TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

House-produced = profit!

The Third Man in restored 4K is showing tonight at 10pm, tomorrow at 1pm and a couple times later in the week at the AFI Theatre in Silver Spring.  So there's that.

It's not really more profitable, but it's a way to not become dependent on the movie studios for product. Movie studios are worse than the thuggiest drug-pusher.

[CountDeMoney]

It's not really more profitable, but it's a way to not become dependent on the movie studios for product. Movie studios are worse than the thuggiest drug-pusher.

I'm sorry, I can' hear you over the sound of Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

[celedhring]

I'm not talking, I'm typing stuff on a screen.

[CountDeMoney]

Now, now...don't sell yourself short.  You're how the magic happens.  The music-maker, the dreamer of dreams.

[Capetan Mihali]

Cel wouldn't have much of a job if Hollywood wasn't pushing these shit talkies on us, right, Sav?

[Josephus]

Enemy.

Bizarre film. Loved it. Didn't get the ending.

[Malthus]

Well, "Come And See" is a fairly old Russian movie, so no wonder. I doubt it has much word-of-mouth popularity.

It's one of the Soviet era movies they apparently allowed some artistic license, because it was such a realistic movie anyway.

While Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead may be rather brutal, "Come And See" shows to some extent, in my opinion, how brutality breeds more violence and more and worse brutality in retaliation.

Come and See has cult popularity, for exactly this reason: it is uncompromisingly brutal, using surreal touches to highlight the incredible, gruesome reality.

Some of the techniques used in that movie were later used by Spielberg - for example, in Saving Private Ryan.

[celedhring]

"Come and See" isn't screened often because of how brutal it is. That's hurt his chances of becoming a well-known film, even within the nosy film nerd world.

[Malthus]

Enemy.

Bizarre film. Loved it. Didn't get the ending.

I assume that the spider symbolizes insane Toronto real estate prices.

The protagonist, a middle-class guy, is like all middle class Torontonians, secretly obsessed with the impossibility of affording a house, and so his subconscious conjures these terrifying visions for him.

When the spider appears, it is frightened of him, and he's resigned, not horrified - - making him realize that the problem is himself. He's creating the demand fueling the market.

[Malthus]

"Come and See" isn't screened often because of how brutal it is. That's hurt his chances of becoming a well-known film, even within the nosy film nerd world.

I thought it was reasonably well known among film nerds. Not, obviously, among the general public though. As you say, too brutal. 

[Eddie Teach]

Enemy.

Bizarre film. Loved it. Didn't get the ending.

I assume that the spider symbolizes insane Toronto real estate prices.

The protagonist, a middle-class guy, is like all middle class Torontonians, secretly obsessed with the impossibility of affording a house, and so his subconscious conjures these terrifying visions for him.

When the spider appears, it is frightened of him, and he's resigned, not horrified - - making him realize that the problem is himself. He's creating the demand fueling the market.

The market would be a lot less crazy if Canadians didn't insist on all living in the same half dozen places.

[Malthus]

Enemy.

Bizarre film. Loved it. Didn't get the ending.

I assume that the spider symbolizes insane Toronto real estate prices.

The protagonist, a middle-class guy, is like all middle class Torontonians, secretly obsessed with the impossibility of affording a house, and so his subconscious conjures these terrifying visions for him.

When the spider appears, it is frightened of him, and he's resigned, not horrified - - making him realize that the problem is himself. He's creating the demand fueling the market.

The market would be a lot less crazy if Canadians didn't insist on all living in the same half dozen places.

Canada's a huge country, but the actual area people would want to live in or build cities in is comparatively small - that's a function of geology and climate. 

[Josephus]

Enemy.

Bizarre film. Loved it. Didn't get the ending.

I assume that the spider symbolizes insane Toronto real estate prices.

The protagonist, a middle-class guy, is like all middle class Torontonians, secretly obsessed with the impossibility of affording a house, and so his subconscious conjures these terrifying visions for him.

When the spider appears, it is frightened of him, and he's resigned, not horrified - - making him realize that the problem is himself. He's creating the demand fueling the market.

ah that explains it.

[celedhring]

"Come and See" isn't screened often because of how brutal it is. That's hurt his chances of becoming a well-known film, even within the nosy film nerd world.

I thought it was reasonably well known among film nerds. Not, obviously, among the general public though. As you say, too brutal.

It isn't. Yes, many will recognize the name, but few will have seen it. For starters it didn't make the viewing list of the course I took in Eastern European cinema, and I am sure a reason for that is how brutal it is.

[The Brain]

I saw it on Swedish state TV circa 1990.

Tonight I zapped past state TV and they were showing penis art.