TV/Movies Megathread

[Neil]

How can Arrow be any good without Green Lantern?

Less social commentary, more shooting people with arrows.

I thought you would approve.

Green Arrow wasn't my favorite superhero, but I felt he worked fairly well in the context of the JLA.

He had a following.  After all, he was really the first superhero to do the darker, grittier stuff that would eventually make Batman the king of the superheroes.

Green Arrow is nobody's favorite superhero.. well, maybe he is now, due to the show, but before the show, no.

[Viking]

Do seasons of Arrow beyond the first feature the "island flashbacks"? I find this part of the show least appealing.

Every season has "island flashbacks". At their best the flashbacks either address the theme of the episode or illuminate the actions and motivations of the characters better. Very often they present similar plots of themes where the choices the characters make are often reversed with very different outcomes.

[Martinus]

I get it. They just feel sometimes as "bottle episode".

[celedhring]

Do seasons of Arrow beyond the first feature the "island flashbacks"? I find this part of the show least appealing.

Every season has "island flashbacks". At their best the flashbacks either address the theme of the episode or illuminate the actions and motivations of the characters better. Very often they present similar plots of themes where the choices the characters make are often reversed with very different outcomes.

Aye, they worked well in that regard; without them, the "creep of the week" plots of the first season wouldn't have resonated much.

[Maladict]

Wings of Desire. Young Hitler is an angel who wishes to be human so he can woo a trapeze artist and so people will hear him when he gives the order to invade Poland. It was awesome. Peter Falk plays himself, except that he is also a former angel and can sense the presence of other angels. Cool soundtrack, with cameos by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Crime and the City Solution. Also, the Berlin Wall.

Re-watched it today. I think it might be my favourite film. 

[11B4V]

Blasting through season 1-3 of Longmire.

[jimmy olsen]

You know why murder graves are always shallow?  Cause digging those bastards take for fucking ever.  Especially at night and you have to keep a gun on a guy.  You start out thinking, "Yeah, we're going to dig this so deep they'll never find him", and three hours later you going, "Right, let's just dumb some leaves over him and go to the waffle house."

Is there something you need to tell us Raz?

[Sophie Scholl]

Blasting through season 1-3 of Longmire.

  I rather enjoyed that show.  I'm glad it was picked up by Netflix, especially with the cliffhanger ending of season 3.

[celedhring]

Fast and Furious flicks director Justin Lin will direct Star Trek 3; guess they will go for a straight action flick.

[Syt]

Fast and Furious flicks director Justin Lin will direct Star Trek 3; guess they will go for a straight action flick.

... as opposed to the previous two.

[celedhring]

The previous Star Trek films are 2001 and Blade Runner compared to the FF flicks though.

[Syt]

 

[Martinus]

Fast and Furious flicks director Justin Lin will direct Star Trek 3; guess they will go for a straight action flick.

I was hoping for a gay action flick instead. 

Spock/Kirk

[Sophie Scholl]

The Hobbit:  The Battle of the Five Armies

4/7 stars. I enjoyed it as Jackson's take on his memory of reading The Hobbit 20+ years ago, but as a legitimate adaptation including the White Council v Dol Guldur addition via The Return of The King appendices, I found it wanting in the long run. There was a lot to enjoy about the overdone spectacle that Jackson had been building toward, but I cannot help but be disappointed as a fan of the original work. Far too much emphasis on the Elves, on the love angle, on the Master of Laketown and lackey, and other aspects I found adding needlessly to the time while not adding to the plot or the story.

I would never say Jackson lost his way on par with Lucas and the prequels, but he damn well has found himself as a "better" storyteller than Tolkien with each and every blockbuster he has put out. I will await the extended edition to lay full judgment upon the film, as Jackson's theatrical releases have never measured up to his extended editions, but there is only so much possible room for improvement. This is more of a fault of his Hobbit trilogy as a whole and what it has built toward than this final chapter. I do have to give a lot of respect to Billy Boyd for delivering what has become an amazing closing song the more I listen to it.

[Martinus]

What is there to put into the "extended edition" of the Hobbit adaptation? Bilbo on a crapper? I mean, they have already squeezed a short children's book into 10-hour long trilogy.