TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

The WH40K show seems to be going nowhere at this point. The deal between GW and Amazon was about to lapse at the end of last year and they extended it at the eleventh hour without any firm announcement of anything.

They have released an animated short, but that's all.

Ah.  Maybe the failure of Halo dimmed their hopes.
Gamer fans can be really annoying with their sense of purity.

Maybe if showmakers didn't shit on the sourcematerial so hard the gamer fans wouldn't be so annoyed at them?

Halo was allright.

1st season needed to introduce the universe and the characters.  2nd season was going great.

[celedhring]

Watched Del Toro's Frankenstein - it's having a theatrical run over here.

It sticks relatively decently to the structure of the book - the most important alteration is putting Elizabeth into a love triangle (well, square actually) between Victor, his brother Willian, and the creature - which imho is the bit of the movie that works the least. And having Christopher Waltz playing Christopher Waltz in a pretty meaningless part all things considered. But Elordi is great as the creature, with an amazing physical performance, and Isaac puts in a fine job as the arrogant Victor.  The movie is long - 2 hours and a half - and it more or less hits all the key points of the novel but it really blazes through the last third of it, which I think undermines some of the character work.

The movie doesn't really put much new on the table regarding the mythos/themes (besides making the creature effectively Wolverine), but at the same time there aren't that many attempts at an actual adaptation of the novel (Brannagh!). I liked how, for example, the movie recognizes how important is the framing device of the ship in the Arctic for the moral message of the book, and leans on it.

Overall, if you don't have issues with Del Toro's excursions into sentimentalism (I don't), you'll probably enjoy it. The movie has lush gothic visuals, but it is rather restrained for Del Toro.

[The Brain]

Is the Creature built from human body parts?

[Syt]

'A House of Dynamite' - Most excellent.

Sounds like a blast.

[mongers]

'A House of Dynamite' - Most excellent.

Sounds like a blast.

 

Can't say anything about it without spoiling the plot.