TV/Movies Megathread

[crazy canuck]

Saw The World's End which was very funny - though sadly enough it reminded me of several of the people I knew. 

Ah, want to see that one.

[Malthus]

Saw The World's End which was very funny - though sadly enough it reminded me of several of the people I knew. 

Ah, want to see that one.

See it, and wonder if a Languish pub crawl would have ended differently. 

[crazy canuck]

Saw The World's End which was very funny - though sadly enough it reminded me of several of the people I knew. 

Ah, want to see that one.

See it, and wonder if a Languish pub crawl would have ended differently. 

I have been on two of them so I shall compare and contrast.

[Josephus]

Breaking BAd [spoiler]I thought Jesse's epiphany was a bit sudden and unexplained. Not sure how he got to the 'walt poisoned kid' discovery.[/spoiler]

[Ideologue]

Saw The World's End which was very funny - though sadly enough it reminded me of several of the people I knew. 

I watched it yesterday.  Thought it kind of blew.  2013: the year of disappointments at every turn.

Full write-up: It wants to hide inside an imitation

The World's End (2013) C+

[Syt]

Bryan Cranston scheduled to be the new Lex Luthor in the Man of Steel sequel.

[CountDeMoney]

Saw The World's End which was very funny - though sadly enough it reminded me of several of the people I knew. 

I watched it yesterday.  Thought it kind of blew.  2013: the year of disappointments at every turn.

Did the film explain why going to all these different pubs was so important?  Does the same beer at different places taste different in England or something?

[Scipio]

Saw The World's End which was very funny - though sadly enough it reminded me of several of the people I knew. 

I watched it yesterday.  Thought it kind of blew.  2013: the year of disappointments at every turn.

Did the film explain why going to all these different pubs was so important?  Does the same beer at different places taste different in England or something?

Generally, those sorts of pubs serve "real ales," i.e., not fizzy yellow crap.  There are dozens of real ales in the UK, and typically a small town's pubs would each serve some different real ales.

[CountDeMoney]

So, Pub A would serve Ale A, and Pub B would serve Ale B, and so on?  Just one big nation of microbreweries?

[Malthus]

Saw The World's End which was very funny - though sadly enough it reminded me of several of the people I knew. 

I watched it yesterday.  Thought it kind of blew.  2013: the year of disappointments at every turn.

Full write-up: It wants to hide inside an imitation

The World's End (2013) C+

You are just sore about the Gary King comparison. 

Myself, I'd rate it as the least of the three (I liked Shawn of the Dead the best), but that still puts it light-years above any other comedy I've seen this year.

[Malthus]

So, Pub A would serve Ale A, and Pub B would serve Ale B, and so on?  Just one big nation of microbreweries?

The notion is that each pub would have individuality both of atmosphere and of available brews.

Needless to say, that notion gets lampooned - hard - in the movie.

[viper37]

Cloud Atlas (2012)

The film interleaves six loosely interrelated stories set over a period of five hundred years; each of the stories is a morality play that demonstrates we should be kind to one another^1..    Unfortunately the message is obvious about half an hour into the three hour movie; so the viewer is stuck watching the same obvious conclusion unfold six times over.

Yoshihiro Nakamura "Fish Story" and DW Griffith's "Intolerance" both use a similar narrative technique to a much better effect.  "Cloud Atlas" does make good use of it's enormous special effects and make up budget as well as its all star cast.  The film is watchable even if a little trite and over-long.


1.  The opposite message of "Languish: The Motion Picture."

about what I would have said, had I an easyness with the verb that rival yours

[Caliga]

Myself, I'd rate it as the least of the three (I liked Shawn of the Dead the best), but that still puts it light-years above any other comedy I've seen this year.

I liked it and I agree Shawn of the Dead was better.  I haven't seen Hot Fuzz so can't say overall which is the best.

[Ideologue]

Saw The World's End which was very funny - though sadly enough it reminded me of several of the people I knew. 

I watched it yesterday.  Thought it kind of blew.  2013: the year of disappointments at every turn.

Did the film explain why going to all these different pubs was so important?  Does the same beer at different places taste different in England or something?

Well, initially, I think it's just the idea of going from place to place and having a pint is kind of a fun one.  I mean, pub crawls are a thing.

If you mean, why do they keep going to all these different pubs after the aliens reveal themselves, no, not really.  A few lines are uttered to try to paper over it, but no.

You are just sore about the Gary King comparison. 

Maybe.

But I'm really more sore that they abandoned the sound structural sensibilities that had characterized the other two Cornetto movies.  Shaun of the Dead is at the end of the day a really good zombie movie (it is low praise, but it is probably my second favorite in the subgenre, unless you count Evil Dead films).  Hot Fuzz is likewise a really good run-and-gun action movie better than most non-parody action movies.  World's End is a really sloppy, kind of bad body snatcher movie.

And it's not as funny.

Myself, I'd rate it as the least of the three (I liked Shawn of the Dead the best), but that still puts it light-years above any other comedy I've seen this year.

It's not even the best apocalypse comedy I've seen this year.

[CountDeMoney]

Well, initially, I think it's just the idea of going from place to place and having a pint is kind of a fun one.  I mean, pub crawls are a thing.

Sure, it's a thing.  It's a pretty stupid thing, though.  It's a lot easier to stay in one place and get drunk than going to different places and getting drunk on the same beer.   Doesn't seem very pragmatic, particulary if there are differing costs, etc.  And why would you drink different beers anyway and make yourself sick, all the while becoming progressively more intoxicated over the course of the evening, increasing your chances with the possibility of DWI arrests or traffic accidents?

If you mean, why do they keep going to all these different pubs after the aliens reveal themselves, no, not really.  A few lines are uttered to try to paper over it, but no.

No, I was simply asking about the pub crawling thing, and wondering if they explained it at all.  Having aliens in the story doesn't make it any more plausible, though.