TV/Movies Megathread

[Malthus]

Has anyone been following The Expanse? And if so, is it any good?

I read the book it was based on, looked like it would make some good space opera if it was done right.

It is very good

Well, I took your advise on The Last Kingdom, and it was good.  So now I'm looking forward to seeing this.

I was a bit shy of The Expanse because it was put out by the SyFy channel, makers of such modern classics as Sharknado and Sharktopus.   

[crazy canuck]

Glad you enjoyed Last Kingdom 

[Grey Fox]

I also followed CC's & Viper's advice about Last Kingdom & The Expanse. My girlfriend & I love them.

Black Sails' also a winner here. Expect lots of Boobage.

[viper37]

I watched the first episode of something called the shanara chronicles. I've never read the books it is based off though the name does ring a bell.
Seemed to be possibly heading in an interesting direction with elves and humans in different worlds. ....but no.
Overall the quality is quite poor. Awkward dialogue and radical elves. It's like rivendell  90210.
I know. I know. In a fantasy setting there's no logical reason people can't have American accents. It looks like it may even be set in a  post apocalyptic America.  But jesus. That is too much.

it's a bit disapointing, the characters sure act like dumbasses, morons and idiots more than once, but I'm sticking with it until the end of the season, maybe it will get better.

[viper37]

Has anyone been following The Expanse? And if so, is it any good?

I read the book it was based on, looked like it would make some good space opera if it was done right.

seems good so far, 2 episodes left in the season.  Decent drama set in space.

[viper37]

I was a bit shy of The Expanse because it was put out by the SyFy channel, makers of such modern classics as Sharknado and Sharktopus. 

what's not to like about a guy heading head on inside a shark with a chainsaw??
Besides, you forgot the one about volcano spiders, another modern classic

[viper37]

I also followed CC's & Viper's advice about Last Kingdom & The Expanse. My girlfriend & I love them.

Black Sails' also a winner here. Expect lots of Boobage.

Black Sails is pretty good, I'm waiting for the 3rd season to end so I can binge watch it
1st season was a little above average, but the 2nd season made up for it.

[Josquius]

I've been watching Richard Ayoade's travel shows. They're pretty damn funny. That man needs to post on languish.
Copenhagen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfr08nL5cqc

[Berkut]

Has anyone been following The Expanse? And if so, is it any good?

I read the book it was based on, looked like it would make some good space opera if it was done right.

Very, very good, IMO.

[Liep]

I've been watching Richard Ayoade's travel shows. They're pretty damn funny. That man needs to post on languish.
Copenhagen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfr08nL5cqc

Noel Fielding is always fun, seems like one of the funnier travel shows around.

[viper37]

New Power Rangers movie.  I was going to pass that one, but now that Elizabeth Banks has been cast as the villain, it does raise an eybrow and I might end up watching the trailer, at least.

[celedhring]

Remember my friend that did that film about corpse raping? The film has been leaked on the net ahead of its DVD release and it has been downloaded 2 million times in Phillipines 

[Ideologue]

I hadn't realized how long Steve-o has gone without a hit.

He's been on Oscar bait auto-pilot for a while now.

He's got an adaptation of The Big Friendly Giant next year, and then he's supposedly directing Ready Player One. That book was really fun, and it's kinda an homage to his 80s work.

I think it's cute how people don't think Crystal Skull was a hit.

It's funny how I keep completely erasing that movie from my mind. It has a decent case for being another counter to my "Spielberg doesn't make completely bad movies" statement.

I'm a pretty big defender of Crystal Skull.  Pretty much the only really big thing that's wrong with it (that isn't "wrong" with the other three, namely being big, dumb, broad fantasies) is Harrison Ford sleepwalking through the role, which in retrospect is even less forgivable now that we've seen him revive Han Solo and do a pretty great job.  And sure, there's the lightened gore factor and the not-especially-convincing CGI, but the former was already getting rolled back by Last Crusade and it's not like the other three are 100% believable, we're just trained to find practical effects and 80s-style optical effects more charming (partly because they are, but still).

Meanwhile, the focus on the fridge and the waterfalls and the other silly, dumb, fun stuff is honestly baffling to me, given that all of the Indy movies, even Raiders, are chock full of narrative gaffes and physically unlikely nonsense.  The fault is not in the film, but in ourselves: everybody has to grow up sometime.

This, of course, is on top of the bad attitude everybody brought into the film with them about George Lucas and Shia LeBouf, based on the prequels and the Transformers movies, even though Crystal Skull is perhaps a better swan song than Georgie deserved and could have been a real starmaking moment for The Beef if people had opened themselves up to it a little more than I think they did.

[garbon]

LaBeouf is annoying, I don't want to open up to him. And yes, Harrison Ford telephoning in the role was a real negative.

[Eddie Teach]

Some of the cheesy stuff from the earlier films ("It belongs in a museum!") was just easier to take than the cheesy bits of Crystal Skull, like Indy's 180 on Mutt going to college.