TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

[CountDeMoney]

Finnished with the binge watch of Braeking Bad last night.....Bravo, excellent.

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[Ed Anger]

Thank God. Roger

Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond. He hammed it up way too much, in my opinion.

It became comedy rather than action, in my opinion.

Haven't seen any of the movies with Daniel Craig, as I think he's better as an SS soldier than a Bond.
My favourite was the brooding Bond of Timothy Dalton. But let's just face it, it doesn't matter, as movies go, Bond movies are hardly groundbreaking or made to be that, it's entertainment and shittiness is to be expected.

I recommend Casino Royale for Eva Green.

The good thing about the Internet is that I don't need to watch bad movies for nice naked women anymore. I suffered through enough French and Swedish "art" on my small bedroom TV during my teens. Heck, even the semi-clad woman in condom ads in step-dads military mags was filling my wank bank.

That was how I watched that Spartacus show. The Dailymotion sex montage.

I liked the scene with the slave girl getting it in the bath.

[Josephus]

Blue Jasmine.

Excellent. Cate Blanchett is amazing in it, and the whole story feels emotionally pretty sincere, despite the onslaught of trademarked witty Allen dialogue. When was the last time Woody Allen made two great movies in a row?

Wasn't the Rome one before this?....not so good. Paris was better.

[Ideologue]

Blue Jasmine is continually overrated, and Blanchett robbed Bullock.

[Sheilbh]

Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond. He hammed it up way too much, in my opinion.

I think it's sort of similar to why I prefer Batman to the Nolan films. I don't want a serious Bond.

I basically want Bond to make sexual puns so horrifying in their crudeness they only work on women with an imperfect grasp of English; to save the world from an absurd, over-elaborate plan to blow up the world orchestrated by a man in a slate grey onesie; to kill lots of people; and to drink and drive.

There shouldn't be a sense of danger or peril, but one of whimsy. Any deviation from that and, while I may enjoy it, will never feel terribly Bond-ish to me. Although Skyfall at least got the Bond song right.

[Ideologue]

You forgot: production design such as even God has never seen.

Which perhaps helps explain why on some days, Quantum of Solace is my favorite Craig-era Bond.

[HVC]

Binge watching Banshee. Ranges from too over the top to just the right level of over the top to be enjoyable.

[Viking]

look every time bond tries to be relevant to his time it turns out crap. Unless it is a maguffin, he should try to be relevant or realistic, it is fantasy. Every man wants to be bond and every woman wants to be with him. Bond is a cypher, he doesn't have an origin, he doesn't get sad or happy or depressed or deal with existential angst. Skyfall was not a bond movie. It was a movie with a character named bond. Bond is a genra in and of itself. Fucking with it will just ruin it. Stick to the formula

Pre-Stinger leading into opening credits
Exposition starting plot
Bond "dances" with villain
Bond gets betrayed by evil woman
Bond get saved/helped by good woman
Bond fights with villain again
Bond wins
Ending credits while bond is getting laid

The less motivation the villains have the better. You can dick a bit with the order, give the woman an arc from evil to good (e.g. the spy who loved me or casino royale). Basically you sort of need to keep everything that Austin Powers spoofed.

[Admiral Yi]

Very good breakdown of the formula Puff.

[celedhring]

Blue Jasmine.

Excellent. Cate Blanchett is amazing in it, and the whole story feels emotionally pretty sincere, despite the onslaught of trademarked witty Allen dialogue. When was the last time Woody Allen made two great movies in a row?

Wasn't the Rome one before this?....not so good. Paris was better.

My bad. I had it in my mind that Rome came before Paris - I was talking about the latter, obviously. Seems he sticks with the formula of one bad, one good then.

Regarding Bond, Casino Royale is one of my favorite Bond films ever, but in general Craig's Bond is way too emo and self-searching, which kinda doesn't fit the character at all. I think Brosnan had all the Bond-isms down while not being dismissable as pure comedy like Roger Moore did. I think there's a balance.

[Josquius]

Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond. He hammed it up way too much, in my opinion.

I think it's sort of similar to why I prefer Batman to the Nolan films. I don't want a serious Bond.

I basically want Bond to make sexual puns so horrifying in their crudeness they only work on women with an imperfect grasp of English; to save the world from an absurd, over-elaborate plan to blow up the world orchestrated by a man in a slate grey onesie; to kill lots of people; and to drink and drive.

There shouldn't be a sense of danger or peril, but one of whimsy. Any deviation from that and, while I may enjoy it, will never feel terribly Bond-ish to me. Although Skyfall at least got the Bond song right.

That is what makes the old bonds  good certainly, and could possibly help longevity. But for modern enjoyment I think the grittier Craig films are the way to go. Having a 60s Bond style fantasy in modern times just doesn't feel right, we don't live in such a world of hope these days, sadly.

[CountDeMoney]

Binge watching Banshee. Ranges from too over the top to just the right level of over the top to be enjoyable.

Yeah, that's just one of those that you have to sit back and call it for what it is:  stupid fun.

[Norgy]

I just love Fargo more and more. 

John Oliver's show on HBO is good, but rather similar to The Daily Show, isn't it.
Then again, I loved him as host there too.

[Syt]

The Angels' Share

A bunch of Glasgow neds on community service conspire to steal an expensive whisky - for one of them the chance to break free from his past life.

The movie veers between bleak realism regarding the Scottish underclass and comedy. A cute movie, marred by the use of the Proclaimers' "500 Miles". 7/10.

The ned slang can be almost impenetrably thick at times, though (at least to this non-native speaker).


My Glaswegian manager mentioned the movie, saying that while he liked it (Whisky! Scotland!) it was also depressing to be reminded about the how messed up life for uneducated youths without perspective can be.