TV/Movies Megathread

[Admiral Yi]

Watched part of a very by-the-book romantic comedy starring Ashley Judd, Hugh Jackman, and Greg Kinear.  Marrissa Tomei is the supportive best friend to Ashley.

A lot of firepower to waste on this script, which spends a lot of time going nowhere.

On the upside Ashley's rack looked the best I can remember seeing it.

[The Brain]

Ashley is nice.

[Sophie Scholl]

I rather enjoyed the most recent Les Mis.  Granted I haven't seen the play in person and have only read the book, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.  I caught Afternoon Delight with Ted from How I Met Your Mother.  How that is classified as a raunchy comedy, let alone a comedy is beyond me.  Not a horrible film, but I wouldn't recommend it.  B on the Ide scale, C- on mine.

[Valmy]

Wow Ted from How I Met Your Mother was actually in something else? 

[The Brain]

Wow Ted from How I Met Your Mother was actually in something else?

Fuck you he was in Not Another Teen Movie.

[The Larch]

Wow Ted from How I Met Your Mother was actually in something else?

He's actually done a couple of cute indie comedies as a writer/director/actor that have gone to Sundance, so he does have a few things under his belt besides HIMYM.

[Sophie Scholl]

Wow Ted from How I Met Your Mother was actually in something else?

He actually directed and starred in a movie I want to see called Liberal Arts.  It's on Netflix.

[celedhring]

I liked Liberal Arts. I guess I was the target audience, though.

[The Brain]

Ethnics?

[Tonitrus]

Ethnics?

30-somethings who want to bang college girls.

[The Larch]

I found it nice too, but I had the feeling that he was trying to portray a "realistic" Ted Mosby in that film, the lost 30something dude caught between youthood and maturity. I believe his other film, Happythankyoumoreplease, is different.

[The Minsky Moment]

Finally watched Cloud Atlas (2012) after it'd been sitting on my shelf for a year.  It has some issues.  The 1970s sequence doesn't dovetail very well with the themes of slavery/incarceration.  The 2012 sequence is weirdly comic in an otherwise extremely po-faced picture.  And of course the Neo Seoul sequence is such a blatant rip-off of Blade Runner it actively hurts.  It also looks the worst, thanks to its derivative and poorly thought-through conception and design, and--of course--the profound failure of the film's yellowface technology--Weaving and Sturgess look more like aliens than Asians.  (Strangely, the whiteface is somehow really good.  I guess East Asian eye construction is easier to hide than to supply.)  Nonetheless, as a whole, it's really wonderful, and even the weird bits get subsumed into an overall great experience.  My favorite part was the far future, with its weird quasi-English, as it was the most Tom Hanks-centric narrative.  Is it an A?  Sure, an A, that sounds about right.

The book involves playing with, paying homage to, and making fun of various literary genres.  So "ripping off" the look and feel of other movies could be intentional.  (I didn't see the movie).

[CountDeMoney]

I liked Liberal Arts. I guess I was the target audience, though.

I liked it as well.

[garbon]

Yes, though I do enjoy Henry's reactions ('and this is turning you on, isnt' it?' 'oh yeah' ) and Freddie's the most improved by Banana.

So this week's Cucumber was like a great antidote for Freddie the bitch twink. Great to have him taken down a peg and also made more relatable/likeable. Great episode!

On the flipside, Banana was incredibly boring. Why make us watch 20+ of a boring, insufferable white lesbian when we already have that super fun black one?

[Sheilbh]

So this week's Cucumber was like a great antidote for Freddie the bitch twink. Great to have him taken down a peg and also made more relatable/likeable. Great episode!

Loved it. Also a bit more humanisation of Henry. A bit of background to his own slight damage rather than just MID LIFE CRISIS.

And I really like his sister.

My flatmate hates the show

On the flipside, Banana was incredibly boring. Why make us watch 20+ of a boring, insufferable white lesbian when we already have that super fun black one?

Haven't seen it yet. But I would happily have a series of Scotty - fun black lesbian.