Still longer than the film makes it to be, but less preposterous.

Ah, I see.  I was thinking it might be like a Rope situation, where what is clearly meant to be about six hours is handled in real time yet somehow only takes eighty minutes.  It's one of the neat subtle aspects of the Hitchcock film, and helps establish this bizarre, awesome hyperreal world, alongide the gorgeously gaudy Technicolor and all that exquisitely "movie" dialogue.  I guess GP is more like the ordinary playfulness with time such as can be found in virtually any movie--not enough of a cheat to be worth mentioning.

Now, the ticket prices on the other hand...

Cel, do you know if that was a real concert hall or a set?  (I know the "Antoine Michelle Hall" is a fictional location, but I mean the interiors; I tried to google first, honest. )  I'm leaning toward set, but if so, what an opulent one, especially for what I was made to understand was a pretty low-budget affair that even then must've spent most of its cash on Wood and Cusack.  I'm wondering, I guess, if Javier Alvarino is a genius, or got lucky...

[Beenherebefore]

http://www.nrk.no/video/gjovikbanen_minutt_for_minutt/C7456558FDB8792B/

For fahdiz, so far the only person I know about that enjoys Norwegian slow tv.

That used to be the train ride back to Oslo when I visited my parents back in the day. The most inefficient and boring trainride you can buy.

[Sheilbh]

Now, the ticket prices on the other hand...

You can get tickets to a classical concert for at least £5 in London. The prices probably go up to hundreds though

[Ideologue]

I'm 99% certain that the tickets for a concert such as seen in Grand Piano (set in Chicago) are $100+.

I mean, semi-lousy theater tickets even here are like $40.  And that's not a black tie affair.

[Sheilbh]

I've been to loads of classical concerts and even the odd opera. None has been a black tie event.

I think that sort of thing is (maybe) opening nights at very grand operas/orchestras or charity galas. Obviously in both cases you'll pay over the odds.

[Ideologue]

Maybe I don't go to enough concerts, operas, and the such.

I remember I had to wear a suit to go see George Carlin.

[The Brain]

I happen to know that premium seats for Don Giovanni at the heavily subsidized Royal Opera in Stockholm are just over $100. Ide, that's about $33/h.

[Ideologue]

Grand Piano (2013/2014)

If Eugenio Mira's murderous musical thriller is not the single best film of 2014, then it shall be a superlative year; if not amongst the ten best, then the cinema of 2014 may be so good it literally kills us.

We're all in the mood for a melody

A+

300: Rise of an Empire

Not content to be the rotest and laziest sequel to a significant film in recent memory, 300: Rise of an Empire is also the dumbest, dullest, and ugliest depiction of cool history you could imagine as well.

If Darth Vader had breasts, I guess it wouldn't actually change the story very much

D+

[garbon]

Does the sequel at least keep the objectification of bit intact?

[Ideologue]

Does the sequel at least keep the objectification of bit intact?

I'd say it's inferior in that regard viz. homoeroticism, although superior on heteroerotic terms (Eva Green's breasts).  But, to quote myself, porn exists.  This shouldn't.  It's probably the worst movie I've seen in the theater since Total Recall 2012, and for very similar reasons: it's mind-meltingly dull.

[garbon]

I think I watched the first one while packing.

[Ideologue]

Hm.

[CountDeMoney]

Hm-mmm.

[Maladict]

http://www.nrk.no/video/gjovikbanen_minutt_for_minutt/C7456558FDB8792B/

For fahdiz, so far the only person I know about that enjoys Norwegian slow tv.

That used to be the train ride back to Oslo when I visited my parents back in the day. The most inefficient and boring trainride you can buy.

Nice. Too bad they keep switching to interior shots and interviews.
It's not die schönsten Bahnstrecken Deutschlands