TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

I gotta side with Berkut here; was looking forward to it but the first episode was really bad and forced. "Look at me trying to be funny and quirky and self-referential" forced.

[viper37]

Berkut may have missed the point.

the clip posted here confirmed my suspicion that Berkut was right.

[Liep]

Finished Daredevil. I like both that and the really strong woman comic show much more than both Arrow and Flash which I never got past the first few episodes of.

[Martinus]

OMG NETFLIX JUST OPENED IN POLAND I CAN FINALLY STOP STEALING TV SHOWS.

*disappears for several weeks*

[Liep]

OMG NETFLIX JUST OPENED IN POLAND I CAN FINALLY STOP STEALING TV SHOWS.

*disappears for several weeks*

Welcome back when you discover that because you've been stealing TV shows you're one season ahead of the Netflix Curve.

[katmai]

Finished Daredevil. I like both that and the really strong woman comic show much more than both Arrow and Flash which I never got past the first few episodes of.

March 25!
Second season.

[11B4V]

Straight Outta Compton:B+

[jimmy olsen]

Just read that DiCaprio turned down the role of Anakin in ep. 2 and 3

Good calls.

For him, yeah, sure.  But for people who watched episode 2, not so much.  I mean, he couldn't have been as bad in it as Hayden Christiansen, right?

It was the dialogue that made the prequels bad, no actor could have saved it. Hayden's physical acting was fine.

[Admiral Yi]

Watched about 10 minutes of The Dictator, I guess the most recent Sasha Cohen film.  Embarassingly bad.

[celedhring]

Just read that DiCaprio turned down the role of Anakin in ep. 2 and 3

Good calls.

For him, yeah, sure.  But for people who watched episode 2, not so much.  I mean, he couldn't have been as bad in it as Hayden Christiansen, right?

It was the dialogue that made the prequels bad, no actor could have saved it. Hayden's physical acting was fine.

It wasn't, like. His brooding throughout the saga is pretty laughable. But I agree on the sentiment that no great actor could have saved that script. Portman was terrible in them too and she's very talented.

[Admiral Yi]

Portman was fucked by the Kabuki alto voice.  Among other things.

[celedhring]

Portman was fucked by the Kabuki alto voice.  Among other things.

Sadly not me.

You were setting up that joke, right?

[Josephus]

Watched about 10 minutes of The Dictator, I guess the most recent Sasha Cohen film.  Embarassingly bad.

Borat was only good because of its cynical look at American culture, which it did reasonably well. But this and that other one he made, the fashion guru guy, were terrible.

[Syt]

Daredevil and Punisher:



Loved that scene in the Punisher comics.

[spoiler]Punisher planned eliminating a mafia big wig. Daredevil, with his "no kill" rule, tried to stop him. They whacked each other, and Punisher tied Daredevil up. He then gave him a revolver. The only way Daredevil can stop Punisher from shooting the criminal is by shooting the Punisher. It's a pretty tense scene, and in the end Daredevil does not shoot. (And as it turned out Frank Castle gave Daredevil a non-functioning gun, anyways - he just wanted to give Daredevil a taste of what he feels like when he takes out criminals.)[/spoiler]

[mongers]

This is one of the odder film publicity shots I've seen:

Ingrid Pitt (1937-2010), Polish actress, Pippa Steel (1948-1992), British actress, Kate O'Mara, British actress, Madeline Smith, British actress, and Kirsten Betts, Danish actress, all wearing long white dresses and each standing with a foot on a coffin, in a publicity portrait issued for the film, 'The Vampire Lovers', 1970. The Hammer horror film, directed by Roy Ward Baker (1916–2010), starred Pitt as 'Marcilla Karnstein', Steel as 'Laura', O'Mara as 'Governess Mlle. Perrodot', Smith as 'Emma Morton', and Betts as '1st Vampire'.
January 01, 1970| Credit: Silver Screen Collection