TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

What I liked is how the love these two women had, who had barely talked to each other since childhood and had a horrible relationship, cured everything.  But then this is Disney where people meeting each other for the first time get married on a regular basis.

To be fair, they satirized that in the movie itself.

I know.  But even that satire was predictable.  I was thinking 'it would be great if he just turned out to be a nice guy she just wasn't right for' but no of course not.  Just a meh Disney film all the way around.  But they haven't really made a good one since Lion King...I don't think I may be forgetting something.

Muppet Treasure Island?

[Valmy]

Mulan? Pocahontas?

Mulan actually may have been great I was in France when it came out and missed it.

[Ideologue]

I really enjoy Hercules quite a bit.  Mulan or Tarzan (depending on your tolerance for Phil Collins in his dotage) are probably the last ones most would accept are great--or even really good--before Tangled.  (Fantasia 2000 has great things in it--I'd trade the Donald Duck "Pomp and Circumstance" for "Sorceror's Apprentice" anytime--but as a whole it's no Fantasia 1940.)

In full disclosure I haven't seen Home on the Range, Brother Bear, Chicken Little, or Meet the Robinsons.  Range and Chicken Little essentially have no chance at being good; Brother Bear could be something, but has Phil Collins back on the score even though he murdered Tarzan; Robinsons could be anything, it could be great, it could be insanely annoying, it could be stunningly mediocre.

[garbon]

I recall liking Hercules but unlike the two I listed, I can't recall a single song off the top of my head.

[Eddie Teach]

Mulan? Pocahontas?

Meh.

[Tonitrus]

The Batfleck!

http://imgur.com/gallery/wu4cH

[Liep]

The internet never disappoints.

[Josephus]

Hannibal. Find the Verger story line somewhat distracting and not necessary.

[Sheilbh]

Cannot wait!
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/15/mr-turner-cannes-review-mike-leigh-2014

[jimmy olsen]

Freaky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W72s6WWUdY

[jimmy olsen]

What I liked is how the love these two women had, who had barely talked to each other since childhood and had a horrible relationship, cured everything. 

You can still love people deeply that you have a horrible relationship with.

[Sheilbh]

What I liked is how the love these two women had, who had barely talked to each other since childhood and had a horrible relationship, cured everything. 

You can still love people deeply that you have a horrible relationship with.

Exactly it's surely the basis of family life.

[Viking]

Arrow end of season. They stumbled a bit at the finishing line, but still ossum.

[Malthus]

Cannot wait!
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/15/mr-turner-cannes-review-mike-leigh-2014

Looks great. I'll see it if I can.

The review reminds me somewhat of the A&E movie Longitude, which I very much enjoyed.

[celedhring]

I really enjoy Hercules quite a bit.  Mulan or Tarzan (depending on your tolerance for Phil Collins in his dotage) are probably the last ones most would accept are great--or even really good--before Tangled.  (Fantasia 2000 has great things in it--I'd trade the Donald Duck "Pomp and Circumstance" for "Sorceror's Apprentice" anytime--but as a whole it's no Fantasia 1940.)

In full disclosure I haven't seen Home on the Range, Brother Bear, Chicken Little, or Meet the Robinsons.  Range and Chicken Little essentially have no chance at being good; Brother Bear could be something, but has Phil Collins back on the score even though he murdered Tarzan; Robinsons could be anything, it could be great, it could be insanely annoying, it could be stunningly mediocre.

Brother Bear doesn't work as a whole, but it has some interesting stuff in it. Loved the change in animation and cinematography once he becomes a bear, Wizard of Oz-style. The story is pretty generic, sadly.

I haven't seen Frozen yet, but I didn't think Tangled was all that. It was your run of the mill 1990s-style Disney toon coupled with the broader comedy that's been around since the Shreks.