TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

Little Miss Sunshine. Best movie I've seen this year.

Only took you 9 years. 

If you want to feel old, google the actress that plays the little girl.

She played in Zombieland I see, I remember that now. Doesn't really make me feel old, Emma Stone is only a few years younger than me. I can live with that.

You wouldn't feel so good if you had seen the movie back on its day.

[Razgovory]

18 year old.

I thought about it and maybe you meant the Frenchwoman.   Not the in-shock USO girls whom the soldiers, iirc, kinda-sorta rape.  In any event it's gross, that much has stuck with me.  I definitely remember they're literally purchased in exchange for gasoline.

I don't remember any coercion or whimpering.  I remember the girls being quite enthusiastic.

Which of course makes no sense whatsoever.  Why would whack magazine centerfolds happily be turning tricks in the middle of the Vietnamese jungle?

I think the point of the movie is that nothing makes sense.  There is little rhyme or reason to what anyone does and each place they go is more surreal then the last.  The men want to have sex with the Bunnies but the women seem oblivious and chatter on about random bullshit.  The French dinner scene is similar with people rambling on without a care to what anyone else is saying.  I think the whole movie is a cacophony of weirdness reflecting American misunderstanding and ambivalence to what actually occurred in Vietnam.  It's neither pro and anti-war.  It's just a confusing series of events that have no real meaning.  At least that was my impression.

That says it best.

Hey, I could be a film critic!


Dateline:  Jefferson City, 2021.  Revered film critic Raz G. Ovory was assassinated in his home today.  Police apprehended  the suspect 20 miles outside of St. Louis.  I. D. Eologue, the alleged assassin, was arrested without incident.  A high powered rifle was found in his possession along with the same manifesto the alleged shooter sent to several media outlets.  Police have yet to ascribe a motive to the killing as the manifesto has been described as, "incoherent rambling".  Mr. Eologue was lawyer in the Pittsburgh area before a bizarre nude stand off with police four years ago.  Perhaps not coincidentally that was the same time that Mr. Ovory's film reviews were first syndicated in papers across the country.  Eologue had been released from a sanitarium two weeks ago.  Witnesses claim to have seen the gunman screaming "Stem!", repeatedly during the shooting before escaping the scene on foot.  What if anything this might mean, is unknown.  Ovory, who won the Pulitzer prize in Criticism in 2020, is survived by his sister, mother and 28 cats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaKxRN2LdEI  In honor of the lost.

[Eddie Teach]

The Man From Laramie. Jimmy Stewart is on the hunt for a man who sold the Apache the rifles they used to kill his brother. Also, he's looking for a town with a decent football team.

It was alright.

[Ideologue]

18 year old.

I thought about it and maybe you meant the Frenchwoman.   Not the in-shock USO girls whom the soldiers, iirc, kinda-sorta rape.  In any event it's gross, that much has stuck with me.  I definitely remember they're literally purchased in exchange for gasoline.

I don't remember any coercion or whimpering.  I remember the girls being quite enthusiastic.

Which of course makes no sense whatsoever.  Why would whack magazine centerfolds happily be turning tricks in the middle of the Vietnamese jungle?

I think the point of the movie is that nothing makes sense.  There is little rhyme or reason to what anyone does and each place they go is more surreal then the last.  The men want to have sex with the Bunnies but the women seem oblivious and chatter on about random bullshit.  The French dinner scene is similar with people rambling on without a care to what anyone else is saying.  I think the whole movie is a cacophony of weirdness reflecting American misunderstanding and ambivalence to what actually occurred in Vietnam.  It's neither pro and anti-war.  It's just a confusing series of events that have no real meaning.  At least that was my impression.

That says it best.

Hey, I could be a film critic!


Dateline:  Jefferson City, 2021.  Revered film critic Raz G. Ovory was assassinated in his home today.  Police apprehended  the suspect 20 miles outside of St. Louis.  I. D. Eologue, the alleged assassin, was arrested without incident.  A high powered rifle was found in his possession along with the same manifesto the alleged shooter sent to several media outlets.  Police have yet to ascribe a motive to the killing as the manifesto has been described as, "incoherent rambling".  Mr. Eologue was lawyer in the Pittsburgh area before a bizarre nude stand off with police four years ago.  Perhaps not coincidentally that was the same time that Mr. Ovory's film reviews were first syndicated in papers across the country.  Eologue had been released from a sanitarium two weeks ago.  Witnesses claim to have seen the gunman screaming "Stem!", repeatedly during the shooting before escaping the scene on foot.  What if anything this might mean, is unknown.  Ovory, who won the Pulitzer prize in Criticism in 2020, is survived by his sister, mother and 28 cats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaKxRN2LdEI  In honor of the lost.

In other news, local Jefferson shut-in continues strange vendetta against other people's hobbies, seems to not enjoy life.

[garbon]

He named you a lawyer so that's something.

[Eddie Teach]

Corrina, Corrina. A movie that deals with race relations in the 50s with a light touch and doesn't feel like a rehash of all the other movies on that subject. I enjoyed it.

[Savonarola]

The Secret Game (1917)

The Hun is at it again; as the virtuous and noble Yankees prepare to ship troops to Russia in order to surprise the Germans on the eastern front (SURPRISE!) German raiders appear on the Pacific ocean.  There must be a leak in the quartermasters office.  The Japanese send their top man Nara-Nara (Sessue Hayakawa) to root out the traitor.  Being Asian he's naturally sneaky and good at that sort of thing.  Anyhow there's a German immigrant in the quartermaster's office (Florence Vidor) so of course she's the traitor.  This sets up the conflict, since white women are every Asian man's weakness.

This is a wonderful propaganda film from a time when Hollywood was not afraid to come out and use stereotypes.

[Valmy]

This is a wonderful propaganda film from a time when Hollywood was not afraid to come out and use stereotypes.

Man I miss those charming whimsical times.

[Norgy]

Just watched "Interstellar", and I am unsure as to whether it's the worst movie I have seen or just one of the worst.

[Liep]

Leviathan (2014).

There really is no hope in Russia. A sad story and good acting: 8/10.

[Josquius]

Kingsman- well that was a fun film. Somewhere between Austin powers and James Bond, even the trendy modern aspects couldn't spoil it too much.
Though they overdid the whole swallowing stuff bit a little. And the dog shooting was seen a mile away.

[celedhring]

The Town. Decent, with some gripping robbery scenes. I think Affleck shouldn't have acted in it, though, he isn't too believable as the main character. Jeremy Renner is way better in comparison.

[Eddie Teach]

Just watched "Interstellar", and I am unsure as to whether it's the worst movie I have seen or just one of the worst.

Other than the whole extra-dimensional communication bit, it was pretty decent.

[lustindarkness]

Could not sleep, so watched The Sand Pebbles (1966) with Steve McQueen. Good stuff.

[celedhring]

Leviathan (2014).

There really is no hope in Russia. A sad story and good acting: 8/10.

Well, the fact the movie got made isn't one?