TV/Movies Megathread

[Josephus]

Did as I promised and watched Saving Private Ryan on my old VHS. The opening scene is one of the coolest battles ever...find the movie does slow down in the middle before picking up again. VHS held out well. Yes, the colours are not as brilliant and there's a sense of soft focus to the whole thing...but was surprised with how well the audio sounded through my set up..i

[Norgy]

Thank God. Roger

Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond. He hammed it up way too much, in my opinion.

It became comedy rather than action, in my opinion.

Haven't seen any of the movies with Daniel Craig, as I think he's better as an SS soldier than a Bond.
My favourite was the brooding Bond of Timothy Dalton. But let's just face it, it doesn't matter, as movies go, Bond movies are hardly groundbreaking or made to be that, it's entertainment and shittiness is to be expected.

I recommend Casino Royale for Eva Green.

The good thing about the Internet is that I don't need to watch bad movies for nice naked women anymore. I suffered through enough French and Swedish "art" on my small bedroom TV during my teens. Heck, even the semi-clad woman in condom ads in step-dads military mags was filling my wank bank.

[celedhring]

Thank God. Roger

Roger Moore is my least favorite Bond. He hammed it up way too much, in my opinion.

It became comedy rather than action, in my opinion.

Haven't seen any of the movies with Daniel Craig, as I think he's better as an SS soldier than a Bond.
My favourite was the brooding Bond of Timothy Dalton. But let's just face it, it doesn't matter, as movies go, Bond movies are hardly groundbreaking or made to be that, it's entertainment and shittiness is to be expected.

I recommend Casino Royale for Eva Green.

The good thing about the Internet is that I don't need to watch bad movies for nice naked women anymore. I suffered through enough French and Swedish "art" on my small bedroom TV during my teens. Heck, even the semi-clad woman in condom ads in step-dads military mags was filling my wank bank.

Casino Royale is a pretty good film though, Eva is just a nice bonus.

[Norgy]

Meh, it's Bond.

[Eddie Teach]

Craig movies aren't really Bond anymore.

[celedhring]

Craig movies aren't really Bond anymore.

Well, that's the great thing about Casino Royale though - it's a modern action-thriller while still being very much a Bond film. I mean, the whole climax is a 30-minute long high stakes poker game. How much more Bond can you get?

[Savonarola]

Poil de Carrotte (1925)

A young boy with red hair nicknamed "Carrot Top" lives with an abusive mother and largely indifferent father.  His older brother loves a gold digging whore.  The older brother decides to rob the family to run off with his whore, while Carrot Top decides to kill himself.  Yet the best laid schemes of mice and men go aft agely.

The problem with the movie is that there's a resolution, but no story.  The older brother is just a minor sub-plot and the story of Carrot Top is as if someone had decided to film the first ten pages of Great Expectations, stopping before Pip meets Magwitch.

Even with the scenes of child abuse and attempted suicide, it was much funnier than the comedian Carrot Top.

[dps]

Even with the scenes of child abuse and attempted suicide, it was much funnier than the comedian Carrot Top.

Well, that is a very low bar to clear.

[celedhring]

Blue Jasmine.

Excellent. Cate Blanchett is amazing in it, and the whole story feels emotionally pretty sincere, despite the onslaught of trademarked witty Allen dialogue. When was the last time Woody Allen made two great movies in a row?

[Admiral Yi]

That poker scene was the worst.  "Full House!"  "Ha ha, I've got 4 queens."  "Ha ha, I've got 4 aces."  Plus the blood tear dude talking the other player into folding by telling him the odds.  That's the exact opposite of what you do in poker.

I got the impression whoever wrote that scene had never played a hand in his life.

[celedhring]

Well, the whole assassination attempts and terrorist killing in between hands was probably the most far-fetched bit.

I liked the scene, though, but I never played poker seriously so it didn't bug me. Still, I'm sure a "realistic" poker game where half the plays had been folds and people won hands with pairs wouldn't have been too exciting.

[Ideologue]

Colin Farrel is wasted in approximately 80% of his career.

***

Edge of Tomorrow (2014).  Groundhog Day meets Aliens meets Saving Private Ryan meets the parts of the Halo games where I got frustrated and went back to headshotting n00bs with my BR in multiplayer.  But this is, with some caveats, very good.

And I'm hanging on a moment with you

B+

I'm gonna watch that for the sole purpose of having tom cruise die/get murdered repeatedly

It's the best part.

[Admiral Yi]

Well, the whole assassination attempts and terrorist killing in between hands was probably the most far-fetched bit.

I liked the scene, though, but I never played poker seriously so it didn't bug me. Still, I'm sure a "realistic" poker game where half the plays had been folds and people won hands with pairs wouldn't have been too exciting.

Have you seen Rounders?

[nonsequitur]

Saw most of Jungle Fever last night.  Easily Spike's best joint.

[celedhring]

Yeah, I have seen Rounders and I find the poker in it tedious. Again, as I said I don't play real poker. I'm aware the film is popular among poker players.

[11B4V]

Finnished with the binge watch of Braeking Bad last night.....Bravo, excellent.