TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

starring Scarlett Johansson as an extraterrestrial roaming Glasgow in a white van, picking up men, is visually stunning and deeply disturbing

Been done.

[Grey Fox]

On that Zombie show, I really like this character development shows we've been getting in this 2nd half of the season.

[garbon]

On that Zombie show, I really like this character development shows we've been getting in this 2nd half of the season.

I like them but think I'd like them more if I was binge watching. As it is, they feel like the plot has been frozen in place.

[Ideologue]

Apparently Frozen is gay propaganda.

http://news.yahoo.com/frozen-gay-conspiracy-theory-094500946--politics.html

I've seen Let it Go, I could see that as a metaphor for coming out.

When gay people come out, do they sit in their houses and not do anything for the rest of the picture?

And yes, you should see Tangled.  It's superb.  Fourth best Disney animated feature, unless Treasure Planet holds some serious surprises for me.

[Ideologue]

It was probably too intense for the sensibilities of the time.  They hadn't yet been exposed to Die Hard, so how could they contextualize it On a Train?

I was thinking it was like Speed when I was watching it, in that it wastes almost no time in getting to the action (and that Keanu Reeves displays about the same range of emotion as the Great Stone Face.)  Die Hard is a better analogy.

If this train goes over 30, it will explode.

[Queequeg]

Glazer did the Karmacoma video! 

[Syt]

So, I'm excited:

Under the Skin review – 'Very erotic, very scary'
Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi horror-flick, starring Scarlett Johansson as an extraterrestrial roaming Glasgow in a white van, picking up men, is visually stunning and deeply disturbing

Shown this to my Glaswegian boss; he's pumped about it.

[Ideologue]

Quick query re: Grand Piano, inasmuch as sone of you guys are snobs. Are classical concerts really like thirty-five minutes long and consistent of four songs? Or is that a screen conceit? Seems like not a lot to dress up and shell out like $200 for.

[The Brain]

Quick query re: Grand Piano, inasmuch as sone of you guys are snobs. Are classical concerts really like thirty-five minutes long and consistent of four songs? Or is that a screen conceit? Seems like not a lot to dress up and shell out like $200 for.

Your Stalinesque attitude to culture is well known.

[Ideologue]

I like value. Anyway, was a serious question.

[Savonarola]

Quick query re: Grand Piano, inasmuch as sone of you guys are snobs. Are classical concerts really like thirty-five minutes long and consistent of four songs? Or is that a screen conceit? Seems like not a lot to dress up and shell out like $200 for.

The symphonies I've been to are usually about 2 hours with a 30 minute intermission.  Usually there will be three or four pieces.  Dressing up isn't a requirement in the United States.

[Ideologue]

They make you wear pants like the Hiterites they are.

Thanks, Sav.

The last one I went to seemed like it was about eight hours, but it was also students at university, so it's probably fairer to blame the musicians than the music. But in any event, it's hard to recall its actual duration.

[Savonarola]

When I was in graduate school I used to abuse my student ID and get student rush tickets to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.  For $9 I would get a seat on the main floor next to very old people who had lived privileged lives.  Many of them had "Careers" like amateur pianist or professor of Jewish studies.

One time I was sitting next to a woman of a certain age.  Before the concert the "Turn off your cell phone" message came on.

Woman:  Can you believe those cell phones?
Savonarola:  I know
Woman:  They're everywhere and people on them are so rude (pause) what do you do for a living?
Savonarola:  I'm a radio frequency engineer for AT&T wireless.
Woman:  Oh...

[celedhring]

They make you wear pants like the Hiterites they are.

Thanks, Sav.

The last one I went to seemed like it was about eight hours, but it was also students at university, so it's probably fairer to blame the musicians than the music. But in any event, it's hard to recall its actual duration.

The show featured in Grand Piano isn't a symphony, though, but a piano concert where he plays several shorter pieces. Those concerts last about an hour, plus intermission. Still longer than the film makes it to be, but less preposterous.

[Ideologue]

They make you wear pants like the Hiterites they are.

Thanks, Sav.

The last one I went to seemed like it was about eight hours, but it was also students at university, so it's probably fairer to blame the musicians than the music. But in any event, it's hard to recall its actual duration.

The show featured in Grand Piano isn't a symphony, though, but a piano concert where he plays several shorter pieces. Those concerts last about an hour, plus intermission. Still longer than the film makes it to be, but less preposterous.

Ah, I see.  I was thinking it might be like a Rope situation, where what is clearly meant to be about six hours is handled in real time yet somehow only takes eighty minutes.  It's one of the neat subtle aspects of the Hitchcock film, and helps establish this bizarre, awesome hyperreal world, alongide the gorgeously gaudy Technicolor and all that exquisitely "movie" dialogue.  I guess GP is more like the ordinary playfulness with time such as can be found in virtually any movie--not enough of a cheat to be worth mentioning.

Now, the ticket prices on the other hand...

Cel, do you know if that was a real concert hall or a set?  (I know the "Antoine Michelle Hall" is a fictional location, but I mean the interiors; I tried to google first, honest. )  I'm leaning toward set, but if so, what an opulent one, especially for what I was made to understand was a pretty low-budget affair that even then must've spent most of its cash on Wood and Cusack.  I'm wondering, I guess, if Javier Alvarino is a genius, or got lucky...