TV/Movies Megathread

[Tonitrus]

Season 4 finale of "Louie".

It had at least one stinker of an episode this seasons, but overall in my opinion, perhaps subtly the best show on TV right now.

[Ideologue]

Dragon Blade: Maybe if they were ethnic Italians who formed colonies in the Parthian east... maybe.  But evidently they're going for "actual representatives of the Roman state."  Okie-dokie.

Fury: will probably be pretty good.

Anyway, watched:

The Wrong Man (1956).  The worst Alfred Hitchcock movie I ever saw.  Miserablist and immeasurably boring about it, The Wrong Man features a legal drama where the word "lawyer" is not mentioned until the forty-five minute mark and one of the most perfunctory examples of weak womanliness mid-century Hollywood has to offer.  The only thing keeping this thing's nostrils above the waterline of complete failure is the fact that Hitchcock is a good director, even of rote crap.

D

Stagecoach (1939).  I liked it a lot.  Cool stunts and humanity to spare.  However, while an evil banker gets his comeuppance, the bank itself remains.   My favorite part was when the banker calls the Mexican guy's wife a savage, meaning an Apache, but he only knowingly smiles and says, "Si, Senor."

B+

[Josquius]

Romans in China makes more sense than alien invasions :shrug:

[Darth Wagtaros]

I'd believe aliens over 100k Roman legionaries marching to Chiner.

[jimmy olsen]

Caesar was supposedly planning to march around the Black Sea and attack Dacia from the north after conquering Parthia wasn't he? Maybe he gets lost! 

[celedhring]

Finished Hannibal. The finale was pretty disappointing.

[spoiler]The rivers of blood were fun, but they should have caught him, the finale brings zero closure to anything and I'm growing tired of the entire cat-and-mouse dynamic and I'm not looking forward them stretching the chase for another entire season; I was hoping they would be reenacting Red Dragon, with Hannibal helping them and manipulating them from prison.
The fact that they brought back Abigail just because (I'm not going to check season 1 again, but wasn't there a body?) and killed her again 2 minutes later shows me the writers definitely just aim to shock the audience instead of telling a proper story[/spoiler]

Gotta say I enjoyed the Verger arc quite a bit though, Michael Pitt was great as Mason. [spoiler]and the face-eating scene is one of the most disgustingly funny scenes I have seen in a while. Somehow reminded me of Kendler in Hannibal eating his own brains.[/spoiler]

I will probably watch it again next season, mind, just for the bouts of grand-gignolesque gruesomeness and the occasional bits of deranged brilliance.

[Habbaku]

Finished Hannibal. The finale was pretty disappointing.

[spoiler]The fact that they brought back Abigail just because (I'm not going to check season 1 again, but wasn't there a body?) and killed her again 2 minutes later shows me the writers definitely just aim to shock the audience instead of telling a proper story[/spoiler]

[spoiler]They didn't bring her back 'just because'.  Pay attention to the entire final scene.  It's Hannibal recreating Will's first killing.  There was never a body found of Abigail, so viewers never really knew if she was dead or not.  Considering how many other people have been brought back before her, is it really a surprise that one of the most important characters of season 1 (and someone they showed in cameos and such throughout season 2) would be pivotal at the very end?[/spoiler]

[celedhring]

Finished Hannibal. The finale was pretty disappointing.

[spoiler]The fact that they brought back Abigail just because (I'm not going to check season 1 again, but wasn't there a body?) and killed her again 2 minutes later shows me the writers definitely just aim to shock the audience instead of telling a proper story[/spoiler]

[spoiler]They didn't bring her back 'just because'.  Pay attention to the entire final scene.  It's Hannibal recreating Will's first killing.  There was never a body found of Abigail, so viewers never really knew if she was dead or not.  Considering how many other people have been brought back before her, is it really a surprise that one of the most important characters of season 1 (and someone they showed in cameos and such throughout season 2) would be pivotal at the very end?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]She would actually had been pivotal if her resurrection was played more than a "boo!" moment and then taken away. Yes, she is important to Will, why not play that more? They don't even get to talk, we don't even get to know what's on her mind. She's just there as a prop and a swine to get slaughtered again.[/spoiler]

[lustindarkness]

This past weekend I had a few hours to kill, watched:
The Lone Ranger, not as bad as reviews, not good either. Awesome views of the same areas I will visit this summer.
This is the End, weird but funny stoner comedy.

[The Minsky Moment]

The Wrong Man (1956).   . . . The Wrong Man features a legal drama where the word "lawyer" is not mentioned until the forty-five minute mark   

Point missed.

[celedhring]

The Wrong Man is great. Ultimately the film is about the degradation of Fonda's and Miles' characters. It's possibly Hitchcock's most depressing film.

[derspiess]

Finished Hannibal. The finale was pretty disappointing.

[spoiler]The rivers of blood were fun, but they should have caught him, the finale brings zero closure to anything and I'm growing tired of the entire cat-and-mouse dynamic and I'm not looking forward them stretching the chase for another entire season; I was hoping they would be reenacting Red Dragon, with Hannibal helping them and manipulating them from prison.
The fact that they brought back Abigail just because (I'm not going to check season 1 again, but wasn't there a body?) and killed her again 2 minutes later shows me the writers definitely just aim to shock the audience instead of telling a proper story[/spoiler]

Gotta say I enjoyed the Verger arc quite a bit though, Michael Pitt was great as Mason. [spoiler]and the face-eating scene is one of the most disgustingly funny scenes I have seen in a while. Somehow reminded me of Kendler in Hannibal eating his own brains.[/spoiler]

I will probably watch it again next season, mind, just for the bouts of grand-gignolesque gruesomeness and the occasional bits of deranged brilliance.

I watched bits & pieces (heh) of Hannibal since the first episode with the wife, who has watched every episode.  We both saw all the films but she tends to have movie amnesia so I had to remind her who Mason was & point back to some of the similarities and differences to Red Dragon. 

I guess it's coming back for another season.  I might watch it more closely.  I'm not much on the horror/gore stuff but the Hannibal character always intrigued me for some reason.

[celedhring]

Mikkelsen pulls off a great Hannibal, I honestly wouldn't be watching the show if it weren't for him. And the one thing the show does well it's his character.

[Ideologue]

The Wrong Man (1956).   . . . The Wrong Man features a legal drama where the word "lawyer" is not mentioned until the forty-five minute mark   

Point missed.

Is the point that Henry Fonda didn't take fifth grade social studies?

[Ideologue]

Anyway, figured I'd get way more shit for not grading Stagecoach A+ ONE MILLION!!1 or something equally hyperbolic.