TV/Movies Megathread

[Malthus]

Heh, just saw on "on demand" that a movie version of Joe Lansdale's Neo-Texas Noir novel Cold in July was released this year.

Rotten Tomatoes gives it a positive rating - 85%. Though it bombed at the box office.

I'll check it out when I have a chance. Lansdale's a favorite of mine.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/cold_in_july_2014/

[viper37]

The Wolf of Wall Street is really good, just also really long (and it's kind of fucked, tonally, too).

It's a pretty good movie for the insight on Jordan Belfort.  You can see clearly from the beginning that it is based on his books, on his interpretation of the facts.  Everything is blown out of proportion and he always portrays himself as the good guy.

[lustindarkness]

Holy God of Television, Twin Peaks is back, with Lynch and Frost on board.

What?! That is awesome. I guess I'll have to watch the original again to refresh my memory. When does it come out?

[Liep]

Holy God of Television, Twin Peaks is back, with Lynch and Frost on board.

What?! That is awesome. I guess I'll have to watch the original again to refresh my memory. When does it come out?

2016

[mongers]

Thanks for the heads up guys, I'll give the film a viewing. 

[The Minsky Moment]

Tron: Legacy is chock full of character. It's a fathers and sons (and daughter) tale. FFS.

There is a father and a son in it.
Same holds for Goldilocks and the Three Little Bears.  There is a Papa Bear and Baby Bear.

[The Brain]

Yeah yeah it's awesome we get it.

[Ideologue]

Tron: Legacy is chock full of character. It's a fathers and sons (and daughter) tale. FFS.

There is a father and a son in it.

Two sons.  Did you even see the movie?

[Ideologue]

And even if it didn't have a neat, mythic story (though it does), cinema is also about, you know, images and feelings?  Maybe you should consider treating it as an art rather than as a mere sequence of exhibits dryly relating a narrative.

[The Minsky Moment]

And even if it didn't have a neat, mythic story (though it does), cinema is also about, you know, images and feelings?

Images and feelings?  Dude it like messed up my zen.
Now the laser light planetarium show has great images (the universe!) and feelings (the awesomeness of creation, humanity's cosmic insigificance).  And the Museum of Natural History has great sets.  if they could just nail down costume design it would be Oscar City.

[Ideologue]

Tron: Legacy did have some bitchin' costume design.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Godzilla whipped Pacific Rim's ass, and Godzilla was a significantly flawed motion picture.

Both parts of that statement demonstrate your total lack of movie reviewing qualifications.

I had started watching Pacific Rim but my bowels liquified due to the Ebola it induced, and I had to stop watching it.

You can go to hell, too.

[Ideologue]

...Flawed by about thirty minutes, by my clock.

[The Minsky Moment]

Tron: Legacy did have some bitchin' costume design.

Ok more seriously.
You claim to be an aficionado of the Hollywood "golden age" but the fact is that one of the hallmarks of that era (and its best work) were the stables of talented writers producing witty and sometimes scintillating dialogue.  (lots of good costume design then too but that was just because Edith Head happened to be around.    ).  That's what really defines the golden age - the undestanding that movies are putting stories up on screen and that means both attracting the eye AND telling a good (or funny) story.   Some turgid but insipid CGI-smash up is not a lineal descendant of that era.

The dialogue in Tron:Legacy is cringe-worthy, not quite bad enough to be funny, but bad enough to make me want to stop the sound.  Garret whathisface is an absolute zero in the film - no presence, no impact at all.  Finally Jeff Bridges shows up and you think there is a glimmer of hope but instead there is some guy doing mediocre impressions of Jeffrey Lebowski.   Pauly Shore would have been more convincing as a technical genius.  yeah there are some whiz bang computerized action scenes but visually it is mostly drab and ugly and lacks the distinctive kitschiness of the original.  The only positive is Michael Sheen as he is the only one who (a) isn't mailing it in, and (b) gets that he is in a profoundly silly movie and hams it up appropriately.

[Malthus]

I never saw Tron: Legacy, but now I want to, just to join in making fun of Ide. 

Seriously though, I always enjoy your movie reviews Ide, even if I don't agree with them.