TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

I don't think they are edited. I was watching something with a very surprising amount of nudity on an airplane once...

It's not actually regulated, so it depends on the airline. United does, for example.

[Josephus]

The Knick. Likin this more and more...but I notice as I get older I'm getting more squeamish. I find I'm seeing the surgery scenes through my fingers a lot.

[mongers]

Watched the dvd of the 'London Olympics Opening Ceremony'. It's stands on it's own surprisingly well.


Also 'Alan Partridge - Alpha Papa' which was very good, a few genuine laugh out loud moments. 

[Ideologue]

This week:

The Congress (2014).  A Niccolesque hybrid of live action and animation that is also a hybrid of excellence and crap, and I'm always very confused about how to grade these.  B

S2m0ne

This Island Earth (1955).  In the aggregate, the science fiction mediocrity for all time.  C+

Cardboard Science: The dumbest man to ever walk the Earth

Tarantula (1955).  GODDAM SPIDER (it's good).  B+

Cardboard Science: Still fearing the spider

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).  The single best science fiction film of the 1950s may even be the single best film of the 1950s, period, and one of the most emotionally resonant motion pictures in the medium's history.  Plus: the return of Tamara the Tarantula, because that's the kind of thing you'd expect in a movie billed as the "best" anything.  A+

Cardboard Science: There is no zero

[celedhring]

Glad you liked The Incredible Shrinking Man - it's a great film. Matheson had a gift for mixing genre pulp with existential resonance. And yes, Arnold does a great job. The film could easily fall on its arse given the multitude of trick shots.

[Ideologue]

Agree completely.  And Clifford Stine's a somewhat unsung hero of photographic effects.

I wonder if the Lily Tomlin movie quasi-remake/quasi-spoof is any good.

[celedhring]

Agree completely.  And Clifford Stine's a somewhat unsung hero of photographic effects.

I wonder if the Lily Tomlin movie quasi-remake/quasi-spoof is any good.

It's marginally better than Honey I Shrunk the Kids. So yeah, it's not good.

[CountDeMoney]

Agree completely.  And Clifford Stine's a somewhat unsung hero of photographic effects.

I wonder if the Lily Tomlin movie quasi-remake/quasi-spoof is any good.

Ugh, 1983 HBO repeats ad naseaum flashbacks

[The Brain]

Rewatched the Alien movies in order (not a marathon).

[garbon]

Movie pride mere for Pride. Last minute so I know gay and some minor celebs here but that's all I know.

[Ideologue]

Preved.

[Eddie Teach]

Saw Blue Velvet again.

[viper37]

Dunno about the French Quebecois film, never heard of it.

It's about Geneviève Jeanson, a famous cyclist whom, like many others, used illegal performance drugs.
Technically, it's about a fictionnal character and a few things were changed to avoid any legal troubles.
It's supposed to be good, but I haven't seen it yet.  The only thing I know is this is not a movie for Berkut, he couldn't appreciate the personal struggle of a non american, so he'd better watch X-Men, they're all native english speakers with day-to-day problems that could mirror america's political history.

[CountDeMoney]

Saw Blue Velvet again.

I always get Blue Velvet confused with National Velvet.  Come to think of it, the image of Dennis Hopper chewing on a teen Liz Taylor's clothes says a lot more about me than I want to know. 

[garbon]

Movie pride mere for Pride. Last minute so I know gay and some minor celebs here but that's all I know.

That was actually fairly fun. Welsh miners, Thatcher & Gays. Story of gays who raised money to support Welsh mining town. Always love some Bill Nighy and Dominic West.  Russell Tovey cameo was rather unnecessary and I guess considered so as I don't even see him listed in cast on IMDB.