TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

The Thin Red Line. It was pretty good, up until they took the ridge.

[Liep]

Silicon Valley. I made the mistake of watching the last episode first on HBO. I didn't noticed until I wanted to see the 2nd, it was fun though and could might as well have been a pilot. The real pilot was also good, but didn't reach the heights of the 5 minutes of jerk off talk of the final.

[Ideologue]

Did anyone ever follow Helix?  I was going to watch it on Hulu, but then abandoned it when I realized they only had like episodes 8-11 or something equally useless to me.

[CountDeMoney]

Saw Kramer vs. Kramer for the first time last night. Really, really good movie.

Sigh.  Young people.


Meryl Streep was one of film history's best female villains in that one.

[viper37]

Did anyone ever follow Helix?  I was going to watch it on Hulu, but then abandoned it when I realized they only had like episodes 8-11 or something equally useless to me.

It's a very good show.  Can't judge the science, don't know that stuff.  Semi sci-fi-ish.

[FunkMonk]

Saw Kramer vs. Kramer for the first time last night. Really, really good movie.

Sigh.  Young people.


Meryl Streep was one of film history's best female villains in that one.

Also the best nonsexual male-female friendship in film history.

[Ideologue]

Saw Edge of Tomorrow.  Enjoyed most of it a lot.

[Maladict]

What the hell, no Longest Day on TV tonight? I have to dig up the dvd?

[celedhring]

The Thin Red Line. It was pretty good, up until they took the ridge.

Sort of agree. I love the actual battle scenes - they're quite uniquely shot.

Saw Origins: Wolverine as prep for X-Men Days of Future Past. God, that was truly terrible.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yes, Wolverine sucked. 

Days of Futures Past, less so. 

[Syt]

Why does the Dwayne Rockules trailer have "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age in it?

[crazy canuck]

No one knows

[Malthus]

Date movie noght with my wife (kid with the grandparents) - saw Belle, a period-piece about a half-Black woman raised by her very aristocratic paternal relations (her dad, a sea captain, dissapears from the scene & dies offstage).

As it turns out, her guardian is also the guardian of a fully white cousin of hers, and the two are basically brought up as sisters. Her guardian just happens to be the chief justice of England and makes some pivotal decisions about the status of slavery (in this movie, they only discuss the Zong case - a nasty bit of insurance fraud by which a slaveship crew deliberately murder their human cargo to claim insurance on them, because the slaves were sickly and would not sell).

In an interesting twist, the half-Black sister ends up an heiress when her dad leaves her a pile of cash in her will, while her fully-white cousin/sister is left penniless. Much match-making insanity ensues - the key theme here is the intersection of race and privilege (the protagonist is in the unusual situation of being, in a large sense, more free than her fully white cousin, because she has money - yet she is very visibly Black. Oh what to do?!).

The story is based in large part on reality, though the relations between the characters are fictional. It is true that the chief justice involved in pivotal slavery decisions raised a half-Black relation with his white one, and their portrait is a big influence on the movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dido_Elizabeth_Belle.jpg

Anyway, I enjoyed it very much - not too preachy, though naturally, there is some of that. Lots of nice period eye candy.

[celedhring]

Why does the Dwayne Rockules trailer have "No One Knows" by Queens of the Stone Age in it?

You made me check the trailer, wow that looks awful.

[Valmy]

In an interesting twist, the half-Black sister ends up an heiress when her dad leaves her a pile of cash in her will, while her fully-white cousin/sister is left penniless. Much match-making insanity ensues - the key theme here is the intersection of race and privilege (the protagonist is in the unusual situation of being, in a large sense, more free than her fully white cousin, because she has money - yet she is very visibly Black. Oh what to do?!).

Did it make you check the intersection of your privilege?