TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

I just don't think we ever see enough of a doubt or the Warboys pushing back against their leaders to suggest they resent the regime and could revolt (the populace and slaves are another thing). Frankly, they seem to enjoy the frenzied cult life quite a bit. The only Warboy that we see crossing over (Nux), does so inspired by a woman.

[Malthus]

It is interesting to note that once the big bad is revealed as dead, there are no loyalists to the old regime who protest about it.

[celedhring]

I just hope every languishite has already seen the movie, because we are spoiling it to the nth degree, by the way.

[Malthus]

I just hope every languishite has already seen the movie, because we are spoiling it to the nth degree, by the way.

Heh. Mad Max isn't exactly a movie with a very surprising plot.  The fun is not what happens, but how it happens.

[Berkut]

Damn, I haven't seen it yet, and now I know there is a car chase??? W T F!

[lustindarkness]

I blame Yi,  he did not care for the spoiler tags.

[celedhring]

It is interesting to note that once the big bad is revealed as dead, there are no loyalists to the old regime who protest about it.

That's because they trap them at the canyon. Joe took all his strength with him to pursue Furiosa so there's only children Warboys and slaves at the Citadel (they specifically mention that). You see the higher-ups atop the citadel doubting what to do, but without Joe's army to back them, and with Joe himself dead and thus proven as not a God, they have to lower the platform.

[Habbaku]

It is interesting to note that once the big bad is revealed as dead, there are no loyalists to the old regime who protest about it.

That's not really surprising, though, considering the situation.  He represented himself as a god-immortal and was proven not to be.  There were a few 'loyalists' that remained (as shown by the cripple with the telescope and the guys preparing to shoot the returning group), but they swiftly saw the way the winds were blowing.  Without big bad, there is no regime.

[Malthus]

It is interesting to note that once the big bad is revealed as dead, there are no loyalists to the old regime who protest about it.

That's not really surprising, though, considering the situation.  He represented himself as a god-immortal and was proven not to be.  There were a few 'loyalists' that remained (as shown by the cripple with the telescope and the guys preparing to shoot the returning group), but they swiftly saw the way the winds were blowing.  Without big bad, there is no regime.

Well, yes - this was kinda my point: that the insanity of his regime was a personal imposition of his, together with his nutso death-cult. It wasn't a statement about gender-relations more generally, or to put it another way, men vs. women: it was all held together by this one big bad.

[Admiral Yi]

That's because they trap them at the canyon. Joe took all his strength with him to pursue Furiosa so there's only children Warboys and slaves at the Citadel (they specifically mention that). You see the higher-ups atop the citadel doubting what to do, but without Joe's army to back them, and with Joe himself dead and thus proven as not a God, they have to lower the platform.

Six Inch Son, who was the only leadership left in the Citadel, didn't make the decision to lower the platform.  Three of the little kids did it on their own volition.

[celedhring]

That's because they trap them at the canyon. Joe took all his strength with him to pursue Furiosa so there's only children Warboys and slaves at the Citadel (they specifically mention that). You see the higher-ups atop the citadel doubting what to do, but without Joe's army to back them, and with Joe himself dead and thus proven as not a God, they have to lower the platform.

Six Inch Son, who was the only leadership left in the Citadel, didn't make the decision to lower the platform.  Three of the little kids did it on their own volition.

Fair enough, I probably don't remember that scene correctly. I had it in my mind that they were scared and went all "okay, let's surrender".

[jimmy olsen]

Anyone see Texas Rising? Lame voice over intro in this trailer, but the imagery and cinematography looks nice.


There's a one-two second flash of a NSFW tub scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNMwO8XQUw

[Razgovory]

Man, the internet has trained me to avoid anything with the words "NSFW tub" in it.

[The Larch]

Man, the internet has trained me to avoid anything with the words "NSFW tub" in it.

It's nothing at all, a naked woman on top of a man in a tub from behind. Nothing can be seen. I wouldn't label it at all. It's mostly people in western costumes reading a jingoistic letter.

[Admiral Yi]

Edge of Tomorrow is on in 7 minutes on HBOZN, anyone who hasn't seen it.