TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

That's a great song.

[lustindarkness]

No, Elvis is not dead. He just went home.

[dps]

His last, great moment would probably be his '68 comeback TV special.

Suspicious Minds FTW

My favorite Elvis song is "Burning Love".  Amazing that he could still put out something like that that late in his career after all the wealth and excesses.

A bit of trivia:  Elvis is only about 11 years older than Deborah Harry.  Which always seemed really strange to me, because Blondie didn't really become well-known until after Elvis was dead. 

[Sheilbh]

The History Boys - as I'll say forever when this is on TV, 'it's nothing on the stage version....'

Albert Nobbs. Stagey.

[Tonitrus]

From over the holidays I have about a dozen films on my DVR (mostly from TCM)...most of which I have never watched.  So with a spare moment to sit down and watch something for a bit and veg out, what do I turn on? 

Khartoum...the one I have seen several times. 

[Eddie Teach]

I have films on the dvr from a year ago.

[Sophie Scholl]

I've been rather enjoying the Flying Five Finger One Armed Eight Pole Shaolin Exploding Death Touch Thursdays on El Rey Network along with their other random old school Kung Fu flicks.They're a lot of fun.

[Admiral Yi]

Watched a chunk of The Man Who Fell to Earth last night.

Here, I think, is a perfect example of Ide's hated 70's cinema.  This movie is terrible.  Crappy pseudo-porn sound track; indifference to lighting, blocking, framing, composition; incomprehensible script; terrible acting.  Only redeeming quality is Candy Cane buck naked.

Bizarre casting of Buck Henry as...I have no idea.  He gets thrown out of a window by aliens wearing glittery motorcycle helmets for some reason.

It reminded me a little bit that Sean Connery movie in which he has saves some tribe of futuristic women in a ponytail and jumpsuit.

[11B4V]

Watched a chunk of The Man Who Fell to Earth last night.

Here, I think, is a perfect example of Ide's hated 70's cinema.  This movie is terrible.  Crappy pseudo-porn sound track; indifference to lighting, blocking, framing, composition; incomprehensible script; terrible acting.  Only redeeming quality is Candy Cane buck naked.

Bizarre casting of Buck Henry as...I have no idea.  He gets thrown out of a window by aliens wearing glittery motorcycle helmets for some reason.

It reminded me a little bit that Sean Connery movie in which he has saves some tribe of futuristic women in a ponytail and jumpsuit.

Zardoz??

[Sheilbh]

I love it. Bowie's best film until Zoolander.

[Admiral Yi]

Zardoz??

Yip

[mongers]

I love it. Bowie's best film until Zoolander.

Yeah I don't get the hate, a good film despite or in part because of his fairly underdeveloped acting skill.

[PRC]

From a classic movie:

[CountDeMoney]

Top Secret! is indeed a classic.  Better Germans than Last Crusade, that's for sure.

[CountDeMoney]