TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Agreed.  I would've flappered and jazzed the shit out of that.

Which one, Pickford or Fairbanks?

Hell, both.  Fairbanks was pretty, too.

[celedhring]

Watched the first episode of Fargo. Wow, a lot of shit going down in that pilot. A lot of it it's quite far-fetched, but well, I'll roll with it.

[Eddie Teach]

I'll roll with it.

You won't be sorry.

[Savonarola]

Clearly, you have never seen this man climb on shit.  I can pretty much guarantee you that Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., would be rolling in pussy in any era.

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s movies have a pretty high camp factor; which today we would associate with homosexuality.  In the 1920s, though, Rudolph Valentino was accused of being effeminate and a sissy.  By the standards of those days there was nothing less manly then having thousands of women throw themselves at you.

I know you have Halloween movies coming up, but "The Sheik" and "Son of the Sheik" would make for classic Ide reviews.

[Savonarola]

And Mary Pickford was pretty hot.  She was no Anna Mae Wong or Louise Brooks or latterly a Paulette Goddard or Miriam Hopkins, but she's hot.

Ide is not at all about that bass...

You were born to late, Ide.  You completely missed out on the age of corsets. 

[CountDeMoney]

You were born to late, Ide.  You completely missed out on the age of corsets.

Now are you get are spanx.

Corsets are out there, though;  they just happen to be made of leather.
As Oprah would say, that's another show.

[Malthus]

Clearly, you have never seen this man climb on shit.  I can pretty much guarantee you that Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., would be rolling in pussy in any era.

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s movies have a pretty high camp factor; which today we would associate with homosexuality.  In the 1920s, though, Rudolph Valentino was accused of being effeminate and a sissy.  By the standards of those days there was nothing less manly then having thousands of women throw themselves at you.

I know you have Halloween movies coming up, but "The Sheik" and "Son of the Sheik" would make for classic Ide reviews.

Well, there was the fact that he kept marrying lesbians ... 

[celedhring]

I'll roll with it.

You won't be sorry.

Watched the second over lunch. Loving it. It's really implausible and it's one of those series where *every* character is weird/awkward in some way, but somehow it just works. I think the actors do an amazing job in selling the material.

[11B4V]

Masculinity was different then.

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s wife:



Things were different in the 20s.

Gay looking Pirate.

[The Brain]

I get FOX now.

[Sheilbh]

So there's a new British miners' strike comedy that's doing quite well called Pride, which is about the Lesbian and Gay Support the Miners group during the miners strike. Mark Simpson, a LGSM member who later coined the phrase metrosexual and now spornosexual, has an interesting reflection on it:
http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2014/09/26/pride-prejudice/

He links to this rather brilliant 20 minute documentary made by the LGSM at the time, All Out! Dancing in Dulais:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJhbwEcgrA#t=520
Edit: ALSO FEATURE JIMMY SOMMERVILLE PERFORMING AT A FUNDRAISER!

Also I had no idea that the casting vote for committing the Labour Party to supporting gay equality was cast at the next conference, in Simpson's words, by the big, butch, block vote of the National Union of Miners

Trailer for the film here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsFY0wHpR5o

[Ideologue]

Clearly, you have never seen this man climb on shit.  I can pretty much guarantee you that Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., would be rolling in pussy in any era.

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s movies have a pretty high camp factor; which today we would associate with homosexuality.  In the 1920s, though, Rudolph Valentino was accused of being effeminate and a sissy.  By the standards of those days there was nothing less manly then having thousands of women throw themselves at you.

I know you have Halloween movies coming up, but "The Sheik" and "Son of the Sheik" would make for classic Ide reviews.

80 and 68 minutes respectively?  That sounds about right!  (As opposed to, I don't know, a three hour science fiction movie that takes thirty minutes to get to the fucking moon, or even leave a secondary character's attic.  I guess I should say "at least" thirty minutes, since that's when, memories of Metropolis fresh in my mind, I gave up on Fritz Lang.)

I've thought about starting a silent picture feature, and had to excise an 800 word essay about the form from my Phantom of the Opera review (which is still too long, and should've been out the door like Wednesday, but 1)it's hard to stop talking about it and 2)I've been pulled in a couple of different directions lately, none of which involve my dumb hobby).

Cat and the Canary and The Man Who Laughs (again, yay ) are on the Universal Horror list, despite one being afaik murder mystery and the other definitely a melodrama with arguably fewer horror elements than Notre Dame--and despite both being directed by the so-far, so-dull Paul Leni.  I've also thought of a "Your Classic Sucks" feature, in which Leni and other Germans would no doubt feature heavily.

But, you know, if you were of the bent to start doing longer reviews...

[Admiral Yi]

So I watched most of About a Boy recently, and I've got a question for the Poms: is it mandatory for a fashionable restaurant to have ridiculous furniture?

[celedhring]

Watched "The Crossing". It's indeed quite good, Daniels' turn as Washington is not what I expected, very intense and not your typical safe "great man" portrayal. Why is this guy doing another Dumb and Dumber film?

Was the war situation as dire as depicted in the film, or is it exaggerated for dramatic purposes?

[Admiral Yi]

I would say it was pretty bad.

I've certainly never read anything that argued that is national myth-making.