TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Cel: James R. Kirk.   (Now that's nerdy.)

Yi: you loved it.

Infantry: when you can, I'd like to know what you decided on Fury.

***

Unprofessonal film reviews, including one that attempts to answer Cel's assertion that the European stuff in Inside Man was no big deal:

Coherence (2014).   I don't know if anyone ever really asked why Twilight Zone episodes were customarily only 25 minutes long, but if they did, they have a definitive answer now.  And, as a bonus, their answer is really, really fucking ugly!  D

Earth to Echo (2014).   An effervescently sweet little piece of boilerplate, and only mildly undermined—surprisingly—by its found-footage conceit.  B+

Inside Man (2006).   The ne plus ultra of the heist genre.  A+

The Imitation Game (2014).  89% of a really good movie!  B+

Deathtrap (1982).  Between Rope and Grand Piano, there was Deathtrap.  A+

[Duque de Bragança]

Need more space Nazis.

Yep, surprised nobody mentioned Patterns of Force (german dub really help in parts as well). 

[CountDeMoney]

Grand Budapest.  I liked it, but I'm not sure how much.

It was certainly a better, more complete work than Moonrise Kingdom and Fiennes was really fantastic, as was Brody.  Great dialogue, and it's always good to see F. Murray Abraham actually getting something to work with.

These last two Anderson films, however, his direction strikes me as swaying increasingly more between ingenious "scene-as-stage-play" design and over-the-top cartoonism. Not that it's not effective, but it worked so much better when it was much more subtle.

[Admiral Yi]

It was certainly a better, more complete work than Moonrise Kingdom and Fiennes was really fantastic, as was Brody.  Great dialogue, and it's always good to see F. Murray Abraham actually getting something to work with.

These last two Anderson films, however, his direction strikes me as swaying increasingly more between ingenious "scene-as-stage-play" design and over-the-top cartoonism. Not that it's not effective, but it worked so much better when it was much more subtle.

I didn't think the dialogue was all that great.  I can't think of a single memorable line or scene.

[celedhring]

Grand Budapest.  I liked it, but I'm not sure how much.

It was certainly a better, more complete work than Moonrise Kingdom and Fiennes was really fantastic, as was Brody.  Great dialogue, and it's always good to see F. Murray Abraham actually getting something to work with.

These last two Anderson films, however, his direction strikes me as swaying increasingly more between ingenious "scene-as-stage-play" design and over-the-top cartoonism. Not that it's not effective, but it worked so much better when it was much more subtle.

I'm not a huge fan of Anderson, but Budapest worked for me because he unashamedly set himself to make a cartoon, and a really fun one at that. There's a conjunction of form and function, so to speak.

[Admiral Yi]

It's interesting how many name stars he rounded up for bit parts.

I agree with Celery.  The movie sinks or swims on the visuals of cons tip toeing over bunks and the like.

[Sheilbh]

Second Guy Ritchie Sherlock film.

As ever the biggest problem is Moriaty. The size of the character and the amount of build-up of his danger always seems to tower over whatever scheme it is that he's running. I think that's probably why I quite like Conan Doyle's Moriaty who only appears to try and kill Holmes to stop him, and Andrew Scott's recent go where he's insane and as Holmes solves difficult puzzles for fun, Moriaty commits crimes for the same reason.

[Norgy]

Watching the new dramatisation of the Rjukan raid in 1942.
Looks good so far.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm not a huge fan of Anderson, but Budapest worked for me because he unashamedly set himself to make a cartoon, and a really fun one at that. There's a conjunction of form and function, so to speak.

True, but then again, I always thought Tim Burton tried too hard to be clever as well.

[11B4V]

Cel: James R. Kirk.   (Now that's nerdy.)

Yi: you loved it.

Infantry: when you can, I'd like to know what you decided on Fury.

***

Well, it's cliché over cliché ad nauseam. The only plot is what Pitt's character said. We're moving to the next town, then the next, then the next. What is Jon Bernthal's character supposed to be? Some inbred fuck from West Virginia. Pitt's character should have punched him in the mouth in the first 30 min of the movie. Everytime those Sherman's moved they were bunched up assholes to elbows. At that stage of the war I'm quite sure US tankers figured out how to move in the march. Pitt's character commits a war crime in the first 30 minutes of the movie. Really, how "Platoonish". The infantry looked like Hatfield & McCoy hillbilly's.

The AT gun fight. Bad to hit rolls (11, 12, 12). What a crap fest.

The set piece of the movie should have been the fight with the Tiger. What a pile of shit.. That could have been an awesome filp flopping cat and mouse scene. Instead it's reduced to assburger world of tanks crap. Again the experienced veteran American tank platoon is bunched up assholes to elbows and stay bunched up. No interval what so ever. The Tiger gives up every advantage it has over those Shermans.....bullshit. However, most of the time the Tiger's front glacis was angle towards the Shermans. That was realistic by all accounts.

The whole crossroads battle was a assburger shit fest.

D- wait till it comes out on video and barrow it.

and that's giving credit to the movie for using the only running Tiger Ausf.E in the world.


"You guys are crazy. Look, when we was in the bocage country, we was assaulted by those Tigers. You know what I mean by assaulted, WELL I MEAN ASSAULTED." The Kelly's Heroes Tiger fight made more sense.   

[celedhring]

Re-watched Thor on the telly. I find it really fun, I usually groan at fish out of the water stories, but the comedic bits in this one are far better than the epic/action ones. Pity the sequel was so godawful.

The dudes that wrote this also wrote X-Men First Class which is my favorite film with Marvel characters.

[The Larch]

Re-watched Thor on the telly. I find it really fun, I usually groan at fish out of the water stories, but the comedic bits in this one are far better than the epic/action ones. Pity the sequel was so godawful.

I hear they hired the dudes that wrote this one for Star Trek 3, so there's some hope. They also wrote X-Men First Class which is my favorite film with Marvel characters.

There are indeed two or three great comedic moments in the first Thor movie. And it has Kat Dennings which is always a huge plus. 

[11B4V]

The dudes that wrote this also wrote X-Men First Class which is my favorite film with Marvel characters.

Great movie.

[celedhring]

Re-watched Thor on the telly. I find it really fun, I usually groan at fish out of the water stories, but the comedic bits in this one are far better than the epic/action ones. Pity the sequel was so godawful.

I hear they hired the dudes that wrote this one for Star Trek 3, so there's some hope. They also wrote X-Men First Class which is my favorite film with Marvel characters.

There are indeed two or three great comedic moments in the first Thor movie. And it has Kat Dennings which is always a huge plus. 

I just love the boastful viking persona of Thor when he arrives on Earth. And I agree about Kat Dennings; she should get more work 

[The Larch]

Re-watched Thor on the telly. I find it really fun, I usually groan at fish out of the water stories, but the comedic bits in this one are far better than the epic/action ones. Pity the sequel was so godawful.

I hear they hired the dudes that wrote this one for Star Trek 3, so there's some hope. They also wrote X-Men First Class which is my favorite film with Marvel characters.

There are indeed two or three great comedic moments in the first Thor movie. And it has Kat Dennings which is always a huge plus. 

I just love the boastful viking persona of Thor when he arrives on Earth. And I agree about Kat Dennings; she should get more work 

You could give her some.