TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM5-xFenaZI

Yeah, the Simpsons sum it up perfectly.

[Savonarola]

Hara Kiri (1919)

This is a silent film retelling of Madama Butterfly done by Fritz Lang.  It actually looks more like an Ernst Lubitsch film from the same period; a melodrama with lavish sets.  It's faithful to the Puccini opera; the only differences are the sailor is Danish rather than American and the heroine's name is different (and, of course, no one sings...)

When my brother was in college he saw the play M. Butterfly.  He went with some friends, and one of them saw her grandparents there.  They thought they were going to see Madama Butterfly, and boy were they surprised.

[Liep]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM5-xFenaZI

Yeah, the Simpsons sum it up perfectly.

I remember that clip, but I never imagined the movie was real.

[Valmy]

Me to Liep. Amazing.

[Ideologue]

Reminds me, I got a Sound of Music blu ray that needs watching.

Also, Ant-Man is fantastic.

[The Brain]

I can't get over how awesome the 80s were.

Conan the Barbarian
The Terminator
Aliens
Predator
Robocop

[Ideologue]

Technically 1990, but I watched Total Recall for the first time in a ton of years the other night.  8/10, good stuff.

The 80s were also the most artistically productive years for Carpenter and Cronenberg.  The Thing, Christine, Prince of Darkness, Scanners, The Fly?  Add in Spielberg and Lucas and Hughes and De Palma and Dante and the Star Trek films, and it's an all-round fantastic decade, a reborn Golden Age.

[Ideologue]

But don't you hate Terminator 2?  Have you ever considered how you came to be a bad person?

[celedhring]

1990 is technically still part of the 1980s decade.

[Ideologue]

Technically, without an A.D. Zero, I guess.  But I've never seen Citizen Kane referred to as a 1930s film.

Anyway, 80s badass cinema is a genre that transcends prosaic timekeeping.  I mean, Alien is a badass 80s film, and though they dried up, movies that are clearly 80s-style actioners kept popping up, from T2 in 1991 (essentially summing up the movement), to The Descent in 2006 and all the way to Dredd and Fury Road more recently.

[Liep]

1990 is technically still part of the 1980s decade.

Wouldn't that technically be the 199th decade? The 80's was the decade including the years from 1980-1989, surely.

[garbon]

Slow West

Took another trip to Jewish Center to see this Fassbender flick. I enjoyed it though I've also not ever been a big western person (shock!) so I don't know much on whether or not it was a subpar step into the genre.

[Ideologue]

1990 is technically still part of the 1980s decade.

Wouldn't that technically be the 199th decade? The 80's was the decade including the years from 1980-1989, surely.

1-10 would be the first decade, so...

[Ideologue]

Slow West

Took another trip to Jewish Center to see this Fassbender flick. I enjoyed it though I've also not ever been a big western person (shock!) so I don't know much on whether or not it was a subpar step into the genre.

I've been hearing good things, I'll be checking it out soon.

[Razgovory]

Paint your wagon (1969). A three-hour comedic western musical starring Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood. Possibly one of the biggest mismatches between movie tone and starring talent of all time. Marvin at least hams it up to 11, but Eastwood is positively lost. And there's nothing going on that matters.

Eastwood said this film inspired him to become a director; I suppose in order to avoid starring in something so awful again.

Most movies are bad because they are boring.  If it's bad and you laugh at it, it's not really that bad.  Some movies are bad for the things they stand for.  You way watch them and admit they are entertaining but stands for evil things like The Eternal Jew, or Forrest Gump.  Paint Your Wagon, is bad because it's inexplicable and genuinely painful to watch.  While film reviewing wits often carp about movies being painful, that is actually quite rare.  Paint your Wagon is like having someone dump a truck of dying clowns on your lawn.  It's bizarre and explicable and you will be haunted by the soft honking of wounded jesters.