TV/Movies Megathread

[Viking]

Arrow?
I've not even heard of that one.

It's Green Arrow the TV show

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193021/
http://eztv.it/shows/679/arrow/

I recommend it  most highly.

[Eddie Teach]

The CW takes lots of interesting ideas and turns them into shows for teenage girls. It's their stock in trade.

[Maladict]

Oh also the new Trip. Brydon and Coogan in Italy. It's still very good.

But it's going to be hard to top the Michael Caine scene in the original.

[celedhring]

There's a Sin City sequel on the way. 

Because the first one was so good?

Thought it was watchable enough, some stories better than others but that's bound to happen with an anthology film. It seems to me it is a bit late for a sequel though, smecks of a lot of people needing badly something resembling a hit (Rodríguez, Willis...)

[Eddie Teach]

Willis? Is it a prequel?

[Viking]

The CW takes lots of interesting ideas and turns them into shows for teenage girls. It's their stock in trade.

Yes, me and AmScip, the bearded ones, are teenage girls. The CW does have the teeny girl vibe, the producers have talked about all the "parties" they have to have. The CW'ness doesn't interfere much with the Emerald Archer Rises vibe the producers have been going for.

But yes, they don't alienate teenage girls. Bryan Q. Miller (who wrote Stephanie Brown as Batgirl and worked on Smalville (the other CW superhero show)) has a couple of writing credits as well as Geoff Johns. It's a teeny girl-comic book geek crossover.

[Ideologue]

Watched The Amazing Spider-Man in prep for the sequel.  Pretty darn good.

[celedhring]

Willis? Is it a prequel?

Alba's also in the cast. It seems Miller wrote a story about what happens to her character after the end of the original story, and I guess Hartigan will show up in flashbacks and stuff.

[Eddie Teach]

Yes, me and AmScip, the bearded ones, are teenage girls. The CW does have the teeny girl vibe, the producers have talked about all the "parties" they have to have. The CW'ness doesn't interfere much with the Emerald Archer Rises vibe the producers have been going for.

But yes, they don't alienate teenage girls. Bryan Q. Miller (who wrote Stephanie Brown as Batgirl and worked on Smalville (the other CW superhero show)) has a couple of writing credits as well as Geoff Johns. It's a teeny girl-comic book geek crossover.

Did you like Buffy, Smallville and Roswell? I tried to watch all of those but they just didn't engage me enough to endure the sappy bits.

[Viking]

Yes, me and AmScip, the bearded ones, are teenage girls. The CW does have the teeny girl vibe, the producers have talked about all the "parties" they have to have. The CW'ness doesn't interfere much with the Emerald Archer Rises vibe the producers have been going for.

But yes, they don't alienate teenage girls. Bryan Q. Miller (who wrote Stephanie Brown as Batgirl and worked on Smalville (the other CW superhero show)) has a couple of writing credits as well as Geoff Johns. It's a teeny girl-comic book geek crossover.

Did you like Buffy, Smallville and Roswell? I tried to watch all of those but they just didn't engage me enough to endure the sappy bits.

Roswell sucked. Buffy didn't have the sappy bits (for the most part). Smallville managed to transcend the sappy bit from time to time.

[Josquius]

Buffy was good and Roswell was soso.
I loved smallville for a while then lost interest and stopped watching, which is rare

[Viking]

Buffy was good and Roswell was soso.
I loved smallville for a while then lost interest and stopped watching, which is rare

Arrow is better than smallville, more compelling and without letting the "CW tropes" mess up the story. 

[celedhring]

Just got The Raid DVD from the library. Gonna get watched tonight.

[Savonarola]

L'Atalante (1934)

I saw the Criterion collection of the film and, after watching the film, listened to the pretentious film critic's commentary.

I like their pretentious film critic commentaries.  Beats the director's commentaries that are the standard fare on regular discs--rarely are they that terribly enlightening except for technical issues (how such and such was shot) and occasionally for assigning credit (e.g., David Fincher admitting that the excellent use of "Orinoco Flow" Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was Daniel Craig's idea).  Blame, of course, is almost never assigned because mistakes are not acknowledged.  Film critics have no such bias.  My favorite is definitely the film historian David Kalat's commentary on Things To Come, which is so overtly critical, despite the obvious love he has for it, that he has to stop halfway through to remind himself and the audience that (to paraphrase) "Of course, if you're listening to this, it probably means you like the movie."

Most of the films I watch don't have director commentary.   

I always listen to the pretentious film critic commentary.  Most times they provide insight into the film or pick up on things I overlooked; other times they provide the opportunity to listen to the questionable opinions of pompous windbags without having to go through the trouble of logging onto the internet.

[Ideologue]

Most of the films I watch don't have director commentary.

Suppose not.

I'm just saying, I wish they'd do it with current films as well as Criterion releases of movies 70 years old.