TV/Movies Megathread

[The Brain]

Solo. Kinda meh, but one good thing was that SPOILER: Khaleesi betrayed him.

[CountDeMoney]

Finally - was the big bad guy very clearly inspired by Tim Cook?

Well, it was the Apple Macintosh Quadtra towers in the original movie that Neuman programmed to crash the system, you know. 

So, continuity.

[Barrister]

Finally - was the big bad guy very clearly inspired by Tim Cook?

Well, it was the Apple Macintosh Quadtra towers in the original movie that Neuman programmed to crash the system, you know. 

So, continuity.

LOL - you just made me realize that the original Jurassic Park is so old that it even pre-dates Steve Jobs coming back to Apple!  Never mind that Tim Cook hadn't even joined Apple yet.

[CountDeMoney]

Finally - was the big bad guy very clearly inspired by Tim Cook?

Well, it was the Apple Macintosh Quadtra towers in the original movie that Neuman programmed to crash the system, you know. 

So, continuity.

LOL - you just made me realize that the original Jurassic Park is so old that it even pre-dates Steve Jobs coming back to Apple!  Never mind that Tim Cook hadn't even joined Apple yet.

Maybe the big bad corporate supervillain...is the corporation.  :TimApple:

[Barrister]

Just in case you thought I was kidding about the baddie being a Tim Cook-clone...

Here's Lewis Dodgson, the main bad guy from Jurassic World: Dominion



And here's Tim Cook




And I swear I didn't pick the pictures deliberately that they were making the same hand gesture!

[HVC]

It's cooks fault for ripping off Mr Burns.

[Admiral Yi]

Who was the tech mogul on Don't Look Up supposed to be?  I'm figuring a mix of Dyson and Zuck.

[FunkMonk]

Rian Johnson posted today on Twitter that a new Knives Out movie is coming out on Netflix later this year.

https://twitter.com/rianjohnson/status/1536378456153260033

[Sheilbh]

Hopefully it'll get a cinema release too (I imagine it will).

[Barrister]

Hopefully it'll get a cinema release too (I imagine it will).

I believe it will.

Knives Out was great - I have good hopes for this one.

[celedhring]

First one was a riot. Really looking forward to the next ones, IIRC he's contracted for two sequels.

[Eddie Teach]

Once Upon a Time in America. Ugh. If you're going to wallow in sentimentality, at least do it for a likeable character.

[Razgovory]

I like to wallow.  Sometimes I roll around on my bed saying, "Wallow! Wallow! Wallow! Wallow!" and pretend I'm a pig.  One of those wallowing pigs.

[grumbler]

Once Upon a Time in America. Ugh. If you're going to wallow in sentimentality, at least do it for a likeable character.

I loved that flick.  You have to see Leone's cut, though.  The butchered version released in the US lacks all of the style and almost all of the substance of Leone's film.

Yeah, Noodles isn't a very sympathetic character, but Leone's point was that all of the gang were emotional cripples.

[Josephus]

Oh jeez, so many thoughts about that stupid movie.  I forgot that the final dino sanctuary was set in - the Italian Dolomites?

I mean come on.  We had a whole mini-Languish meet-up in Cortina near the Dolomites (Shoot-out to RH, Tamas, Ank, Leo, and I feel like I'm forgetting someone).  A really pretty part of the world - but also really crowded.  No way they just let whole crowds of dinos just live there.  Also the wilderness shots (other than the mountains themselves) looked nothing like the Dolomites, between having a frozen lake, but also a tropical rainforest all in the same area.

A chunk of it was filmed in Malta--judging by the trailer, a big chase scene through narrow streets-- but I heard it's shit, so didn't watch.