TV/Movies Megathread

[Savonarola]

I just missed Nosferatu (Murnau's) at the theater with live accompaniment tonight.

There's a lot of bad prints of Nosferatu out there.  All the ones that I've seen that refer to the lead characters as John and Mina Harker (rather than Hutter and Elen) have been awful.  (Presumably if it was accompanied by a professional orchestra it had a decent print.)

But I did finally mail back the DVD of Caligari to my friend (now in California) 5 years after I borrowed it, without ever watching it, seeing the movie six months ago on the big screen instead.

If you get a chance see "The Doll" directed by Ernst Lubitsch.  While the tone is about the opposite of Caligari; you can see the same sort of stylized stagey-ness was already part of the German film lexicon before Caligari.

[Eddie Teach]

Saw season 2 of The 100. The last 5 minutes took a really weird turn.

[viper37]

Saw season 2 of The 100. The last 5 minutes took a really weird turn.

they're expanding a bit on that in season 3.  I wish they'd give more details, but I guess they want to drag things on.

[Norgy]

State of Play - one of those political thrillers that tell a rather trite story, and try to dress it up with a bunch of twists and turns and over-laboring everything.

John Simm, right? Or Philip Glenister?

I think I liked it quite a bit.

[celedhring]

State of Play - one of those political thrillers that tell a rather trite story, and try to dress it up with a bunch of twists and turns and over-laboring everything.

John Simm, right? Or Philip Glenister?

I think I liked it quite a bit.

I was talking about the yank movie adaptation with Crowe and Affleck. I haven't seen the original British series, which I'm sure it's much better.

[Norgy]

State of Play - one of those political thrillers that tell a rather trite story, and try to dress it up with a bunch of twists and turns and over-laboring everything.

John Simm, right? Or Philip Glenister?

I think I liked it quite a bit.

I was talking about the yank movie adaptation with Crowe and Affleck. I haven't seen the original British series, which I'm sure it's much better.

I was wrong on some accounts:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362192/

John Simm is an investigative reporter for a fictional "The Sun" paper.
And is stabbed badly in the back by his editor.

[celedhring]

Indiana Jones 5 announced for summer 2019; Spielberg to direct, Harrison Ford to star (I assume it will be a "passing of the torch" kind of deal, since he's really too old now).

Disney is gonna milk Lucasfilm until there's not a single drop. Since that cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy they might even find a way to make money out of Howard the Duck...

[Norgy]

I think they should go all in on realistic animation and make it Howard the Dick.

[garbon]

Indiana Jones 5 announced for summer 2019; Spielberg to direct, Harrison Ford to star (I assume it will be a "passing of the torch" kind of deal, since he's really too old now).

Hell he was really too old, 8 years ago.

[celedhring]

Indiana Jones 5 announced for summer 2019; Spielberg to direct, Harrison Ford to star (I assume it will be a "passing of the torch" kind of deal, since he's really too old now).

Hell he was really too old, 8 years ago.

Raiders of the pill cabinet.

Personally I think it's a terrible idea, but well, I hope to be proven wrong.

[Malthus]

Indiana Jones 5 announced for summer 2019; Spielberg to direct, Harrison Ford to star (I assume it will be a "passing of the torch" kind of deal, since he's really too old now).

Hell he was really too old, 8 years ago.

Raiders of the pill cabinet.

"Raiders of the Lost Geritol" also works.

Personally I think it's a terrible idea, but well, I hope to be proven wrong.

Ditto.

Though I must admit, the Disney stuff I've seen recently has been great: Zootopia, Gravity Falls.

[viper37]

Indiana Jones 5 announced for summer 2019; Spielberg to direct, Harrison Ford to star (I assume it will be a "passing of the torch" kind of deal, since he's really too old now).

Hell he was really too old, 8 years ago.

Raiders of the pill cabinet.

Personally I think it's a terrible idea, but well, I hope to be proven wrong.

Indy is going to die halfway through the movie.

[Savonarola]

Indy is going to die halfway through the movie.

NOOOO!




Actually I bet he loses the eye in this one; like the Old Indy in the Young Indiana Jones chronicles.  (Harrison Ford will have to live another 20 years to be the right age for Old Indy.)

[Barrister]

I wonder what they're going to do with Crystal Skull?  It introduced a lot - gave Indy a son, Indy gets married, timeline advances into the 1950s...

I'm going to assume LaBeef has nothing to do with it, since his star-power is almost non-existent these days.

The earlier rumours had the series being re-booted with a new lead actor, but that seems to be off with this announcement.  But then how do you "pass the torch" to someone new like garbon suggests?

[viper37]

The earlier rumours had the series being re-booted with a new lead actor, but that seems to be off with this announcement.  But then how do you "pass the torch" to someone new like garbon suggests?

Well, he could pass the torch to someone not his son.  Maybe he has a daughter too, with that girl from #2.  Or someone entirely not related.
Or they recast him as his dad and we see a new Indiana Jones.

Any one of these ideas are equally bad, so they could work