TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I'll still probably watch it.  At home.  In the dark.   It is getting an NC-17, right?  It'd be kinda pointless if it didn't.

Actually, if I'm dating someone that wants to watch it, I guess that would be a qualified win, but obviously this wouldn't be one I went to go see solo.

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I did go watch Lucy (2014) solo.  I watch this crap instead of catching up with Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, I guess.    Lucy is a movie that uses only 10% of its cinematic capacity, and I've graded it accordingly.

Turn on, tune in, and drop out of the audience quietly to see if you can get your money back

D+

Also Forbidden Planet (1956).  Absurdly long, though.  Could've cut a bit, but hardly enough to matter, so said fuck it.

Twisted Eden

I did upgrade it to an A+.  There's a lot of weird shit going on in Planet, and very little not to absolutely love.

[CountDeMoney]

There's a lot of weird shit going on in Planet, and very little not to absolutely love.

Of course.  It's Shakespeare In Space.  How cool is that?

[Ideologue]

Did The Tempest have such an ugly view of human sexuality?  It's been a very long while.

[CountDeMoney]

I'll have to see Planet again, it's been a while, and sometimes you're off in left field shagging lazy deep flies with some of your interpretations. 
Although in The Tempest, Miranda was more of a political object than a sexual one, and there wasn't nearly as much over-the-top innuendo and misogyny as, say, Hamlet.

[Ideologue]

You do

I thought about doing it tonight, but instead I watched Godzilla vs. Gigan.

[celedhring]

Lucy has a lot of similar stuff to the script I'm writing. So I'm happy that a) it makes money while b) it's seemingly awful.

[Admiral Yi]

Do I get a credit if my line makes the final edit?

[Ideologue]

Lucy has a lot of similar stuff to the script I'm writing. So I'm happy that a) it makes money while b) it's seemingly awful.

Well, similar stuff has been done a million jillion times and been perfectly great, so it's not necessarily a knock on your joint.  (Er, neither is saying it's been done a million jillion times--it's just superheroics with a bit of profundity added, and we all love that.)  I wish you luck.  Hopefully your profundities at least scan as meaningful, your action and suspense scenes have any inherent tension, and your lead actor does not power down a third of the way through the picture.

[Ideologue]

Do I get a credit if my line makes the final edit?

What line was that?  "Emily Blunt has sharp elbows"?

[celedhring]

Lucy has a lot of similar stuff to the script I'm writing. So I'm happy that a) it makes money while b) it's seemingly awful.

Well, similar stuff has been done a million jillion times and been perfectly great, so it's not necessarily a knock on your joint.  (Er, neither is saying it's been done a million jillion times--it's just superheroics with a bit of profundity added, and we all love that.)  I wish you luck.  Hopefully your profundities at least scan as meaningful, your action and suspense scenes have any inherent tension, and your lead actor does not power down a third of the way through the picture.

We'll see, it's indeed a superhero story, with a prominent female lead that's seemingly unstoppable early on - except she's the villain in my story*. I like how it's coming along, so seeing the trailers for Lucy sort of deflated me a bit.

I also have to somehow fit it to the budgets the people I'm working with can realistically raise, which is about half what Lucy costed

*She's an engineer.

[Ideologue]

If you can't afford Lucy's CGI, it could easily wind up a better movie.

And engineers are heroes.   WINGS OVER THE WORLD.

[Admiral Yi]

What line was that?  "Emily Blunt has sharp elbows"?

I gave Celery Ring a selection of top-notch, authentic American oaths to choose from.

[celedhring]

What line was that?  "Emily Blunt has sharp elbows"?

I gave Celery Ring a selection of top-notch, authentic American oaths to choose from.

I used those in another project (a horror flick), for a company in Barcelona. They wanted it in English, with American characters (hence my need for authentic American swearing), since they want to raise American cash.

[Duque de Bragança]

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-

I laughed.

[spoiler]Maudit quoi? Maudit croissant?[/spoiler]

[Viking]

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

Well at least EL James understood how perverted Twilight was....