TV/Movies Megathread

[Liep]

American Gods looking good.

http://www.avclub.com/article/heres-first-footage-american-gods-courtesy-comic-c-240010?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Main:1:Default

[FunkMonk]

Caught a couple episodes of Stranger Things on Netflix. Pretty engrossing so far, and somehow they managed to make kids in a leading role not annoying.

[CountDeMoney]

Has anybody gotten into Preacher at all?

[viper37]

Has anybody gotten into Preacher at all?

Nope.  Couldn't get into it, way too slow, and these foreing accents were too hard for me.

[HVC]

American Gods looking good.

http://www.avclub.com/article/heres-first-footage-american-gods-courtesy-comic-c-240010?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=Main:1:Default

yeah, it does. I want it to be good. I really liked the book. Though I always pictured Shadow as Native American so I was thrown off a bit at first.

[CountDeMoney]

Though I always pictured Shadow as Native American so I was thrown off a bit at first.

[HVC]

Though I always pictured Shadow as Native American so I was thrown off a bit at first.

kind of, but more biker and less loin cloth

[CountDeMoney]

Comic-Con debut of the USS Discovery for the new "Star Trek: Discovery" series on CBS this January:

https://youtu.be/bqm9HSYbf0o


Bleh.

#1, stupid name, and
#2, looks like something from Star Fleet Battles fucked a D7 Battlecruiser.

[HVC]

Can't see the video in Canada I guess, but I looked up some picture, and that's one ugly ship.

[viper37]

Comic-Con debut of the USS Discovery for the new "Star Trek: Discovery" series on CBS this January:

https://youtu.be/bqm9HSYbf0o


Bleh.

#1, stupid name, and
#2, looks like something from Star Fleet Battles fucked a D7 Battlecruiser.

unlike previous Star Trek series, this one would feature LGBTQ characters.

how many letters are we gonna need until this thing is done?

[viper37]

Can't see the video in Canada I guess, but I looked up some picture, and that's one ugly ship.

try this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGsuM31IC-Q

[celedhring]

Just saw the video. It's not the prettiest Federation ship - not by a long shot - but all trekkies are up in arms about it on my FB feed and I don't think it's *that* bad.

It doesn't help that the video feels so videogame cutscene-y. They should probably have waited until they had time to do better effects.

[Savonarola]

unlike previous Star Trek series, this one would feature LGBTQ characters.

Please, numerous fan fictions have already proven definitively that the original series already featured LGBTQ characters.

[Savonarola]

Pilgrimage (1933)

This is an unusual movie; Henrietta Crosman plays an over-protective mother who thinks the girl next door is no good for her son.  When her son abandons her for his gal the mother has him drafted.  He dies in the First World War just as the gal is giving birth to his son.  Ten years later Crosman is given a chance to go to France with other Gold Star Mothers to attend a ceremony and visit the grave of her son in France.  Here the movie picks up substantially, and John Ford is able to mix humor and pathos as Crosman interacts with the French, comes to grips with her decisions and come to grips with her son.  Lucile La Verne steals the Paris scenes as a woman from Appalachia who smokes a pipe and recommends moonshine as a cure for all ills.

It's not one of John Ford's better films, not by a long shot, but I don't think anyone else could have made the subject matter work better.

[lustindarkness]

My daughter and I wanted to watch Star Trek Beyond but the rest of the kids wanted to watch Secret Lives of Pets. Not a bad movie, but it sure is not Star Trek.