TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Rosanna Arquette(or is it Patricia?) would have ruined television for me, except that I've avoided watching that show. 

[Liep]

I was looking forward to see Kate Beckingsale return to her leather suit as Selene, but the trailer looks lame. Much like the other Underworld moves of course, but still.

[Admiral Yi]

Rosanna Arquette(or is it Patricia?) would have ruined television for me, except that I've avoided watching that show. 

Rosanna is the one with the trim bod and the horsey face.  Patricia is the one with the pleasant face but a little on the lardy side.

[Ideologue]

Hey, Brad Neely's China, IL came back.  I'd practically forgotten about it.  Luckily Adult Swim's got the episodes up (if chopped up into annoying clips).  I miss the MSPaint-like non-animation animation--the redone character designs especially have a major acceptance curve to them--and there's an essential darkness that seems to be missing, but mostly it's pretty good, if slightly disappointing after the simply awesome web shorts, the apogee of the pilot and the insane fucking wait... the pilot aired in 2008--what the fuck is wrong with Cartoon Network that they every Goddamned series I like takes them three and a half years a season?  See also, the Venture Bros.

[viper37]

I was looking forward to see Kate Beckingsale return to her leather suit as Selene, but the trailer looks lame. Much like the other Underworld moves of course, but still.

Notices this:
J. Michael Straczynski       screenplay

I'm hooked

[11B4V]

Pan Am is fucking stupid.

[Capetan Mihali]

Watched "Inglorious Basterds" at my roommate's insistence.  As stupid and repulsive as I thought it would be.  Some of the acting was OK.  Enjoyed the tip of the hat to Henri-Georges Clouzot.  Otherwise, it confirms everything disgusting I expected from the movie and Tarantino's fundamental worthlessness as a director.

EDIT:  It also may be the nadir of the treatment of the Holocaust in popular culture.  It's success seems to say:  if you want to make a movie about the joys of graphically torturing and killing human beings, just make it vengeance for the Holocaust and nobody can really criticize it.  When it is the same attitudes of celebrating brutality that enabled the Holocaust in the first place.     Genuinely saddening from a talented director and cast with tons of Hollywood money at their disposal.

[Eddie Teach]

Tarantino's fundamental worthlessness as a director. ...
  Genuinely saddening from a talented director

[Capetan Mihali]

Tarantino's fundamental worthlessness as a director. ...
  Genuinely saddening from a talented director

  Technically talented, meaningfully worthless.

Did I stutter?   

[Eddie Teach]

I don't use  and  interchangeably.

[Capetan Mihali]

I don't use  and  interchangeably.

Great.  It would be really nice if you provided all of us with a "Complete Guide To Eddie Teach's One Emoticon Insinuation Responses."    

[viper37]

Hell's on Wheels, AMC.
A former Confederate soldier is seeking vengeance from the Union Soldiers who raped&killed his wife during the war.
Of course, they man is a noble hero.  He fought for honor, not for slavery.  He freed all his slaves one year before the war and kept them on wages.
Can't have the 'hero' a proud slave owner, now can't we?

Aside that, I kinda like the show so far, I think it has an interesting premise: the building of the first transcontinental railroad and the machinations behind it, similar in nature to BoardWalk Empire.

Will watch it again, see how it evolves. 

[Malthus]

Watched "Inglorious Basterds" at my roommate's insistence.  As stupid and repulsive as I thought it would be.  Some of the acting was OK.  Enjoyed the tip of the hat to Henri-Georges Clouzot.  Otherwise, it confirms everything disgusting I expected from the movie and Tarantino's fundamental worthlessness as a director.

EDIT:  It also may be the nadir of the treatment of the Holocaust in popular culture.  It's success seems to say:  if you want to make a movie about the joys of graphically torturing and killing human beings, just make it vengeance for the Holocaust and nobody can really criticize it.  When it is the same attitudes of celebrating brutality that enabled the Holocaust in the first place.     Genuinely saddening from a talented director and cast with tons of Hollywood money at their disposal.

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[Ideologue]

Watched "Inglorious Basterds" at my roommate's insistence.  As stupid and repulsive as I thought it would be.  Some of the acting was OK.  Enjoyed the tip of the hat to Henri-Georges Clouzot.  Otherwise, it confirms everything disgusting I expected from the movie and Tarantino's fundamental worthlessness as a director.

EDIT:  It also may be the nadir of the treatment of the Holocaust in popular culture.  It's success seems to say:  if you want to make a movie about the joys of graphically torturing and killing human beings, just make it vengeance for the Holocaust and nobody can really criticize it.  When it is the same attitudes of celebrating brutality that enabled the Holocaust in the first place.     Genuinely saddening from a talented director and cast with tons of Hollywood money at their disposal.

You missed the point, mon frere.  He's making fun of the people who enjoy the graphic torture; and I think the hypocrisy is supposed to be part of the filmgoing experience.

Which doesn't mean it's not still flawed, and does not mean it's perforce very good.  It is, and it is not.  But I thought it was interesting.

[Josephus]

I liked it. I remember watching it in the theatre and saw people walking out at one point. I knew the gore was so over-the-top so as to be satirical. and it was a good movie. Comic gore, and the ending, aside...there were two really good scenes. The opening one at the farm house and the scene when they were playing that charades game with the cards in the cafe.