TV/Movies Megathread

[Viking]

I'm getting pretty annoyed with Hannibal. I think it has to do with prequelitis. I'm just waiting for people to reach the point they were at when I read the book/saw the movie. I'd have preferred it if they didn't have as much success, since then they wouldn't be trying to draw out the story rather than tell it.

[Eddie Teach]

I'm getting pretty annoyed with Hannibal. I think it has to do with prequelitis. I'm just waiting for people to reach the point they were at when I read the book/saw the movie. I'd have preferred it if they didn't have as much success, since then they wouldn't be trying to draw out the story rather than tell it.

If they had any less success, they'd have been canceled.

[mongers]

I should watch 'transcendence' shouldn't I ?

[Darth Wagtaros]

CW's The Hundred is a hundred kinds of crap.

[Liep]

CW's The Hundred is a hundred kinds of crap.

[Viking]

I'm getting pretty annoyed with Hannibal. I think it has to do with prequelitis. I'm just waiting for people to reach the point they were at when I read the book/saw the movie. I'd have preferred it if they didn't have as much success, since then they wouldn't be trying to draw out the story rather than tell it.

If they had any less success, they'd have been canceled.

Instead they are dreaming of 5 seasons and (yet another) movie.

I can't help thinking this would have been better off as a mini-series.

[Josephus]

I'm getting pretty annoyed with Hannibal. I think it has to do with prequelitis. I'm just waiting for people to reach the point they were at when I read the book/saw the movie. I'd have preferred it if they didn't have as much success, since then they wouldn't be trying to draw out the story rather than tell it.

I'm thinking of this as a separate story from the main Red Dragon story line. Anything can happen from here on in that doesn't have to conform to the main storyline, if you know what I mean.

What I am getting tired of, though, is the obvious dream sequences in the beginning.

[CountDeMoney]

You guys--particularly Ide--should check out a wonderful little documentary on John Cazale, I Knew It Was You.  Taken far too quickly.

[Viking]

I'm getting pretty annoyed with Hannibal. I think it has to do with prequelitis. I'm just waiting for people to reach the point they were at when I read the book/saw the movie. I'd have preferred it if they didn't have as much success, since then they wouldn't be trying to draw out the story rather than tell it.

I'm thinking of this as a separate story from the main Red Dragon story line. Anything can happen from here on in that doesn't have to conform to the main storyline, if you know what I mean.

What I am getting tired of, though, is the obvious dream sequences in the beginning.

Look, we all know where this is going, Hannibal locked up and Will using him to help catch other serial killers. The last scene or the second to last scene is going to have a Clarice Starling namedrop too.

[Sheilbh]

Current shade: puce.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27178025

[Viking]

Current shade: puce.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27178025

why must they rape my childhood?

anyways, that show worked because ww2 veterans had reached the age of dads army. The actors mostly served in WWII, some in WWI, one actually was in the home guard during the war  after serving with the BEF in france in WWII. The audience either served during the war or had parents who served. I got it on re-runs in the 1980s.

I'm sort of hoping they get michael bay to direct it so I can dismiss it without considering it at all.

[Ideologue]

Current shade: puce.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27178025

Toby Jones, eh?  So shall it be an avant-garde mood piece that kills God inside you, or a dumb crowd-pleasing actioner with terrible thriller elements and pretensions to political relevance?

[Ideologue]

I'm sort of hoping they get michael bay to direct it so I can dismiss it without considering it at all.

Mikey Bay's a good director now.  Get with the program.

Edit: well, we'll find out in June if he is anyway.

[Sheilbh]

anyways, that show worked because ww2 veterans had reached the age of dads army. The actors mostly served in WWII, some in WWI, one actually was in the home guard during the war  after serving with the BEF in france in WWII. The audience either served during the war or had parents who served. I got it on re-runs in the 1980s.

Yep. The writers and the actors and the audience knew about Britain in the 1940s. This will almost certainly end up saturated in irony and knowing winks to the audience about what people were like back then

[Ideologue]

I'm getting pretty annoyed with Hannibal. I think it has to do with prequelitis. I'm just waiting for people to reach the point they were at when I read the book/saw the movie. I'd have preferred it if they didn't have as much success, since then they wouldn't be trying to draw out the story rather than tell it.

I don't mind the prequel stuff (the Vergers! yes! I was wondering who Margot was supposed to be, perhaps I just missed the namedrop last week or the week before--P.S. that actress is hottt).

But as much as I'm continuing to enjoy Hannibal, I do feel a certain element of eternal return that would feel more at home in a show from the 1990s than the 2010s.