TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

X-Men. It was alright. The movies take a strange view of the world. Mutants are extraordinarily powerful and nearly unstoppable; Xavier can probably wipe out much of humanity with a thought, and Magneto can easily destroy an entire city. Yet any effort at all to make some sort of counter-measure to mutant rampages is seen as the first step toward genocide. 

Yeah, it's one of those things where the details of the allegory comes close to overwhelming the point it's trying to make.  I find it unlikely that anyone would conflate the Beast, or Angel, or even Wolverine, whose powers are not (innately) dangerous, with Professor X or Magneto, who are the equivalent of walking atom bombs, or Cyclops and Havok, who can barely control whether they endanger people.  I wonder if all the people who support gun control would be okay with unregistered living weapons?

[derspiess]

Watching The Ides of March.  As a Cincinnatian I'm embarrassed to say I have never seen it before.

[garbon]

X-Men. It was alright. The movies take a strange view of the world. Mutants are extraordinarily powerful and nearly unstoppable; Xavier can probably wipe out much of humanity with a thought, and Magneto can easily destroy an entire city. Yet any effort at all to make some sort of counter-measure to mutant rampages is seen as the first step toward genocide. 

I wonder if all the people who support gun control would be okay with unregistered living weapons?

Where are they mentioned in the constitution?

[Josquius]

Jobs- Pretty dumb thing to make a film about. And badly made. The music in particular is just stupid, trying to make mundane moments grander than they are. The opening scene with Jobs presenting the ipod with the music of achievment playing in the background...lol

[CountDeMoney]

Watching The Ides of March.  As a Cincinnatian I'm embarrassed to say I have never seen it before.

Good Lord.   

[Admiral Yi]

Saw a trailer for Clint's next movie as a director.  The Frankie Vallee story.

[derspiess]

Watching The Ides of March.  As a Cincinnatian I'm embarrassed to say I have never seen it before.

Good Lord.   

Anyway, I just watched the scene that was filmed in the dive bar next to my office that all my company's old codgers go to

[CountDeMoney]

You're the one that said you were embarrassed.  I just went with it, man.

[jimmy olsen]

I saw their Captain America movie.  Which aspect of their work on Arrested Development prepared the Russos to direct a $200mm action film?

I guess I can't disagree that it paid off--everyone loves the failed genre mash-up apparently--but as far as I'm concerned, it was not just the least successful superhero movie of the year (it's been all of them, right?), and that by a huge margin.  I'm pretty comfortable saying it was the least successful Disney Marvel movie of the nine.  Even worse than Iron Man 3, which at least was pretty well-directed and had some great scenes, only fundamentally misconceived and hamstrung with a shitty ending set-piece.

Thankfully the studio won't be listening to you.

[derspiess]

You're the one that said you were embarrassed.  I just went with it, man.

Okay.

We also had that Cate Blanchett lesbian movie filmed here a few weeks ago.  Fucked up my lunch routine.

[Razgovory]

X-Men. It was alright. The movies take a strange view of the world. Mutants are extraordinarily powerful and nearly unstoppable; Xavier can probably wipe out much of humanity with a thought, and Magneto can easily destroy an entire city. Yet any effort at all to make some sort of counter-measure to mutant rampages is seen as the first step toward genocide. 

Yeah, it's one of those things where the details of the allegory comes close to overwhelming the point it's trying to make.  I find it unlikely that anyone would conflate the Beast, or Angel, or even Wolverine, whose powers are not (innately) dangerous, with Professor X or Magneto, who are the equivalent of walking atom bombs, or Cyclops and Havok, who can barely control whether they endanger people.  I wonder if all the people who support gun control would be okay with unregistered living weapons?

I'd have them all burned at the stake.

[derspiess]

Or while cooking.

[Ideologue]

I saw their Captain America movie.  Which aspect of their work on Arrested Development prepared the Russos to direct a $200mm action film?

I guess I can't disagree that it paid off--everyone loves the failed genre mash-up apparently--but as far as I'm concerned, it was not just the least successful superhero movie of the year (it's been all of them, right?), and that by a huge margin.  I'm pretty comfortable saying it was the least successful Disney Marvel movie of the nine.  Even worse than Iron Man 3, which at least was pretty well-directed and had some great scenes, only fundamentally misconceived and hamstrung with a shitty ending set-piece.

Thankfully the studio won't be listening to you.

And yet they might as well have.  They hired Scott Derrickson.

[celedhring]

I saw their Captain America movie.  Which aspect of their work on Arrested Development prepared the Russos to direct a $200mm action film?

I guess pretty much the same that prepared Brannagh to direct a 100m+ action film. Or Jon Favreau. Or James Gunn. That's how they work, they give big bad action films to people that nobody would think are in the business of making big bad action films. And they have scored pretty well in doing so. At least you can't deny that there's a pretty solid style and uniqueness to Marvel films, whether they are completely successful or not.

And again, you should see the Community paintball eps. You *do* need to be able to shoot action in order to spoof it as well as they did there.

[Sheilbh]

It's a shame given the diversity of directors that the action sequences in Marvel movies are the most interchangeable. I think they (successfully) bring a different tone and style to lots of the build-up and the character driven bit but once it's Thor v Loki or Captain America v Red Skull or whoever else it's much of a muchness.

You know, Thor feels like a Branagh comic book movie and Iron Man feels like a Jon Favreau one - until they get into the action scenes when they both just feel like a Marvel film.