TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

I enjoyed 2013's The Great Gatsby, but it seemed a bit compressed. 2 hours is too short to get in all that backstory, emotion, and personalities.

You know what Roger Ebert said about movies that seemed too short.

Glad you liked it.  It's still my second favorite movie of the year (and was my first till I revisited Pain & Gain, which I loved then but has only grown in my estimation; cue katmai being a close-minded philistine).

***

I watched The Family.  Dull, predictable, not quite bad, but really, really not worth seeing.  The interesting ideas it has are woefully underdeveloped.  I am beyond sick of Robert De Niro's wise guy routine.  C+

Full write-up: Telegraph for Robert De Niro: stop

[Josquius]

The World'd End- I came into this knowing absolutely nothing of what it was about, only that it was the third of Wright/Pegg's cornetto films. The sudden turn from realism to sci-fi therefore was a humerous surprise. It was pretty good. Lots of funny moments. I'd rank it second, better than Hott Fuzz but not as good as Shaun of the Dead.

[Ideologue]

If you knew it was the third Cornetto movie, how was the turn a surprise?

[Josquius]

Hot fuzz doesn't really do such a turn and With Shaun of the dad it wasn't so much a sudden turn as what things were leading up to. Worlds end was working fine as it was chugging along for a while before things went sci fi which did just seem to come out of nowhere

[Ideologue]

Fair enough.  That's one of the reasons I didn't like it, personally.  I guess tastes differ.

[Admiral Yi]

Just watched the second half of Luc Besson's Jean d'Arc flic, which I had never seen before.  Trippy.

Bold choice casting a Jew as the devil.

[Tonitrus]

Ugh.  When I had ATT back in Cali, I could customize my cable channel lineup with ease online. 

Comcast has me chat-rooming with some flunkie. 

[Grey Fox]

DO you have a la carte? Is a la carte available?

[Tonitrus]

Nah, you can just adjust which bundles you have.

[Ideologue]

I accidentally saw the trailer for the Michael J. Fox Show the other day, but I have to admit it got my interest piqued.  Any show that's 85% Parkinson's jokes is, well, it's different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXl-krlLoxg

[Ed Anger]

No Time for Sergeants.

Any who doesn't like this classic is a homosexual.

[The Brain]

Saw Ghost Rider. The bad guy reminds me of Ed: he makes Satan look like a nice guy.

[Ed Anger]

That is the sweetest thing anybody has said about me. 

[CountDeMoney]

No Time for Sergeants.

Any who doesn't like this classic is a homosexual.

That movie is hilarious on so many levels.  Never mind the scene with Don Knotts, what got me was how he made all the toilets salute.

[Phillip V]

Finally watched Star Trek Into Darkness.  Thought it was better than the reboot, frankly.  Largely because I didn't care for revengey Romulan BS.

Watched it today. Agree. I actually empathized with the characters this time; even cried when someone "died" near the end.