TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

It felt disjointed and with a lack of focus. Just a collection of sleazy/pulpy/dark vignettes - which ain't necessarily bad, but it got old quick for me.

[Admiral Yi]

I caught a little of Avatar last night.  It was on FX, one of those shows where two hosts blabber about the movie during commercial breaks.  They had the Avatar producer on, and he said they will make four (!) Avatar sequels.

[celedhring]

I caught a little of Avatar last night.  It was on FX, one of those shows where two hosts blabber about the movie during commercial breaks.  They had the Avatar producer on, and he said they will make four (!) Avatar sequels.

IIRC they are going to shoot three sequels back-to-back. But Cameron keeps pushing it back and saying he's still working in the scripts, etc...

Man, I feel we've been robbed of James Cameron for 20 years. I just want one mature sci-fi film from him. Just one please.

[The Brain]

Adult SF isn't that great. Sex Trek: The Motion Picture had a very disappointing confrontation with V'gina.

[celedhring]

That's why we need James Cameron doing it.

[Ideologue]

In 3D.

[Eddie Teach]

Speaking of Cameron, I finally saw The Abyss. I liked it. Better than that other nautical disaster movie of his...

[spoiler]Question- why does everyone assume the creatures are aliens, rather than something that evolved in the deep sea?  [/spoiler]

[Ideologue]

Speaking of Cameron, I finally saw The Abyss. I liked it. Better than that other nautical disaster movie of his...

[spoiler]Question- why does everyone assume the creatures are aliens, rather than something that evolved in the deep sea?  [/spoiler]

Spoiler tags?  What is this, 1987?  Everybody knows, right?  Ugh, fine.

[spoiler]Anyway, I don't think they do, in the sense that they're space creatures.  They're referred to aliens, because they're not human, but I think even the film explicitly suggests a terrestrial origin.[/spoiler]

The Abyss really needs a BD release.

Speaking of endings to movies that are actually at least marginally obscure, or at least not most famous for their endings ( ), can someone explain WTF just happened in Grand Slam (1967)?  [spoiler]I mean, I get the gist--Janet Leigh stole the diamonds--but the mechanics seem off and I'm pretty sure the film cheats outrageously given the contours of what's really going on.  I think she stole them from the cops, after the heist, switching out a pair of bags?  That makes the entire movie make less than no sense.  Alternatively, she switched the diamonds for fakes before the heist even happened, which makes many scenes make no sense, though the film continues to make at least some.[/spoiler]

[Admiral Yi]

It totally blew my mind in LOTR when [spoiler]Frodo threw the ring in the lava and destroyed it!![/spoiler]  Didn't see that coming at all.

[Ideologue]

Yeah, I know.  Look, I don't want to get yelled at.

[Ideologue]

Oh, and for the record, I always liked Rushmore.  I just never thought anyone in their right mind could find it better than The Life Aquatic or, latterly, Moonrise Kingdom.

[CountDeMoney]

Oh, and for the record, I always liked Rushmore.  I just never thought anyone in their right mind could find it better than The Life Aquatic or, latterly, Moonrise Kingdom.

That's because it's you.

[Josephus]

I just saw the Emperor Strikes Back and [spoiler]holy shit...vadar is Luke's father[/spoiler]

[Ideologue]

That's because it's you.

Yeah, well, whatever.

I'm awfully tempted to get the Steven Spielberg blu-ray set Universal's putting out.  Jaws, sure, I'd like that; E.T., fine; Jurassic Park, right on, man... and, most importantly, motherfucking Duel.

Unfortunately, there are three films included that I haven't seen nor particularly care about.  These are 1941, Always, and Sugarland Express, which no one really discusses these days (1941 more than the others, though I'm not sure when they do they're proving the adage about how there's only one thing worse than being talked about).  And finally there's The Lost World, which I have seen, and... fuck that.  The real question is how Schindler's List and Munich get left out--they're Universal releases, and also movies that might make people give a shit.

Hell, I dunno.  Maybe there's somebody who's been waiting with as much excitement as I've been for Duel, but for Sugarland Express.  Honestly, it sounds like Bonnie and Clyde or Natural Born Killers--just another entry in the white-trash-criminals-have-a-joyless-adventure genre, without the cinematic importance to buoy it on one hand or the stylistic excess and media satire on the other.  I reckon it's better than Bonnie and Clyde, but that's not very hard to be.

I'm really hoping they offer a standalone of Duel at some point.  It's almost certain they will.  I think they did that with the new-to-blu-ray films they transferred for the Alfred Hitchcock collection, like Rope and even Topaz--apparently under the misapprehension that anyone would ever buy Topaz if they didn't have to.

[Ed Anger]

I fucking love 1941.