TV/Movies Megathread

[frunk]

Also tons more of Community, which is still great, although by the end of season 3 Abed is maybe getting too out-there for the show's good.  I mean, the dude started at 11 and he just keeps turning up the crazy volume.  Pierce is still my favorite because he gets the most outre things to say for everyone else to react to.

I'm sure you've been warned about season 4, but I'll warn you again.  Skip it if you can avoid being a completionist.  S5 also doesn't live up to the greatness that is S1-3, but is less of a drop off.  S6 is pretty close to S5 but sadder because more of the core cast is gone, although there are some nice additions.

[Ed Anger]

I quit community after the end of season 2. Got tired of the Aspie and black guy shit.

[Valmy]

I quit community after the end of season 2. Got tired of the Aspie and black guy shit.

Raciss!

[Ed Anger]

I quit community after the end of season 2. Got tired of the Aspie and black guy shit.

Raciss!

White Power

[lustindarkness]

Ide, I also would give Avengers Ultron a B. They could have made Ultron more evil and destructive and the relationship with his maker that he is supposed to hate, that may have given it a B+ right there. Also the "romantic" arc felt unnatural.

It did make me laugh a few times, and gave me plenty of visual nerd porn to entertain me. I also gasped at the Hammer picking up. Oh, and I fell for the "this character will die set up" but someone else dies.

[Ed Anger]

I assume Scarlett Johansson still looks doughy in her rubber suit.

[PRC]

Never Let Me Go (2010).  Also written by Garland.  It's The Island, if The Island were stupider and British.  It was even worse.  (In fairness, Garland also has Dredd and 28 Days Later to his name, as well as Ex Machina.) D

I guess Garland did the screenplay but the story was Kazuo Ishiguro.  I thought the book was great, but I like all of Ishiguro's work.

[jimmy olsen]

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015).  Superheroes hit robots till they break.  It was passable.  B

Eh, the part that I found ridiculous was Black Widow's revelation of her past.

"I was sterilized! I'm a monster too!"  Bitch, please.

It's beyond obvious that in the original cut she had to execute a prisoner in cold blood or kill another trainee to graduate. The studio must of had cold feet and forced them to change it.

[Berkut]

Just watched Birdman. I want those two hours of my life back.

[Habbaku]

   Philistine.

[Syt]

Human Centipede 3 is coming. By the trailer it's hit the point of over the top parody.

I'll just leave this picture here.

[Liep]

Someone played too much Snake on their 3310.

[Josephus]

I've yet to watch the original. is it any good? (I know the premise)

[Habbaku]

No, it's not even remotely good.  And not because of the content, but because it's just so damned boring.

[crazy canuck]

I wouldn't call John Oliver "investigative journalism" like 60 Minutes or anything. Most of what he says is fairly widely known, he just puts it into a nice 5 minute package and dumbs it down so TV viewers understand it.. Not dissing it. Neil Postman in his 1980-something book Amusing Ourselves to Death predicted that news and entertainment were slowly meshing together.

Yes he does that.  But he also does interviews that, although they have a comedic angle, are in their own way hard hitting.  He also has a central theme in each broadcast which explores and issue in depth.  Satire and comedy can be devastating tools in the right hands.  His appear to be the right hands.