TV/Movies Megathread

[The Minsky Moment]

What's Snake Eyes about?

Crapping out.

[garbon]

SPR and The Breakfast Club are both pretty great, too.

Still is must be admitted that some well-placed machine gun fire and an amphibious assault would have improved the TBC

 

[The Minsky Moment]

Ally Sheedy must have had a couple spare grenades in that bag . . .

[Josephus]

Hands up all those who think other's tastes in movies are just terrible. 

Just your taste in music mongers.

Hey...he's got great taste in music

[Eddie Teach]

He likes some good stuff, but he should broaden his palate. Man can not live by prog alone.

[Ideologue]

SPR and The Breakfast Club are both pretty great, too.

Still is must be admitted that some well-placed machine gun fire and an amphibious assault would have improved the TBC

Hey, what about the story with the flare gun?  That's pretty action-packed.

[Tonitrus]

What's Snake Eyes about?

Crapping out.

Having never seen it, I keep thinking Hollywood has gone to GI Joe character movies, and wondering when Destro is coming out.

[PRC]

The Martian, to my understanding, has a very solid basis for its screenplay;

Based on a cultish procedural Sci-Fi novel that became a hit via the amazon self-publishing lottery
Read it a bit ago - not going to win any literary prizes but a funnish beach sort of read for nerdy trekky sort of folk.

You must be a nerdy trekky sort.

Re: True Detective 2... the first episode was the worst of the series and must have given it the bad rap it seems to have.  I thought it got great as it went on, but the final scenes occurred without much explanation.  Overall still so much better than everything else on TV.

[celedhring]

Dream House. Supernatural thriller with a pretty damn good cast (Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz  ), that remixes and pukes out a bunch of twists and reveals that I have seen in other, much better, films. It's actually a pretty transparent ripoff of [spoiler]The Others and Shutter Island[/spoiler]. Even if the film is hardly original, the premise could still make for an entertaining film, but it's a hack job.

[Queequeg]

Alien and Gladiator are about on the same level of quality, I guess.

[Josquius]

Netflix have just signed a 12 episode third series of Black Mirror

[Ideologue]

Alien and Gladiator are about on the same level of quality, I guess.

I ain't Alien's biggest fan.  "LOL hey Kane, I know you just woke up from some kind of alien plant raping your face, but you wanna have breakfast?"  "As vice president for biological warfare at Weyland-Yutani, I think what space war needs is some kind of bear that pops out of an egg."  I mean, it's a really well-made haunted house movie with the added bonus of a sex monster.  And that's great.  But Gladiator is a really well-made sword and sandal flick.  That's pretty great too.

I own both.

[katmai]

You are a fucking idiot Ide.

[celedhring]

Phil Spector. David Mamet writes and directs an HBO flick about Phil Spector's trial for the murder of aspiring actress Lana Clarkson. Sadly, it focuses mostly on the procedural aspects of the court case; the main characters are actually not Spector but his lawyers. Mamet does know how to make people talk in closed rooms, however, so it's still pretty watchable. Acting is top notch with Helen Mirren and Jeffrey Tambor playing Spector's lawyers. Al Pacino plays Al Pacino playing Phil Spector.

[Eddie Teach]

Al Pacino plays Al Pacino playing Phil Spector.

The role he was born to play.