TV/Movies Megathread

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Been watching the first eps of Leftovers. It's certainly a bit slow, but intriguing. Too intriguing perhaps, I hope we don't have another Lost in the making.

The crazy smoker cult is certainly funny.

[Savonarola]

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

After having seen more of early German cinema (most notably Lubitsch's "The Doll") the sets didn't seem so innovative this time through.  Of course Lubitsch used his sets to create a fairy tale setting and Wiene used his to create a nightmare; but the off-kilter set design did already exist in German cinema.

Still a wonderful nightmare of a film.  I learned that the beginning and end of the film were added in order to tone down the film; similar to the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

[celedhring]

Caligari is just fantastic. Regarding the sets, I love how even lightning and shadows are painted on them.

Have you seen Genuine, the film Wiene directed after Caligari? It has a pretty similar design, although it's certainly not as brilliant. But it is a pretty entertaining and colorful dark fantasy.

[Ideologue]

Phantom of the Opera was better. The shadows were shadows.

I like The Doll.

[celedhring]

You could have never got the stark contrasts between light and shadows that you have in Caligari with the technology of the time. Film stock just didn't have enough dynamic range.

[Savonarola]

Caligari is just fantastic. Regarding the sets, I love how even lightning and shadows are painted on them.

Have you seen Genuine, the film Wiene directed after Caligari? It has a pretty similar design, although it's certainly not as brilliant. But it is a pretty entertaining and colorful dark fantasy.

No, that looks interesting, I'll keep an eye out for it.

I think the only other Wiene film I've ever seen was Hands of Orlac; which was obviously heavily influenced by Murnau.

[Savonarola]

You could have never got the stark contrasts between light and shadows that you have in Caligari with the technology of the time. Film stock just didn't have enough dynamic range.

I learned from the film commentary in "The Grand Duke" that Murnau was such a perfectionist that he used to have shadows painted in his film.  It was cheaper to do that than to arrange the lighting to his satisfaction.

[DontSayBanana]

Anybody been following The Flash?  Solid so far in my book, less overloaded with easter eggs than Arrow (and by orders of magnitude less than Gotham); and the casting has been awesome- two episodes and the relationship between Barry Allen and Joe West is already well fleshed-out.

Also, looks like we're going to see a lot more supers on Flash than on the other DC shows; I missed it the first time around, but the [spoiler](apparently) dead fiancee of the girl is Ronnie Raymond.  AKA Firestorm[/spoiler].

[Eddie Teach]

I saw episode 1, have ep. 2 recorded and will probably watch.

A bit fatigued with superheroes though. Been watching Gotham and Agents of SHIELD as well.

[Viking]

I saw episode 1, have ep. 2 recorded and will probably watch.

A bit fatigued with superheroes though. Been watching Gotham and Agents of SHIELD as well.

we'll be getting Constantine soon enough too...

[celedhring]

Constantine MUST be awesome.

[Malthus]

Constantine MUST be awesome.

What's his superpower - getting Romans to convert to Christianity? 

[Syt]

Constantine MUST be awesome.

What's his superpower - getting Romans to convert to Christianity? 

You don't know Constantine? You missed out. One of the few DC series I liked (well, Hellblazer, technically).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellblazer

[The Larch]

Constantine MUST be awesome.

What's his superpower - getting Romans to convert to Christianity? 

It's not actually a superhero story, it's a supernatural series. Magicians, demons, monsters and the like.

[Viking]

Constantine MUST be awesome.

What's his superpower - getting Romans to convert to Christianity? 

It's not actually a superhero story, it's a supernatural series. Magicians, demons, monsters and the like.

Well his story has super powers and daddy issues. And seriously Maxentius and Maximian are proper comic book names. And of course, the logo.

And like all good comic book stories, death is never final.