TV/Movies Megathread

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I just turned it off about 15 minutes into it.

It was like a car wreck.  I just couldn't look away, no matter how bad it got.  At some point I want to watch it again so I can write a comic insult review.

[lustindarkness]

So I watched both Red Dawns and  Pain & Gain in the last few days.
New Red Dawn is watchable,  old one was good, but I remember it been better.  Pain & Gain was good.

I may go watch Fury tonight with my son,  should I?   

The new Red Dawn wanted to make me start throwing shit at the screen because of the utterly unrealistic bullshit.

That applies to half of the movies now a days.

[Josephus]

Under the Skin. WTF did I just watch? 

I guess the thinking was something like. what if we take the movie Species and turn it into a pretentious art house film? Course, being the pretentious art house film that it is, it's rather hard to follow and probably doesn't resemble Species much at all(besides the obvious, alien chick seducing and killing earth men).

Oh, and at one point the alien seduces the elephant man. 

Scarlett Johansson really has made some odd choices lately.

Yeah that was a WTF movie. On the plus side she's naked in it and shows her bits for a bit.

[Eddie Teach]

One's better off just googling her bits than watching this film though.

[viper37]

The new Red Dawn wanted to make me start throwing shit at the screen because of the utterly unrealistic bullshit.

because the first one was so realistic?

[Josephus]

One's better off just googling her bits than watching this film though.

Get a subscription to Mr. Skin? 

[Malthus]

Listen and understand. Hollywood is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until everything you love is dead.

http://www.avclub.com/article/terminator-genisys-will-have-terminator-whos-progr-211175

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

because the first one was so realistic?

Realism is a continuum, not a binary distinction.

[viper37]

PG-13?  They can't be serious!
Wasn't Robocop enough for them??

[Ideologue]

Other than the PG-13 part, which is a shame but unavoidable, the premise sounds pretty decent, and avoids retreading the other four.  It's not fundamentally incapable of being good, like Salvation arguably was.

[mongers]

'Restrepo' - a must see documentary?

[Admiral Yi]

meh

[Habbaku]

'Restrepo' - a must see documentary?

Wouldn't say must-see, but I enjoyed it.  Pretty fucked up situation, all around.

Meanwhile, I watched Nightcrawler tonight.  Stars Jake Gylalalalalahallajihad as an amazingly-creepy late-night camera-jockey recording all the bleedy, leady stuff that LA audiences apparently love.  The score was excellent, acting excellent, sense of dread pretty terrifying and the entire atmosphere of the movie was enough to get me to think about watching it again in theaters.  9.5/10 or B+, whichever.

[Eddie Teach]

Captain Phillips. Very intense.

[The Brain]

8/10 cities?