TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Sheilbh, what did you think of Wind that Shakes the Barley?  I found it extremely effective emotionally but ultimately a bit repulsive.  Loach's anti-Irish Protestant/English sentiments are near self-hating.

Repulsive how?

[celedhring]

Best adaptation of a classic greek work until O Brother.

Love that one. I lived in Baseball Fury turf 

[Valmy]

Sheilbh, what did you think of Wind that Shakes the Barley?  I found it extremely effective emotionally but ultimately a bit repulsive.  Loach's anti-Irish Protestant/English sentiments are near self-hating.

Repulsive how?

Maybe he finds the notion that all Protestants are barbarians with an never-ending appetite for blood, oppression, and violence repulsive.  The rest of us just know it as a self-evident truth.

[garbon]

Best adaptation of a classic greek work until O Brother.

Love that one.

Ugh.

[The Larch]

Best adaptation of a classic greek work until O Brother.

Love that one.

Ugh.

To The Warriors or to O Brother?

[garbon]

Best adaptation of a classic greek work until O Brother.

Love that one.

Ugh.

To The Warriors or to O Brother?

The latter.

[Valmy]

What is wrong with O Brother?  I mean besides the fact it has only the loosest of ties to the Odyssey 

[celedhring]

O Brother is a very fun flick. Great music, inventive scenes and charismatic actors all over the place. Yeah, the plot is loose at best, but so was Big Lebowski's.

Also, it got me laid so I probably have a higher appreciation for it than it deserves 

[Razgovory]

Sheilbh, what did you think of Wind that Shakes the Barley?  I found it extremely effective emotionally but ultimately a bit repulsive.  Loach's anti-Irish Protestant/English sentiments are near self-hating.

Repulsive how?

Maybe he finds the notion that all Protestants are barbarians with an never-ending appetite for blood, oppression, and violence repulsive.  The rest of us just know it as a self-evident truth.

They may not have had an endless appetite for blood  and oppression but it it was several hundred years worth.

[Valmy]

O Brother is a very fun flick. Great music, inventive scenes and charismatic actors all over the place. Yeah, the plot is loose at best, but so was Big Lebowski's.

Also, it got me laid so I probably have a higher appreciation for it than it deserves 

Somebody was really turned on by cows on roofs?

[celedhring]

O Brother is a very fun flick. Great music, inventive scenes and charismatic actors all over the place. Yeah, the plot is loose at best, but so was Big Lebowski's.

Also, it got me laid so I probably have a higher appreciation for it than it deserves 

Somebody was really turned on by cows on roofs?

The girl I took was a big fan of grassroots music. Wine did the rest.

[CountDeMoney]

Hillbilly folk and cheap wine.  Yeah, that's the one you bring home to Mom.

[celedhring]

Hillbilly folk and cheap wine.  Yeah, that's the one you bring home to Mom.

She was Spanish. Wine+grassroots music = hip in Spain.

[CountDeMoney]

[gunnysgthartman]
Battle for Los Angeles was silly and it was stupid, but it was fun, and fun was enough.
[/gunnysgthartman]

B+

[CountDeMoney]

Hillbilly folk and cheap wine.  Yeah, that's the one you bring home to Mom.

She was Spanish. Wine+grassroots music = hip in Spain.

No wonder they took so long to kick out the Moops.
Yeah, the card says Moops.