TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Jurassic World. It met specs I think.

[FunkMonk]

Watched a bit of The Exorcist last night.  Last three or so viewings it has not freaked me out like it used to.  I used to not be able to watch it by myself late at night.

Pleasant nostalgia trip seeing the GU campus and environs.

Whenever I had out of town visitors to DC, I always took them to see the Exorcist stairs and the Exorcist house.  Do other people do this too, either when visiting DC or showing people around?

When I first moved here I went to The Tombs with some friends and they showed me the stairs. So yeah.

[11B4V]

Watched some oldies last night;

Zulu Dawn
The Wind and the Lion

[celedhring]

Mad Max: Fury Road ends up #3rd on Sight and Sound's "best of the year" list, which is a benchmark for snotty film critics.

[jimmy olsen]

Mad Max: Fury Road ends up #3rd on Sight and Sound's "best of the year" list, which is a benchmark for snotty film critics.

I hope it wins best picture.

[Josephus]

Finally got around to watching Fury. Thought it was pretty good.

[FunkMonk]

Saw Bridge of Spies. Really good. I still like Spielberg.

Also, Mark Rylance needs an Oscar nom.

[Josquius]

Jessic Jones Continues to amaze.

Man in the high castle..... not quite grabbing the same way despite all the elements being there.
It's a fantasy world. Of course it's not a viable alternate history.  But some things bother me. Like bibles being illegal. Just....wtf? That doesn't fit in with the nazis at all. It makes sense within their ideology that they could develop in an anti christian directon but it's hard to see them managing to get so far....

[Razgovory]

Jessic Jones Continues to amaze.

Man in the high castle..... not quite grabbing the same way despite all the elements being there.
It's a fantasy world. Of course it's not a viable alternate history.  But some things bother me. Like bibles being illegal. Just....wtf? That doesn't fit in with the nazis at all. It makes sense within their ideology that they could develop in an anti christian directon but it's hard to see them managing to get so far....

You need to bone up on Nazi ideology.  Particularly the works of the chief Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg.  I always thought he had a strange name for a Nazi.  In the US someone named "Alfred Rosenberg" would have been identified as a Jew.

[Liep]

Jessic Jones Continues to amaze.

Man in the high castle..... not quite grabbing the same way despite all the elements being there.
It's a fantasy world. Of course it's not a viable alternate history.  But some things bother me. Like bibles being illegal. Just....wtf? That doesn't fit in with the nazis at all. It makes sense within their ideology that they could develop in an anti christian directon but it's hard to see them managing to get so far....

You need to bone up on Nazi ideology.  Particularly the works of the chief Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg.  I always thought he had a strange name for a Nazi.  In the US someone named "Alfred Rosenberg" would have been identified as a Jew.

It's a very Swedish sounding name to me.

[garbon]

Jessic Jones Continues to amaze.

I'm still not sure if I like it. It is growing on me but I wouldn't have watched more than episode 1 if it hadn't had such good word of mouth.

[viper37]

Same here.  It's funny at times, but I don't see what everyone is seeing in that.  Felt the same about Daredevil too.

[Josquius]

Daredevil certainly I felt to be rather crappy and mediocre after a few episodes. It took time to grow.
Jessica Jones though.... I don't know. I guess because I was expecting so little (a detective show that happens to be marvel )  even from the first episode I rather liked it.
The villain makes it.

[Josquius]

Jessic Jones Continues to amaze.

Man in the high castle..... not quite grabbing the same way despite all the elements being there.
It's a fantasy world. Of course it's not a viable alternate history.  But some things bother me. Like bibles being illegal. Just....wtf? That doesn't fit in with the nazis at all. It makes sense within their ideology that they could develop in an anti christian directon but it's hard to see them managing to get so far....

You need to bone up on Nazi ideology.  Particularly the works of the chief Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg.  I always thought he had a strange name for a Nazi.  In the US someone named "Alfred Rosenberg" would have been identified as a Jew.

Read what I said.
It makes sense ideologically things could go that way.
Though given their relationship with Christianity and that the series is set only 20 years down an alternate path it is difficult to see that completely flipping so quickly.

[viper37]

Battlestar Galactica, a decade after 33

It dates from January, that's why they say "a decade from BSG's pilot" (excluding the mini-series).

I miss such good sci-fi