TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

For now, Hercules (2014).   Just how many bad sword and sandal movies can there be in one year?  Well, let's see how Ridley Scott does with Exodus before we count.

Like, zoinks, Herc!

C+

Oh God that's depressing.

Well, it was still better than either Noah or 300: Rise of an Empire.  I assume it's better than the Kellan Lutz Hercules from January; I haven't seen Pompeii, but it might be the sword and sandal movie from 2014 to beat, which is--I expect--rather sad.

[Ideologue]

Maybe I'm thinking of American.  American definitely sucks.

I worked with a bunch of film graduates from American. Very nice fellas, but gosh, were they useless.

Americans, not just American grads, are always polite.

[Admiral Yi]

Are you perhaps thinking of George Washington Ide?  Easier to confuse that with GU.

[celedhring]

Maybe I'm thinking of American.  American definitely sucks.

I worked with a bunch of film graduates from American. Very nice fellas, but gosh, were they useless.

Americans, not just American grads, are always polite.

No argument about that; my dealings with Americans have generally been pretty pleasant.

[Duque de Bragança]

At the ghetto arthouse in Paris

Double Indemnity

Billy Wilder's first shot at Film noir is genre-defining. Chandler helped and had a cameo as well.
[spoiler]Nice wig for Barbara Stanwyck![/spoiler]

[Sheilbh]

Just ordered a Powell and Pressburger box set

Also expanded my Derek Jarman collection

[celedhring]

Is their version of Hoffmann Tales in it? It's a great adaptation of one of my favorite operas... except for the fact they sing an English version of the opera and that's just no. 

[Sheilbh]

It includes:
Tales of Hoffman
Black Narcisus
A Matter of Life and Death ()
I Know Where I am Going
A Canterbury Tale
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ()
49th Parallel (I'm most looking forward to Olivier's legendary attempt at a French-Canadian accent, of which a taster here: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/237780/49th-Parallel-Movie-Clip-Trapper-Johnny.html )
The Battle of the River Plate
Ill Met by Moonlight (Dirk Bogarde!)
They're a Weird Mob
The Red Shoes

I already own a few but it was only about £17 so I thought I might as well get the lot

[Eddie Teach]

Jason and the Argonauts. It was alright.

[Ideologue]

I've heard I need to see The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

[Sheilbh]

You do

[Ideologue]

Fine, I will.

Saw a trailer for 50 Shades of Grey today, CDM's new favorite movie, full of Hot Wheels tracks and shareholder value.

You see, I didn't know that Christian Grey was the head of some company.  Mousy but extremely attractive woman gets BDSMed half to death by a one-percenter and likes it?  God, it really is porn for unreconstructed women.

[jimmy olsen]

Cowboy Bebop is Ossum. I defy you Seedy.

Noted and catalogued accordingly.

Even you would like this one.

Outlaw Star is better than Cowboy Bebop.

What the fuck? No it's not.

[CountDeMoney]

Saw a trailer for 50 Shades of Grey today, CDM's new favorite movie, full of Hot Wheels tracks and shareholder value.

You see, I didn't know that Christian Grey was the head of some company.  Mousy but extremely attractive woman gets BDSMed half to death by a one-percenter and likes it?  God, it really is porn for unreconstructed women.

I flipped through it once.  Absolutely atrocious writing, an affront not only to English prose but yeah, even to women:  considering how it uses every generic and tired porn trope and stereotype out there--money! Gilded bathtubs! Expensive Cars! Exotic locales! Real crystal!--one would have thought it was not only written by a guy, but by a 15 year old guy. 

The only part sadder than the fact it was written by a woman is that so many other women went out and bought it.   Sure, they'll immerse themselves in some BDSM fantasy at stately Wayne Manor, but think they'll do the same for Dave, Assistant Manager at PetSmart?  Pfft.

It's like a really, really bad SkineMax After Dark show, where the writers had a deadline and started flipping through old issues of Penthouse from the mid-80s for ideas.  I mean, it is bad.  Really bad.

In any case, my porn is better.  Because I don't insult the reader.  Because it is true and right and dramatic.  And because it's art.

[garbon]

Well recall that 50 Shades was birthed as fan fiction for Twilight.