TV/Movies Megathread

[Syt]

I thought him not using his powers was a good thing. He's thrown back to basics, kind of like he was in the Afghan cave and has to return to square one without his lab and readily available resources.

I thought the panic attacks he suffered following the Avengers events were a very good addition to his character.

And they get props for including a child character and not make it suck. Normally a tacked on kid is a sign of doom in any franchise.

[spoiler]Agreed on the villain. Was I prepped for an Iron Man vs. Mandarin beatdown? Hell yeah. Did I enjoy what they did instead? Hell yeah, and I nearly pissed myself laughing at the reveal. The real villain could have had a bit more depth, and also more reflection from Tony Stark, because in a way he created the villain by his dickish behavior in the past which is not really brought up.[/spoiler]

[Ideologue]

Spring Breakers has popped up in several "Best of 2013" lists. I don't think it completely works, but it's an interesting film. Plus it has hot drunken chicks in bikini.

Indeed.  Part of the reason why I needed to watch it--it's one of the last American "important" narrative films of 2013 that I hadn't already caught.  The remaining two are the Coens' Inside Llewyn Davis, All Is Lost with Robert Redford, and arguably (in terms of importance, but it was a big movie) Prisoners, which is about Wolverine beating up a retarded guy.

Did you find SB as abhorrently right-wing as I did?

If you mean as a celebration of a right wing fantasy of gun toting chicks going on a spree, I don't think the film has to be read that way. I found it more a reductio ad absurdum of what a Spring Break is, an extreme vision of the disconnect between what youth seek as "life" and what society has established for them (school).

I think it's totally about that, too; although the disconnect seems minimal, given that Spring Break is drinking and fucking on the beach, whereas Korine's version of college is drinking and fucking inland.

Plus, they're never presented (other than Faith) as anything but total monsters, and there's a moralizing shrillness (along with some deliberate sexism and negligent racism) that is impossible for me to ignore.  And bear in mind, this is the guy who wrote Kids.

Honestly, if Faith were written out of the movie entirely, it'd have played so much better.  She's the mechanism by which Korine's program becomes so blindingly apparent and obnoxious.

P.S. the best part of Iron Man the Third was the Westworld joke.  All downhill from there, except maybe the Air Force One rescue.  That was neat.

***

Would You Rather (2012 jerks/2013 people like you and I)

A thrilling torture movie with Gothic flavor, Would You Rather is admittedly not made with true expertise.  But what is does have is a powerfully twisted performance from one of our finest living actors—one Jeffrey Combs—and through sheer scenario tells a compellingly sordid little tale of choices, their consequences, and... America?

A hunger game

B+

Like 1700, 1800 words. 

[Admiral Yi]

When did they introduce the panic attack thing?  Was that in Deux, or in the first 15 minutes of the Trois that I missed?

[Syt]

When did they introduce the panic attack thing?  Was that in Deux, or in the first 15 minutes of the Trois that I missed?

Stark's panic attacks are introduced in 3, as a result of the ending of Avengers.

[The Brain]

Final episode of the geezer show. The show was good, but I liked The Pacific a bit more.

[Liep]

4th episode of 'Arvingerne', it's very good. Jesper Christensen.

[Queequeg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1LzcS7Db68&feature=youtu.be


So fucking amazing.

[katmai]

Guess I should finish season one then.

[Ideologue]

OK fine.  Guess I need to watch this show.

[Ideologue]

Btw, that one shot of Mikkelsen is weird where half his face isn't in the focal plane (?).  Can you even do that?

Btw btw, more people die in every episode of this show than there are weirdo murders in America every year, don't they?

[Queequeg]

It's a horror tv show.  The psychology is actually pretty interesting, but yeah there's like a H.H. Holmes every week or so. 

[Ideologue]

In case I seem to be criticizing, no, that's a selling point.

[Sophie Scholl]

When did they introduce the panic attack thing?  Was that in Deux, or in the first 15 minutes of the Trois that I missed?

Stark's panic attacks are introduced in 3, as a result of the ending of Avengers.

Bad shawarma?

[Eddie Teach]

Btw btw, more people die in every episode of this show than there are weirdo murders in America every year, don't they?

I'm sure there are enough to keep a couple FBI agents busy.

[Ideologue]

In the trailer, I saw a room with a Nicaraguan death squad's worth of corpses.