TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

You seen every movie ever made before you were born?

[11B4V]

You seen every movie ever made before you were born?

I make a point to see the good ones, yes.

[Ideologue]

Money's made a point to see the good ones between when he was born and when he was nineteen.

[Ed Anger]

We had time to kill watching HBO when we was faking being sick and staying home from school.

[Razgovory]

Snowpiercer. Really stupid, and not in a good way.

I've seen multiple posters comment on how stupid it is, and I have a question:  if you knew the basic premise going in, either from the trailer or the description, couldn't you figure out it was going to be just that stupid?

While the premise is silly, that's not a deal maker.  The way they explore the premise makes it dumb.  A criticism of the class system, fair enough.  But only like 4 people actually do any work so the class system doesn't make a lick of sense.  In in act of rebellion they bring down this bizarre social system by killing the last people in the world.  The two surviving people see a polar bear (in the Ural mountains!), so they aren't likely to last more then an hour.  The end.

[jimmy olsen]

A suggestion for you Ide

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120155/remembering-hiroshima-mon-amour-manny-farber-and-stanley-kauffmann

[CountDeMoney]

While the premise is silly, that's not a deal maker.  The way they explore the premise makes it dumb.  A criticism of the class system, fair enough.  But only like 4 people actually do any work so the class system doesn't make a lick of sense.  In in act of rebellion they bring down this bizarre social system by killing the last people in the world.  The two surviving people see a polar bear (in the Ural mountains!), so they aren't likely to last more then an hour.  The end.

So the polar bear wins in the end?  Maybe it's worth seeing after all.

[CountDeMoney]

Money's made a point to see the good ones between when he was born and when he was nineteen.

Usually movie reviewers that think they're clever cover the basics first.

[Sheilbh]

Amazon picked up Ripper Street!

Two episodes into the third series and I still like it a lot.

[Sophie Scholl]

Amazon picked up Ripper Street!

Two episodes into the third series and I still like it a lot.

Too bad it hasn't hit the US yet...

[Ideologue]

A suggestion for you Ide

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120155/remembering-hiroshima-mon-amour-manny-farber-and-stanley-kauffmann

It's pretty imperative I see it at some point, as well as Black Orpheus and The 400 Blows, as Thomson mentions in his write-up.

[Ideologue]

Money's made a point to see the good ones between when he was born and when he was nineteen.

Usually movie reviewers that think they're clever cover the basics first.

There are probably two thousand movies, maybe five thousand, that constitute "the basics"--only a fraction of which you or I have ever seen.

[Sheilbh]

I don't think you'll like 400 Blows to be honest.

[CountDeMoney]

There are probably two thousand movies, maybe five thousand, that constitute "the basics"--only a fraction of which you or I have ever seen.

But see, you're precisely the kind of ferocious knucklehead who will wax philosophical on a director like Spielberg, using flowery language and too many comma splices without seeing his entire body of work.  That's just slovenly. 
If he were still alive, Roger Ebert would just shake what was left of his head at you.

[Ideologue]

I've seen Duel.  Do I need to see Always?  I very much doubt it.

Anyway, so what?  Truly exhaustive research is impossible.  I wax philosophical about W.C. Menzies, and I've only seen three (or five, depending on your definition) of his dozenish (or two dozenish) pictures. In fairness, many are unavailable to us today, but even if they weren't, and I'd seen every last one, all I could then comment upon was the films themselves: the production histories would remain largely opaque except in cases like Gone With the Wind and Things to Come.  And even those histories are obscure.  You ask too much.

P.S. Roger Ebert hadn't had a real job in like three decades by the point he'd become a truly expert film historian, which is--after all--rather distinct from "film critic."