TV/Movies Megathread

[dps]

A friend of mine has got herself pregnant and is going to name her son "Luke". One of my best friends already has a 12-month "Lando" (the boy is indeed black).

This is getting really out of hand now 

The son of a friend of mine (huge Star Wars nerd) is called Luke. He insists that it was his wife's suggestion (she's not into Star Wars). I don't believe him.

Now, the German version (Lukas) would not raise any eyebrows.

Lucas is the Spanish version too. In Catalan it's "Lluc", which is sorta pronounced as "Yuk".

Actually, Luke is a diminutive of Lucas in English as well.

[viper37]

I thought I'd watched the new Terminator.  Couldn't be that bad, can't it?  Surely people had such high expectations since the 3rd and 4th were barely ok and they were just disapointed it wasn't as good.

Oh well.

I had to watch some GoT clips afterward, to see if it was the same Emilia Clarke from that excellent tv show.  All I saw in the movie was a girl who delievered most of her lines without any passion, in a totally mechanical way, she remembered the words, had no idea what it meant in that context.

And of course, they had to reuse lots of themes from the 1st 3 movies.  At some point, it gets just way too bad.

[Syt]

Everything wrong with Terminator Genisys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ri1EF4UCOY

[celedhring]

Everything wrong with Terminator Genisys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ri1EF4UCOY

Is that a clip of the entire movie I suppose? Damn, that film managed to underwhelm my already crap expectations. It was truly terrible.

[Syt]

Everything wrong with Terminator Genisys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ri1EF4UCOY

Is that a clip of the entire movie I suppose? Damn, that film managed to underwhelm my already crap expectations. It was truly terrible.

Yeah, it's the whole movie. Cinema Sins do "Everything Wrong With" where they nitpick movies apart in a humorous fashion (they do it with good and bad movies - they recently did the original Star Wars movies).

Their playlist has 259 entries now: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMWfZxj1nTkQBy4AeRGG4xH5d2IIApNPj

The early ones are much shorter than the current ones.

[celedhring]

Speaking of Red Dawn, I just caught the new one on the telly. I can only say 

I read that the storyline was meant to be about China "repossessing" the US after it defaults on its loans - which would've added some needed satire to the proceedings. But ultimately they decided to change it to North Korea so the film wasn't banned in China. Fitting.

[Admiral Yi]

There being nothing else on last night, I caught an episode of Homeland.  CIA is making a strong fashion statement these days.

[Malthus]

Any of you guys watched Turn? It's a Revolutionary War spy series, based very loosely on fact (the "Culper Ring"). I enjoyed it, though the love triangle stuff tacked on was trying.

It had the predictable psychopathic Brits, but overall, not entirely horrible and one-sided, as these US Revolutionary War things often are.  The lead fellow looks like a weasel though - he's miscast as a romantic lead: it is hard to believe he has two hott women after him. 

[Sophie Scholl]

I gave Turn a shot, back before it got the secondary title.  I wanted to like it, but... no.  It was just too one sided for my tastes.  It also randomly changed interesting historical facts to fiction for no logical reason.  If it helps get people interested in the Revolutionary War, then I support it, but I won't be watching it.

[Eddie Teach]

One-sided like The Great Escape or Lord of the Rings.

[Barrister]

One-sided like The Great Escape or Lord of the Rings.

You are talking to a guy who picked the user name Benedict Arnold...

[Malthus]

I gave Turn a shot, back before it got the secondary title.  I wanted to like it, but... no.  It was just too one sided for my tastes.  It also randomly changed interesting historical facts to fiction for no logical reason.  If it helps get people interested in the Revolutionary War, then I support it, but I won't be watching it.

Awesome username/post combo. 

Yeah, it is pretty one-sided at the start (it gets less so as it goes, though). Certainly it was highly fictionalized. That did not, I think, make it unwatchable - I still enjoyed it. It is I think too much to expect of Americans that they make a series on the Revolutionary War that really gives the Loyalists a fair shake. 

[Admiral Yi]

Just like it's too much to expect of Canadians that they make a movie that doesn't suck.

[Eddie Teach]

One-sided like The Great Escape or Lord of the Rings.

You are talking to a guy who picked the user name Benedict Arnold...

So in LOTR terms, he'd be Grima Wormtongue. 

[Habbaku]

The second season of Fargo is so amazing.  I don't want it to end next week.