TV/Movies Megathread

[Syt]

New episode of Ted Lasso was good. I get strong Zlatan Ibrahimovic vibes from Zava.   

[HVC]

I love coach beard.

[Barrister]

I love coach beard.

Really?  He's such an enigmatic character.  Unless that's what you like about him.

You know it's so funny to think that this now-Emmy-award-winning show started out as some commercials to promote the EPL on NBC sports.  And that Coach Beard (together with Ted Lasso) are the only characters that combine the two...

[HVC]

I love coach beard.

Really?  He's such an enigmatic character.  Unless that's what you like about him.

I mainly like the comedy beats. Like in the last episode his reaction to the news of the break up. It's unexpected.just makes me laugh.

[The Larch]

I love coach beard.

Really?  He's such an enigmatic character.  Unless that's what you like about him.

You know it's so funny to think that this now-Emmy-award-winning show started out as some commercials to promote the EPL on NBC sports.  And that Coach Beard (together with Ted Lasso) are the only characters that combine the two...

The guy who plays Coach Beard is a long time friend and collaborator of Jason Sudeikis, and is also part of the writing team for the show.

[Savonarola]

Once when I was at the Vincent van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam I got the song "Vincent" by Don McLean stuck in my head.  No matter what I couldn't stop hearing it, even thinking of "Yellow Submarine" or "It's a Small World After All" didn't help.  (This was especially aggravating since "Starry Night" isn't even there, it's at MOMA.)  I had that happen again, but with the verse from Bob Dylan's I shall be free:

Well, my telephone rang it would not stop
It's President Kennedy callin' me up
He said, "My friend, Bob, what do we need to make the country grow?"
I said, "My friend, John, Brigitte Bardot
Anita Ekberg
Sophia Loren"
(Put 'em all in the same room with Ernest Borgnine!)

While watching

La Dolce Vita (1960)

I think this has two phenomenal vignettes; the part with Anita Ekberg and the part where they go to the castle.  The rest of the movie is... okay.  I'm not really a fan of the vignette style.  I think Fellini has a deft sense of humor (Roberto Rossellini's films are noticeably drearier without him) and the Felliniesque absurdity is always fun; but (other than Nights of Cabiria) I don't think his movies as a whole are all that great.

[The Larch]

Just watched Robert de Niro's Ronin, and what a fine, totally unexpected movie it was. Pretty good supporting cast too. Jean Reno, Sean Bean, Stellan Skarsgaard...

The 90s sure were a great setting for spy/heist films.

[viper37]

Just watched Robert de Niro's Ronin, and what a fine, totally unexpected movie it was. Pretty good supporting cast too. Jean Reno, Sean Bean, Stellan Skarsgaard...

The 90s sure were a great setting for spy/heist films.

Yes, great movie, good car chases.

[celedhring]

Just watched Robert de Niro's Ronin, and what a fine, totally unexpected movie it was. Pretty good supporting cast too. Jean Reno, Sean Bean, Stellan Skarsgaard...

The 90s sure were a great setting for spy/heist films.

Yeah, I love that movie. Uncredited David Mamet script, btw. You can see his fingers all over the place.

[FunkMonk]

Ladies and gentlemen, it's Succession Day.

[Josephus]

Ladies and gentlemen, it's Succession Day.

It's gonna be a great season.

[Syt]

[celedhring]

"Artyom" (of course) has probably been in as many movie sets as I've been to Real Madrid home games. 

[The Larch]

What happened in the show to deserve such an edgelord-ish comment?

[Tamas]

Held as many jobs of any kind as well, I think.