TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

I hope that face is a joke, you should know by now I dislike most musicals.

Probably don't like puppies and baby ducks, either.  Sick bastard.

[CountDeMoney]

OK, up to E14 of S4.

Beth [spoiler]is gone.  Shame.  A cutie pie like that is a priceless commodity in the post-apocalyptic world.   And Darryl never got to tag that.  Too bad she's going to be damaged goods by the time he finds her, if his Sons of Anarchy buddies don't get him killed first. [/spoiler]

Abraham s[spoiler]trikes me as a good guy, but Eugene? That guy's full of shit.  "I know what happened".  Why didn't Glenn call him on it?  Why doesn't anybody ever mention how they were at the CDC, how they spoke to the last scientist?  [/spoiler]

Holy shit, [spoiler]Lizzie is off the fucking rails, more so than Carol.[/spoiler]   I called that one wrong. 

[lustindarkness]

Wow,  I just deleted a post telling you to go watch some more TWD.

[CountDeMoney]

I'll be done with S4 today.  Just taking a break from the scene with [spoiler]Lizzie, the knife and her sister.[/spoiler]  A bit much of a plot shock.

[Admiral Yi]

Awesome may be a bit much, but they're fun. I'd take Face/Off, Broken Arrow, Get Shorty, or even Swordfish over seeing Grease again. 

Get Shorty is the exception.

[Josquius]

Waynes World- Haven't seen this for many years and....wow it doesn't hold up. I remember it being good as a kid. Now it just rings as an annoying version of Bill and Ted sans time travel. Which is just...meh.

1984- Again haven't seen this for years. It holds up. Great. The first scene in the cinema is brilliant. Though the way they mention Julia in the pornography department and including the line about her having slept with guys a bunch of times really does make it seem that she is a totalitarian dictatorship porn star.

[Admiral Yi]

Saw a bit of Walter Mitty last night.  Could not see the connection with the short story.

However, the Icelandic volcano erruption scene was pretty cool.

[Ideologue]

Masque of the Red Death (1964).  Some kind of for-real art movie.  Is this what cinematographer Nicolas Roeg's work ordinary looks like?  Maybe I need to see Walkabout.

According to Vincent Price, this would have been the follow-up to Usher, but in the midst of conceiving the project out of the (very) short story, Roger Corman saw The Seventh Seal, and decided to hold off a bit given how unavoidable it would be to draw the narrative and visual connections to his idea.  (Of course, these connections be rather natural, given that both ideas involve an anthropomorphic personification of death in medieval times.)

It should be said that Masque's lovely use of color is undermined a bit when Prospero (Price) spots the crimson-clad avatar of death, and declares (accurately) that he forbade anyone to wear red, while both he and Corman try and pretend that there aren't a half-dozen other people wearing red dancing in Propsero's ballroom.  Oops!

Extremely high B+, shading into A+ toward the end, but it's a little repetitive and vignettish, in a not-good way, and the "heroes" are flat.

P.S. This is sadly and especially the case with Jane Asher, as the primary target of Prospero's attempts at corruption, for she is retarded hot, like a size 00, and very cute, just not a very good actress.
P.P.S.  So... what the heck is the Purple Death?

[Ideologue]

Yeah, Haunted Palace is one of the weakest. Usher and Pendulum are comfortably the best, but Masque of Red Death has some arresting sequences and features rich greedy people dying of pestilence, a theme that always endears me. Ligeia's also good.

Ligeia's in the follow-on collection.  I wish it weren't $70.  With a few exceptions (and admittedly I say this with prejudice), it's obviously the B-sides--the sequel to Dr. Phibes, The Raven, Comedy of Terrors, so forth.  It's also all AIP features, except for House on Haunted Hill (Castle), which is public domain for some reason.  No Tingler.

House of Wax is unfortunately owned by Paramount--or, at least, Shout Factory doesn't have the rights--so the ridiculously decadent HD release of that is only available 1)in 3D and 2)at a price point that finds the intersection between the 3D niche market and the 1950s movies niche market.  I mean, I had to spend a wad for Dial M, and House of Wax is even more expensive.  (It does include, as an extra, the 1933 Mystery of the Wax Museum, one of the last examples of red-green Technicolor, and one of the two, I think, of its use in horror.  And had they gone and done a full restoration and HD transfer of that too... well, I'd pay for it, because I'm empty inside.  But I'd be happy for a while.)

[celedhring]

Yeah, those are definitely the B-sides; some are worth a watch, but probably not at that price. Usher-Pendulum-Red Death are the three best, easily. I like Premature Burial, too; it is Price-less (look what great pun I've just made!) but Ray Milland is pretty amazing in it, too.

Oh, and in case you haven't seen Phibes before, do it right now.

[Ideologue]

I have.  I gave it a B+ many moons ago, but it's clearly an A (or even higher).  It's still my favorite.

[celedhring]

I love it, some of the best overly elaborated death scenes ever put to film. Everything in that film is done with such sense of *style* it's crazy.

[Ideologue]

The Biblical illiteracy (and the assumption the audience is Biblically illiterate too!) is maybe the weirdest part of the movie for me.  It's a great wink-and-nudge.  I mean, isn't everybody's favorite plague in Exodus the Plague of Unicorns?

[celedhring]

The Biblical illiteracy (and the assumption the audience is Biblically illiterate too!) is maybe the weirdest part of the movie for me.  It's a great wink-and-nudge.  I mean, isn't everybody's favorite plague in Exodus the Plague of Unicorns?

That's supposed to represent the "wild animals" plague, IIRC.

I think the only one that's 100% made up is the bats one.

[CountDeMoney]

Wow.  So much Woo hate.

As long as there are retards like you and Timmay out there to give them money, there will be John Woo.