TV/Movies Megathread

[Viking]

they are ignorant

Posting comments on youtube wasn't enough of a clue?

HEY! I post on you tube from time to time.

[garbon]

they are ignorant

Posting comments on youtube wasn't enough of a clue?

HEY! I post on you tube from time to time.

[Ideologue]

Bale ain't Heston that's for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N4iSzHXOUEE

On the plus side, maybe more plagues?  It'd be a pity to forget bats and flying unicorns.

[Ideologue]

Bale ain't Heston that's for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N4iSzHXOUEE

The comment sections are painful. "WTF EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK!!!"

That and all the crazy atheist comments. "Y ALL THE CHRISTIAN MOVIES WHERE R THE MOVIES ABOUT ATHEISTS?????"

1. All movies not including God are atheist movies, since they don't have a god in them, they are without god, or "a theos" in greek.
2. The only atheist comment I could find was the one where the guy bitched about the movie deviating from the book and that he was annoyed about that despite being an atheist.

I was annoyed by Aronofsky's liberties in Noah.

[Ideologue]

Just saw Gravity.  Not nearly as gripping as Ide made it out to be.  Very impressive effects however.

It's not my fault you replaced your emotions with clockwork to better serve the Party.

[celedhring]

There are loads of movies that depict religion as an oppressive force, even if they aren't about atheism per se.

[Ideologue]

Like Prince of Darkness.

[Queequeg]

"Agora" is probably the best match for the ingnorant athiest youtuber. 

Because it's terrible, offensive and moronic?

[FunkMonk]

Bale ain't Heston that's for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N4iSzHXOUEE

The comment sections are painful. "WTF EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK!!!"

That and all the crazy atheist comments. "Y ALL THE CHRISTIAN MOVIES WHERE R THE MOVIES ABOUT ATHEISTS?????"

1. All movies not including God are atheist movies, since they don't have a god in them, they are without god, or "a theos" in greek.
2. The only atheist comment I could find was the one where the guy bitched about the movie deviating from the book and that he was annoyed about that despite being an atheist.

[Ed Anger]

Thanks a lot Funk.

[Razgovory]

Bale ain't Heston that's for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N4iSzHXOUEE

The comment sections are painful. "WTF EGYPTIANS WERE BLACK!!!"

That and all the crazy atheist comments. "Y ALL THE CHRISTIAN MOVIES WHERE R THE MOVIES ABOUT ATHEISTS?????"

I would have thought it more a Jewish movie then a christian one.

[FunkMonk]

Thanks a lot Funk.

[Ideologue]

Cure (1997).  Was this enough time for Kiroyoshi Kurosawa to rip off David Fincher, or was it just a case of convergent evolution after Silence of the Lambs?  Bodies turn up with distinctive knife wound patterns despite their killers being seemingly unrelated--the only commonality is that they had no motive.  OR DID THEY?  Either way, I've finally found a proper movie about hypnotism that's even goofier about it than Trance and Oldboy.  Fuck, at least in Devil Doll, it's expressly magic.  It'd be pretty cool if the last ten minutes were remotely sensible.

C+

Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014).   Pain & Gain this is not, but I've seen worse backsliding in my day.  Transformers: Age of Extinction exists, and I would describe no individual stretch of the picture as unpleasant.  However, faint pleasure, experienced for a truly bludgeoning one hundred and sixty-five minutes, does not a gold-plated recommendation make.

I was never a sex criminal in Texas

B

[Ideologue]

P.S. The Conversation was better.

Oh, I also watched Things to Come with my dad, who'd never seen it.  He didn't "get" it and he fell asleep a couple of times, but in his defense it is pretty avant-garde.

[jimmy olsen]

Why are all the cartoon mothers dead? I think it's pretty obvious, if the child's parents are dead then the child can go on an adventure. If you're limited to killing off one, the mother is the more restrictive on the ball parent. It's not just a trope in western animation, you see the same thing in Japanese anime.


http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/07/why-are-all-the-cartoon-mothers-dead/372270/