TV/Movies Megathread

[garbon]

I'm avoiding seeing that thing, the soundtrack is annoying me enough just through hearing it in passing on TV.

I am confused to the response to that song Let It Go. Just sounds like standard fare.

If the "standard" is early 90s Disney musical super-hits, then that may answer your own question.

I guess so.

[Savonarola]

The Haunted Castle (Schloß Vogelöd) (1921)

Lord von Vogelschrey hosts a hunting party at his castle.  The reputed fratricide Count Johann Oetsch arrives uninvited; hilarity ensues when his dead brother's widow arrives.  She stays only to talk to Father Faramund, her late husbands ally, who is coming from Rome.  What dark secrets will be revealed over the weekend?

The story is dull and plodding.  It does have all sorts of expressionistic touches, nightmares, enormous sets and shadows; unfortunately the print I saw was so washed out that it lost a lot of the appeal. 

F. W. Murnau's next film, Nosferatu, would be his big break.  There the expressionism takes on a more central role (and the plot would be much better; because it was stolen from Bram Stoker.) 

[derspiess]

I've been watching Star Wars: Clone Wars on Netflix.  Quite surprised how good it is (though not to get too excited - it's still just a kids cartoon).  It's also useful as something I can put on tv but don't have to pay 100% attention to, if I'm say feeding baby or something.  It's a show I was aware of, but didn't really know much about.

It's a great show-- it resonates with Tommy a bit more than with me but I enjoy watching it. 

[Queequeg]

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For all the fellow Hannibal fan.  Be ware of spoilers. 

[crazy canuck]

I watched the Pacific over the weekend.  HBO ran the whole series.  I enjoyed it.

[Barrister]

I've been watching Star Wars: Clone Wars on Netflix.  Quite surprised how good it is (though not to get too excited - it's still just a kids cartoon).  It's also useful as something I can put on tv but don't have to pay 100% attention to, if I'm say feeding baby or something.  It's a show I was aware of, but didn't really know much about.

It's a great show-- it resonates with Tommy a bit more than with me but I enjoy watching it.

Timmy said it was too scary.

He does like Futurama though (or as he calls it "that show with robots and space ships").

[Liep]

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For all the fellow Hannibal fan.  Be ware of spoilers. 

Perfect.

[crazy canuck]

He does like Futurama though (or as he calls it "that show with robots and space ships").

How did you explain the episode where the giant women want more smoo smoo

[Barrister]

He does like Futurama though (or as he calls it "that show with robots and space ships").

How did you explain the episode where the giant women want more smoo smoo

He doesn't watch that closely.

[Ideologue]

That's really great Mike.

How did you explain the episode where the giant women want more smoo smoo

Semi-apropos, I finally got around to finishing Futurama the other day.  The later seasons are demonstrably weaker, but 10 is kind of sort of a return to form (it's certainly no 8 anyway).

[Josephus]

I watched the Pacific over the weekend.  HBO ran the whole series.  I enjoyed it.

It was good, but, as a whole, didn't hold my interest as much as Band of Bros.

[crazy canuck]

I watched the Pacific over the weekend.  HBO ran the whole series.  I enjoyed it.

It was good, but, as a whole, didn't hold my interest as much as Band of Bros.

Yeah, Pacific jumps from story line to story line and if I handnt been binge watching it I probably would have been less interested.  Band of Bros had the advantage of focusing on the career advancement of one guy with side stories of the people he interacted with.

[Josephus]

I'm not familiar with the Pacific theatre as I am with the european one, so that was probably another reason.

I'm guessing though, the reason Pacific was done that way, as opposed to focussing on one character, is that soldiers in that front didn't generally fight from beginning to end (as they did in Euorpe?)

[Malthus]

The story lines were based on a couple of famous war memoirs - the Sledge one was based on With The Old Breed, which was very well regarded. I've read it, it is very good.   

IMO they would have been better to focus on one story, rather than following three. A series like this requires the viewer to empathize with the characters - if you are getting confused over who they are and what their relationship with each other is, it is more difficult to empathize with them.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm not familiar with the Pacific theatre as I am with the european one, so that was probably another reason.

I'm guessing though, the reason Pacific was done that way, as opposed to focussing on one character, is that soldiers in that front didn't generally fight from beginning to end (as they did in Euorpe?)

Yup.  Off the top of my head I would guess the maximum number of campaigns a given division was in  was two.