TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Watch the first episode of Strikeback, on HBO series, I think it's a British series.
A former American soldier from Delta Team (the usual: dishonorably discharged, loud mouth, bad ass, good with guns, serial monogamous, etc, etc) joins a British anti-terrorist team in tracking an international terrorist.

It's a two-parter, I've seen only the first part.
Looks high budget, has some nudity as you'd expect from anything aired on HBO.  The first half hour was boring, the second had a little more suspense.
I'll wath the next episode before deciding if I watch this on a regular basis.

[Josephus]

So....will this be good?

http://youtu.be/WVLvMg62RPA

[Eddie Teach]

Who's doing the Immigrant Song cover?

[ulmont]

Nine Inch Nails and Karen O.

[Tonitrus]

"The Change Up"

Cheap, sophomoric comedy...but I kinda liked it.

[CountDeMoney]

Knight and Day.  Cruise is so over the top as he spoofs Cruise.  It works.

[Neil]

Knight and Day.  Cruise is so over the top as he spoofs Cruise.  It works.

I agree.

[Scipio]

I got a little weepy when I was reminded today that you could never reshoot the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People miniseries these days.  The pace is too deliberate.

[CountDeMoney]

I got a little weepy when I was reminded today that you could never reshoot the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People miniseries these days.  The pace is too deliberate.

Yeah, it's a thinking man's drama.  At least they're on Netflix.

[Ideologue]

Did anyone really expect better though?  When you heard that they were adapting the Battleship game into a film, didn't you feel as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced?

I don't understand why they just don't do a Jutland movie.  Why won't they do a Jutland movie?  Or Denmark Strait (see, battleships and airpower, we could both be happy).  Whatever.  The point is, the technology is there.

Yeah, you could easily do a Jutland movie with a heavy-handed message about how war is bad and stuff.  The only problem is that it's got British people in it rather than Americans, although I suppose you could always U-571 it.  I remember playing a PC game in the late 80s or maybe early 90s where you were an America TBD pilot whose mission was to sink the Bismarck.

I dunno.  People watched Sherlock Holmes and all those Bond movies.  British people are basically Americans, or the other way around.

[Habsburg]

HABSYS 2010 (cause I know you missed em) 

Picture: Io sono l'amore
Direction: Debra Granik, for Winter's Bone

Actor: George Clooney, in The American
Actress: Tilda Swinton, in Io sono l'amore

Supporting Actor: John Hawkes, in Winter's Bone
Supporting Actress: Diane Wiest, in Rabbit Hole

!!

[Eddie Teach]

Winter's Bone

Ugly, ugly movie.

[Habsburg]

Winter's Bone

Ugly, ugly movie.

[Eddie Teach]

I'm not saying it's a *bad* movie. Just ugly. Not a very good reflection on the human race.

[grumbler]

HABSYS 2010 (cause I know you missed em) 

Picture: Io sono l'amore
Direction: Debra Granik, for Winter's Bone

Actor: George Clooney, in The American
Actress: Tilda Swinton, in Io sono l'amore

Supporting Actor: John Hawkes, in Winter's Bone
Supporting Actress: Diane Wiest, in Rabbit Hole

!!

Welcome back, Habs!