TV/Movies Megathread

[11B4V]

French Connection is somewhat overrated.  You take away a couple good scenes in which Gene Hackman roughs up negroes and there's not much to the flick.

[Duque de Bragança]

French Connection is somewhat overrated.  You take away a couple good scenes in which Gene Hackman roughs up negroes and there's not much to the flick.

There's also a brillliant car chase [spoiler]of an elevated train[/spoiler], did you miss it since you only bits of the movie in your tipical Yi way or what? What about the cinéma-vérité and authenticity feeling? And so on...

This car scene was only surpassed in another movie by the same director, To Live and Die in L.A.

[Razgovory]

Yo Kleves, or anyone else watching VB.

Fake-out bullshit ala Successful Alternate Universe Rusty, or what?

Something about it felt serious, like exactly what Hammer and Publick would do when they wanted to do that.  I ain't saying [spoiler]he's dead.  But somehow I don't exactly think Rusty's crawling out of that next week with no issues.[/spoiler]

Saw the episode.  Next season is the last episode, which is a shame cause I don't think they even going to try pull together all the threads.  [spoiler]He's not dead, though most of the characters will think he is.  Dean and Hank will be sent to their next of kin which will likely be the Action Man and Colonel gentleman.  I suspect some big secret is going to be revealed through flashbacks.  I think think that the cyborg guy that Brock beat up in the bathroom is the Monarchs father.[/spoiler]

No wai.

Yes way.  Three things.  There was a photo that Rusty had of the Monarch as a child playing with rusty and his parents are in the back ground that totally freaked the Monarch out.  In the very first season the Monarch says he survived a plane crash as child that killed his parents in the pine barrens.  And thirdly Vendata (the Cyborg), was built by Venture industries some time before the mid 1970's and  couldn't remember his past until until Brock clobbered him.  When Brock sees him again he (Vendata) starts talking about how he thinks the plane is going down and asking where his wife is.

Rusty and the Monarch were friends as children but for some reason neither can remember this.  The Monarch can't remember the photo of him and Rusty playing and Rusty calls Vendata the "murder machine from my nightmares!".  I think the Monarchs family was close to the the Venture family and after a plane crash Jonas Venture saved his friend by turning him into a cyborg.  For some reason nobody can remember these events.  Jonas venture might have built the mind erasing machine that the OSI uses and used it on everyone for some reason, leaving the Monarch with some deep antipathy toward Rusty venture he can't actually explain.

[Ideologue]

Believe it or not, I've never seen The French Connection,

And you wonder why you get so much shit.

It's in my queue.

After about 20 Ethan Hawke movies, but it's there.

[CountDeMoney]

After about 20 Ethan Hawke movies, but it's there.

And you wonder why you get so much shit.

[Savonarola]

There's also a brillliant car chase [spoiler]of an elevated train[/spoiler], did you miss it since you only bits of the movie in your tipical Yi way or what? What about the cinéma-vérité and authenticity feeling? And so on...

This car scene was only surpassed in another movie by the same director, To Live and Die in L.A.

I've read that they didn't get permits to film when they did the car chase scene, so the passers-by on film are in genuine terror for their lives.

"Bullitt" remains my favorite car chase scene, (though "The French Connection" is a much better movie) but I haven't seen "To Live and Die in LA"

[CountDeMoney]

but I haven't seen "To Live and Die in LA"

Neat, neat movie.  One of the great under-appreciated flicks of the '80s.  Willem Dafoe makes for a nifty bad guy with a lot more complexity than he was given credit for in that role.

And yes, the car chase scene is pure boss.  [spoiler]Especially since it's the Secret Service agents that are being chased. [/spoiler]

I suggest you see it immediately.

[garbon]

After about 20 Ethan Hawke movies, but it's there.

And you wonder why you get so much shit.

I don't see why.

[CountDeMoney]

I don't think either Uma or Mother Hawke could handle 20 Ethan Hawke movies, or would even want to.  Would your mother want to watch Assault on Precinct 13?

[garbon]

Why are you bringing my mother into this?

[CountDeMoney]

Point of emphasis, s'all.

[garbon]

Point of emphasis, s'all.

Well you best leave her out of it or she will cut you.

[CountDeMoney]

Sounds like something somebody with a Boston accent would do.

[garbon]

I wouldn't know.

[garbon]

Also, are you insinuating that she's "Canadian"?