TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I'm glad you... liked it?  Maybe?

I thought it had a rather good (if streamlined and arguably cliched) story about the different nature of the brothers and the irrevocability of their choices.

Dredd's characters are better-drawn, certainly, but I ultimately found The Raid more emotional.  (The Raid's also a better social commentary; I get the impression that The Raid is only slightly more cartoonishly corrupt than the real Indonesia.)

[celedhring]

Yeah, I enjoyed it. Although you really have to be into action-for-action's sake.

About the brothers, dunno, it only comes into play in the last 30 minutes of the film, and it's done pretty by-the-numbers (because there's little time left). Would have been better I they had met earlier, and the conflict been present throughout the film.

The film also features a bit too many instances of "idiot henchmen", like how the thugs kindly stop using guns once the protagonists run out of ammo, and engage them mano-a-mano.

[celedhring]

Also, the lack of camera tricks or stuntment makes me feel that a lot of the stunts made in the film didn't follow too many safety rules. Wonder how many proper wounded the production left in its wake 

[Ideologue]

The film also features a bit too many instances of "idiot henchmen", like how the thugs kindly stop using guns once the protagonists run out of ammo, and engage them mano-a-mano.

About that, other than Mad Dog, who was in it for the kicks, I got the feeling that the bad guys didn't have unlimited ammunition either.

Now that you mention it, it's one of the weird thing about Asian crime movies--guns are way less prevalent than in American stuff.  Like, they're usually around somewhere, but from Oldboy to New World, it's 95% guys with pipes and knives and martial arts.  And yet just as many people die.  Looks like those bleeding heart gun control liberals were wrong.

[celedhring]

The film also features a bit too many instances of "idiot henchmen", like how the thugs kindly stop using guns once the protagonists run out of ammo, and engage them mano-a-mano.

About that, other than Mad Dog, who was in it for the kicks, I got the feeling that the bad guys didn't have unlimited ammunition either.

Now that you mention it, it's one of the weird thing about Asian crime movies--guns are way less prevalent than in American stuff.  Like, they're usually around somewhere, but from Oldboy to New World, it's 95% guys with pipes and knives and martial arts.  And yet just as many people die.  Looks like those bleeding heart gun control liberals were wrong.

That's understandable given the tradition of martial arts films in that neck of the woods. Their audiences probably prefer that.

Honk Kong films (John Woo for starters) have been extremely influential in contemporary American gunplay films, though.

[Ideologue]

That's true.  I forgot about John Woo.

[Jacob]

That's understandable given the tradition of martial arts films in that neck of the woods. Their audiences probably prefer that.

Honk Kong films (John Woo for starters) have been extremely influential in contemporary American gunplay films, though.

I think it has more to do with the common armaments of criminals in those parts. John Woo notwithstanding, HK triads use cleavers and hatchets much more frequently in their killings than guns.

[Razgovory]

I saw the movie "The Eagle".  I thought it was pretty good, though the ending seemed to forget the themes that were interwoven in the rest of the film.  What does the Languish film cartel think of it?

[Sheilbh]

I finished Life on Mars and started Ashes to Ashes.

It's wonderful. As the 80s to the 70s it's bigger, brasher, camper and has moved from Manchester to London. It seems a bit less nostalgic and a bit more sharply critical (though a yuppie and cocaine in 81 seems a bit much). And I love the whole dying of the West vibe with Gene Hunt as the last sheriff.

Also Keeley Hawes, of Line of Duty, is an extraordinary actress.

Edit: It also plays brilliantly on how terrifying David Bowie's harlequin costume in the Ashes to Ashes video actually it.

[celedhring]

They might find difficult finding a good Bowie song if they go on making a 90s sequel 

Loved the first one though, wasn't aware they were making an 80s version 

[Ideologue]

Go straight to the 00s.  Slow Burn?

[Josquius]

They might find difficult finding a good Bowie song if they go on making a 90s sequel 

Loved the first one though, wasn't aware they were making an 80s version 

It was years ago.
Life on mars I liked.
Ashes to ashes... It's all rather too meta. Doesn't have as much of the fun time traveling cop stuff of LoM.

I've heard there's a Russian version of life on Mars which sounds rather interesting.

[jimmy olsen]

 
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/WolfCop-Trailer-Craziest-Thing-You-See-All-Day-42735.html

[Savonarola]

They might find difficult finding a good Bowie song if they go on making a 90s sequel 

Hallo Spaceboy  would be a good fit.

[Queequeg]

There is no way that is as amusing as it thinks it is.