TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Finished binge watching season 2 of Marco Polo.  It is a much better Game of Thrones then Game of Thrones.

Not much of a game when you know who is going to win.

[The Brain]

Finished binge watching season 2 of Marco Polo.  It is a much better Game of Thrones then Game of Thrones.

Not much of a game when you know who is going to win.

Marco?

[crazy canuck]

Finished binge watching season 2 of Marco Polo.  It is a much better Game of Thrones then Game of Thrones.

Not much of a game when you know who is going to win.

I agree.  Game of Thrones has become very predictable 

[crazy canuck]

Finished binge watching season 2 of Marco Polo.  It is a much better Game of Thrones then Game of Thrones.

Not much of a game when you know who is going to win.

Marco?

Polo

[celedhring]

Yeah, one of my problems with the first season of Marco Polo was that I know both him and Kublai Khan will make it to their 70s, which kinda ruins the tension with all the threats around them.

[The Brain]

Finally watching Rome. Spartacus had more sweaty gladiators.

[11B4V]

Yeah, one of my problems with the first season of Marco Polo was that I know both him and Kublai Khan will make it to their 70s, which kinda ruins the tension with all the threats around them.

You are assuming the average mouth breather knows this.

[Josephus]

Marco?

Polo

[Josephus]

Finished binge watching season 2 of Marco Polo.  It is a much better Game of Thrones then Game of Thrones.

Not much of a game when you know who is going to win.

Marco?

Polo

Damn. you beat me to it.

[celedhring]

Yeah, one of my problems with the first season of Marco Polo was that I know both him and Kublai Khan will make it to their 70s, which kinda ruins the tension with all the threats around them.

You are assuming the average mouth breather knows this.

Well, I know what I know And it makes the show less enjoyable for me.

Imho Rome got it right. We all know that Caesar and Mark Anthony are going to kick the bucket before they can realize their plans, but the character focus of the series was in the two Roman soldiers.

[The Brain]

Imho Rome got it right. We all know that Caesar and Mark Anthony are going to kick the bucket before they can realize their plans,

Thanks. Ass.

[Valmy]

The thing Rome got wrong was that the two roman soldiers were such repulsive characters

[Josquius]

I liked the common one.


Silicon Valley is brilliant. I don't know how I've avoided watching it up to now.

[Savonarola]

Mystery Train (1989)

This has a great deal of musical talent in it, for not being a musical.  Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Joe Strummer () and Tom Waits all have roles in the film.

The film covers two of Jim Jarmusch's most common themes; foreigners reaction to the United States and offbeat characters.  The film is done as a triptych, with all three stories centering around a fleabag hotel in Memphis where the ghost of Elvis (literally in one of the stories) looms large.

While I'm not a fan of the triptych style; Jarmusch is really starting to hit his stride with this one.  The insight is sharper and the characters are quirkier than they are in "Stranger than Paradise" or "Down by Law." 

[Razgovory]

The thing Rome got wrong was that the two roman soldiers were such repulsive characters

It was a pretty repulsive society.