TV/Movies Megathread

[lustindarkness]

If only we had like a Walking Dead thread.

We do, this one.   

[Savonarola]

*Technically, I just watched Cabiria.  Holy moly, there are like so many people thrown into fires in this awesome movie.  Unsatisfactory climax though, lacking in violence.  But I don't even know how they even accomplished the optical effect in that last shot in 1914, so I left it pretty impressed.  So, the questions arise: when the fuck is the 180 minute restoration that got screened at Cannes eight years ago getting a home video release... and is adding sixty minutes to the movie likely to make it better?

I liked how the dagos "Act" by running around as if someone had just shouted "Fire."  That was common in Italian cinema in the silent era.

[Savonarola]

Nuh-uh.  He was a famous officer of the Imperial German Air Service.  I saw part of a documentary about it once.

He played a German officer in a number of World War I era propaganda films (some have great titles like "The Hun Within," (sadly that one has been lost)); so Renoir casting him as as a German officer is little like Quentin Tarantino putting Sonny Chiba in "Kill Bill".

[The Larch]

Today it's Pulp Fiction's 20th anniversary. 

[CountDeMoney]

It's aged better than I have.  Although that's one of the few movies I left the theater totally blown out of my mind.

Meanwhile, I caught Gravity on Cinemax Go.  Glad I didn't see that in iMax, would've tossed my cookies right into the popcorn.

Aside from all sorts of ZOMG THAT CANT HAPPEN IN ZERO G physics shit that probably freaked out NASA pencilnecks, I thought the final device for George Clooney's character was done very well.

[Ideologue]

It's aged better than I have.  Although that's one of the few movies I left the theater totally blown out of my mind.

Meanwhile, I caught Gravity on Cinemax Go.  Glad I didn't see that in iMax, would've tossed my cookies right into the popcorn.

I'm particularly susceptible to that sort of thing (there's a shot in The Man Who Laughs that makes me sick, of all things) but the only time Gravity got me was when Ryan Stone is spinning in space but the camera spins with her, so that the background swirls and her face is fixed in the frame.  The rest is great.

[mongers]

It's aged better than I have.  Although that's one of the few movies I left the theater totally blown out of my mind.

Meanwhile, I caught Gravity on Cinemax Go.  Glad I didn't see that in iMax, would've tossed my cookies right into the popcorn.

Aside from all sorts of ZOMG THAT CANT HAPPEN IN ZERO G physics shit that probably freaked out NASA pencilnecks, I thought the final device for George Clooney's character was done very well.

Oddly for me, since first seeing that, I've been itching to watch it again; might give it a spin tomorrow evening, spin get it, I mad a 'funny'* 





*in the languish accepted definition of a 'funny'. 


As for the gravitational stuff upsetting the NASA pencil heads, the dvd has one long or a couple of documentaries about the space physics/background, maybe I'll check those out, so see what they say.   

[Tonitrus]

Today it's Pulp Fiction's 20th anniversary. 

I did not care for Pulp Fiction. 

[Josephus]

I remember watching Pulp Fiction back in the day and loving it and talking about it for months. Of course I was in my 20s then, the target audience for that. Not sure, to me, it's really stood the test of time. Well...the bit in the middle with Bruce Willis hasn't so much. The dialogue, espeically in the first part, is ace, and overall it's a cinematic classic (I like the way it links up the beginning and the end with the diner conversation)...but I'm not sure I can watch it from start to finish ever again.

[Ideologue]

*Technically, I just watched Cabiria.  Holy moly, there are like so many people thrown into fires in this awesome movie.  Unsatisfactory climax though, lacking in violence.  But I don't even know how they even accomplished the optical effect in that last shot in 1914, so I left it pretty impressed.  So, the questions arise: when the fuck is the 180 minute restoration that got screened at Cannes eight years ago getting a home video release... and is adding sixty minutes to the movie likely to make it better?

I liked how the dagos "Act" by running around as if someone had just shouted "Fire."  That was common in Italian cinema in the silent era.

I liked the huge guy that it turns out was in blackface.

P.S., I read about the ending to Pandora's Box.  Wikipedia is fucking with me, right?

[garbon]

[spoiler] Carol, you motherfucking Green Beanie![/spoiler]

[spoiler]Indeed, I think that episode made Carol the most awesome character on the show now. 

But....boy, that escalated, and ended, quickly.  Though there are bound to be some Terminus survivors.  But that beginning/end segue-way, with the people who originally brutalized the Termites...means the gang-rapers may show up later.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I finally watched this and thought the same thing - damn they took Carol who originally had been so obnoxious and made her really cool! On the flipside, I thought the Tyrese storyline was really dumb. Theoretically he was leaving the cabin to get killed by walkers at which point he knew cannibal guy would kill Judith.

Also, I wasn't such a big fan of those 'then' segments. I felt like they were supposed to make me feel somewhat sad for the Terminus cannibals but I really felt nothing but contempt.[/spoiler]

[Josephus]

I don't think you were meant to feel sad for them so much. I think the point is to show that they were just normal good people too and that the environment changed them to what they became. And, the bigger, all encompassing theme, of course, is is "our group" heading down the same path?

[garbon]

I don't think you were meant to feel sad for them so much. I think the point is to show that they were just normal good people too and that the environment changed them to what they became. And, the bigger, all encompassing theme, of course, is is "our group" heading down the same path?

I find it very hard to see how people can go from what they were to [spoiler]taking their silly mantra so literal as to start eating people[/i].

[Tonitrus]

I don't think you were meant to feel sad for them so much. I think the point is to show that they were just normal good people too and that the environment changed them to what they became. And, the bigger, all encompassing theme, of course, is is "our group" heading down the same path?

I find it very hard to see how people can go from what they were to [spoiler]taking their silly mantra so literal as to start eating people[/i].

I see your point, but [spoiler]it is not really any worse than the graphic novel version, which was mostly "we suck at hunting animals, so lets go for easier-to-catch people".  And I see your point in the Tyrese thing, but sure, he could think that the due would kill the baby anyway...but if he didn't leave, he could tell the way the guy talked that he definitely would right then.  Splitting hairs, but I think I'd have made the same call...take you chance killing the zombies and hope he hesitates on killing a baby, then ambush him.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]And on the now/then segments...I kinda agree, they did not make me sympathize with the cannibals...but if you didn't have them, you're just left with a bunch of cold, evil motherfuckers that went that way without any explanation.  But then I guess you could say the same about the rape gang... [/spoiler]

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, I can appreciate what they had lost, what they went through and what it took to get it back--but in no way did that justify what they became.  Like g, I was not compelled to empathy by the "Then" scenes, either.  All it does it tell me not to put up signs.