TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

  I gotst a gift card!

[Ideologue]

Fair enough.

[CountDeMoney]

Seriously, though--in less than 50 words and using only 7 commas, what's its damage?

[Josephus]

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel.

Cute little Brit movie about three young men discussing time travel in a pub when strange things start happening to them. A low key, sci fi comedy. Enjoyable.

[11B4V]

I'll review it, but just in case you were about to step out right this second: Fury is a fucking travesty.  Think twice.

This states nothing.

It is Running 83% IMDB and 76% on RT.

[Ideologue]

Seriously, though--in less than 50 words and using only 7 commas, what's its damage?

It's unintentionally funny in how deeply and constantly it wallows in misery.  The first hour is a monotonous parade of background grotesqueries as well as at least one war crime perpetrated by the protagonists.  The second expects you to still care about the characters.  I guess if you only saw the second hour, it would have been cool.

For 11B4V: also not enough tank on tank action.

[Habbaku]

Then don't, you dumb cunt.

As for Money, not like he could afford a ticket anyway.

[CountDeMoney]

Then don't, you dumb cunt.

As for Money, not like he could afford a ticket anyway.

[Ideologue]

Oh, no, personal antipathy.  I'm wounded.

[Berkut]

Seriously, though--in less than 50 words and using only 7 commas, what's its damage?

It's unintentionally funny in how deeply and constantly it wallows in misery.  The first hour is a monotonous parade of background grotesqueries as well as at least one war crime perpetrated by the protagonists.  The second expects you to still care about the characters.  I guess if you only saw the second hour, it would have been cool.

For 11B4V: also not enough tank on tank action.

Saw it today, thought it was excellent.

The critique here is grotesque. The first hour is nothing but misery? It's a fucking war movie - of course it is miserable. War is kind of miserable.

And yes, the "protaganist" isn't a very nice guy. That is the entire point. A bunch of people doing pretty horrible things in a pretty horrible world. How could you so thoroughly miss the entirety of the point of the movie?

[Berkut]

Also went and saw Gone Girl with the wife earlier today. It was also extremely good, great little story, and a very unconventional and unsettling conclusion.

[Habbaku]

B+

[CountDeMoney]

Seriously, though--in less than 50 words and using only 7 commas, what's its damage?

It's unintentionally funny in how deeply and constantly it wallows in misery.  The first hour is a monotonous parade of background grotesqueries as well as at least one war crime perpetrated by the protagonists.  The second expects you to still care about the characters.  I guess if you only saw the second hour, it would have been cool.

For 11B4V: also not enough tank on tank action.

Saw it today, thought it was excellent.

The critique here is grotesque. The first hour is nothing but misery? It's a fucking war movie - of course it is miserable. War is kind of miserable.

And yes, the "protaganist" isn't a very nice guy. That is the entire point. A bunch of people doing pretty horrible things in a pretty horrible world. How could you so thoroughly miss the entirety of the point of the movie?

[Ideologue]

Seriously, though--in less than 50 words and using only 7 commas, what's its damage?

It's unintentionally funny in how deeply and constantly it wallows in misery.  The first hour is a monotonous parade of background grotesqueries as well as at least one war crime perpetrated by the protagonists.  The second expects you to still care about the characters.  I guess if you only saw the second hour, it would have been cool.

For 11B4V: also not enough tank on tank action.

Saw it today, thought it was excellent.

The critique here is grotesque. The first hour is nothing but misery? It's a fucking war movie - of course it is miserable. War is kind of miserable.

Yeah, that's great.  It was comical how miserable it was.  "Oh, let's show a corpse getting run over by this tank!  Because they haven't gotten it yet!"  This is not a documentary or even based a true story; it is a designed piece of art, with every element intentionally placed.  Taken in aggregate, the happenstance of Fury is borderline ridiculous.  Perhaps that was the point, and if you like that kind of orchestrated misery, perhaps it is worthwhile.

However, I didn't see anyone in this film whose misery I cared about, because the characters were poorly drawn and boring and almost entirely nasty.  Collier ("Wardaddy" ) came the closest, as sort of Kurtz devoid of much poetry, but that's almost entirely due to Pitt's charisma as a star.  Norman is a void and he winds up as gross as everybody else and weirdly attached to the jerk that's been leading him astray.  He does so in a hurried arc that takes place over, like, a week.

And yes, the "protaganist" isn't a very nice guy. That is the entire point. A bunch of people doing pretty horrible things in a pretty horrible world. How could you so thoroughly miss the entirety of the point of the movie?

Yeah, a bunch of "not nice guys" whose [spoiler]sacrifice is accompanied with great big music swells and an expectation that you care about them as human beings, though they have (with the possible exception of Norman) abandoned their humanity with their actions, which ranged from war crimes to rape threats to kind of actual rape.[/spoiler]

Like I said, this is not a documentary.  It was a film about purposely-designed monsters (some worse than others), that the film still expects you to care about when they're in danger. 

Worse, they are clearly intended to represent soldiers' experience in WWII--including, I guess, their experience committing war crimes.  If I were a WWII vet I'd be fucking offended.  Actually, as a Southerner, I can already be a bit offended by its stereotyping myself.

Also went and saw Gone Girl with the wife earlier today. It was also extremely good, great little story, and a very unconventional and unsettling conclusion.

Well, that movie was great.

[Martinus]

Constantine MUST be awesome.

They straight-washed him in the tv series.