News:

And we're back!

Main Menu

TV/Movies Megathread

Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

Josquius

██████
██████
██████

Ideologue

Quote from: celedhring on May 09, 2014, 03:00:34 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on May 08, 2014, 07:49:55 PM
Quote from: Liep on May 08, 2014, 06:54:45 PM
So Ide, did you review RoboCop? My interest doesn't stem from the fact that it just popped up on a seafaring site.

I saw it but I was too busy at the time to write it up.  It's marginally bad, more dull than terrible, albeit with a few rather interesting moments (for example, Robocop is assembled in China :lol: ).

Oh gosh, the new Robocop was indeed awful. The first scene in Iran is pretty cool, but bar Samuel L. Jackson's character and very minor stuff like the China scene, they pretty much removed all the black comedy elements of the first film, and the actual action and villain are really boring and weak.

Comparing it to Robocop '87 isn't good for you. :P

Thing is, there are a lot of novel ideas in Robocop '14, just none of them are really well-developed, and you're right: the tone is simultaneously so dour and dry, it's hard to care about any of it.  Of course, when they do break from the tone (like with Jackie Earl Haley's robophobic cartoon character) it's even worse.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

katmai

Relax Spellus, Hannibal renewed for third season on NBC.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Eddie Teach

If anything, that'll get him even more wound up in anticipation.  :D
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Malthus

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Queequeg

Quote from: katmai on May 09, 2014, 02:43:09 PM
Relax Spellus, Hannibal renewed for third season on NBC.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Ideologue

Inside Psellus' pants?  Gross.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Queequeg

I'm okay with that being my biggest contribution to Languish cant.
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

garbon

I preferred the hymen-mania.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

celedhring

Community has been axed. Haven't watched it since season 3 so dunno if it's warranted or not.

Ideologue

Quote from: Queequeg on May 09, 2014, 06:27:50 PM
I'm okay with that being my biggest contribution to Languish cant.

Your $2000 pants are a dairy factory.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Syt on May 09, 2014, 01:05:36 AM
So it's Smallville meets the Sopranos Dawson's Creek?

That's precisely what it is.

Eddie Teach

Quote from: CountDeMoney on May 09, 2014, 06:51:41 PM
Quote from: Syt on May 09, 2014, 01:05:36 AM
So it's Smallville meets the Sopranos Dawson's Creek?

That's precisely what it is.

It's on Fox, not the CW, so there's hope.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

CountDeMoney

I miss Katie Holmes when she was a cutie pie.

11B4V

Nothing currently on really perks my interests. I went back a revisited Deadwood.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".