TV/Movies Megathread

[11B4V]

SG-U: Blah lost intrest
Atlantis: meh doubtful I'll make it much into S2
SG-1: Tried again and couldn't make it past the  third episode.
Defienace: meh
Revelution: gay premise.
B5: haven't yet tried to get into it next on list.
Helix: 
Falling Skies: 
Ascension: hopefully

Running out of choices.

[Eddie Teach]

Ascension: hopefully

Isn't that just a 3 night miniseries?

I've been enjoying Z Nation. It's dumb but fun.

[Ideologue]

I need to give Helix a shot.  I like mad science.

Watched The Ring (2002) for the first time (what can I say? I was drunk most of that year).  First thing is that the movie is kind of really well-made, on a technical level.  Second thing, they show Naomi Watts in her underwear.  It's just for a moment, and it's tasteful, but Gore Verbinski (of Lone Ranger infamy) knew what he was doing, as did Watts herself, and this counts as a real plus factor.  Third thing... [spoiler]for some reason I thought it was, in its essentials, The Changeling.  NOT SO.  I mean, it is, but then it really isn't.[/spoiler]  A+--put that in your morally ambiguous pipe and smoke it.

[CountDeMoney]

I liked The Ring.  It was scary  , and then it was sad  , and then it got scary again.

[Ideologue]

The only real misstep is the centipede.  Creepy?  Yes.  But it's New England.

[Syt]

Little spoiled rat bastards.  In my time, you either had a red astronaut or a white astronaut.  That was it during the Cold War.  Those were your choices during the Reagan Administration.  None of this merchanidizing agreements.  We had to invent a Darth Vader Lego, goddammit.

This is patently false.  There was also a blue astronaut and a yellow astronaut.

Sounds like something Canada would do.  Metric Legos and shit.

These were US Legos.  You just didn't get any, due to the aforementioned cheapness of your Santa and parents.

I never got the point of the yellow astronaut. Making the suit the color of his face makes him look like a nudist with a bit of space gear attached and a strange tattoo on his chest:

[Berkut]

The Ring really was very good.

Ide seems to be coming around, apparently my schooling of him worked.

[Razgovory]

It's a loving, wonderful homage.

You always love style over substance and I'll admit it has good cinematography and camera work.

[Ideologue]

The Ring really was very good.

Ide seems to be coming around, apparently my schooling of him worked.

I think your opinions are interesting and worth discussing, even if I don't always agree.  But I'm glad that this time we do.

[Ideologue]

It's a loving, wonderful homage.

You always love style over substance and I'll admit it has good cinematography and camera work.

It's Raimi, though: to a large degree, style is his substance.

[celedhring]

I was okay with the Quick and the Dead; its main problem is that it constantly remembered me of the vastly superior films it's homaging.

The cast is absurdly good. Gene Hackman can chew as much scenery as he wants.

[Sheilbh]

You always love style over substance and I'll admit it has good cinematography and camera work.

That's not true, especially not in film. But anyway an homage is about style. It's not Raimi's best, but it's great.

I enjoyed the Ring. But I made the mistake of going to see it in the cinema, so I mostly missed the bit because I was asleep

[FunkMonk]

Saw Interstellar in IMAX. Very good, probably Nolan's best since Dark Knight.

Things I liked:
The score
The acting
The plot
The visuals

Things I didn't like so much:
Nolan's proclivity for expository dialogue, though it wasn't nearly as bad as Inception

Overall, using the Christopher Nolan 'Michael Caine' scale, 1 Michael Caine being Inception and 5 being The Dark Knight, I give this 4 1/2 Michael Caines out of 5.

[Eddie Teach]

Morituri. Marlon Brando mumbles in a German accent. It was pretty good.

[Ideologue]

You always love style over substance and I'll admit it has good cinematography and camera work.

That's not true, especially not in film. But anyway an homage is about style. It's not Raimi's best, but it's great.

I enjoyed the Ring. But I made the mistake of going to see it in the cinema, so I mostly missed the bit because I was asleep

The Ring: 115 whole minutes long.