TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

podophile

I really, really have to work on my dislexia thing when reading online.

I'm never, ever confused when reading a goddam book, but it always happens when reading on a computer screen.

[Duque de Bragança]

Must be really hard on a cellphone screen I guess.

[Syt]

So this is coming to Netflix:

I mean it looks better than those live action movies we got. But it's also adapting one of my least favorite books.

[Grey Fox]

I think that's why it's a series and not a movie.

[Savonarola]

Bananas (1971)

Woody isn't quite there yet; though this is much better than "What's Up Tiger Lilly?" or "Take the Money and Run."  The problem is that it's more like a Charlie Chaplin film, where the plot exists just to string the funny bits together.  Still those bits are really funny for the most part.  There's a lot more hits than misses.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

So this is coming to Netflix:

I mean it looks better than those live action movies we got. But it's also adapting one of my least favorite books.

not to mention that they've already done it before (partially) in the animated film "Le coup du Menhir". It was mixed together with the album where they have that "seeer" over though.

[Savonarola]

Resynator (2024)

A documentary from the SXSW Film Festival and sort of a stereotype; a young woman goes in search of the truth about her late father and discovers the truth about him complete with a lot of interviews and archival home movies.

I was interested in the film because it billed itself as being about the inventor of an early synthesizer (the young woman's father).  That's kind of misleading, the guy was a contemporary of Tom Scholz rather than Robert Moog; and the thing he invented The Resynator is more akin to an enormous effects pedal rather than a synthesizer.  Still it did have its proponents, Peter Gabriel (who is in the film) ordered several (they were never produced.)  The movie isn't about the technology anyway (Gabriel actually comes out and says this) but about the daughter looking for a father she never knew.

I had always pronounced it Moo-g, but I learned from the film that it's actually Moh-g.  Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if it's actually Andrew Loo-g Oldham or Andrew Loh-g Oldham?

[Josquius]

The new Dr who series.... I'm not sure on the way they're really highlighting the costume changes like so but aye, it's alright.

[Savonarola]

Chongqing Hot Pot (2016)

A group of friends own a Hot Pot Restaurant in a bomb shelter in Chongqing.  They try to expand their restaurant by drilling, but accidentally drill into the vault of a nearby bank.  Fortunately a former classmate is a disgruntled employee at the bank, and she can get one of them into the vault where he can patch the floor before the police catch on.  The day they go to execute the plan though, a real bank robbery occurs.  Hilarity ensues.

The weakness of the film is that it's a caper film that doesn't focus on the caper or the perpetrators (or even the police.)  It has it's moments, though, the brawl scene is well done (although the Sam Peckinpah and John Woo influences are more obvious than they should be.)

[Savonarola]

Art School 1994 (2023)

An almost entirely hand drawn cartoon about a group of art students at South China's Academy of Arts.  A lot of this is instantly recognizable from a western perspective: dorm room philosophizing, beer, love, heartbreak, aimless days and wondering what next when college ends.  Some is different though, one of the characters studies traditional Chinese painting, and is encouraged to copy the masters - something different from the art students that I have met.

While the animation is not as fantastic as Studio Ghibli, the film does bear something of a resemblance with the animator focusing on things like a stag beetle trying to climb a wall, or rocks landing in the water.

The film ends with an epilogue saying what happened to the characters.  I couldn't help but think of Animal House when I saw that.  (It would have been really edgy if, as an homage, one of the characters had joined the PLA and been killed by his own men.)

[Sheilbh]

Sinners - I loved it. 10/10.

[Syt]

Watching Ghosts (US version) on Netflix. It's ok. In the episode where Jay plays D&D with Pete who died in the 80s - wouldn't Jay have to bring Pete up to speed first on the latest rule set?