TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Director of Pi, Requiem For a Dream, The Fountain, and Black Swan.  C'mon.

I hate the Fountain, but at least it's pretty. The others are great though. The Wrestler is one of my favourite films.

[Viking]

Anyone else very excited by Noah?

Well, not the muslims

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/07/darren-aronofsky-noah-banned-muslim-countries

cause Noah is supposed to be a prophet of islam who's history and record was falsified.

also, not with the christians

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rough-seas-noah-darren-aronofsky-679315

since they choose to ignore the fact that god murders (almost) everybody and noah is a drunken wife beater.


but I'm happy with the icelandic locations they picked. It's down on the south coast near where Game of Thrones shoots and the Gerard Butler Beowulf was shot. And of course near Eyafjallajökul - y'know the volcano that stopped air traffic.

[celedhring]

Director of Pi, Requiem For a Dream, The Fountain, and Black Swan.  C'mon.

I hate the Fountain, but at least it's pretty. The others are great though. The Wrestler is one of my favourite films.

Aye, The Fountain is probably the only weak film on that list. He's done some great stuff. Wrestler is a fantastic film.

[Queequeg]

Anyone else walk out of Black Swan feeling like it was The Wrester but not as good?

[Admiral Yi]

Anyone else walk out of Black Swan feeling like it was The Wrester but not as good?

I couldn't make it to the end.  A waste of quality T&A.

[Sheilbh]

Anyone else walk out of Black Swan feeling like it was The Wrester but not as good?

I liked Black Swan but in a totally different way. It's a film I always tell people to see in the cinema if they can. When I watched it it was made by the music (and the volume).

[Ideologue]

I still need to watch The Wrestler.

[Razgovory]

Director of Pi, Requiem For a Dream, The Fountain, and Black Swan.  C'mon.

I hate the Fountain, but at least it's pretty. The others are great though. The Wrestler is one of my favourite films.

I couldn't make it through the Fountain.  Boring as hell.

[Ideologue]

I'm surprised everyone hates The Fountain.  I really adored it; the only weakness I spied was the Ponce De Leon sequences, which while thematically integrated well enough, could never stand alone as their own narrative, insofar as Rachel Weisz' book was basically garbage.  But then again it was written by a woman with super-cancer and little writing experience, and one supposes its principal meaning to Hugh Jackman is sentimental in nature rather than being wowed by its narrative or prose.

The bubbleship is neat too.

[Eddie Teach]

The Ponce de Leon sequences were the best part(that I saw), it was the future bit that was too dull and dreary to take.

[Syt]

I thought the Fountain was interesting, especially visually. Though it's theme of man seeking to defeat death - first in superstition (old Spain and the mystical mumbo jumbo), then through science and research, and finally achieving it through transcendence - was a bit on the nose.

[Ideologue]

I thought it looked good enough and Jackman's acting was good enough to render harmless the fact that nothing was really happening.  I mean, basically like two things happen in the entire movie iirc: Weisz dies right before Jackman can invent immortality; Jackman finally comes to terms with the transience of life as he falls into the heart of an exploding sun, while we listen to Clint Mansell tell us how we're supposed to be feeling.  I enjoyed it.

(Speaking of Clint Mansell, did anyone else think the score for Stoker was possibly his weakest all-time work?  I did.)

[Admiral Yi]

a bit on the nose.

I'm unfamiliar with this expression.

[Syt]

a bit on the nose.

I'm unfamiliar with this expression.

Not very subtle.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=On%20the%20nose

[Ideologue]

I'm unfamiliar with this expression.

Huh.  It's very common.  I'm less surprised that an Austro-German knows it than an Iowan has never heard it.  I thought you only worked in space.

It means unsubtle, obvious, with connotations of being trite and/or lazy.