TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

That was my problem with the ending, but I let it go.  I haven't seen all of them, but it's gotta be the best animated feature since Tangled.

Yeah, it's not been a particularly great time for American animation, creatively speaking. Pixar has been in a bit of a downturn and nobody seems to be picking the slack.

[Ideologue]

I get the feeling that if Dean DuBlois' original plans for How to Train Your Dragon 2 hadn't been interrupted, it would've been just straight-up amazing, rather than the technically superb but cynical thing that got made.

Frozen being the billion-dollar winner and Tangled being relegated to the pile of merely good Disney movies burns my pants, though.  They owe Idina Menzel like 100 million clams.

But regarding Pixar, I really dug Monsters University.  I like how it's the one kid's movie ever made that says--albeit in the gentlest possible way--trying hard alone doesn't make you a winner.  I wish it'd been a bigger thing: it could've been the cleansing fire to melt the next generation's special snowflakes.

Now, Chris Sanders' Croods sucks, no matter what Tim sez.

[Ideologue]

Shit, and I still need to see:

Boxtrolls (I expect it rules)
Book of Life (I expect it's fine)
Mr. Peabody and Sherman (I've actually heard good things, and it has Patrick Warburton, but blind fandom for Warburton has burned me before, very badly--Kronk's New Groove )
and
Big Hero 6 (I expect it's fine)

Like Sheilbh, I feel a certain self-consciousness when going to go see animated features by myself.

[The Larch]

No, you don't need to. It's not as if you make a living out of it.

[Duque de Bragança]

Now, Bob le Flambeur isn't, and that's been sitting in my house for maybe... 70 days?  What's worse is that I know they don't have a lot of copies of it, so I'm probably dicking some French movie enthusiast out of his disc.

Now that's some interesting French noir by Melville. Seminal work I'd say. 

[Ideologue]

No, you don't need to. It's not as if you make a living out of it.

Do you make a living out of your hobby of making asinine comments?

[Malthus]

Shit, and I still need to see:

Boxtrolls (I expect it rules)
Book of Life (I expect it's fine)
Mr. Peabody and Sherman (I've actually heard good things, and it has Patrick Warburton, but blind fandom for Warburton has burned me before, very badly--Kronk's New Groove )
and
Big Hero 6 (I expect it's fine)

Like Sheilbh, I feel a certain self-consciousness when going to go see animated features by myself.

I saw Book of Life and Mr. Peabody, because I have a kid of the right age - of the two, I preferred Book of Life. I thought it was a very innovative use of animation.

Mr. Peabody was merely okay.

[Ed Anger]

I was throughly bored by Big Hero 6. More importantly, the kids were too.

[Eddie Teach]

Lego.  Good, but not as good as i was led to believe.  B/B+.

You listened to the wrong people.

[Martinus]

Really liking the Flash. It seems more innocent than Gotham, but fun. And the queer quotient is higher (but that could be because the actor who plays Flash used to play a gay guy on Glee and they got Wentworth Miller).

[Viking]

Most of my attention span now is on Dan Carlin's History podcast, but when thinking about what TV I watch.

Agents of SHIELD and Gotham (mainly out of a feeling of obligation)
Constantine (Hoping it get's it's head of steam up before they cancel it)
Arrow ('cause it's ossum and the only show I wait until 3 am to pirate it rather than wait three weeks to watch it on TV)
Flash (being more and more optimistic as it keeps getting better)
The 100 (the second most ossum one it is a drama show that still doesn't need to manufacture it)
Revenge (The Count of Monte-Cristo with twitter on steroids, Think Emily VanCamp playing Batman)

Stuff I noticed about my schedule.

1. Nothing from Showtime or HBO. I've lost interest in Homeland, Nurse Jackie, Ray Donovan and Episodes. Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and True Detective aren't on.
2. The Network shows AoS (ABC), Gotham (Fox) and Constantine (NBC) I watch out of obligation as much as anything else.
3. The rest, and the ones I look forward to are either on The CW or belong there (Revenge which is on ABC)

So I need to know. Why do I like the stuff that's made for Justin Bieber fans? Does this mean the golden age of TV drama series is over?

[celedhring]

The Mad Max trailer has mesmerized me completely; I must have watched it a dozen times since it came out. It's completely bonkers, the good kind of bonkers. I hope the film is just a 90 minute long chase between people that have had way too much LSD punctuated by Verdi's Requiem. It's a glorious trailer.

[lustindarkness]

The Mad Max trailer has mesmerized me completely; I must have watched it a dozen times since it came out. It's completely bonkers, the good kind of bonkers. I hope the film is just a 90 minute long chase between people that have had way too much LSD punctuated by Verdi's Requiem. It's a glorious trailer.

Amen.

[viper37]

Most of my attention span now is on Dan Carlin's History podcast, but when thinking about what TV I watch.

Agents of SHIELD and Gotham (mainly out of a feeling of obligation)
Constantine (Hoping it get's it's head of steam up before they cancel it)
Arrow ('cause it's ossum and the only show I wait until 3 am to pirate it rather than wait three weeks to watch it on TV)
Flash (being more and more optimistic as it keeps getting better)
The 100 (the second most ossum one it is a drama show that still doesn't need to manufacture it)
Revenge (The Count of Monte-Cristo with twitter on steroids, Think Emily VanCamp playing Batman)

Stuff I noticed about my schedule.

1. Nothing from Showtime or HBO. I've lost interest in Homeland, Nurse Jackie, Ray Donovan and Episodes. Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and True Detective aren't on.
2. The Network shows AoS (ABC), Gotham (Fox) and Constantine (NBC) I watch out of obligation as much as anything else.
3. The rest, and the ones I look forward to are either on The CW or belong there (Revenge which is on ABC)

So I need to know. Why do I like the stuff that's made for Justin Bieber fans? Does this mean the golden age of TV drama series is over?

What's AoS?

The 100 is pretty good, not your average teen drama.  Constantine, I left after 2 shows, it got worst.
Gotham isn't for Bieber fans.
And I don't understand this "I watch out of obligation as much as anything else".  Someone is forcing you to watch bad tv?  You have family members in the cast/writers/staff?

[11B4V]

The Mad Max trailer has mesmerized me completely; I must have watched it a dozen times since it came out. It's completely bonkers, the good kind of bonkers. I hope the film is just a 90 minute long chase between people that have had way too much LSD punctuated by Verdi's Requiem. It's a glorious trailer.

I'm LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS ONE.