TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

YHWH wanted you to make sacrifices to prove your devotion.

[The Minsky Moment]

It's probably just ancient xenophobia.  The ancient Israelites were a goat/sheep herding culture; Philistines OTOH kept pigs.

[Tonitrus]

YHWH wanted you to make sacrifices to prove your devotion.

I draw the line at bacon.

[The Brain]

Coming up: a pig who refuses to eat Jews?!?!

[Liep]

Coming up: a pig who refuses to eat Jews?!?!

I don't think I've ever seen a pig eat a Jew.

[Malthus]

Coming up: a pig who refuses to eat Jews?!?!

I don't think I've ever seen a pig eat a Jew.

The Brain probably has. Rule 34! 

[Savonarola]

I watched a series of Harold Langdon shorts covering his work at Sennett Studios and then a couple of his sound films at Educational.  The Sennett ones are interesting; Max Sennett was all about super fast pacing, slapstick, The Keystone Cops and bathing beauties.  Langdon's first shorts are like that, but he develops a much slower paced dim-witted character (one that would be an influence on Stan Laurel); so that the films become completely unrecognizable as Sennett productions.

Langdon had come to Hollywood fairly late (1925 when he was 39.)  He had started his career in medicine shows and minstrel shows and then moved on to vaudeville.  He was a hit at Sennett; by 1926 he was being hailed as the next Chaplin, by 1928 he was all washed up.  A big part of his problem is that he believed his own press; he fired his long-standing director and directed his own films.  His director was Frank Capra.  Langdon's self-directed films were all bombs while Capra had a couple successes here and there...

Langdon worked until the end of his life (largely to afford alimony, he had the same awful taste in women as Stan Laurel) either as a character actor in better productions or as a lead in poverty row shorts.  The Educational shorts I saw weren't bad; but they were nowhere near as good as the silent ones with Sennett.

[The Brain]

20s and 30s Hollywood must have been an amazing place. It was also very egalitarian; many stars were black. Color movies put an end to that of course. Over the rainbow indeed.

[celedhring]

Guardians of the Galaxy. A hell of a lot of fun, plus it's a space opera; we don't get many space operas these days so it has to be treasured and celebrated.

[Josquius]

Inbetweeners 2- Very very funny. I'm unsure how I feel about the cop out on a horrible fuck you ending though

[Sheilbh]

If you read the OT, you will see that the authors had it in for any sort of mixing of stuff. Even mixing different kinds of fabrics was ritually "bad". Hence, an animal noted for eating any sort of shit or garbage was bound to attract their ire.

Have you ever read 'History of the World in 10 1/2' chapters?

First story is by a stowaway on Noah's Ark. Apparently when it came to eating the animals during the flood period there was a distinct element of anti-mixed species. So the hippogriff and griffin get barbecued first

[Liep]

Archer season 5 is on Netflix.

Highway to the Danger Zone

[mongers]

'Out of the Furnace' - broadly OK drama with Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson.

[Habbaku]

Tim's Vermeer is good stuff if you're into art history or just seeing one rich guy obsessively make something.

[LaCroix]

SNOWPIERCER

it was glorious