TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

I haven't finished yet, but I'm not sure what the show makers want me to feel about Diana (if anything). I think I saw 5 episodes and her constant whining about how awful the family has treated her just makes her seem like a spoiled brat. Am I supposed to feel sympathy here?

With Diana - I'm not convinced it's a particularly good performance

It feels more impersonation-y than I think Emma Corrin did or, say, Kristen Stewart (both incredible in my view). It's probably also a problem/more challenging role for the sheer amount of Diana content in recent years.

Edit: And I think Stewart and Corrin were great precisely because of what you say - they were able to be at once slightly insufferable and vulnerable all at once.

[Sophie Scholl]

So. I've been... not in the right headspace to watch movies or shows for basically all of this year. What are the top show and movie I should make sure to get to as a priority? I'm leaning toward Andor over HotD and RoP and maybe... Everything, Everywhere, All at Once for movie? I'm open to suggestions on both though!

[The Brain]

Dark Star. Scruffy space crew is on a multi-year mission to blow up planets that pose a threat. John Carpenter's first feature-length movie. These days mostly interesting as an example of where space movies were in the 1970s before Star Wars and Alien, and for spotting how it may have helped influence later stuff. Hyperspace looks kinda Star Wars-y, there's a strong space trucker vibe (even if it's technically a military mission) which hints at Alien... The very perky planet-killer bomb AIs give off Hitchhiker vibes.

There's no budget, which may be best illustrated by the design of the alien.

[celedhring]

So. I've been... not in the right headspace to watch movies or shows for basically all of this year. What are the top show and movie I should make sure to get to as a priority? I'm leaning toward Andor over HotD and RoP and maybe... Everything, Everywhere, All at Once for movie? I'm open to suggestions on both though!

Everything Everywhere... is by far my favorite movie of the year. Also very much a feelgood movie.

Andor is indeed better than those other two shows. HotD is decent-to-good, too.

[Zoupa]

I'm enjoying "The English", it's on Amazon Prime here. Old school western vibe, great cinematography. Emily Blunt is superb, but she always is.

[mongers]

I'm enjoying "The English", it's on Amazon Prime here. Old school western vibe, great cinematography. Emily Blunt is superb, but she always is.

Thanks for the recommendation Zoupa, I'll give it a go.

[Gups]

I'm enjoying "The English", it's on Amazon Prime here. Old school western vibe, great cinematography. Emily Blunt is superb, but she always is.

Thanks for the recommendation Zoupa, I'll give it a go.

On BBC over here. Really enjoyed the first episode. Blunt superb

[Admiral Yi]

All Quiet on the Western Front seems to have ripped off its aesthetic from Death Krieg of War.

[Syt]

I still haven't watched it, but it seems to capture the carnage of WW1 battles quite well while doing its own story that's mostly detached from the book and adding additional (unnecessary?) layers, i.e. the quasi-Ludendorff officer and the politicians (the latter, I can only assume, to provide some context for viewers unfamiliar with the period?).

[Tamas]

I still haven't watched it, but it seems to capture the carnage of WW1 battles quite well while doing its own story that's mostly detached from the book and adding additional (unnecessary?) layers, i.e. the quasi-Ludendorff officer and the politicians (the latter, I can only assume, to provide some context for viewers unfamiliar with the period?).

It is a disconnected montage of scenes from the book shuffled together randomly with the added quasi-Luddendorf, all compressed into the last half-week of the war.

Actually I think it reminds me of Lynch's Dune - visually impressive but otherwise made by somebody who had zero interest in the source material. But I don't want to overemphasise the source material thing, if they made a good WW1 movie with the same title but nothing to do with the book I'd still like it. But this is just a bad, bad movie.

[Admiral Yi]

It's too graphic novelish for me after the hyper realism of SPR.

[Duque de Bragança]

Actually I think it reminds me of Lynch's Dune - visually impressive but otherwise made by somebody who had zero interest in the source material. But I don't want to overemphasise the source material thing, if they made a good WW1 movie with the same title but nothing to do with the book I'd still like it. But this is just a bad, bad movie.

Lynch's Dune has been reevaluated following Villeneuve's dull Dune, so be careful. 
I liked the book so I am really wary of this new adaptation.   

[Tamas]

Villeneuves Dune is amazing, don't be an old grumpy guy.

[Duque de Bragança]

Villeneuves Dune is amazing, don't be an old grumpy guy.

Ok, boomer. 
 
Grumpy old guys still await Jodorowsky's version.

Amazing?
 

Lynch's Dune is very imperfect yet has its charms, as in lively and over the top.
Villeneuve's is only amazing if compared to current CGI-crapfests and Marvel crap. Sorry for having higher standards.

[Sheilbh]

Villeneuves Dune is amazing, don't be an old grumpy guy.

Both Dunes are great in their own way