TV/Movies Megathread

[frunk]

Wolf of Wall Street - It really is the financial Goodfellas.  The difference is that the mafia was portrayed as seductive and charming before they killed you.  WoWS just made me want to punch the main character repeatedly in the head.

[Syt]

Good link.

And I jumped onto the Soviet sub bandwaggon.

I did a similar search for Best Movie Nazis, found two interesting and rather disparate lists:  you tell me what you think--

WhatCulture
http://whatculture.com/film/11-evil-fictional-movie-nazis.php

IGN
http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/08/18/top-10-movie-nazis

Questionable stuff on both lists. Red Skull? Seriously? On #1 list Landa should be right under Mengele. #2 list is ok-ish (props for including Strangelove, Chaplin, and The Producers), but putting Toht on #1 on that list? Come on, he's good, but he's not that great compared to others.

[Eddie Teach]

Ascension. Holy fuck.

[Ideologue]

Why Don't You Play in Hell is a really weird movie.  Made in Japan.  Pretty cool, though, once it finally gets going, like an hour in.  (Jeez.)

[The Larch]

Good link.

And I jumped onto the Soviet sub bandwaggon.

I did a similar search for Best Movie Nazis, found two interesting and rather disparate lists:  you tell me what you think--

WhatCulture
http://whatculture.com/film/11-evil-fictional-movie-nazis.php

IGN
http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/08/18/top-10-movie-nazis

Questionable stuff on both lists. Red Skull? Seriously? On #1 list Landa should be right under Mengele. #2 list is ok-ish (props for including Strangelove, Chaplin, and The Producers), but putting Toht on #1 on that list? Come on, he's good, but he's not that great compared to others.

None of the two lists included Ralph Fiennes' Amon Goth from Schindler's List, now that is questionable.

[Syt]

Good link.

And I jumped onto the Soviet sub bandwaggon.

I did a similar search for Best Movie Nazis, found two interesting and rather disparate lists:  you tell me what you think--

WhatCulture
http://whatculture.com/film/11-evil-fictional-movie-nazis.php

IGN
http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/08/18/top-10-movie-nazis

Questionable stuff on both lists. Red Skull? Seriously? On #1 list Landa should be right under Mengele. #2 list is ok-ish (props for including Strangelove, Chaplin, and The Producers), but putting Toht on #1 on that list? Come on, he's good, but he's not that great compared to others.

None of the two lists included Ralph Fiennes' Amon Goth from Schindler's List, now that is questionable.

Because he wasn't a fictional character.

[celedhring]

Neither was Mengele.

[The Larch]

Good link.

And I jumped onto the Soviet sub bandwaggon.

I did a similar search for Best Movie Nazis, found two interesting and rather disparate lists:  you tell me what you think--

WhatCulture
http://whatculture.com/film/11-evil-fictional-movie-nazis.php

IGN
http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/08/18/top-10-movie-nazis

Questionable stuff on both lists. Red Skull? Seriously? On #1 list Landa should be right under Mengele. #2 list is ok-ish (props for including Strangelove, Chaplin, and The Producers), but putting Toht on #1 on that list? Come on, he's good, but he's not that great compared to others.

None of the two lists included Ralph Fiennes' Amon Goth from Schindler's List, now that is questionable.

Because he wasn't a fictional character.

Then why is Mengele the #1 in one of the lists?

[Syt]

Because Mengele creating clones of Hitler is fictional. Amon Göth running Auschwitz isn't.

[The Larch]

Ok, get it. Good reason not to include basically everyone from The Downfall. 

[celedhring]

To be frank, fictional or not Göth remains one of the most chilling performances of Nazi evil ever put to screen, I'm not sure why it shouldn't be in these lists just because it's based on a real person.

Also, the Nazis in Downfall aren't the "villains" (understanding them as antagonists in the narrative), the barely seen Allies are. It's what makes the film so disturbing, imho.

[Drakken]

To be frank, fictional or not Göth remains one of the most chilling performances of Nazi evil ever put to screen, I'm not sure why it shouldn't be in these lists just because it's based on a real person.

In fact, Senor Spielbergo has admitted that he heavily toned down Goeth's violence and sadism in Schindler's List to make him almost human. Had he put 10% of what the real Goeth had done in real life no one would have believed him, he would have been accused of making a cartoonishly monstrous Nazi.

Fiennes was so good a choice, it was reported a Schindler survivor who was visiting the set saw him in SS uniform and really thought he was Amon Goeth. She got so scared, she began to get panickly and shake uncontrollably, so Fiennes and the rest of the crew had to calmly reassure her he was really just an actor.

[Ideologue]

I wonder what she would've thought of Grand Budapest Hotel.

[CountDeMoney]

Because Mengele creating clones of Hitler is fictional. Amon Göth running Auschwitz isn't.

Bingo, and when The Boys From Brazil came out, there was no definitive proof that Mengele was even alive;  that wasn't actually confirmed until he had already died.

[lustindarkness]

Hey Ide, did you do one of your wordy full reviews on Interstellar? If so, link me please, I don't have much else to waste my time on during my break at work.