TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I remember Quest for Peace pretty well though.  Good times.

[CountDeMoney]

That's unfortunate, but not surprising.

Was it: a B+?

[Ideologue]

When I was ten?  It was totally an A+.

I'm still fond of the idea that a rural granger with strong left-wing values tempered by experience and common sense might dominate all the world, imposing his will upon its out-of-touch elites with such decisiveness that they realize they'd better applaud and agree if they know what's good for them.

[CountDeMoney]

I bet you haven't even started the Michael Pare Triple Play, like I fucking told you to.

[Ideologue]

I haven't even watched Dredd again, so I could write it up like I promised Tim like a month ago.  I'm really blocked.

[Ed Anger]

I haven't even watched Dredd again, so I could write it up like I promised Tim like a month ago.  I'm really blocked.

Keep tim in suspense. It won't take much.

[Capetan Mihali]

Tim can't remember being this excited for an Ideologue review in ages!!

[Queequeg]

Rachel Getting Married, one of my favorite movies from the last 10 years. 

[Josephus]

I must have missed that episode.  Did Frank bang her or what?

Yes. If I remember correctly...or he came close to it or something.

[jimmy olsen]

I haven't even watched Dredd again, so I could write it up like I promised Tim like a month ago.  I'm really blocked.

What the hell!

[Capetan Mihali]

Rachel Getting Married, one of my favorite movies from the last 10 years.

God I hated that. 

[Queequeg]

Rachel Getting Married, one of my favorite movies from the last 10 years.

God I hated that. 

Tunde Adebimpe was the only bright spot of my adolescence. 

[Savonarola]

Understandable, though. There weren't any kind of ancillary markets back then so film studios didn't have any reason to keep extensive archives. They kept copies in circulation for rerun theaters, but the advent of talkies rendered most silent films as little more than landfill material. Film preservation and archivism didn't take off until the 50s-60s, when the frenchies convinced the rest of the world that it was art.

Heh, also the fact that until the development of "safety film" films were dangerously flammable - and got more so as they deteriorated with age! Keeping them around was actively bad for your health. 

They were printed on nitrocellulose, which goes by the colloquial name "Guncotton."  In the nineteenth century armies experimented with it as a substitute for black powder, but it was found to be too unstable.

[Ideologue]

I haven't even watched Dredd again, so I could write it up like I promised Tim like a month ago.  I'm really blocked.

What the hell!

I'm a bad person and I deserve your scorn.

[Savonarola]

The Circus (1928)

In my opinion this is the weakest of Charlie Chaplin's feature length "Tramp" films.  There are some really funny moments in it; most notably the opening sequence chase through the fun house and the climax where the Tramp performs a high wire act as he's being mobbed by monkeys.  The problem is that the plot exists mostly to tie the funny bits together; and while this could be said about most of Chaplin's films, in "The Circus" the plot holes are so noticeable that they become a distraction.