TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

What in particular?

For a minute, I was really petrified they were going to have Will Graham quote the entire "No!--that is incidental" speech from Silence.   It was still a perhaps-too-obvious callback, but at least it was in his character's voice (it wouldn't even be appropriate coming from Mikkelsen's Hannibal).

Saw Cap and Grand Budapest today.  Guess which one was staggeringly mediocre and flat, and which one was really awesome?

[CountDeMoney]

Saw Cap and Grand Budapest today.  Guess which one was staggeringly mediocre and flat, and which one was really awesome?

Considering your taste in films, Vegas has the odds called off.

[katmai]

Saw Cap and Grand Budapest today.  Guess which one was staggeringly mediocre and flat, and which one was really awesome?

Considering your taste in films, Vegas has the odds called off.

[FunkMonk]

If I thought the first Captain America was utter garbage, will I like the new one better? Or is it just more trash?

[Syt]

I thought the first CapAm movie was really good up till he rescues Dum Dum Dugan and his men from the prison - it goes seriously downhill after that.

[celedhring]

I thought the first CapAm movie was really good up till he rescues Dum Dum Dugan and his men from the prison - it goes seriously downhill after that.

Thought the same myself.

I think it shares the same problems of most superhero origin stories. The actual origin story is very fun and well done, but once it switches to the actual superheroic plot, it feels a bit of an improvised afterthought.

[Ideologue]

I thought the first CapAm movie was really good up till he rescues Dum Dum Dugan and his men from the prison - it goes seriously downhill after that.

Absolutely agreed.

[Habbaku]

I thought the first CapAm movie was really good up till he rescues Dum Dum Dugan and his men from the prison - it goes seriously downhill after that.

Absolutely agreed.

B-

[Ideologue]

Har har.  I reviewed it here and gave a B; a very low one.  The strength of the first hour can't just be ignored in the calculation.  Sure, Cap's best friend dies at the end of a boring montage, the Red Skull's makeup in First Avenger is actually somehow lamer than the Red Skull's makeup from the Reb Brown film, it climaxes with a soulless, badly greenscreened climactic chase sequence, and features a cosmic weapon that no one ever does anything actually cosmic with (let alone build a Nazi space fleet with their mind), but that first hour is the best hour hour of any Marvel movie bar none.  Even Thor.

Plus you have to give them credit for attempting a superhero period piece in the first place.

[Queequeg]

Also, Atwell was hot.

[Ideologue]

Sure.  Can't ignore that either.

[Queequeg]

To what extent do you guys think Show Hannibal is capable of empathetic relationships? 

[CountDeMoney]

To what extent do you guys think Show Hannibal is capable of empathetic relationships?

Zero.

[mongers]

'W1A' - the follow-on from the London olympic 'Twenty Twelve' comedy. Same main character played by Hugh Bonneville, he's now head of values at the BBC in Bush house, London.

Well worth a view, as funny as the first series, and if anything more savage.

If you can access iplayer from your country it's here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03yvf3r/W1A_Episode_1/

[Queequeg]

To what extent do you guys think Show Hannibal is capable of empathetic relationships?

Zero.

I disagree.  I think it's completely warped, but weirdly it is there.  He's less classically Anti-Social than just completely, totally warped.  Hannibal is kind of a Milton-y Satan; he is fascinated by humanity, and enjoys it, but derives his best pleasure from observing and warping it.