TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Ide is gonna hate it.

Needs more long takes and better costume design.

You joke, but this is in fact entirely the case, as one of its most important scenes is rendered merely good instead of outstanding when--just when you think it's in it for the long haul--Nolan decides it's time for unbelievably tone-deaf cut.  And there's a part [spoiler]in the utopian future of the film's avoided dystopian future[/spoiler] where some nameless three-line extra is wearing an evidently off-the-rack suit from J.C. Penney.  Something I also wear when necessary, but I'm a failed lawyer in 2014, not a gosh darned [spoiler]space colonist.[/spoiler]

Overall, however, it's very good, but for me a little disappointing: for the first time in fifteen years, Nolan's made a non-Batman movie clumsier than his best Batman movie.

[citizen k]

Have you seen "Following" and if so, your thoughts?

[Syt]

Hedy Lamarr is getting an honorary grave on Vienna's main cemetery!

I shall celebrate by watching Blazing Saddles this weekend.

[Malthus]

One final Fleisher cartoon - pre-Boop.

This one is, if possible, even more bizzare and horrific than Bimbo's Initiation - gaze upon the terror that is Swing you sinners!, in which poor Bimbo discovers the hard way that the universe he inhabits truly lacks a loving and forgiving God. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b8isnhYMjg

[DontSayBanana]

Finally catching up on Arrow, which is back to being my favorite show.

Any show that can manage to work in the line "It is pitch black.  You are likely to be eaten by a grue." absolutely wins in my book.

[CountDeMoney]

http://decider.com/2014/11/07/a-cinematic-history-of-white-people-crying-in-space/

[The Brain]

Letters from Iwo Jima. Certainly better than Flags of our Fathers, but it has some issues.

[11B4V]

Finally catching up on Arrow, which is back to being my favorite show.

Any show that can manage to work in the line "It is pitch black.  You are likely to be eaten by a grue." absolutely wins in my book.

I worked my way through season 2. Entertaining and liked it. They could tone down the angst a little.

[Ed Anger]

Bullitt. Manly entertainment.

[Josquius]

I tried the first episode of the flash. It hurt my head.
That a dhow can be a spin off of and see arrow as the bigger and established show... The mind boggles

[Scipio]

Oh, God. Tyr. You can stop any time you want...

[Tonitrus]

Bullitt. Manly entertainment.

I was watching bits of that the other day on TCM.  McQueen in that and Damian Lewis (Winters from Band of Brothers) could be identical twins.

[Eddie Teach]

Oh, God. Tyr. You can stop any time you want...

He's right though. Flash was always better known, he was a key player in the Superfriends cartoon and everything.

[Scipio]

No, I meant he could stop typing.

Jesus. Spellcheck is free.

[Ideologue]

Have you seen "Following" and if so, your thoughts?

First part is "not yet," and will have to answer at some point in the near future, like the next 24 hours, since I've been intending on watching Following and now am a little obliged to.

Right now I just wanted to ask if Cel has any colorful anecdotes about Nacho Vigalondo's Open Windows.  He's hooked into that whole scene.  Anyone on that project owe you money?

The actual question is if this is becoming a big thing in Spain (and perhaps Europe generally), "this" being neo-classicist Hitchcock/De Palma-inspired thrillers, or if it's just kind of coincidence that Maniac, Grand Piano, and Open Windows were all made around the same time.  (I'm including Maniac, even though it's a French film, and a remake, for its clear line of descent from Psycho and the participation of Elijah Wood; I'm aware stretching a bit to get to three.)