TV/Movies Megathread

[Liep]

Watched Dark Knight Rises again, I'm now settled with the fact that it only has one redeeming character. Anne Hathaway in a leather suit.

They could've at least exploded Hines Ward.

EDIT: Also, Paval was confirmed dead in a plane crash, in a plane that was full of bullet holes? No questions asked by the CIA?

[celedhring]

Watched Dark Knight Rises again, I'm now settled with the fact that it only has one redeeming character. Anne Hathaway in a leather suit.

They could've at least exploded Hines Ward.

EDIT: Also, Paval was confirmed dead in a plane crash, in a plane that was full of bullet holes? No questions asked by the CIA?

I watched it the other day and it was even more ridiculous than I remembered. Extremely little of it makes sense.

[Capetan Mihali]

World on a Wire (1973).  Like the Matrix, except more cerebral, less stupid, shot on 16mm for German TV, and vastly more 1970s in every way.  But--most importantly--it is way, way, way longer, to the extent that the paranoid plot that's entrapped our man who isn't real is more recursive than the ubiquitous mirror shots Fassbinder's constructed whole swathes of his movie out of and circles and circles and fucking circles more than his camera.  (That said, the mirror shots and elegantly mobile camera are cool.)

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It's a semi-forgotten classic. Haven't seen it in ages (they had a re-run on TV in the 90s, I think).

As a Fassbinder devotee, I made a special trip into Manhattan to see it when it was first re-released, on the big screen at the MoMA theater. There was a crazy German guy in the audience who stood up ranting and raving about how his mother was involved in the film, but everyone ignored him in classic NY fashion and he eventually settled down.

[The Larch]

Watched Dark Knight Rises again, I'm now settled with the fact that it only has one redeeming character. Anne Hathaway in a leather suit.

They could've at least exploded Hines Ward.

EDIT: Also, Paval was confirmed dead in a plane crash, in a plane that was full of bullet holes? No questions asked by the CIA?

I watched it the other day and it was even more ridiculous than I remembered. Extremely little of it makes sense.

And even if it made any sense Bane's voice would remove it instantly.

[CountDeMoney]

I liked Bane's voice.

[Capetan Mihali]

I watched Chinatown again last night on Netflix Instant.  It's still great, to hell with Eddie Teach & co. who think it's overrated.

[Ideologue]

It's only the like-the-60th-best-movie-ever-made thing that makes it overrated.

The Two Jakes: underrated.

Repulsion: fucking garbage.

[Ideologue]

I liked Bane's voice.

Concur.  I thought it sounded cool and different.  It's ripe for parody, sure, but so is Darth Vader's.  It's effective in the film.

[The Larch]

Batman - Bane is a duel of silly voices in that film.

[Eddie Teach]

It's only the like-the-60th-best-movie-ever-made thing that makes it overrated.

AFI's got it listed at #21. It's a good movie, but not *that* good.

[Liep]

I liked Bane's voice.

Concur.  I thought it sounded cool and different.  It's ripe for parody, sure, but so is Darth Vader's.  It's effective in the film.

Yes, I agree, but it was completely misplaced in the setting and sounded more like a voice-over than a voice modulation.

[CountDeMoney]

It probably gets more kudos as a screenplay, some artsy mucks think it is as perfectly structured as a screenplay as it can get.

[celedhring]

It probably gets more kudos as a screenplay, some artsy mucks think it is as perfectly structured as a screenplay as it can get.

Aye, at film school they'd hammer us with it. I love the film, though. Not sure where it ranks on besteverness, but it's a great film.

Currently watching The Raid. So far it is cool, but hot damn, I don't understand a single word of Indonesian yet I can tell those are some really awful thespians.

[Malthus]

It probably gets more kudos as a screenplay, some artsy mucks think it is as perfectly structured as a screenplay as it can get.

Aye, at film school they'd hammer us with it. I love the film, though. Not sure where it ranks on besteverness, but it's a great film.

Currently watching The Raid. So far it is cool, but hot damn, I don't understand a single word of Indonesian yet I can tell those are some really awful thespians.

"You hired thespians? I wanted lesbians, goddamit! Damn this lisp."

[Capetan Mihali]

It probably gets more kudos as a screenplay, some artsy mucks think it is as perfectly structured as a screenplay as it can get.

Aye, at film school they'd hammer us with it. I love the film, though. Not sure where it ranks on besteverness, but it's a great film.

It's funny, watching it again, I had remembered it as having a much longer running time than it really does, since so much is packed into the story and each scene works so well.