TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Rudy. Rather cheesy, but unobnoxious, feel-good fare.

[jimmy olsen]

Loved Man of Steel, but that trailer was terrbile. Same for the Star Wars trailer.

I must be getting old 

[11B4V]

Loved Man of Steel, but that trailer was terrbile. Same for the Star Wars trailer.

I must be getting old 

Did do anything for me

[celedhring]

Batman is a superhero now?

Absolutely; even if he doesn't have superpowers within the fictional universe, he has far higher physical capacities that any middle-aged guy on real Earth.

Dolph is a superhero now?

No tights, no party.

Now, he might qualify in some movies I guess. The basic conceit of the superhero story is seeing people (heroes and villains) doing things that are far above what the average human can do (hence the word "superhero"). Batman certainly qualifies for that even if they try to sell the idea that he has "no superpowers".

[jimmy olsen]

Watching some amateur korean MMA fights on the bar TV.  You'd think that in a country where every man has been in the army, that the fights would be pretty good. You would be mistaken.

[viper37]

but I think she's hot.

No.

[celedhring]

Blancanieves.

Spanish adaptation of Snow White set in 1920s Andalucía, where Snow White is the daughter of a famous bullfighter, who was tricked into marrying a scheming arriviste after he was left paraplegic by a bull during a corrida. After running off from the evil stepmother, Snow White is taken by a travelling dwarf bullfighter troupe, and ends up becoming a bullfighter herself.

The film is shot as a 1920s silent, with a flamenco soundtrack, and plays like a Spanish-themed distant cousin of Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast. If you are into bizarrely artsy stuff, it's a fantastic film.

Yes Sav, that means you.

[Eddie Teach]

Red Dawn (1984, of course). Greatest 2nd Amendment agitprop ever?

I don't think Powers Boothe's voice gets enough credit.

[Drakken]

Snow White and the Huntsman is on TV. I don't have an opinion on Twilight Chick as an actress (never seen any of her movies), but I think she's hot.

KStew was a stunner for the role of Joan Jett in The Runaways.

[Drakken]

Dolph is a superhero now?

That's how I saw Rocky IV when I was a kid.

[Eddie Teach]

Supervillain maybe.

[Admiral Yi]

Red Dawn (1984, of course). Greatest 2nd Amendment agitprop ever?

I nominate one of the Charles Bronson street vigilante movies.  In war time gun rights are not up for debate.

[Eddie Teach]

A gun control advocate might argue the Death Wish thugs would also be unarmed if guns were harder to come by.

[Admiral Yi]

A gun control advocate might argue the Death Wish thugs would also be unarmed if guns were harder to come by.

But that's irrelevant to the pleasure of mowing down bad guys, which is what Death Wish is about.

[Duque de Bragança]

Dolph is a superhero now?

That's how I saw Rocky IV when I was a kid.

Dolph was more of a superhero in Masters of the Universe, or even Bridge of Dragons (Warchild!) with the great Hiroyuki Cary Tagawa as the villain.

As for Death Wish movies, Opus three is so over the top it's my favourite.