TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I went with some fans of the original book that hated the film, though.

No pleasing nerds, huh?

[Syt]

Evolution. First rewatch since I saw it in the theater. Not great, with much dubious science, but David Duchovny being snarky is ok. 6.25/10.

Anchorman. Couldn't quite decide on a tone, but still funny enough. 7.33/10.

[Admiral Yi]

I went with some fans of the original book that hated the film, though.

No pleasing nerds, huh?

The book is much better.

[CountDeMoney]

I went with some fans of the original book that hated the film, though.

The Jews?

[Darth Wagtaros]

I liked Evolution. 

Marty has an interesting point. The Wall came down and we thought there would be a new era of peace and prosperity. When it turned to complete shit that gave rise to YA dystopia and murderous costumed vigilantes.

[crazy canuck]

finished watching Marco Polo.  Production value is very high.  Script is very good.  Acting is very good.  Lots in interesting deep characters.  Historical accuracy - not that great.  But if you can look past that it is really very good.  Only down side,  I need to wait for season two now.

[Admiral Yi]

Watched a bit of Judge Dredd the other night.  Pretty terrible.

[Ideologue]

The 95 (96?) one is pretty bad, yeah.  I kind of enjoy it as silly garbage, but it's no Demolition Man.  Whatever the hell that means.  It's certainly no Dredd '12.

Watched The Amazing Spider-Man 2 again.  I really don't know how this wound up hated.  I can see "not-liked."  And it's got bad parts, and it's vignettish.  But overall it's a really, really enjoyable superhero romp, and it just looks great.

[katmai]

It is bad,  couldn't even finish it.

[Syt]

Re: Anchorman. I should add that Steve Carell is the best thing about the movie.

"I love ... desk."

[Ideologue]

True and correct.

Katmai:

[Ideologue]

Oh shit, Why Don't You Play in Hell? is available to rent.  Score.

Yet Unforgiven, still not available.  WTF.

[katmai]

True and correct.

Katmai:

The whole nonsense with his parents

[Ideologue]

Hey, no argument on that front.

[Syt]

Revising Anchorman to a 6.5. It has its moments, but I'm not a fan of Will Ferrell's deliberate overacting in some of his scenes (anytime he's crying, for example), and the tone keeps shifting jarringly between old time screwball comedy, and Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker movies; but where Z/A/Z had a quick staccato of sight gags and puns, Anchorman draws them out too much. It can work sometimes (think the Sideshow Bob rake scene in Simpsons' Cape Fear, which goes from funny to tedious to funny again), but for me they overstayed their welcome with the flute scene or the news teams battle royal. Not to mention that the plot is a bit all over the place.