TV/Movies Megathread

[Syt]

One of the first Christmas gifts I remember was a wooden Wild West fort with walls, towers and a few buildings. I must have been 4 at the time. Again, my parents were poor, and that was a cheap gift, with some plastic Cowboys and Indians.

15 years later I saw a comparable wooden fort, and the price was ridonculous, because suddenly wood = quality = triple the price of what plastic costs.

[Syt]

I am pretty sure I had red indians storming a Nazi mountain fortress playset at some point.

From Wiki:

"Dan Waupoose, a Menominee chief, training at Algiers, Louisiana, on August 24, 1943."

[Viking]

The Lego Movie doesn't deserve an A.

Everything about that movie is ossum.


(there you go , punishment for belittling the best movie of the year, just try getting that out of your head now)

[Ed Anger]

Ed probably used Legos with his Guns of Navarone playset.  Fucking 1%ers.

I never had Legos either. But I lovingly attacked that mountain a lot.

[Josephus]

Lego was for girls.

I was a Meccano fan.

[mongers]

Lego was for girls.

I was a Meccano fan.

edit:
we should split this off into a childhood toy thread?

[Savonarola]

Yesterday I went to the Museum of Modernism in Mount Dora, Florida.  One of the featured artists, Wendell Castle, had become obsessed with "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" at one point in his career; so he made furniture based on the film.  The museum had a piece from this era; he had been commissioned by Steinway and Sons to make an "Art" piano.  Thus the Caligari Piano:



Pictures don't do it justice; it's hard to see all the weird angles.  It does look more Caligarish in person; in photos it tends to look like the zebra piano.

[Eddie Teach]

Everything about that movie is ossum.


(there you go , punishment for belittling the best movie of the year, just try getting that out of your head now)

It's not even the best Chris Pratt movie of the year. Harumph.

[Ideologue]

Guardians of the Galaxy is teetering at no. 10 on my list.  It may get pushed off, possibly by Whiplash or similar.

That said, it's been a really strong year for film, thanks to a strong blockbuster season (as opposed to last year's endless summer wasteland ), of which GotG was definitely one of the best parts.

[Berkut]

Saw three movies in the last 24 hours:

Interstellar - solid A, misses A+ because it plays too fast and loose with hard science. But a very, very good film. Kind of nice to watch a movie that doesn't assume you are a moron.

Mockingjay, Part 1. My kids orthodontist every year takes all his patients and their families out to the movies. It's worked out that the last few years have all been the Hunger Games movies, so that is what we saw along with 40 other families with kids with hopefully straighter teeth. My daughter was very impressed that he would take us to a movie for "free". I told her that I paid him $10,000 for a free movie every year, and he throws in orthodontia for my two kids for free.

Anyway, solid flick. Not great or anything, but pretty much what you expect. B- or so. Didn't regret the time.

American Hustle. Finally picked this up to watch. Uggh. Very disappointing. Just did not care about these characters at all, and in a movie driven by dialogue, not caring kind of doesn't work. I was expecting a very good movie, got something that was ok - hard to believe it won a bunch of awards. Very pedestrian.

[Admiral Yi]

Gangster Squad.  Not a good movie.  The climactic shoot out at the Park Plaza is a parody of bad guys running through doors to get shot.

[Eddie Teach]

Joe Kidd. An evil rancher and a Mexican bandito have a land dispute. Joe Kidd (Clint Eastwood) wants no part of it, until the bandit steals his horses. Then he agrees to help the rancher track him down. Kidd switches sides when the rancher decides to take a village hostage and kill the residents if the bandit doesn't give himself up. Not one of Eastwood's better westerns, but it's decent enough.

[Martinus]

I tried watching Inception this weekend but I fell asleep half through it. Ironic?

[garbon]

Vapid.

[Ed Anger]

Saw three movies in the last 24 hours:

Interstellar - solid A, misses A+ because it plays too fast and loose with hard science. But a very, very good film. Kind of nice to watch a movie that doesn't assume you are a moron.

Mockingjay, Part 1. My kids orthodontist every year takes all his patients and their families out to the movies. It's worked out that the last few years have all been the Hunger Games movies, so that is what we saw along with 40 other families with kids with hopefully straighter teeth. My daughter was very impressed that he would take us to a movie for "free". I told her that I paid him $10,000 for a free movie every year, and he throws in orthodontia for my two kids for free.

Anyway, solid flick. Not great or anything, but pretty much what you expect. B- or so. Didn't regret the time.

American Hustle. Finally picked this up to watch. Uggh. Very disappointing. Just did not care about these characters at all, and in a movie driven by dialogue, not caring kind of doesn't work. I was expecting a very good movie, got something that was ok - hard to believe it won a bunch of awards. Very pedestrian.

The Orthodontist bit: