TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

[Admiral Yi]

About 2/3 of the French version of Touristas.  Without subtitles.

A little slower paced and a little grittier than the English version.  I thought the chicks were a pinch hotter too, but I could have been biased at the time.

What made absolutely no sense to me however is that when asked by some Brazilian where they were from, they said they were American.   

[The Brain]

Continued Band of Brothers. They're gonna have the geezers begin every episode? Breaks immersion.

[Savonarola]

The Raven (1915)

Sort of a biopic of Edgar Allen Poe, and sort of not.  Henry B. Wallthall (the Little Colonel from "Birth of a Nation") plays Poe.  The film has vignettes of Poe's life, interspersed with a couple fantasies of his work.  Something similar to Annabel Lee is shown while he and his cousin-fiancée sit by a brook.  The Raven is portrayed as a hallucination he suffers while drunk.  They even show Sarah Helen Whitman at the end of the film; but the film is so disjointed it's not clear what her relationship to Poe is and they're never on the screen together.

The film glosses over some to the unsavory details of Poe's life; most notably Virginia Clemm is played by a woman in her 30s, and couldn't at all pass for the 13 year old that Poe married.

Walthall does a good job as Poe, but even by the standards of 1915 the special effects and settings of this film are awful.  They look like paper mache props from a high school play.

[Ed Anger]

Continued Band of Brothers. They're gonna have the geezers begin every episode? Breaks immersion.

You'll get to see SS machinegunned in the back soon enough.

[Phillip V]

Clint Eastwood and his wife have separated. I wish to comfort his daughters.

[Admiral Yi]

Just watched Zero Dark Thirty.  I was expecting a lot, lot more.

[Habbaku]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8i5CR4kDjM

[Eddie Teach]

I guess McConnaughey's getting too old to keep making awful RomComs.

[Syt]

[Scipio]

Alter Egos, an indy film from 2012 about low-fantasy level super heroes with government funding.  Think Hipster Incredible Sucks. 

It shoehorns a conventional boy meets girl hipster love story into a conspiracy that's simultaneously bigger and smaller than you think, a sort of non-musical Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, with more annoying hipster douchery because it takes place at the Hamptons in the off-season, and the protagonist is a low-rent male version of DC Comic's Ice whose secret identity is that he's Steve Ditko.

It's like What If Woody Allen's Better Looking Cousin Became Hipster Iceman?, or, as the cognoscenti know it, Issue #87 of Volume 2.

Great throwaway scene of the protagonist cheating on himself with his girlfriend, doggystyle.

[Ideologue]

I feel like that review was translated back and forth from... well, not Japanese, but not a Germanic language, either.

[Admiral Yi]

Dude, you have no grounds to talk.

[Ideologue]

Dude, you have no grounds to talk.

Unless the protagonist was Jamie Madrox, I'm pretty sure the line "Great throwaway scene of the protagonist cheating on himself with his girlfriend, doggystyle" doesn't make any sense.

[Razgovory]

Started watching the last Season of Futurama.  Man, this show really does deserve to be cancelled.