TV/Movies Megathread

[Ed Anger]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).  And I don't know why people give James Horner shit.  He's great.

A+

You are no longer sent to a penal battalion.

[celedhring]

I love In Search of Spock too 

The destruction of the Enterprise

The moment when Kirk tricks the Klingons into beaming them off the exploding Genesis 

Might be my 13-year old speaking, but I just loved the Khan-Spock diptic. Classic sci-fi adventure of the kind I wish we got nowadays with the current FX technology (the first Star Trek reboot film was close, pity Into Darkness was so meh). If only they didn't make the fucking whales one to close the arc...

[Liep]

Again a great episode of Hannibal. While in Belgium I ran into a display by Jan Fabre, it was quite eerie after having watched that show.

A little taste:

[garbon]

On the final night, saw Waiting for Godot with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Enjoyed No Man's Land better though seeing those two do physical humor was entertaining.

Benefits of living at The Center Of The Universe.   

Friends in Philly caught the bus/train up.

[jimmy olsen]

Just watched Captain America: Winter Soldier.

A-

[alfred russel]

I've been watching top gear on youtube. 

While it must be ridiculously staged, it is rather etertaining. Does anyone else watch this?

[Admiral Yi]

I watched about 15 minutes one time.  Did nothing for me.

[celedhring]

I've been watching top gear on youtube. 

While it must be ridiculously staged, it is rather etertaining. Does anyone else watch this?

I don't give a damn about cars (heck, I don't even have a driving license), and I watch it. They are really entertaining, and all the stunts/tests are fun.

But I have a soft spot for watching British people just being British.

[Josquius]

Walking Dead- [spoiler]Oh I do hope they're not just copying the cannibal plot from the game. I'm dissapointed if so. Oh well. At least they didn't kill off anyone off screen as I suspected they might be tempted to do. Reading other people's comments it seems I'm not alone in suspecting this. It was the meat welcome that did it for me....but yes, the cult stuff makes sense too, that's the way an end of episode trailer a few episodes ago seemed and the way the woman on the radio is talking and all that.[/spoiler]

[Savonarola]

Zero de Conduite (1933)

Jean Vigo's third film and his attempt to put his Anarchist () views on film.  Unfortunately anarchy as a political philosophy doesn't seem as well adapted to film as Marxism, and the film wanders at points.  Some of the scenes are brilliant, though; most notably the (possibly NSFW, you can briefly see a young boy's penis ) pillow fight and the walk through the city.  The film is about a group of young boys at a boarding school who revolt against their teachers.  Throughout Vigo focuses on the institutionalized life at boarding school and the freedom the boys experience (at least temporarily.)

The French Censors took one look at it and said:    It couldn't be shown in France until after the Second World War.  According to the pretentious film scholar who provided commentary on the Criterion version said that the major issue was that the film was set in a school.  The French (at least at the time) viewed the public schools as a symbol of the Republic and an attack on the schools was an attack on France herself.

[viper37]

Ah.  Now I understand.

Ever since you posted the title or your next review, I kept wondering: "How come Sav is reviewing such movies?  A 1985 comedy dubbed in French?  That's not his style"

And now, I understand.

Les Zéros de conduite

[viper37]

So I watched R.I.P.D yesterday night with my cousin.  She kept texting and I can't remember what I did for half the movie.

I suppose the premise is interesting, but all along, it seem dead intent on copying Men In Black and other revenant movies.  Nothing original, quite boring.

[Duque de Bragança]

Ah.  Now I understand.

Ever since you posted the title or your next review, I kept wondering: "How come Sav is reviewing such movies?  A 1985 comedy dubbed in French?  That's not his style"

And now, I understand.

Les Zéros de conduite

Now that's an unknown and obscure movie, unlike Vigo's film which was still referenced in the '80s in French mainstream comedies

[viper37]

Ah.  Now I understand.

Ever since you posted the title or your next review, I kept wondering: "How come Sav is reviewing such movies?  A 1985 comedy dubbed in French?  That's not his style"

And now, I understand.

Les Zéros de conduite

Now that's an unknown and obscure movie, unlike Vigo's film which was still referenced in the '80s in French mainstream comedies

Never heard of it before

[Ed Anger]

I've been watching top gear on youtube. 

While it must be ridiculously staged, it is rather etertaining. Does anyone else watch this?

Yes. The 2 Caravan episodes where camp out in Dorset and where they "build" caravans out of old cars are good.