TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

It'd have to be better by default, then.

[celedhring]

The whole trucking business is pretty awesome, but be ready for some pretty non-great vignettes at the beginning showcasing the character's backstories.

[Ideologue]

I don't even know why a movie like that needs backstories.  The Thing didn't need backstories.  You just show their personalities in action, and you've got a film... that tanks at the box office, I guess, but people remember and love like almost nothing else.

[celedhring]

The Sony hackers have leaked some emails between the producers of the failed Steve Jobs film, and it's glorious. I guess people of their position should be smarter than to put this kind of things on email.

http://defamer.gawker.com/leaked-the-nightmare-email-drama-behind-sonys-steve-jo-1668882936/+laceydonohue

[Martinus]

The Sony hackers have leaked some emails between the producers of the failed Steve Jobs film, and it's glorious. I guess people of their position should be smarter than to put this kind of things on email.

http://defamer.gawker.com/leaked-the-nightmare-email-drama-behind-sonys-steve-jo-1668882936/+laceydonohue

Meh, I don't see anything in these emails that is grossly out-of-order. I don't like this new culture we are in, when reading other people's private correspondence is suddenly acceptable. In the past, when people communicated by post, would it be fine to make fun of things people wrote in their private letters after somebody has stolen them?

[celedhring]

I'm more interested on how people in charge of a large business operation put all this potentially harming stuff for their own interests (will Angelina Jolie want to work with these people after reading this? Or his husband), in such an unsafe and easily reproduced media as an email. That's the kind of stuff that could have easily been dealt with with a couple calls.

People think of email as traditional post, but it isn't. It leaves such a trail that any offended party can easily use it against you.

[Sheilbh]

In the past, when people communicated by post, would it be fine to make fun of things people wrote in their private letters after somebody has stolen them?

....Yes.

[Malthus]

The Sony hackers have leaked some emails between the producers of the failed Steve Jobs film, and it's glorious. I guess people of their position should be smarter than to put this kind of things on email.

http://defamer.gawker.com/leaked-the-nightmare-email-drama-behind-sonys-steve-jo-1668882936/+laceydonohue

Meh, I don't see anything in these emails that is grossly out-of-order. I don't like this new culture we are in, when reading other people's private correspondence is suddenly acceptable. In the past, when people communicated by post, would it be fine to make fun of things people wrote in their private letters after somebody has stolen them?

The British had a field day with Napoleon, doing exactly that ... 

http://mentalfloss.com/article/31173/10-lines-napoleons-love-letters-sound-crazy-texts

[Sheilbh]

Sorry, Wrong Number.

A.

[Ideologue]

Is it like One Missed Call?

I forgot to mention I watched Ju-on and Ring as backgrounders on The Ring. Ring isn't remotely great, and is kind of only barely good. (B) Ju-on is actually a fair amount of fun. (B+)

[Sheilbh]

No. Burt Lancaster and Barbara Stanwyck (costumes by Edith Head). Highly recommended but I wouldn't want to ruin anything.

I liked One Missed Call a lot. Watched it with friends and very nearly wet myself when someone's phone went off half way through.

[Ideologue]

I kind of want to get The Swimmer on blu-ray. I think you'd like that one, Sheilbh. It's about how the American bourgeoisie is horrible and hollow and deluded and fragile.

I may be the only person who's seen The Swimmer but possibly no other Lancaster movie at all.

[celedhring]

Sorry, Wrong Number.

A.

Great noir. I'm a firm believer that Lancaster has one of the most outstanding bodies of work out there; the number of great films he starred in is absurd.

[Eddie Teach]

I may be the only person who's seen The Swimmer but possibly no other Lancaster movie at all.

You've never seen From Here to Eternity? 

[Ideologue]

It's in my queueueue.