TV/Movies Megathread

[mongers]

I recently rewatched Fail Safe on TCM. 

Could you make out the model of plane used?

They were actually Convair Hustlers.  The interceptors that burned out over the pole were Delta Darts.

F102 ? Like the one's GWB flew in Texas.

What was the last us based only inceptor before the F15s,  F106 Detla Dagger?

[11B4V]

I started a free one month promo of Netflix now (they only came to Germany a week or two ago). Underwhelmed by the amount of movies on offer. Series look okay though, even if some well-known ones (e.g. GoT, Homeland) are missing.

I'm currently watching The Blacklist on netflix.

[garbon]

Just saw Hedwig & The Angry Inch on Broadway. Lovely!

[CountDeMoney]

F102 ? Like the one's GWB flew in Texas.

What was the last us based only inceptor before the F15s,  F106 Detla Dagger?

The F-106 Delta Darts actually saw service before the F-102 Dubya Daggers, but they overlapped service and both saw the majority of high-speed interceptor duty for North America before and during the F-15's time.  But yeah, prior to the F-15, they were the last dedicated CONUS interceptors.

[Ed Anger]

I recently rewatched Fail Safe on TCM. 

Could you make out the model of plane used?

They were actually Convair Hustlers.  The interceptors that burned out over the pole were Delta Darts.

F102 ? Like the one's GWB flew in Texas.

What was the last us based only inceptor before the F15s,  F106 Detla Dagger?

The 102 is the Delta Dagger. 106 is the Delta Dart.

[Ed Anger]

DAMN IT SEEDY

[CountDeMoney]

Anybody notice the new DirecTV commercials with Rob Lowe close out with the theme from St. Elmo's Fire? 

[Ed Anger]

Older Rob Lowe wants to bang that underage pussy again.

[CountDeMoney]

DAMN IT SEEDY

That's probably because my copy of Speed of Heat is always closer than yours.

[Ed Anger]

Basement stairs pain mah knees.

[Savonarola]

Oh, yeah, along with like 500 other people in Columbia, I went to go see Gone With the Wind (1939) in the theater.  Turns out I'd never seen the whole thing before.  Kind of an immoral film, but very well-shot and photographed, with gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous production design by one of the greatest PDs of all time, if not the greatest, William Cameron Menzies.  So, this is an early character study of a functional sociopath, right?

Pretty much, yes, I've read that Victor Fleming wanted Vivien Leigh to play Scarlett as a complete and total bitch.  Leigh kept going to George Cukor for advice after he had been fired so she was able to make her character just a sociopath.

Edit:  I dunno what I'd grade it.  B+ or an A.  A-A+, up till the part where Scarlett and Rhett's marital difficulties erupt, where it sort of exhausts itself.

Yeah, that needed either more time to develop or it needed to glossed over in a Citizen Kane style montage.

[Eddie Teach]

Dallas Buyers Club. Not bad.

[Josephus]

Older Rob Lowe wants to bang that underage pussy again.

and he probably can.

[celedhring]

Max Payne. Terrible, and they kill off Olga Kurylenko less than 30 minutes in.

[Ideologue]

For any curious about the new(ish) Allen project:

Magic in the Moonlight (2014).  The pledge, the turn, the prestige... and 17 more interminable minutes.

A Midsummer Night's Sexless Comedy

B+

Dallas Buyers Club. Not bad.

Yeah, "not bad" is pretty much exactly right.  It's about the boggest fucking standard thing I've ever seen, but truth is duller than fiction, I guess.  Also I'm kind of bummed out that "losing weight" is basically the only prerequisite there is for an Oscar, seeing as how there were literally dozens of better Best and Supporting Actor performances last year.